bobbyfiend

joined 2 years ago
[–] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

The phrase "based off of." It's always been stupid. I'm still ahead of the curve because many people still think it's OK. It's not.

[–] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Depends on where in Canada. Toronto? Vancouver? Montreal? Oy, insane real estate prices. Bumfuck, Alberta? Manitoba? Rural anywhere? Much cheaper.

And regardless of the price I could afford the utility and maintenance on a condo or apartment in a major city in Canada (if I could ever afford one) much more easily than on a castle in France. Not a great comparison.

[–] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

My kid would like to still have a dad. One who is, ideally, not in prison or dead.

[–] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure it's a hard problem to solve. However, I'm still not using a product missing a critical feature just because the developer found it too difficult to include the feature. Sympathy to the developer but also I need that feature.

[–] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If I believed in a god I'd ask them to save me from the baby communists who see a sickle and hammer on a flag and insist they must have represented utopia.

[–] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

First, I dig this meme. I'll probably share it elsewhere.

Second... "POV" just means "hey look at this," now?

[–] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've taught statistics for over 20 years. I flipflop on this constantly, sometimes in the middle of a sentence. Even more disturbing: I don't have a consistent position, at least grammatically, on whether it's singular or plural.

[–] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Not in my experience. Liberals criticize their parties and communities constantly, at least in the circles I know. The criticism is most often about treatment if others in ways that don't affect the person themself. Sometimes it even seems like status seeking and gets obnoxious. But I'll take a movement where status can be had by advocating for others over over where it comes from selfishness.

[–] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (5 children)

They have access to it if they threaten/indimidate/blackmail you into giving them access. Dummy phones are a real thing; saw a post today on masto by a company... person (?) who said they keep a stash of clean burner phones for when employees travel through US borders. These are all reasonable, and maybe even CalyxOS's decoy partition (does it still have that?). The larger problem is that few people will use these things, not even bringing a clean phone. And once they start threatening your family and your long-term safety and freedom, it's highly likely you'll give them access, if they know there is any access to be had. Which they increasingly do, because universal surveillance blah blah.

[–] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

This is a great list and thanks for posting it.

Also, the pixelfed guy needs to give up full control of his project (no matter how nicely or reasonably he argues "not yet"). I have asked on mastodon and nobody seems to know of anyone else who truly understands the project so if he dies or gets disappeared the project... Dies? Maybe? More concerningly, it isn't open source. He cotes good reasons for this (the massive labor to refactor and whatever else goes into open sourcing a functioning project), but he also occasionally humblebrags about being offered huge sums of money to sell it to corporations. I suspect it will become corporate at some point if he doesn't open source it soon.

[–] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

I don't think that works on shared hosting (at least not without similar workarounds and tweaks), but I hear that the AIO method and snap both work really well if you have root access on the machine.

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