grysbok @ grysbok @lemmy.sdf.org

I'm a systems librarian in an academic library. I moved over the Lemmy afte

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I didn't mind the wedding ring, but I do wish they'd let Grandma be buried in her cheap costume jewelry. Let the dead woman have her bling.

Same funeral, my aunt asked me accusingly if the pearl necklace I was wearing came from Grandma's jewelry chest. It didn't. Grandma didn't own pearls.

Hard disagree. Children should be treated as children, not parentified.

At my grandmother's funeral, she wore her jewelry for the viewing but it was quietly removed by the funeral home folks and handed to my mother before the burial. So there might be less jewelry than you'd expect.

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I'm crossing my fingers that it doesn't suck. At least I have no contact.

I'm on Mint Mobile and they've not disappointed me yet. TBF, I have minimal expectations.

I would have started to, but when I had trouble finding the "reviews" link on Google I'd probably have given up.

I just got a can of diet Coke in exchange for a 5-star review of a local eatery. I legit like the eatery, but would not have left a review without the bribe.

Is that a legit review or a fake one?

Same thing over on education. US government entities down to the local level have to comply with WCAG 2.1 by April 2026 iorc, with some exceptions for content created before the cutoff. The exceptions aren't clearly defined which is causing me a bit of a headache.

I mean, I'd love for all of our legacy documents and images to magically get image descriptions and quality OCR, but the archives have a terabyte of images and PDFs. It doesn't help that the ruling uses "archives" to mean "legacy stuff unlikely to be used" and we use "archives" to mean "stuff about the history of the college, which students are encouraged to consult".

Anyways, I'm all for accessibility. It's good. I'm just borrowing worries from tomorrow about implementation.

I just had the thought that some of our documents are handwritten in ye olde handwriting. That will be the biggest pain in the neck to transcribe. (Shout-out to Transkribus for making it suck less, but it'll still need to be proofread). I worry that we'll scan and post fewer of our documents going forward if we have to provide a transcription when we post them.

I, for one, am extremely inconvenienced by not toggling "blind" or "vision impaired" mode in my OS or browser. The existance of a high contrast mode also offends me. The thought that websites might be navigable using speech readers keeps me up at night.

Adorbs, but can't hold a candle to the garden eel. Mostly because they both live underwater.

It is hard to find onion-free chicken stock. My dog goes nuts for chicken but is a fussy eater otherwise, so we're always on the lookout for dog-friendly stock to add to his kibble.

I don't eat pig and Applebee's adds bacon to their Mac and cheese. They list like 8 different cheeses in the description but don't mention the bacon. Parents didn't want me to make a fuss so I ate it. That was not fun. (This was years ago, ymmv, I don't talk to those parents anymore because reasons.)

Me and mine have various food sensitivities (latex, nightshades, pork). I use an android app "fig" to check things at the grocery store--scan the barcode and Fig tells me who shouldn't eat it and why. It does smart things like label "spices" as yellow because maybe it's peppers maybe it's not. The free version is sufficient for one person. The paid version lets you add more profiles.

That's effectively what I had as an undergrad and it was lovely. Wednesdays were (mostly) reserved for labs, so if you weren't taking chemistry or another class with a lab, you had Wednesdays to sleep in. I rather miss that.

Ah, I thought you were being racist against people who might sing a song in a non-English language.

Nah, it's just wicked repetitive and I hate it. I had a cubicle neighbor that played the radio and it felt like that frigging song played in a loop, alongside the "kars 4 kids" jingle.

Feliz Navidad.

I like you, Cock_Inspecting_Asexual. You have a way with words.

I've definitely been going 10 mph in city, signaled to turn, tried to slow down, and just coasted past my turn because that's how fresh snow over ice behaves. That's with traction control and ABS.

USB hand warmers are your friend. Layers of clothing, so you can get less dressed once you get where you're going. If you drive in the snow, pretend your brakes have been cut and so you need much more stopping distance. Gloves that have capacitive finger tips so you can use your phone while wearing them are awesome. Walk like a penguin (shuffle feet, short steps center of balance always above your feet) on ice, so you don't slip and fall. Snow is reflective, like the ocean, so sunglasses are nice in winter.

It's 4-wheel drive, not 4-wheel stop. (Ok, technically brakes can be on each wheel, but that still won't help in sufficient lack-of-friction)