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[–] llama@midwest.social 4 points 2 days ago

Charts these days mostly seems to mean how many tiktok videos play the song. When I ask people what kind of music they like it's either "whatever I find on tiktok" or some random niche band I've never heard of like Ralph and the Orange Peels.

[–] llama@midwest.social 5 points 2 days ago

I guess in a society that is increasingly lonely especially for young people, it's easy to get dragged into the redneck incel rhetoric. I don't really know where this activity is taking place but it seems to be everywhere.

[–] llama@midwest.social 12 points 2 days ago

Turns out it only works if the population doesn't believe they want that.

[–] llama@midwest.social 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They messed up 10 years ago when for some reason it took ages for Firefox to load compared to Chrome, and sadly it never really recovered the user base even though the performance is vastly improved.

[–] llama@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago

Somebody tried selling me a locked phone on eBay despite listing it as unlocked. The seller refused to be helpful so I filed a claim with eBay, waited the 10 days, eBay sided with me, got a refund and shipped the phone back, waited for the refund to process, then spent $100 more to buy the same device from Amazon.

[–] llama@midwest.social 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It saves a ton of time. I've worked with clients before and I'll put a lorem ipsum as a placeholder for text they're supposed to provide. Then the client will send me a note saying there's a mistake and the text needs to be in English. If the text is almost close enough to what the client wants, they might actually read it and send edits if you're lucky.

[–] llama@midwest.social 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh that setting is super easy to change, just go to run, type in regedit, expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE then just scroll until you find CLSID-73838-abf83-c758d57-87a90ba, set the value to zero and reboot!

[–] llama@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

If people could just get hired for the jobs that interest them the most instead of somebody always playing gatekeeper then this would be a non-issue. In fact I'm not even sure it's a current issue for employers, considering the stock market recently hit an all time high.

[–] llama@midwest.social 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Also how does it get to 12.5 billion before people do something? Had they intervened with something less severe at 1 billion then there would still be 11.5 billion and a life not lost.

[–] llama@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

Cindy you look just like Misses Cane!

[–] llama@midwest.social 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Be careful with linseed oil as it spontaneously combusts! My friend used it on something and left the rag in the garage, and it literally burnt their house down.

[–] llama@midwest.social 53 points 7 months ago

This reminds me of the time in HS when a letter broke off my laptop keyboard and my parents insisted on taking it to the shop for a repair. Turns out they really just wanted the shop to turn over my search history and chat logs. I already knew my parents were nosy so I would always delete it anyway.

One day I came home from school and they said the shop fixed the keyboard but just needed my password to test it and do updates. I said no it's fine if he can type in anything into the password then obviously the keyboard works, and I already did the updates regularly.

They literally had to beg me for the password and they were like pleasssse just give the shop the password so they can finish their checklist and you can get your computer back, and I was like fine if it's the only way I'm getting it back. Of course nothing came of it because there was nothing to discover.

Then my parents got the computer back but kept it in the trunk of their car for a week, and I accidentally saw it when we were leaving Old Navy which started a whole "I don't believe this!" discourse in the mall parking lot.

Moral of the story just talk to your kids instead of spying and lying, because they know and it won't work!

 
 

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