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rbos, in Why are most memes on Lemmy from 5-10 years ago?
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Classic memes, so old some people still called em image macros.

ShittyBeatlesFCPres, in Why does eating a frozen ready meal alone feel depressing even tho it's objectively good that I can have nice warm food easily

https://i.imgur.com/LBUns8t.jpgRecord an album. You’ll feel better.

sin_free_for_00_days, in What's an amusing thing to say before going under general anesthesia?

If I’m not back by morning…call the president.

AstralWeekends, in Tech workers - what did your IT Security team do that made your life hell and had no practical benefit?

Made me write SQL updates that had to be run by someone in a different state with pretty much no knowledge of SQL.

lars, in I use Brave to test whether my websites work on Chromium browsers, but their scummy actions lately make me want to find a new Chromium browser to test with. What's the best Chromium based browser?
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I use Vivaldi because of it’s tab management.

I have it configured to put the tabs in a bar on the right side of the screen. That way you have full tab titles no matter how many you have open.

It’s also got a tiling window manager. So you can select two tabs and tell it to split screen them within the single window of Vivaldi. Or select 3, or 4, or whatever and put them in a grid. All sorts of options.

I’ve got big 4k monitors, so I’ve grouped up some pinned tabs to always be tiled (like my email and calendar)

It’s got lots of other nice tab features and just regular features, but those are the main selling ports for me personally.

MagneticFusion,

I love Vivaldi, if only it were not Chromium based. But even then, if Firefox were to ever die (assuming Vivaldi is still alive and well) I am switching to Vivaldi

KammicRelief,

Yess! Came here to recommend Vivaldi too. I switched from Brave for same reason as OP, and looked at a few options… Vivaldi won. It’s been a couple months and I haven’t looked back.

BEDE,

plus 1 for Vivaldi. No complaints here.

GissaMittJobb, in Tech workers - what did your IT Security team do that made your life hell and had no practical benefit?

Access to change production systems was limited to a single team, which was tasked with doing all deploys by hand, for an engineering organisation of 50+ people. Quickly becoming overloaded, they limited deploy frequency to five deploys per day, organisation-wide.

Bit of a shit-show, that one.

quams69, in Gamers who have gamed for a long time

Sorry op, your inner child is dead. Time for sudoku in a rocking chair.

RememberTheApollo_,

You might be right. Except I don’t like sudoku.

PainInTheAES,

Sorry OP, your inner grandparent is dead. Time for seppuku.

RememberTheApollo_,

I’m not that old, ffs. lol.

sysadmin420,

Had to Google that one… Funny shit. Thanks, I needed it.

Stoneykins, in Gamers who have gamed for a long time

It’s depression, and other stuff.

Personally, I find that when I feel that way, it’s because I’m actually just kinda tired of games in general. The huge variety available will often trick me into a headspace of “I’m not bored of games just certain games, I need to find the ones I’m in the mood for” but really what I need is a break. Do some crafts/art, get extra exercise, socialize with people that don’t normally game, read a book, visit family. Just shake up the shedule for a bit and do other stuff with your free time, and in my experience, you’ll want to play something, instead of just looking for something good enough to fill boredom.

dingus,

People are always so quick to jump on the “it’s depression” train, but it can also be totally normal for one’s tastes and interests to change over time.

I used to absolutely love games as a kid and teen. But as an adult, I just have a hard time getting into them anymore. I often seem to have fun watching people play games instead of experiencing them myself, and that’s ok too.

It’s like…after a day at work, I just want to unwind. Gaming requires a degree of effort and can even be stress inducing. So I’m just not super into it anymore. I try to get into games now and then but usually I can’t be bothered.

I mean, you’re right that for some people, it can signal depression. For others, it just signals growing older. Such is life.

schmidtster, in What are some places you can spend time where you're protected from the elements and it doesn't cost anything to be there?

Malls are always a good choice. Food options, lots of seats. Can people watch.

AtmaJnana,

Malls are dying. There are way fewer now than there were a decade ago.

schmidtster,

They still exist in most towns and cities, and if not a mall, a strip mall usually has some inside portion. Smaller with less options, but still fits the bill.

