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Fleppensteijn , 15 hours ago

Where would you come across a bull though? I’ve never seen one in a field with cows.

Fleppensteijn , 23 hours ago

Yep. SwiftKey sometimes has strange predictions etc but (unfortunately) that one’s the best out of the many different ones I tried.

Fleppensteijn , 1 day ago

The first seasons were great, good to re-watch. But it’s like they kind of gave up since season 10 or so. The characters, topics and the humor are all different now.

Fleppensteijn , 1 day ago

I know a bunch of people who lost interest over time around the same time as me, it’s when they had this season-long storyline. Not sure which season it was.

The kids act too adult now, Chef disappeared, other common characters are rarely there anymore or changed completely (Garrison turned into Trump?), then the weed stuff / Tegrity, Warcraft – all not that great IMO.

Fleppensteijn , 2 days ago

Avoid French cities: people constantly harass you for money and drugs and it looks shady and feels uncomfortable everywhere. Smaller towns can be nice.

And Italy: it’s expensive, people are rude and arrogant and nearly every place I stayed at gave me a curfew so you can’t even go out at night (but there’s nothing to see there anyway).

Fleppensteijn , 2 days ago

Several hostels I stayed at closed at 10 pm and wouldn’t allow people to go in or out

Fleppensteijn , 2 days ago

Usually, yes. But not where I stayed. It was all locked down. Maybe I just had bad luck. It was in Triest and Milan by the way.

Fleppensteijn , 6 days ago

Having worked in a call centers, I feel like it’s the dumbest, most self centered boomers with “customer is king” attitude that just want to shout at someone rather than fix their issues (that can usually be fixed with a Google search). It’s like they need people to suffer. Just let them hang up when people are disrespectful instead of this shit.

Fleppensteijn , 6 days ago

I thought I’d just travel a bit and do nothing until I’m broke before I end it, but life was great then. Now I’ve sacrificed 10+ years trying to save some money for who knows what. Got to make it worth the sacrifice before I go

Fleppensteijn , 6 days ago

What’s strange is that many other languages don’t allow words starting with pt- or ps- neither but have no trouble pronouncing Greek loan words that do.

Fleppensteijn , 6 days ago

The languages I’m most familiar with are quite closely related to English, so I don’t think that’s really the case.

Actually, one thing I can think of is that English trends to aspirate initial stops, which probably makes those clusters harder to pronounce

Fleppensteijn , 6 days ago

Streets of Rage, even if it’s just for the music

The original GTA, it somehow has the atmosphere of 80s/90s that only Více City could kind of replicate (and multiplayer was fun)

Fleppensteijn , 8 days ago

Too many cultures/languages in a large space, they should split into smaller countries, it’s like judging Europeans from knowing some Brits, but

– People with money are very arrogant, selfish and wasteful – Many clingy/creepy people that keep talking to you when no longer appropriate – Headbobbing – Mostly friendly, sometimes too polite – Workaholics – Always complaining about their parent’s high expectations – Lots of IT workers who know what they learned to do step by step but it’s like they don’t know why they do what they do – Pretty condescending to other Indians from other regions – The usual: good but spicey food, hot weather, corruption, expensive weddings, overcrowded but still mass producing babies

Fleppensteijn , 14 days ago

I didn’t downvote but probably people won’t sit through a long video when the points he’s making could be a short list. At least give a summary.

Fleppensteijn , 25 days ago

More streamlined menus that reduce visual clutter and prioritize top user actions so you can get to the important things quicker.

So make things even harder to find? A classic menu bar is not clutter!

Fleppensteijn , 26 days ago

In my company at least, Aegis works for the first few logins, but it will keep nagging you have to switch to Microsoft’s authenticator and you’re locked out after a while.

Fleppensteijn , 26 days ago

Apparently MS uses a “proprietary PhoneFactor 2FA solution” that Aegis doesn’t support.

Fleppensteijn , 25 days ago

200 MB of wasted personal disk space just so you can log in to a work account

Fleppensteijn , 25 days ago

Yeah but you install that stuff on your work computer. If my job requires me to use an authenticator on a non-work phone, then at least let me use the one I’m already using.

Fleppensteijn , 27 days ago

OS/2 Warp

Fleppensteijn , 28 days ago

Asahi means “rising sun” in Japanese, and it is also the name of an apple cultivar. 旭りんご (asahi ringo) is what we know as the McIntosh Apple, the apple variety that gave the Mac its name.

