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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • I don’t think people are “refusing”

    I know a few people who have no reason NOT to learn to drive, but just don’t and instead mooch off everyone else.

    My folks had a falling out with a couple they’d been friends with for ages because they refused to get their licence… But then expected them to come and pick them up from the train station when they were invited to dinner, spent most of the night telling everyone how smart they are for not having a car, and then expecting a lift back to the train station. Having just spent a couple of hours banging on about how much financially better off they were, I saw it as essentially stealing to then demand someone else use their asset and running costs to carry them around for free.

    My sister in law finally got her licence at 30-something after a couple of decades constantly harassing family members for a ride.






  • 𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zonetoMemes@lemmy.mlWhy? Are we not doing enough?
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    8 months ago

    I see more people complaining on Lemmy about problems than I do the actual problems they’re complaining about.

    Just use the thing, and put the content and comments you want on it? You don’t have to be a passive observer just staring out the window as monkeys dance for you. Be the monkey. Dance how you want. Eat a banana. Fling poo if that’s what you want. Just stop expecting everyone else to create your dream routine and then having a sook because they step-pause-turn-pause-pivot-step-paused when you wanted them to step-pause-turn-pause-pivot-step-step.





  • I found it many years ago. 15-20ish? I have no idea where I found it, but I’ve not seen it used anywhere else so I kind of just keep using it.

    Don’t really know what I bother since I use a client that doesn’t display profile pictures anyway.

    My other avatar I use gets me banned on most forums because apparently a clip from “nuts in the ass” is not suitable for public display anymore. It’s political correctness gone mad tbh.



  • We’re travelling in the US at the moment, and as an Australian this habit of posting prices that aren’t actually the price really grinds my gears.

    In Australia, the listed price is the price you’ll pay. The only exception is if they specify that it excludes GST, in which case the total price will be 10% higher.

    In the US, the listed price is the starting price. Then you’ll have a city tax, a state tax, a federal tax, a congestion fee, a service fee, a minimum gratuity, and then of course the optional (but not really) additional tip on top with a suggested minimum of 25%.

    It’s making buying things a really sour experience. Just yesterday I bought some clothing that came in a little under $250 and I had $300 cash on me. Easy, that’ll cover it. Nope… ended up having to bust out the card because the total was closer to $320 once all the fees and taxes got thrown on top.




  • Once upon a time, Swype / FlexT9 / whatever other names it’s had on Android used to have an option to bring up a virtual D pad in the keyboard area. It was really easy to swap to as well, and being able to flip over to a functional set of arrow keys (as well as select, copy, paste, etc) made text editing so much easier.

    Like all things I used to enjoy about Android, it got removed in the name of copying Apples simplicity.


  • I swapped to oat milk purely for the taste.

    I tell everyone it was for ethics and the environment so I can get a few social points, but mostly it’s just nicer.

    There’s also the convenience of milk that doesn’t need up be stored in the fridge until it’s opened, and lasts for months at a time. I just do an online order for delivery of a dozen cartons whenever it’s on special and I don’t even have to put on pants.


  • I use web seeds on anything I’m creating a torrent for that is not copyrighted / free to distribute. The web seed is hosted on my server as a permanent reliable source, but the swarm handles the bulk of the bandwidth.

    I wouldn’t use it for less legitimate purposes because the risk of hosting the content is far too great. There’s also no plausible deniability like there is with simply being a client in a swarm. Hard to argue ownership of something when there’s a link to something you operate hard coded in a torrent file.