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lightnsfw, in What hobby do you have that no one else in your family shares?

Everything. My family just sits on their ass watching tv all day.

adj16, in What's your automatic vacuum's name?

I was pretty happy with Sir Sweepsalot

ElBarto, in What has been the best thing that has happened to you so far?
@ElBarto@sh.itjust.works avatar

Cutting ties with my dad, he was a giant angry child who would verbally and mentally abuse me and my mother and other family members.

Haven’t spoken to him in over 5 years and I’ve gotten overall happier and healthier both physically and mentally.

JimmyBigSausage, (edited )

Please come help us all at !AdultChildren.@lemm.ee

ani, in Will ublock Origin be blocked on chrome soon?💀💀💀

Yes ditch chrome. I myself am using safari on windows and recommend that, very good experience.

wreckedcarzz,
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world avatar

Yo wtf

grue, (edited )

Chrome is based on Safari (which itself is based on KHTML). They diverged a long time ago, but there’s still a genetic relationship there. Even if Safari for Windows were still a thing and you were serious instead of trolling, that strategy still wouldn’t be as good as switching to Firefox’s actually-unrelated codebase.

(Also, the real WTF is using Windows in general.)

ani, (edited )

Firefox primary revenue is Google as default search engine, i.e. Mozilla sustainability model is unreliable since it depends on a direct competitor. Mozilla, and thus Firefox, is controlled oposition. Safari, on the other hand, has no such issues whatsoever, and has an independent browser engine. That’s why I recommend Safari, and everybody here should switch to it, and I recommend you as well.

Pwnmode,

Almost 80% of computer users are unable to do so.

AdamBomb,

Good one lol

calypsopub, in What has been the best thing that has happened to you so far?

Surprisingly (to me), having a child. I never wanted kids. Never even babysat, didn’t like them-- hated how silly, loud, and disgusting they are. Then I got pregnant by accident. I was terrified. I was abused as a child and have a bad temper, so I was afraid I would lose it and hurt my kid. Pregnancy was difficult, labor and delivery moreso, but the instant he popped out … I cannot describe to you the transformation. I am sure it is purely hormonal; pitocin is a helluva drug. My husband even said, “Who are you and what have you done with my wife?” It was akin to a lobotomy. Suddenly I adored babies and wanted to hold them and coo at them. I became more mellow and patient, went from the sort of conservative mindset that thinks “get a job,” to the theretofore incomprehensible liberal views like “most in jail aren’t really to blame for the circumstances they find themselves in, let’s help them instead of punish them.”

My son is by far the biggest blessing in my life. He is a companion that I never grow tired of, a wise sounding board, and a balm to my old age. I am literally a kinder, better person because I had him.

dingus,

Aww I bet you are a fantastic mom. Keep doing you and I’m wishing all the best for you and your family.

arin,

What advice can you give to other children hating women?

calypsopub,

I’m not one to give advice. My joy is a happy accident of chemistry, I think.

Gormadt, (edited ) in What has been the best thing that has happened to you so far?
@Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Getting sober

It allowed me to actually sort through all of my mental health problems and confront myself on who I was and who I wanted to be

Not to mention how much my physical health has improved

It was honestly the hardest thing I’ve done as well given that I started drinking when I was 12.

I’ve been sober now for 6 years

Edit: In 6 years it will go from “the longest I’ve been sober since I started drinking” to “The longest stretch of time I’ve been sober in my whole life”

TodaviaTyler,

Hey congratulations! Addiction is like an onion: it has so many layers! You’ll likely shed a tear or two once you decide to cut it open, but once diced and sauteed (i.e. overcome your addiction), it will add so much flavor to life!

Agent641,

Getting sober is my pick too. Im just over a year in from my last drink. Ive excelled at work, had 3 raises, finished my degree, made quality new friends, met a beautiful woman who is now my best friend, took a chance and kissed her one night, and she kissed back. Life is great.

freebread,

Hell yeah, I’m at 5 and a half myself. Really helps me keep my priorities straight.

NullaFacies, (edited ) in Will ublock Origin be blocked on chrome soon?💀💀💀
@NullaFacies@sh.itjust.works avatar

No, it won’t be blocked.

That being said, it will be handicapped.

spacebar.news/chrome-ad-blocking-manifest-v3-ublo…

Safari doesn’t have uBlock Origin at the moment AFAIK; it was discontinued. uBlock Origin on Firefox will continue using MV2 which allows for better extension/list updating.

serpineslair, in What is your earliest memory?

I have a fair few from when I was very young, but mostly indescribable feelings like specific textures/sights etc. However, the first meaningful memory I had was waking up on holiday in some kind of resort (I believe I was 3, like most other people posting here) and I screamed, not knowing where I was in the middle of the night. If I recall correctly, my parents had carried me from the car straight to the bed in the hotel room.

Lauchs, in What has been the best thing that has happened to you so far?
FatTony, (edited )
@FatTony@lemmy.world avatar

Fuckin’ A.

PP_BOY_, in Will ublock Origin be blocked on chrome soon?💀💀💀
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I find it hard to believe that there’s any overlap on the Venn Diagram between people technologically literate to use the Fediverse and people who still use Chrome. I’m always shocked to see posts like this. For OP, join us

voidMainVoid,

Some sites work much better with Chromium. I default to Firefox (LibreWolf), though.

