Evkob (they/them) @ Evkob @lemmy.ca

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Hate and prejudice for a group of people cannot be peaceful, "peaceful homophobia" is an oxymoron.

Yes, being intolerant of homophobia that habitually results in murders such as the one we're discussing is totally equivalent to being intolerant of people practising the Jewish faith peacefully!

I would describe myself as firmly "in the middle", and I honestly don't disagree with your points overall. However, I think Windows isn't really "easier to use" than most Linux distros, it's just what most people are used to.

That doesn't take away from your argument, as being familiar with an OS will make it easier to use and that's completely valid, but someone who's used Linux all their life would similarly face struggles using Windows. User inertia is a huge factor contributing to Windows' marketshare.

I'm a pretty big coffee nerd, and work as a barista. I have no patience for snobbery. If someone wants to learn more about coffee, the effects of roasting, immersion, percolation, espresso, I'll gladly infodump to them and share the knowledge I've accrued over the years.

If someone is content with their venti soy mocha thing from Starbucks, or their double double from Timmies, or even store-brand instant coffee, and they don't feel the need to jump into the coffee world, that's fine by me. The idea that you must like a certain type of coffee to enjoy it "properly" is silly to me. I'm not yucking anyone's yum.

Just don't go on articles you don't want to see?

I'm curious as to what content you don't approve of specifically.

This is great news, it's frankly embarrassing that it took this long. I know here in New Brunswick, our Conservative government has done the absolute bare minimum to help out hungry kids, of which there are many (30 000 kids live in poverty in NB, and many more probably suffer from some degree of food insecurity.)

It's such a no-brainer to invest in this, like even if you're a heartless neoliberal ultra-capitalist who thinks the poor should suffer, do you not want your future-workforce-in-training to actually absorb their training? Hungry kids don't learn good.

I've been pretty poor lately (I was unemployed for a few months and my previous roommate moved basically in the middle of the night without warning, leaving me on the hook for the full rent) so I've been brewing crappy President's Choice overroasted "morning blend". It's bad coffee, but it's also 15$ for 1.8kg.

I've been coming back to immersion brews lately after a long stint of only using my V60 for pour-overs. My love for coffee was born out of a French press, and was pushed further by the Aeropress, both of which I've started to mess about with again. I generally find immersion methods more forgiving with low-quality beans than a pour-over.

I'm excited to start having a bit of income again, I can't wait to try the new offerings at my local roaster. I'm lucky that I found work as a barista, so I do drink quality coffee most days. I just have to suffer grocery-store beans on my days off (that is until my next paycheck!)

Honnêtement, tu donnes un peu trop de crédibilité à l'Académie française dans ta comparaison.

Where are you in Canada? I'm in New Brunswick and I've never met a Canadian who uses WhatsApp (except to keep in touch with friends abroad).

Round these parts, people usually use Messenger or Instagram.

I switched to Linux, got a new phone to install GrapheneOS on it, and started self-hosting a few things.

I haven't had this much fun with technology since I was a kid.

As long as you lock the bootloader, GrapheneOS operates the same as stock Android in this regard. If anything, you'd be safer on GrapheneOS because of the extra control you get over app permissions.

I do all I can to avoid ads on my devices and networks.

However, I sometimes have to use devices I don't own. Or work-provided hardware I'm not permitted to install anything on. Or I can get exposed to ads if a friend shows me something on their phone, or if I'm in a classroom/work and someone wants to show a YouTube video as part of their presentation.

And even if I somehow managed to never get exposed to ads, it doesn't mean ads don't suck and I'm not allowed to complain about their existence. Additionally, sure uBlock, DNS, alternative front-ends and all other ad-blocking methods are simple enough for computer nerds on Lemmy, but the vast majority of people aren't computer nerds. If I told my friends to "just get uBlock and a DNS-level filter", half of them would look at me like an insane person. The vast majority of people who use computers have little to no understanding of how they work and can't do much more than Facebook, YouTube, and email.

