tiredofsametab @ tiredofsametab @kbin.social

Canadian-American software developer living in Japan since 2015. Into garde

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That final frame brought up some repressed memories. It was not a great time to be in a tech support call center; the queues never ended.

dont care about reliability

I used iPhones for years and switched to Android. I had to factory reset my Pixel 6 pro twice in a matter of months (no side-loaded apps, very few apps in general, and not any weird use cases). That's in addition to the months of issues with BlueTooth (and still some today), the camera overheating quickly (4k video was one of the main reasons I bought it), and more. My wife has used Samsung for years and has also had more issues than I did with iPhone. Same experience with iPad vs Android tablets. I waffle about switching back, but will likely stay with Android at this point. Still, enough BS could push me back the other way.

To me, iPhones/iPads were way reliable than Android has been for me.

1ml of distilled water in perfect conditions = 1g ... but it's still close enough most of the time to not matter. Other liquids could be off by larger margins.

Really? That's a pretty typical Japanese breakfast in terms of size. Fish, salad/pickles, rice, soup, and natto is pretty standard. My wife is tiny and would totally eat that every morning if we made it. She's usually too busy to make the fish, but eats natto, rice, pickles/salad, and sometimes soup (more in the cooler months) every morning before work.

? People in many countries use this like Americans use SMS/texting. In Japan, we use LINE instead. Korea mainly uses Kakaotalk and some LINE, etc. SMS just isn't really used in a number of countries by anyone of any age.

When I grew up in rural Ohio, my neighbor grew corn, soy, and had a bunch of pasture for haying. He rotated the positions (and thus the amounts) of some crops so it would depend upon the year as to which was in greater quantity.

Born and raised in Ohio; I've no idea either (though I've been living in Japan for the better part of a decade now).

What I can say:

The extended warranty thing relates to robocalls trying to get one to buy some kind of (probably scam) extended vehicle warranty.

"Virginia is for Lovers" - slogan of Virginia (US State) and I think found on license plates.

This might be related to Ohio and North Carolina battling over whom was "First in Flight" (Wright Brothers), but probably not.

No issues in Tokyo. Status page shows nothing amiss.

Most of the world does not have central heat and central air.

In many areas, pools can be difficult due to a number of economic, social, and other factors.

Additionally, running AC constantly also puts more heat outside and, depending upon your power source, increases emissions further contributing to global climate issues just making things worse.

We've been 37 or 38 in my area of Tokyo off and on the past couple of weeks. It will only get warmer. The bad part is that it's still rainy season so we also get stupid humidity to go with it. It's 27 in my office, but we have at least one of our aircon units running nearly 24/7 on the "dry" setting to attempt to pull some of the heat and humidity out.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the fruit/cream ones at all. The bread here is already largely sweet enough.

Depends on the store and the sandwich. Some katsu sandwiches are thick the whole way through, but also usually around 500 yen.

"I'm not racist." is a great statement. "I'm not racist, but" is quickly entering dangerous territory.

"I don't want to yuck your yum." is also a great statement. "I don't want to yuck your yum, but" has the same problem as the above.

That "but" is doing a lot of heavy lifting and contradicting the preceding part.

eight, five, four, nine, one, seven, six, ten, three, two .... ew

I was always partial to groovy/grails, personally. Springboot basically killed it. I mostly work in Go these days and enjoy it well enough.

I hate that I have to rely on some other add-in, but this makes things so much easier. Thank you!

That's good news. I'm fine with it as an optional setting, but I hated trying to read something and poof

Nice! I knew about 167 but not 704. Here's hoping!

I like the UI better, like that it interacts with things like Mastadon, and, what was honestly the biggest thing, doesn't have a dumb auto-refresh I can't disable (which Lemmy did (at least for a while)).

They both have a lot of growing up to do. Not being able to collapse threads in kbin is driving me crazy; especially for long threads with many nested levels, I can't tell what is even top-level.

speaks into the cork

Soon, Cork could no longer ignore those dark whispers, those awful voices. Cork knew what needed to be done, and that only they could do it.