If you’re thinking what I’m thinking, it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with beer.

Fleppensteijn , 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago)

Reminds me of when I joined some classmates to the supermarket. We got kicked out while waiting in line because they didn’t want middleschoolers there because we’re all thieves anyways. So most of the group walked out without paying.

Fleppensteijn , 30 days ago

There are no pronouns in symbols ♂, ♀

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

It was interesting how random people came to talk to you and were really trying to get to know you. I don’t think that would work in modern day internet.

I knew they were around because at times I randomly remembered my ICQ number and I tried logging in, but they won’t let you if you forgot your password.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

I had to read 3 books to write a small report on it. It’s just to show comprehension skills, I guess. I don’t see an issue with that.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

I noticed it getting worse over the years. I switched to SearXNG last year when I felt Google was getting really ridiculous.

They started censoring a lot at some point, maybe because they had to, but that’s not the only reason.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

Yes. That way you can create a blocklist, which is what makes it so good for me.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

I’ve tried some instances and I don’t see a delay. My hosted version is a bit slower than public ones but that depends on your system, I guess.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

I don’t include the rider. More confusing are stairs and crosswalks: where do they start and end? Often, there is no crosswalk on the picture but you have to select other road markings to continue. So it doesn’t really matter.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

Everyone just copied everything from each other. Floppy, then Twilight CDs. Then came the internet and exploring music there was better than sitting around waiting for a song to come on the radio to quickly press record. It was normal when I was young to share, not really an active choice.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

Well, they’re not wrong. If I had known I’d be in the same place after 10 years, I would’ve made myself more comfortable.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

The article discusses scam calls, not spam calls.

I got that fake Microsoft support scam call only once, back in early 2000s, on my parent’s land line.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

Only a few years ago, I found fireflies living near me. I never knew they existed in Europe.

Government decided to level their habitat though. They’re building a wildlife rescue center, ironically.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

You never tried installing Wine?

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

Depends on the country. I once got some people in trouble when I passed through Germany because I didn’t know internet is heavily censored/surveilled there. Haven’t had trouble anywhere else though. Do some research on your country.

The biggest threats come from the movie industry. Just use streaming sites for movies and series, torrent the other stuff.

Look into Tribler, I2P and Utopia.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

Out of the ones I’ve tried (Jerboa, Connect, Thunder), I think Thunder is best (after a little config) : github.com/thunder-app/thunder/releases

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

I accidentally watched a YouTube video on a browser without blocking. It started with an ad. I thought I’d just endure it this time. Then another ad. OK, just this time then. Suddenly, another ad in the middle of the video. I gave up. Who’d have the patience to sit through this?

Then there’s Google’s habit of completely ignoring the browser’s language settings so I have to sit though ads I don’t even understand.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

Tbf the only reason I know that YouTube has paid subscriptions is because of threads like this one, so it doesn’t seem like they’re really pushing their paid service.

Maybe they’re only targeting people who, for some reason, don’t block ads, and that’s why I’m unaware, but they should offer a little more than the things you can get for free already (no ads, downloading) if they want to draw in the adblocker crowd too.

Now people will start to google what’s up with all those ads and end up installing uBlock.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

I must be out of touch.

I didn’t think I’d need an app to visit YouTube.

Fleppensteijn , 1 month ago

On streaming sites (Fmoviesz), some mirrors have a download button. You can also use the Video Downloadhelper plugin for Firefox.

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

Maybe Here comes the rain again?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=5rToaLF6Fqg

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

You don’t have permission to access “www.9news.com/…/273-d919511f-199e-43fe-8e10-db900…” on this server.

🤷‍♂️

I have breakfast while I work in bed. It’s so much better. Then I switch between my chair and my bed throughout the day. Office chairs fuck up my back and I’m constantly tired at my age (since covid)

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

Yeah I only got some cheap chair, but honestly the problem is less with the chair, more with how I sit.

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

Where would this be unconventional?

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

God is unreasonable and scary when you are a Christian, at least for me when I grew up. You’re basically told he can read your mind so you pretend he’s a great guy, but to me an evil God is just Christianity.

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

You have to learn to fool yourself and to not ask such questions

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

All phones I’ve had, had the jack on the bottom where it’s in the way of me holding the phone or placing the phone on something. I always wondered why it’s not just at the top.

BTW just got a new phone (Oneplus) and I’m glad to have found one that has a jack at all

Fleppensteijn , 2 months ago

I’m missing the ashtrays in the 90s photo