renard_roux @ renard_roux @beehaw.org

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Swiping all the way to the bank. I cannot wrap my head around people who tap out each letter. It's like people standing in line at the supermarket instead of using the scan-it-yourself-and-self-checkout app. Why???

That sounds marvelous, congratulations! 🎉

Haven't found a good use for Mastodon yet, but then again I don't really miss Xhitter so it probably isn't for me, anyway.

I usually just stick to Subs and Local on Lemmy, and since that means Beehaw, a tiny Danish instance and a board game community, I generally find that people are quite lovely.

The bad experiences don't really come out of the woodwork unless I start browsing Everything.

So the date didn't go anywhere, but now she's your landlord? 😳

Dry The River (British, now disbanded)

Turboweekend (Danish, now disbanded)

Dizzy Mizz Lizzy (Danish, re-formed)

The Beths (New Zealand)

Bonus edit: Priestess (Canada, hiatus)

"... corrupt Mozilla Corp ..."

Could you elaborate?

Sorry for the slow response, and thanks for taking the time to flesh out your thoughts and goals 😃

Agreed, the shortened version was missing stuff, and I didn't do anything to rectify that; it was just intended to create an obvious contrast.

You should definitely do you, and you seem to have gotten the point of my perspective (remember your audience, avoid alienation-by-vocabulary-flaunting), so there's nothing left but for me to wish you the best of luck in you endeavor 😊🤘

Agree 👍

And some would say Elon succeeded with the cesspit.

While I don't have any specific org or board recommendations, I wanted to point out that your post — for me at least — was very difficult to parse.

You're clearly skilled at writing, but what you've written doesn't necessarily read as "skilled at communicating". As you're looking for work writing non-prose, I'm not sure you're applying your flex correctly.

I asked cGPT to simplify your text a bit. It's not perfect by any stretch, but it gets your point across, and does it succinctly:

Living in a van has made me realize I want a paid advocacy role using my persuasive writing skills. I'm interested in green energy and climate causes. I'm not good at self-promotion, so I'm looking for organizations that need news analysis. I have experience as a copyeditor and want fair compensation to clear my debts in a few years. Any recommendations for organizations or job boards for someone with my skills?

And please don't take offense; this is coming from someone who is often verbose, and generelt has a very difficult time with being succinct, to the point where emails end up so long that potential clients just ghost me. It's just that it's a lot easier to see it in the writing of others than in your own, and I want you to succeed ❤️

Best of luck with the job hunt!

(Edit: I was reminded a bit of this, sorry 😅)

Meta, for anyone trying to resist clicking: it's a Top Gear clip featuring James May and Jeremy Clarkson, possibly the origin of "Oh no! Anyway..."

It's quite good ❤️

Reddit has high inertia 👍

Strange, I usually get all my materials and ballots in the mail early as an overseas voter, but didn't get anything this time around, and I've been very busy so wasn't aware of elections. Guess I'll have to see if I need to opt in again or something 🤔

From Wikipedia:

"Meta" had been registered as a trademark in the United States in 2018 (after an initial filing in 2015) for marketing, advertising, and computer services, by a Canadian company that provided big data analysis of scientific literature. This company was acquired in 2017 by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), a foundation established by Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, and became one of their projects. Following the rebranding announcement, CZI announced that it had already decided to deprioritize the earlier Meta project, that it would be transferring its rights to the name to Meta Platforms, and that the project would end in 2022.

So, they bought it through their (non-profit?) foundation and killed it to harvest the name?

Which one is that?

Don't know much about Linux, but looking to convert my EOL Asus C302 Chromebook to Linux, so trying to learn anywhere I can 😊

After reading all the comments for this post, if you're right about Flatpak de-duping, that would make a good portion of the arguments against moot.

Hopefully someone knowledgeable can step in and add some more info.

Incidentally, if anyone has a suggestion for a lightweight Linux distro that I can use on my Chromebook, any and all ideas are welcome 😁

My sync setup, working perfectly, and using Obsidian on all 3 devices almost daily. YMMV.

• Desktop (Mac): Google Drive
• Chromebook (installed as Linux app): Google Drive
• Phone (Android): AutoSync for Google Drive. Bought paid version just to support them, don't think it was necessary. $5, got to spend my Google Play Credit 😊👍

Tell me about it! All this "Bluesky this!" And "Bluesky that!", and I'm still just waiting to be allowed to see what it even looks like for myself 🙄

Pretty sure it's also been a year at least on the wait-list for me. My guess is that the list isn't even used, and nobody is getting in without an invite 😑

Update: I've now received an invite, thank you! 😊❤️

Hey everyone, I found the AI! 😅

If we buy games from devs so they can afford to switch engines, won't that mean we'll end up with games that won't get updated because the Unity codebase will become obsolete when they switch?

Or is the thinking that devs need to swear that existing licences will work with the game once it's ported to some new engine?

I'd support existing Unity-based games if the devs declared they will port, and that my license will still work once ported. If the particular devs aren't going to leave Unity, I'm not sure I'd be happy to keep supporting them, because that will keep Unity in business, and I think an example needs to be made.

Also, I understand switching platforms will be horribly work intensive, but it's not like it's starting from scratch. If the code can't be ported directly, the logic still can (providing the new platform supports the necessary functionality), and the assets also exist.

That sounds reasonable enough 😊👍

Keep in mind that not all CA glues are intended for wound closure, that's mainly Dermabond/2-octyl cyanoacrylate, which is only "less toxic", and not for all wound types. Thought it was worth pointing out of others see this 😷👌