That I’m still paying the rent amount from when we moved in nearly ten years ago. Comparable places cost twice as much when we last looked in 2024. We’d actually like to move to a more modern place but at these rates it’s extremely hard to justify a nicer and/or nearer place
The landlord is super lazy, they do the bare bare minimum for maintenance and repairs so we just do the small things instead of trying to motivate him to do it or send someone, but also, bless this landlord lol!
Alright I see — and happy to hear it!
“space” to save anyone a click
Why not one of the northerly neighbors? Seems more attractive to me as someone from the Netherlands
There ought to be nonfictional countries that fit that bill lol
Okay yeah I see, that sounds like the types of habits I’d run into as well!
For a German example, they look each other in the eye while toasting with full cups or glasses and make such a point of it that you almost think it’s in irony but no! They’re dead serious that it’s otherwise worse than skipping someone xD
What habits make you stand out in France? As a Dutchie in Germany I’m not aware of any, but I may just be too inept to notice :P
I tested it and there’ll be months where I do 400 queries and months where there’s maybe 200. Since it doesn’t carry over, I’ll simply have to use alternatives on a regular basis. Especially across all devices (all my work is on a computer, most of the time with unfamiliar technologies as the customer has a new project for us to pentest), I’ll be out of queries most months. My employer is too scrooge to pay for our primary internal communication tool (we pay for various crap where it’s mandatory, even if we barely need it, but not for a donation-run hosted service that we heavily use). They’re never going to subsidise the searches I do during work time so long as competitors are “free”. So I’ll be stuck with other engines regardless, or have to pay as much as for a streaming service. It just seems like a lot, especially when part of it goes to Russia and burn-the-world AI bros
Before even being allowed to queue, security cared a lot that I present some email of the company I’m flying with. I had just sent the QR code to my phone, but the person doesn’t have a scanner (so what is this going to prove?) and so she requires seeing the email for the privilege of confiscating toiletries. Of course the airline later scanned it just fine but I’d not have gotten on the airplane that day if I had given my laptop away as checked luggage (didn’t have email on phone back then)
Of course she didn’t more than glance at it, no identity card check to compare the name or anything. An invoice from my mom’s dentist would probably have done the trick. Balancing a laptop on a knee, trying to two-handed type a password that you only know as muscle memory, is the sort of reason they require you to plan two hours “just in case we come up with more bullshit than expected for you or a passenger ahead of you”
And yes, my backpack with electronics needed to be flagged, bomb tested, and the last sip of water needed to be finished because the bottle was theoretically capable of holding an amount over the limit. Makes sense.
Yes? Who hasn’t?
Changing (not just translating) the title is sometimes clearly necessary to preserve a joke or reference for people who don’t speak the original language (otherwise they’d be reading that version already), but in most cases I find it unnecessary and just makes it hard to talk to others about it or find more info because you know it under completely unrelated names. The Wikipedia article translations about the author will sometimes mention them in a recognisable way, but sometimes not even that helps…
If pitch made differences in meaning at the word level, it would be called a tonal language afaik
English has pitch for other aspects of speech, such as indicating emphasis or what sentences are questions. Try saying “you did it” with an emphasis on the first word, without changing the volume or tempo: it’ll change pitch. If you raise the “it” instead, you get a question sentence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_declarative). The pitch could make a difference for how you understand a word, like you’d not think the person said “what’s that cent?” (same set of base sounds but, due to the question pitch, it’s more likely “… scent?”), but it’s not a fixed property of the word like in a tonal language
Variants of “mhm” are also tonal to me. I don’t know if this works the same in any English-speaking region but, where I’m from, “hm” with
Not sure that’s considered a word, though
Unrelated but this reminds me of a thing that happened earlier today while we were playing a board game. European languages aren’t considered click languages, but we still have them. One player asked a question of another, and someone from Turkey tsk’d. They made no other sound or head movement. Apparently this meant “no”! Native DE/NL speakers won’t understand that this is an answer to a question. We do use tsk here, just for other purposes. Was interesting to notice the culture difference!
Buying a Pixel to install GrapheneOS is not the only reasonable alternative to mainstream Android.
Each person has their own threat model. My priorities will be very different from a journalist in China, a whistleblower, or even my own mom. Some are more at risk of ransomware and a device with root is risky. For myself, I’d incur that risk as a power user and would rather my phone can be backed up so I don’t have to worry about it breaking. GrapheneOS devs/followers believe that security is the only thing you must ever want, nothing else matters, and everything else is irrelevant, as though Google or street thugs will come to your house and exploit your bootloader if you don’t give them data voluntarily. They just don’t realistically question the statements the project makes, like what threats are worth mitigating (ubiquitous tracking? Who cares, I’ve got security patches and a locked bootloader!) and what options they’re giving up by using GrapheneOS that’s about as locked-down as the average Samsung phone. The marketing game is super strong because it’s hard to argue against at scale: everyone’s situation is different and “don’t you want to be safe?”
Can someone explain Lemmy’s algorithm to me? This has 83 downvotes and 7 upvotes at the time of writing, but it’s like the 11th post on my home feed when sorted by hot. Clearly nobody thinks this is a good post for the comminity; how is this still being shown in default feeds (not ‘newest’ or ‘controversial’ or so) at all?