I can’t imagine keeping myself locked into only one browser. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always used at least two.

otter,

I always keep chrome installed and updated alongside the other browsers. Sometimes it’s necessary for certain websites

  • Firefox: 90% of my usage
  • Mullvad: for tasks where privacy is extra important
  • chrome: when websites don’t work with the above
tyrant,

If it doesn’t work with Firefox and a VPN I just don’t use that service anymore. Im not going to go out of my way to use a service that doesn’t support certain browsers. Except for my bank… They win that battle against the VPN

miss_brainfart,
@miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml avatar

My bank actually reccommends Firefox alongside Chrome and Safari.

Which is pretty much the only thing I can respect about them, sadly.

tyrant,

My bank just doesn’t like a VPN which is a little annoying but understandable to some extent

otter,

I open up chrome are when there isn’t an alternative

Some banking services and authentication for certain Google products that I need for school or work

Joker,

I started using Firefox back when it was called Phoenix so it pains me to say this. Firefox pretty much sucks. For a long time, their biggest selling point is it’s not Chrome. It’s noticeably slower than Chrome and, outside of a few nice features, it’s been stagnant for a while. It routinely lags behind and hasn’t really innovated anything in years. The UI hasn’t changed materially since like 2004. Is a tabbed window the best we can do? It was great back then but now we use so many web apps that the tabs are unwieldy.

A free, open source browser should be an incredible priority. I would put it up there with Linux in terms of importance. Instead of treating the project as important, Mozilla is screwing around with Pocket, a VPN and email masking. What the hell? It’s pathetic. They wouldn’t even be in business at all if they weren’t being paid by Google. The organization is rudderless and it shows in Firefox.

NeoNachtwaechter,

people technologically literate to use the Fediverse and people who still use Chrome.

Being a technologically literate person, I usually have 2-4 different browsers on my devices.

grue,

One of my computers is a Chromebook (which I was required to have in order to run my college’s proctoring spyware, and bought before the Manifest V3 controversy was a thing). I’ve tried running Firefox on it inside the Linux virtual environment but it doesn’t work well, and the issue hasn’t been urgent enough to be worth blowing away Chrome OS and making it into a normal Linux laptop yet.

aluminium, in Will ublock Origin be blocked on chrome soon?💀💀💀

Basically, yes.

AquaTofana, in What has been the best thing that has happened to you so far?

Absolutely meeting my husband. Joining the military absolutely laid the groundwork for breaking out of my conservative/republican ideology, but it was truly the work my husband put into me to pull me in Progressive thinking. I tell him all the time how he’s made me into a MUCH better human being.

Dozzi92,
@Dozzi92@lemmy.world avatar

It’s funny, I joined the Marines, infantry, and came out much, much more progressive.

AquaTofana,

I think it’s eye opening to see how much better everyone’s lives are when they have things like free Healthcare, subsidized school, and subsidized housing.

Not to mention many of our deployments occurring to locations where religious extremism has dominated society.

The military used to lean heavily red as a rule, but I think looking around and seeing the struggles of our civvie family and friends makes us go, “Fuck, wouldn’t it be awesome if EVERYONE could have this?”

RGB3x3,

I’ll be separating soon and the biggest thing I’ll miss is the healthcare. Not having literally any bills for any medical treatment is fantastic.

It’s funny for Republicans to want to keep over funding the military, given that the biggest expense is the socialized healthcare.

fadingembers,
@fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

It’s not exactly the same but the VA will cover your healthcare once you’re out as long as you go to them for it

paddirn,

I think you’ll still qualify for Tricare after you get out. Before my Dad passed, he was on Tricare (after having been out of the military for decades) and I think they only just recently started charging for it the past few years, but it was still ridiculously cheaper than any private health insurance rates (for him it was something like $12/month vs $600/month private insurance). I stayed away from getting him on because I assumed there was something wrong with it, but nope, I only regret not getting him on Tricare sooner.

Dozzi92, in What has been the best thing that has happened to you so far?
@Dozzi92@lemmy.world avatar

My life is one lucky decision after another and I couldn’t be happier with where I ended up. Fucked off in high school but somehow got into college (jk, I know how I got in ($$)), dropped out, fucked around, went to school for my current field literally to buy time, fucked around but got out, fucked around at work and decided to join the service. Fucking around was frowned upon so I finally turned it around. Came out, got better at civilian job, lived with friends from the service for one year in a town that happened to be like 25 miles from where my future wife was just finishing school, and so our dating profile search rings matched up for all of a couple months.

Bought a house months after meeting my future wife and it was she either moves home and we go long distance or she sticks around and figures out a rooming situation with her then roommates. That was a decade ago, and two kids, and I live on a block with seven or eight other young families in a walkable neighborhood, my kids will walk to school when they’re older, ride their bikes around, we hang out and socialize regularly with neighbors. And it’s all because I fucked around in high school.

lseif, in What hobby do you have that no one else in your family shares?

translating garfield comics

Toes, in Will ublock Origin be blocked on chrome soon?💀💀💀

I believe some chromium based browsers will continue to support their own flavours of adblock.

But Firefox is the way to go

Aurix,

Firefox is a good browser and unfortunately the only fully independent one. But I also believe there might be a bigger Chromium development split happening. Nothing increases action and unites people like a monopoly pushing greed.

Telodzrum,

As long as it’s Blink, it’s not worth the time.

cley_faye,

the only fully independent one

ahem

Aurix,

Fair point, they receive Google money. But its technological backend is not bound to Chromium.

hal_5700X,
@hal_5700X@lemmy.world avatar

uBlock Origin works best on Firefox. If you’re going to use uBlock. Firefox is the best browser for it.

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