AtmaJnana,

most? citation needed. I’m 35 minutes from the nearest mall and I’m not even that rural. maybe you live on the east coast where things are more dense.

schmidtster,

Maybe it is a regional thing. I’m in Canada, so colder weather, almost every small town of 10,000+ has some form of “inside” mall.

AtmaJnana,

Oh that would make sense. I’m in the Midwestern US and mostly we just have strip malls and regular shops (and Walmart of course) in our town of 13K. Malls around here are only found in the larger towns of ~50K or more.

shinigamiookamiryuu, in What was the cringiest moment of your life?

Not really my cringiest because there were so many moments to choose from, but to use a severe one, every year in school, students do a heritage project. It includes things like recording physical traits (eye colour, hair colour, etc.) as well as ancestors and their nationalities and whatnot. Only, to this day, they never, ever, ever factor in that maybe someone was adopted. So imagine insecure me trying to charade the message to a teacher whose mind it never even dawned on without trying to get the classmates to know, all the while having to blindly progress through the assignment. The result? I ended up lying a whole lot on the heritage assignment, which went where else than on display and in the records like all the other work done on the heritage assignment by the classmates. Because it was a showcase.

I should clarify I know my birth parents and “met” them, but nothing beyond that. So, out of fears of getting a failing grade, I ended up creating a family tree that was a mix of stereotypes about myself, historical inaccuracies, and other things that only got worse because my sister was doing a similar assignment and put in a completely different family alternate history. Someone ended up worried and had a talk with my adoptive guardian about her authenticity, and I probably came close to being relocated again, or that’s what the anxiety would’ve made it feel like. Eventually, I was told not to do the assignment, but it was too late, I had made lies that were forever associated with me.

thelsim, in What was the cringiest moment of your life?
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Being told, by my classmates, that the tooth fairy isn’t real with me fervently claiming otherwise. Thanks a lot mom and dad, you were too convincing.

son_named_bort, in What are some modern bullshit jobs?

Life coach

Marcbmann,

Honestly, can just be a different form of therapy. Worked with one in conjunction with a therapist through a service provided by my medical insurance.

The therapist was completely useless. The life coach had me questioning the way I thought about things, and got me to seriously reevaluate the ways I caused myself stress. All she did was ask questions, but they got me to see things differently. Helped a lot.

kerr, in Do you know of any obscure useful websites?

Microwave Watt?? Converts cooking instructions to whatever your actual microwave is (mine’s a shitty 700w beast so I have to add about 50% cooking time to most things). www.microwavewatt.com

GoosLife,

I use that all the time. I have so many friends who just give it however long it says on the packaging and then complain their microwaves suck.

The only thing that can still throw me off course is when the packaging says: “microwave for about 7-9 minutes depending on your microwave”. Bro, what am I supposed to do with this information? I’m ready to go watt for watt, I don’t want to keep an eye on my microwave. I just wanna hear the bing and know it’s done.

Karlos_Cantana, in Which organism would you most like to be able to conduct an extended translated interview with?
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My teenage child

Khanzarate, in How many patients can one doctor take care of per year? How many people can one farmer feed a year?

The logic is sound, but as you extend the idea, the group starts selling access to their doctor, and you basically pay a subscription for a doctor, and then you just have insurance by another name. It wouldn’t be corrupt like modern insurance, but that’s just because it’s new, not because it won’t get there, unless specific steps are taken to prevent that.

Really, the only thing thatt actually accomplishes here is you’ve removed profit and CEO nonsense from the equation. A community that implemented and organized all these potential communal services would just be a commune. Nothing wrong with that at all, we need more communist principles in our lives.

LesserAbe,

I think if it started to get bigger the other factor that would come into play is the entity could be democratically controlled, which is another thing we don’t get with typical insurance.

Khanzarate,

Yeah, definitely some benefits to it, even without extending it to communism. The usual term for these is an insurance cooperative, if you wanna research them more. A lot of unions do this, too.

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