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berkeleyblue, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to asklemmy in What non-SMS non-Apple app can I use to "text" my younger kid on their iPad

You got a lot of good advice already. I just wanted to add: Do not share your Apple ID with someone. Always leads tk trouble, lost data and things that people see that shouldn’t have seen it.

If they are 10, use family sharing and create a Children Account for them. All the benefits, non of the issues.

Here’s how this works: www.apple.com/family-sharing/

berkeleyblue, 1 year ago to asklemmy in What are some small things we should change about the human body?

Definetly periods, stupid design and incredibly rare in mamals anyway.

Also, a change of our metabolism, our current way to deal with excess energy is outdated. And maybe make us resistant to cancers, that shit sucks.

berkeleyblue, 1 year ago to reddit in How social media's biggest user protest rocked Reddit

No.

berkeleyblue, 1 year ago to lemmyshitpost in Bonjour, je m'appelle Jesus

Ooooohhhh…. That‘s a bit harsh. What could she have done to deserve this

berkeleyblue, 1 year ago to asklemmy in What search engine do you recommend that isn't Google or Bing?

Surely anecdotal, but I have never clicked on a Google Reddit link that didn’t let me to an actual post, most of the time with the actual info I was hoping to find and never have I been served SEO pages.

There was a slight influx of AI generated nonsense a couple months back but that stopped. On my iPhone i Use DuckDuckGo and an perfectly happy. On the Mac where I have more ways to block stuff I use google and also don’t have any issues.

May I ask what kind of things you usually search for?

berkeleyblue, 1 year ago to lemmyshitpost in Task failed successfully?

Why the hell would you send a SWAT team to someone suicidal? O.o

berkeleyblue, 1 year ago to asklemmy in Why does America say 'merry christmas'?

Tradition, mostly.

Dickens used Merry Christmas in his Christmas Carol and the US used the greeting since the 19th century.

In the UK however, happy christmas is more common as the royals used that phrase.

There’s apparently no big thing behind it. Just the way language evolved with different influences in different regions.

berkeleyblue, 1 year ago to asklemmy in What RSS readers should I recommend to others?

I use Newsexplorer for upwards of 40 feeds now. Never had an issue.

berkeleyblue, 1 year ago to lemmyshitpost in Still haven't found the right amount of mind bleach for this one...

A very relatable Cini Mini

berkeleyblue, 1 year ago to asklemmy in What gifts are you getting for your friends and family members?

For the most part our family has decided to not get gifts this year. We just spend time together, eat something nice and enjoy each other, except for the one child in our family that of course still gets something.

For my wifes side of the family, we decided to do secret santa this year and cap ourselfs at 30.- CHF for value.

Not helpful for gift ideas I guess though^^

berkeleyblue, 2 years ago to asklemmy in What goes good with American Cheese?

As someone from Switzerland, I have to say that american chees fits very well with a garbage bag. Feels like it’s natural habitat.

berkeleyblue, 2 years ago to asklemmy in Does anyone actually enjoy working out?

No and I never liked it. I tried going to the gym for a while to lose weight but I felt horrible afterwards and during the excersice and the actual Impact on my obesity was quite minimal (probably my fault as I‘m sure I didn’t do everything right). So i stoped going eventually. I know started walking more, I don’t take the bus from the train station home anymore and rather walk the 3.5km with some nice podcast oj my ears. I like doing it, even atvthe current temperatures as I feel like a get 45 minutes just for me where I don’t have to listen to anyone or anything other than my podcasts I enjoy. I work ij Retail so there’s a constant barrage of people and at the end of the day you just don’t want to see people for a while. So while it does help my weight loss it also just feels kinda therapeutic in a way. I just crossed 120kg (down from 136) this morning and plan to try to extend my walks to my days of as well :-)