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what would be the best way to tell your supervisor to stop inquiring about your personal life and mobbing you into opening up?

my supervisor is an extrovert, whereas I’m an introvert. She feels insulted if I don’t share my personal life with her and ridicules me before other coworkers because I separate private and work life and prefer to keep to myself....

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HR does exist to protect the company, but sometimes that aligns with your needs. In this case, HR is likely more interested in avoiding a sexual harassment case (which would cost the company), so they’re probably going to hear you out.

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How did we end up in the Onion Timeline?

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Heckin sea roomba

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Then it would logically follow that smart watches would be called…

microphones.

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Those are eyephones

Android apps are blocking sideloading and forcing Google Play versions instead (arstechnica.com)

You might sideload an Android app, or manually install its APK package, if you’re using a custom version of Android that doesn’t include Google’s Play Store. Alternately, the app might be experimental, under development, or perhaps no longer maintained and offered by its developer. Until now, the existence of...

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I already have to do this. My office wants everyone to use the MS authenticator app, won’t run on LineageOS. Even if it did, I wouldn’t install it, but still.

Ended up making them purchase a hardware security key for me instead.

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Short answer: it’s easier to grow it

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Now with 50% less arsenic!

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“We’re sorry, using AI-based ad-blockers is a violation of our Terms of Service Agreement. Per the agreement terms, your account is now suspended and you’ve been charged an additional early termination fee, because fuck you.”

While I’m sure there will eventually be some grass-roots attempts, the providers will fight it to the death. A person can dream, though.

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I have a feeling that the political use of it will die out after the election, for what that’s worth. And I don’t think it will seriously impact the “Keep ______ Weird” trend, because they are celebrating weirdness (whereas the Republicans are trying to claim they’re not).

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Porn’t, the new SFW

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Neat

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Same vibe as “everything in the universe is either a potato or not a potato”.

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millennials aren’t picking up the slack

Wine is a luxury industry. There is no “slack” to be picked up.

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I’m gonna release a AAAAA game. It’ll cost $95 and when you install it, it’ll just be a romhack of Super Mario World changing all the enemy sprites into butts. There’ll be a link to file complaints that just points to a terrible image made in ms paint that says “lol f u”.

My stock prices gonna hit the moon.

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The $50 dickbutt DLC isn’t scheduled to be released until a month after the launch, but for an extra $70 you can get the limited edition collectors edition at launch, that comes with a cheaply made Mario-with-a-butt-instead-of-a-head limited edition figurine.

And for $40 you can also purchase the “getting started” pack–that includes a save file where we beat the game, so you don’t even have to play it. Your name, email address, and SSN will be on our first-to-finish list!

Who from history would you bring back to make them punished for the wrongs that they brought onto the world? (kbin.melroy.org)

Mine is Henry Ford. He's the catalyst of the 40 hour work week and 5 days a week that has been standard to the present day. Because we're seeing now how little that really does for anyone anymore, where people are having to sacrifice more of their freedom to work second jobs or more hours than they should....

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Nixon

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Hmm… on second thought, Reagan.

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I hope someday to have as much self confidence as someone who lists a “slightly shat” chair for $75.

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Exiled Kingdoms - it’s a labor-of-love project inspired by classic 90s RPGs. I’ve played through it a few times, it’s solid.

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First ammendment? Never heard of it.

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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ead67b96-cbf5-43fb-9596-6ee679a8e9e5.jpeg

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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ead67b96-cbf5-43fb-9596-6ee679a8e9e5.jpeg

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Looks pretty heckin wise

TIL that in 2006, a woman named Edith Macefield turned down a reported offer of $1 million to sell her 108-year-old farmhouse to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL that in 2006, a woman named Edith Macefield turned down a reported offer of $1 million to sell her 108-year-old farmhouse to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Instead, the five-story project was built surrounding her house.

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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4e4c905a-93f0-414d-a3d4-bb0d27ba1be4.jpeg

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This is the legalese equivalent of “people-who-owe-me-half-a-million-dollars-say-what.”

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Ha, got 'em!

Why are so many leaders in tech evil?

I remember when I was growing up, tech industry has so many people that were admirable, and you wanted to aspire to be in life. Bill Gates, founders of Google Larry Page, Sergey brin, Steve Jobs (wasn’t perfect but on a surface level, he was still at least a pretty decent guy), basically everyone involved in gaming from Xbox...

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Capitalism. Specifically, the stock market. IPOs make good companies into bad companies.

Being owned by stockholders effectively removes any amount of “human” in the company’s choices and direction. There becomes a single goal, to which everything else is sacrificed: make stock prices go up in the short term. The C-suite execs will say all sorts of other shit, but any appearance of accountability or altruism is solely geared to making more money at any cost. Any leadership with a soul will be forced to either give up trying to be “good”, or they leave.

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https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/fourier.jpg

So what did it take for you to go to Linux? (kbin.melroy.org)

I'm asking what big motivational factors contributed to you into going Linux full-time. I don't count minor inconveniences like 'oh, stutter lag in a game on windows' because that really could be anything in any system. I'm talking, something Windows or Microsoft has done that was so big, that made you go "fuck this, I will go...

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Tried installing Windows 11. After a few hours screwing around trying to find the right drivers for everything, I tried a live USB of Mint. Everything worked great out of the box.

Also, the ads, and Microsoft’s insistence on forcing user accounts.

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It was updated this year. They moved on from the mini-CD limit (50MB?) to a regular CD (700MB). Spiritual successor, newer target.

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It’s definitely scary to dive into this, but try to remember: whatever the results of therapy, you’ll almost certainly be better for it on the other side. And your daughter will most likely be better off–because her parents will be in a better place, and because you’ll be setting a good example for her when she grows up and faces challenges.

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Pumba, to you, everything is gaas

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Digger and Paratrooper were probably the first two games I ever played. Both still hold up.

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And won’t survive things like… getting sprayed with water.

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It goes back at least to A Link to the Past. Not sure if there’s precedent before that.

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Damn, 5 stars? I guess I better take up smoking.

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What if we kissed on the X-Y plane…?

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I’m a dual citizen (Canada & USA, born Canadian). Part of naturalization in the US is the oath where you renounce citizenship from everywhere else. Thing is, most countries don’t care about that oath–Canada requires filing a special form and appearing before an official (IIRC) to renounce citizenship. I asked about the discrepancy–it turns out the US doesn’t actually care whether I’m a citizen elsewhere, largely because it’s difficult to figure it out and enforce it (this might have been the opinion of the immigration officer, not sure).

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Yes, I mentioned that the US doesn’t care about dual citizenship. But the naturalization oath might suggest otherwise:

“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen…”

uscis.gov/…/naturalization-oath-of-allegiance-to-…

There’s an apparent discrepancy between the oath and the US official stance on dual citizenship (per the links you posted).

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Do we need the paper to know it’s true? Seems trivial.

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Honestly, a better metric would probably be

median rent / median wage

or something like that. Still doesn’t show the distribution, but it would be a much better measure than GDP.

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You might also enjoy a selection from Hark, a Vagrant.

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I’ve been using LineageOS on my Pixel 7, and it’s been great. As much or as little Google stuff as you want, plus more direct control. Updates are easy, overall would recommend.

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Wait, do it with a snake

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