I just don’t have carpeted areas ;)

Yeah, I went to Germany … we need to fix this. It could be so much better, we should copy the German’s and use full doors.

I found it weird that alcohol seemed to be sold only in liquor stores. But you can buy a machine gun in Walmart.

That might be a Florida thing(?) Definitely not an Ohio thing.

The food. Don’t get me wrong it’s nice and all but the quantity. Take sizzlers, you go in order your main meal then get an endless buffet for free. Like I couldn’t eat my steak when it arrived as I was full from the buffet.

Yeah buffets aren’t all that common… But they’re probably more common here (especially in touristy spots) than other countries.

• syrup all over breakfast items and people bigger than id ever seen were gorging and then taking a box home too.
• enthusiasm: grown ass adults whooping and hollering as we were queuing for rides. I’m a man child myself but it was startling.

Fair.

• Jaywalking. Wtf

Yeah… Especially in touristy spots and very urban spots some people don’t care. I’m assuming you’ve witnessed Florida man that cuts across 6 lanes of busy traffic.

I think the average American normally only jaywalks if the street is pretty much empty and they don’t feel like waiting 3 minutes for the light to change.

That is divisive even within the country.

I was raised in small town Ohio and taking your shoes off, especially in a strangers home (occasionally not in your own because of practicalities like going back and forth to unload the car), was considered part of common etiquette along with not wearing hats indoors.

Both of those things really depend on your family though as I’ve definitely met people that just don’t care.

I didn’t watch it, I’ve used simplex… Yeah that’s an awful argument, but the tool is interesting.

What I find most interesting about it is, it’s kind of like signal but with a random and rotatable phone number. If you hypothetically had your “phone number” leaked or started getting spammed on it, you just regenerate it, your existing conversations get the updated phone number and continue to work while new conversations can’t be started with the number you just threw out.

You can also create different profiles for different situations (these have different phone numbers, names, and photos associated with them), e.g. you could have one for people you meet online vs in person vs in your job.

There was another model of sorts in “scroll” but they got acquired by Twitter and … Who knows if that technology will ever get used again.

The scroll model was that you pay $5/mo or so and the Internet becomes ad free (at least for sites that had a relationship with scroll). The money you paid got shared with the sites you visited based on your relative usage (and of course scroll kept some for themselves too).

If Mozilla brought something like that back to the table, I could get on board.

Consider this: every website where you block ads is now inaccessible to you. How did that belief work out?

This is why you use fish shell and just type something vaguely similar to what you remember and hit the up arrow key.

I’d half put this on your window manager. Like, the app isn’t horizontally resizable in a floating window manager either.

A reasonable position would be to ask cosmic to make the other window take up the unused space.

I just play them exclusively with friends and mute random people that get obnoxious.

TIL acron is anacron an asynchronous cron like tool and not a typo.

Edit: FWIW systemd timers can do both behaviors. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Timers section 4.2

You don’t need an epoxy of any sort for this … just a grinder, some more mortar, and a joiner.

This is just something that happens with masonry after decades.

One thing I’ve learned since becoming a home owner ~5 years ago… There’s a lot of stuff on the Internet that tries to get you to a point of hysteria.

https://www.premiumwaterproofing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/stairstep-cracks.jpg

https://www.du-west.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/bulog1-1920w.jpg

This is the kind of stair step crack you need to worry about. It’s a big gap, many blocks, etc. It’s a sign part of your foundation is sinking.

What you have is a block missing some mortar and a crack below (which can happen if water gets into the block … which happens when you’re missing mortar). You can have someone look at it, but I think an honest contractor would tell you “get it repointed or do it yourself, keep an eye on it.”

That just looks like weathering. I have some similar cracks (… that I really do need to get to sooner or later…), it just needs repointed to prevent further water intrusion (take out the old mortar and put new mortar in).

I would not bother your insurance company with this.

This headline seems way weaker than necessary BBC.

Sudan civil war: Women raped by paramilitary fighters

Actually, I guess that’s not the headline, it’s just the post title.

Granted, you should presumably just install evil mode and use that.

My biggest issue with Tim Sweeny is he’s convinced that Microsoft Windows is not somebody else’s property but rather a camp that’s controlled by its users. Meanwhile he can obviously acknowledge Fortnite and similar are his property.

He seems to use a bad experience with some Linux users as his justification for this massive cognitive dissonance and lack of interest in funding and developing for a truly independent platform (Linux) like Valve has.

Honestly, I’m fine with having another game store compete, but the anti-Linux at nearly every turn is 👎 from me (I mean at least they let EasyAnticheat develop the proton layer… But still).

FYI as someone that’s colorblind these captcha’s don’t seem to have anything specially relevant to being colorblind in them.

Now if they start showing me a dozen traffic cones and asking me to pick the green one, we might have a problem.

Oh that would be sick!!

The latest few reports have linked even mild drinking to increased cancer risks.