As a species when we’re divided we are arguably at our worst.

Agreed, but it's ignorant (at best) to suggest that trans people are responsible for social division rather than the right-wing groups actively trying to eradicate trans people.

It'd be like blaming Jews for socially dividing Germany in the interwar era.

Trans people making everything about themselves? What the fuck are you talking about? I only ever hear about "trans issues" because of the right. Trans people just want the right to exist.

If you think the trans community trying to defend ourselves from constant attacks equates to "making everything about them", you lack so much empathy that I honestly don't even know where to start.

If your idea of leftism includes disregarding the ongoing genocide of oppressed minorities, I have to question what the hell do you think is "leftism"?

I'm also a motorcyclist (hold the motor) and my experience is very similar to yours.

I almost got hit a few weeks back by a car driver trying to turn right on red whilst on a fucking Facetime call, with the phone held up right in front of their face. If I hadn't been in a rush I would have let them have an earful.

Like, please don't ever use your phone while driving, but if you absolutely have to be a despicable human being, can you at least look away from the screen when navigating through intersections??

Otherwise known as cowboy coffee, if anyone wants a searchable term to learn more!

IMO good home-brewing options (which I'd personally prefer but to each their own) would be either a moka pot or a French press. They're more full-bodied as they use metal to filter the grounds rather than paper (like drip/pour-over) which lets through more of the oils present in the coffee beans.

If OP gets her drinks from a café, I'd suggest trying an allongé as well. A long black (in my neck of the woods it's called an americano and we don't distinguish between the two, this depends on your area*) is espresso poured over hot water, whereas an allongé is basically an espresso with more water passed through the puck of grinds in the portafilter. Passing the extra water through the ground coffee rather than simply adding a shot of espresso to hot water adds a lot of body. Note that there is a higher ratio of beans to water in an allongé compared to a long black/americano, so it's definitely going to be a stronger tasting brew.

*In areas where they distinguish between the two, as far as I understand a long black is when you pour the espresso on top of the hot water, whereas an americano is when you add hot water to espresso. The main difference is that when the espresso is poured on top, you preserve the crema. In Canadian cafés, I've never seen a long black on the menu, but every café I've worked at prepared americanos with espresso poured on top of the water.

There are only two people who ever ask me for tech help. One is my father, who is decently tech-litterate for his age, helping him usually revolves around media piracy. I very occasionally lose patience with him because sometimes I'll tell him to check something, he'll say he did it, and I keep trying to figure out his issue only for him to realize half an hour later he didn't actually check what I told him to.

The other is an older lady who used to be my neighbour, we became friends and still keep in touch since she moved. I absolutely adore helping her out, since it's usually something silly that takes literally less than 30 seconds to figure out/fix. She's always immensely appreciative and acts like I'm the smartest person in the goddamn world. It's honestly a welcomed ego boost, plus it makes me feel great to see how genuinely thankful she is.

I think, especially with older generations, you really have to keep in mind how much the world has changed since they got here. My old neighbour didn't have electricity or running water growing up, and now we expect her to understand GUIs, OSes, settings, accounts, networks...

I get much more upset when I see people around my age (late twenties to early thirties) who can't understand the basic functions of a desktop operating system. I understand that not all of my generation were tech-obsessed kids/teens like myself, spending their free time figuring out stuff like upgrading from Vista to XP or partitioning the hard drive on the family PC to dual boot Linux distros, but you'd think they'd at least understand the basics of a filesystem and how to change settings.

As a barista and a vegan, this is the answer. Out of all the plant-based milks, oat is the closest to cow's milk when it comes to how it foams up, so baristas tend to make way better and more consistent drinks with oat than almond or soy. And this is just personal preference, but IMO the taste profile of oat works the best with coffee.

Seriously, I'd take someone new to driving in snowy/icy conditions over someone who has a bunch of misplaced confidence in their driving skills because they've "been driving in worse than this for decades!" in a heartbeat.

The newbie is much more likely to actually adapt to the conditions and drive more cautiously.