AmbientChaos

joined 1 year ago
[–] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I went through a very similar experience with my dog who was my best friend. It's been a couple of years now. He also had terminal cancer around the same age. If you need anyone to talk to who can relate, hit me up.

It hit me pretty hard and had me down for a long time. There have been a few things I came to realize while recovering from the grief that I wanted to share.

The first realization that helped me was understanding that I did the right thing letting him go and not making him suffer from cancer. I felt a lot of guilt because I made his last appointment. I don't know if you've felt that or might feel that, but know that you're doing the right thing, it's just a very hard thing to do and it makes you an even better person for doing it.

The second realization was that my pup would have wanted me to be happy and that I can choose to honor him through my happiness. This one actually came to me in a dream about my pup where he let me know "life is for the living" and that he'd rather me be happy

The third, and probably most powerful, realization was that the life I gave him was one of the most beautiful things I can comprehend. We all have our time here and then we must go. I feel so unbelievably honored that I was able to make his time here as amazing as possible. He spent his whole life being extremely loved and able to give that love back. He didn't have to suffer the cancer, or suffer aging and deteriorating. From start to end we were able to make his life amazing, and it sounds like you did the same for your pup. You should be incredibly proud of that.

I still miss him terribly and think about him all the time, but when I think back now I feel incredible pride and happiness. Make sure you get some keepsakes to cherish, we did some plaster paw prints and also cut some of his hair to keep (maybe weird but I don't mind that.) The keepsakes gave me some comfort and helped me process everything.

My heart is with you, let me know if you need anything an internet stranger can provide <3

[–] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He once fired a pregnant employee because she wasn't married and therefore must have had premarital sex. They've fired 9 people for pre marital sex. Wacky

[–] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

The trick is that it costs an absolute fortune to maintain them, that's why they're cheap used. I believe there Is a saying that goes something like "the only car more expensive than a luxury car is a used luxury car"

[–] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

Lemmy is such a rad place, I love it here

[–] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Honda is releasing a new Prelude soon too, so probably was Prologue all along

[–] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The benefit of having unused RAM is that every program you are using can remain in memory for quick multitasking access and when you go to launch a new program it can be loaded into that unused RAM without unloading any of the currently running programs. What part about that is a misunderstanding? Would the user be better off if the application in focus aggressively reserved RAM it didn't need to slow down every other running application? Because that's what Photoshop does

[–] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Consumer software running on a consumer OS should not be grabbing all available RAM just because. Doing so will cause other applications to be moved to swap and have to be loaded back into RAM when the user goes to use them. In a server environment doing something like running a SQL server it would make more sense to grab all available RAM and start aggressively caching frequently accessed data in RAM to present it sooner with the assumption that the server's primary role is to perform SQL operations as quickly as possible.

Specifically with Photoshop what would be the benefit of it be aggressively reserving RAM beyond what is needed to function?

[–] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 months ago (8 children)

This is only remotely true if you have a box dedicated to doing one single thing and nothing else. That is almost certainly not the case for the vast majority of Photoshop users

[–] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Niagara's free version is still pretty great too. I usually pay for apps but don't want a subscription for my launcher, so I use it in free mode. Despite the limitations it's methodology of getting you to the app you're looking for as quickly as possible is a game changer. I don't know if I'll be able to go back to icons and folders + app drawer launchers haha

[–] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Brother, it's not the people. It's the corporation. If the people want to join a non Meta instance they would be welcomed with open arms

[–] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Huh, it's one of my favorite endings of all time and I consider it genius. One man's trash I guess

[–] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Agreed on it being old school reddit! There are some UI wrappers that make it look and feel like old school reddit that I use and love you might enjoy. The wrapper is called mlmym and is open source. There are a few hosts you can use, I use this one: https://o.opnxng.com

A direct link for your lemmy instance would be https://o.opnxng.com/lemmy.world

https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym/tree/main

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