Grimpen @ Grimpen @lemmy.ca

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Pretty much. At this stage, I don't want anyone to feel left out, but after a certain point, trying to define more points on the spectrum of human gender expression and sexuality gets into diminishing returns. Even with the traditional colours of the rainbow, where does blue end and indigo begin? The labels exist to make it easier for people to talk about things and describe the world around us. Unless there is some specific nuance someone is trying to capture, LGBTQ+ should get the point across with the Q and the +. Technically, I think you could get the point across in most use cases with something more succinct than that, but that seems to be what has been established.

Still, I can totally get that someone can feel left out being lumped into the +, so individual use will and should vary. I still rail against the inefficiencies of common language though. The concept is simple, people who aren't in the big main hetero & cis sections of the spectrum.

Well, if Her Majesty Roman Dildo Romana Didulo I, Queen of Canada, isn't endorsing it, must be fake gnus.

Reminds me of Sony's Rootkit. Except now it's normal.

a God speed! Thanks for the edits.wq

Just like the Mafioso "perfectly legitimate businessmen" who offer fire insurance and personal injury insurance door to door, after dark. Be a real shame if something were to happen.

Makes sense. The problems I've typically run into on Windows is always driver related. Since manufacturers are responsible for drivers, your are dependent on good, up to date drivers.

I'll 100% agree, that (depending on distro) Linux can be much easier to install… if there are good open source drivers for all your hardware.

I haven't tried Windows 11, because why, but even when everything has to to date and good manufacturer supplied drivers, there is a step in the Windows install where you have to visit every component manufacturer's individualn website to get the latest drivers, and then install them all one at a time.

Flip side though, I remember poor drivers for Broadcom WiFi adapters under Linux, and that was a nightmare.

The Bulk Barn's near me have "Sustainable Sundays", and you get 15% off on products you get in your own containers.

Hold my beer, I'm going in…

Like that guy in Grande Prairie who unironically posted his video of harassing Freland like some rabid incel celebrity wannabe on Tik Tok?

Yeah, the F🍁ck Trudeau crowd wouldn't skip a beat.

That was exactly the video I thought it was going to be! Classic.

I have metric and fractional wrenches, hex wrenches, etc. I'd love it if the US would stop holding out and join the 21st, or 20th, or 19th century and finish converting to metric. Yes it would suck a little bit, but since I have to convert every second thing one way or the other anyways, it would at least be a light at the end of the tunnel.

If I'm scaling a recipe up or down, I have to convert cups/spoons to metric, do the math, and then convert back. I can't remember how many hogsheads to a dram.

Total agreement from me! I like being able to change my sort.

I found that back in the old days of Facebook (pre-enshitification, or at least full steam enshitification) I could log in, catch up on what all my distant relatives and friends were up to, leave some comments, maybe post something myself, and log out in around 10-15 minutes max. Then they started "improving" things, and suddenly there was "engaging" content, and it took at least ½ an hour.

I think it makes sense that from Facebook's perspective, a chronological feed is worse.

Having said that, some people post more than others, so I do appreciate using the Hot and Active sorts for Lemmy in addition to Top - Day. It's a feature I miss from Mastodon. There is a headline bot that I like following, to catch the recent headlines, and the weather. Problem is that something like ¼ of my feed can just be the bot, and yesterday's headlines aren't news anymore, I'm more interested in the ongoing discussion. So I do appreciate the non-chronological sorts, when they make things better for me, and not a corporation's bottom line.

Such a shame that HP no longer supports RPN. SwissMicros makes HP "style" calculators.

It's cool to see an emulator/simulator like this.

Heck, Truth Social uses Mastodon, IIRC.

Ultimately, it's software. Even if my home instance does a good job of enforcing it's CoC, and every instance it federated with does as well, someone else can spin up their own instance, load up on whatever, and I'll never know or even be aware if it's never federated with my instance.

I have a Canon eco tank, works well under Linux, and with off brand ink, it might be cheaper than my Brother B&W laser.

Still, I would still have to point out that I've had my Brother printer for 17 years or so, and it's rock solid. Off-brand toner is easy to come by. I have refilled toner as well, but it's already cheap enough.

The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in the nineties. But we had lots of time then, so no rush…

Back when I was young and naive I figured the Kyoto Protocol would work. We had lots of time then. The climate change is a hoax thing didn't really take off until the early aughts as I recall.

The curious thing is that there is a financial rationale for maintaining the minimal data, and allowing account recovery. If I bought a game or two via Ubisofts store a few years back, and I remember that game and go through the steps to recover my account… I might see more games that I'd actually rather like to buy.

The cost of keeping a minimal set of account information is a minuscule cost, with a potential upside.

I think they do this to discourage people from letting their accounts go dormant and risk loosing their games. Which makes some sense, lock you customers in, use their sunk cost to encourage activity.

That's what I mean about supporting those projects. They could add functionality to Lutris or Heroic rather than build Galaxy for Linux.