Lorindól @ Lorindol @sopuli.xyz

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I think there's also one on a ski lift gondola in Lapland...

There's one made of stone and a natural brook runs through the floor.

In the winter there are several saunas built from snow / ice. The snow sauna is said to be an especially pleasing experience.

There are sauna rafts that have engines, so you can cruise around the waters.

There are car trailer saunas that you can rent and drive to any open beach you wish. Or your own backyard.

And probably a whole lot crazier ones that I can't remember right now.

My eyes are very sensitive to light, so I've been using "Men in Black" - style wraparound sunglasses since the late 90's.

I am a dad, but pretty much as far from conservative one can be. Where I live conservative dads do not tend to use these at all.

My old Xperia Z5 Compact was the only phone I've ever owned that had decent speakers. You could actually listen music with them without getting pissed off. It was small and had amazing audio capabilities and great camera, easily the best phone I've ever owned.

But listening music / watching videos in public with your phone speakers on is an abomination. It should be made illegal everywhere.

Yes. I was almost three years old. I don't remember much, but I do remember that I started to sing during the wedding ceremony when my parents knelt at the altar. Of course no one else sung.

I also remember that the priest scared the shit out of me and that my godfather "fell asleep" in the toilet and had to be carried to a car. I learned years later that he had severe social anxiety which he treated with liquor.

I did this with my friends when we went to Thailand. We were enjoying the delicious taste on a beach, two Australian guys were wanted to try it. They both spat it out instantly and the other one got so mad we thought he's actually going to attack us.

After he calmed down a bit he demanded to see us drink it to be sure we hadn't tricked him to drink poison. So we downed the entire 1 litre bottle to appease him. It was the start of a great day that lasted for few days.

I tried American chocolate once. It tasted like vomit aftertaste.

Never again.

I'd hug my mom. Then I'd go ask the pretty next door girl for a date; I lesrned later in life that she also had a crush on me at the time, but since I was plain looking and slightly overweight nerd I never thought I'd hsve any chance with her.

After getting that out of my system I'd do the obligatory investing.

Lemmy only. I quit Reddit when the third party apps fell.

I do miss some of the niche hobby subreddits, but fuck Spez. If I need to find some info, I can access it via search engines.

Otherwise I'm perfectly happy with Lemmy, people are generally much nicer and there's more than enough content. Reddit was so overbloated that this smaller universe is quite enough for me.

Opetusviraston hommissa vuosia olleena tämä ei valitettavasti yllättänyt tippaakaan, ennemminkin ihmetytti se että tätä saatiin odottaa näin kauan. IT-puoli on tuntunut olevan täysin kaoottista ehkä viimeiset 20 vuotta, aina laitehankinnoista yleisiin käytäntöihin asti.

Koronan aikoihin käyttöön otettiin uusi portaali, joka aukesi oppilaille oletuksena kun selain avattiin. Positiivisena yllätyksenä oletushakukoneeksi selaimeen oli jopa asetettu Duckduck.go, mutta mitään adblockereita ei tietenkään oltu otettu käyttöön. Tämä johti jostain syystä siihen, että portaalin tulon jälkeen oppilaiden selainten mainosvirrassa alkoi vilkkua HC-osaston aikuisviihdemateriaalia, mistä ei koskaan aiemmin ollut havaintoja. Ja voi, kuinka oppilaiden vanhemmat tästä riemastuivatkaan! Kun tiedustelin syytä tähän IT-osastolta, vastaus oli ainoastaan oppilaiden syyttelyä.

Koulujen IT-vastaavilla oli ennen käytössään pääkäyttäjän salasana, jotta pystyimme hoitamaan päivitykset ja muut asennukset itsenäisesti ja tehokkaasti. Homma toimi loistavasti, jos jokin oppilaskone jumiutui niin sen sai kuntoon hetkessä. No, näitä ei enää anneta koska kaikki pitää hoitaa tekemällä tiketti IT-osastolle ja odottelemalla milloin tukihenkilö voisi ehtiä paikalle. Lopputulemana mikään ei enää toimi jouhevasti ja luokkien takapöydillä on yleensä kasa toimimattomia läppäreitä. Ja vain siksi, että "amatööreihin ei voi luottaa näin tärkeissä asioissa".

Jokin aika sitten 2 IT-velhoa yritti saada opettajan läppäriä tulostamaan uuden pilvipalvelun kautta. Tekivät hommia pari tuntia ja saivat sen lopulta pelaamaan. Kun sama ongelma sitten ilmaantui toisen opettajan koneesen, ehdin väliin ja syötin läppäriin koulun printterin IP-osoitteen. Toimi välittömästi. Miksi tätä uutta pilvipalvelua tarvitaan tulostamiseen? Se on edelleen suuri mysteeri.

Ja nämä ovat vain jäävuoren huippu.

I assume it was a generalization, just few weeks ago I installed 32-bit Linux Mint to two laptops from 2007 or 2008, now my kids have their very own and fully functional computers. They do lag a bit sometimes, but learning patience is just good for the kids.

Tuota en tiennytkään, mutta viimeksi eilisiltana oli yksi pyörätie tukittu jättämällä parvi vihreitä lautoja ympäriinsä. Eli ainakin joku operaattori sallii tuon edelleen tai sitten käyttäjillä on todella paksut lompakot.

Vuokralautojen pysäköintiongelman saisi vaivattomasti ratkaistua määrämällä yritykset ruuvaamaan softansa sellaiseksi, että matkan aloittaneen käyttäjän veloitus ei pääty, ennen kuin lauta on pysäköity luvalliselle alueelle. Jos kaupunkipyörien telineille löytyy hyvin tilaa, niin kyllä löytyisi näillekin.

Vuokrafirmat voisivat myös motivoida käyttjiä laskuttamalla vaikka 50€ maksun vääärin pysäköidyn laudan noudosta viimeiseltä käyttäjältä, kun voisivat helposti tarkistaa oliko lauta luvallisessa parkkiruudussa vai ei vikan ajon päättyessä.

Poikkeuksena toki jos virta loppuu kesken ajon.

Yep. My brother has at least 4 streaming subscriptions that add up to closer to 100$ per month. I once asked him how much he actually uses them and his response was: "I don't know, many times a week! But it's nice to have them if I want to watch something!"

To me the idea of basically throwing away more than 1000$ per year is simply horrifying.

I get them by ripping CD:s or digitizing vinyl albums.

EDIT: Typo.

I burned an audio CD just a few weeks ago. My car doesn't have Bluetooth audio, so I've kept going old school all along. I bought a few stacks of empty CD-R's and DVD-R's when the stores wanted to get rid of them.

I have zero streaming subscriptions and no intention of getting any. The number of films, games and music albums I've bought from flea markets and second hand stores during the past 10 years has to be in the hundreds. And not one has cost more than 3$.

Even my kids haven't complained about the lack of streaming, they seem perfectly happy using my physical media library.

I read the LOTR and The Silmarillion to my son when he was young, his opinion of the bad guys was crystal clear:

"Sauron was like nothing compared to Morgoth! He didn't do ANYTHING in the book that was named after him, except maybe stalk people with his Palántir! Morgoth was WAY better and he was actually doing stuff all the time."

It would not hurt to try. Using your phone to record your singing may not be the best idea, the microphone is so small that singing even with normal volume gets the recording easily distorted.

USB-connected microphones are pretty cheap and will perform much better, just hook one to a laptop and use any simple recording software.

And I recommend starting small with children's songs. "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" with it's straightforward ascending and descending melody is a great starter, or at least for me it was.

That is the reason I practiced the first two years in my room at lullaby volume.