CaptObvious

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CaptObvious,

If just any community member can join the communist party, then it’s hardly a ruling class.

CaptObvious,

The Document Foundation’s LibreOffice forums are very helpful for questions like this.

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Too many posts are removed if they’re critical of Israel. I hope this post survives for discussion.

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Hamas is the government in Gaza. Who else would run their health ministry? Israel obviously doesn’t give a damn about them.

How I hate the lazy trolling on this conflict.

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Lemmy.world hasn’t improved as far as I can tell. Or maybe their bias was even worse before I noticed.

In any event, their entire instance is now blocked from my feeds, so I won’t have to deal with them.

CaptObvious,

And these credible independent sources are…? You’ll forgive me if I don’t take your word for it.

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In no particular order:

  • Mind of Watercolor - Steve Mitchell
  • Paul Clark
  • Escape to Rural France
  • Mark Rober
  • SloMo Guys
  • Bear Essentials
  • Primitive Technology
  • Adventure Archives

There’s also a fair amount of surprisingly good fan films in various franchises.

Tips on making your data less sellable?

A charity I’m volunteering for and a contractor I know insist I have a facebook account for contact reasons. Naturally I bought a separate device to use for that, but I was wondering if there were ways to make my data undesirable to potential buyers. So far I got the obvious tiennamen square posting and that gay putin pic, but...

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Search how to poison the well. Choose other wherever possible and lie about the rest. Get creative. I’ve done my best to make FB think that I’m a 7’ 4000-yr-old gay Amazon warrior princess.

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This is the real answer. Any organization that can’t be arsed to communicate professionally using grown up channels is not one I’m going to be associated with anyway. Use email and Messages like normal people. Leave FB to… whoever uses that garbage.

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My last growth spurt was about 3500 years ago.

CaptObvious,

Honestly, this sounds like a good thing.

CaptObvious,

Yes. Even a phone call (for those who remember them) would be preferable.

Best/usable free Evernote alternative

Ok, Evernote committed hara-kiri, so time to move on. (no way I’ll pay for ransomware) Any tips for good alternatives for Linux/Android platform? My wife used Nimbus note a while back, recovered her account there, ColorNote pops up when looking for alternatives as well....

CaptObvious,

I sync across devices by saving the notes folder to Nextcloud and pointing all clients to it.

how similar are other North American countries to USA??

I mean the other 2 countries, Canada and Mexico, how similar are both of them to United States?? Both countries have a similar economy and democracy etc, and I think those two countries share things like supermarkets, stores, etc. I suppose the cultural differences are not a lot, that is very nice.

CaptObvious,

Arguably, Cuba and the Bahamas (at least) border the US. If we get technical, so do Russia and several island nations in Oceania.

CaptObvious,

Dialect difference. Brit pants = US underwear. US pants = Brit trousers.

CaptObvious,

Ah, sorry. I jumped to the wrong understanding of your question.

Now you mention it, that does sound kind of comfy, similar to soft flannel.

CaptObvious,

Time Warp Trilogy — look it up on YouTube. Star Trek fan production, but some of the best time travel stories ever produced.

Which items/products were you once able to get from local shops on a whim that you now more or less have to order online?

Sometimes I find myself shopping for things that I’d prefer to go out and get within the same day, but now I’d have to order and wait a few days to get…So I’m wondering what some of those things may be for you?

CaptObvious,

Fountain pens. I used to buy them at the local office supply store, but they’ve been gone for 25 years. For that matter, my town doesn’t even have a big box office supply anymore.

And books. I really miss a proper local bookstore.

CaptObvious,

The only real reason I can think to move is if your current instance is regularly down for extended periods or if a lot of other instances defederate it.

CaptObvious,

As few as possible, meaning immediate communication apps and a couple that monitor devices. A few more can notify if they’re running.

CaptObvious,

Any place that sells imperial should also sell metric. If all else fails, order from a Canadian Walmart.

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Chick-fil-A. Hobby Lobby. DeviantArt/Wix (any Israeli company, in fact, until Palestine is free).

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Chick-fil-A is owned and operated by homophobic douchebags.

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DeviantArt is wholly owned by Wix. It ceased being a US company in 2017.

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