dfyx

joined 1 year ago
[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 5 points 2 days ago

36 / M / Germany

Pretty much spot on.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

タイッツー is definitely taittsuu. Twitter doesn't seem to use a katakana spelling. Your proposal of "tsuittaa" would be ツイッター. Same katakana but different order. There would be no reason to read Japanese from right to left. Might be an intentional pun though.

Edit: it's https://taittsuu.com

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

They don't owe you anything. Not sex, not a kiss, not a hug, not a second date, not even a smile. If the date goes well, you will get some or even all of those but if you try to force them, you will get nothing. Sure it can be disappointing if you put in a lot of effort and get nothing back but you will have to live with that. Sometimes people just aren't compatible and sometimes a date just goes wrong because of a weird coincidence.

Be nice, even if the date doesn't go as you wanted. Open communication goes a long way and chances are that the person you're talking to is just as insecure as you are. Explain (not accuse) why you don't think this situation will work out. If you're lucky, you can turn the conversation around. If not, at least you're ending the date in a civil way. That also (and especially) applies to talking on online dating platforms. Sometimes you can tell just from a conversation that things won't go anywhere. Way too many people just drop the conversation and move on which can feel pretty rude. Be nice, explain what's up, give them a friendly goodbye and then move on.

Those rules apply to both sides. You don't owe them anything either, especially if they get rude. You should still try to be friendly in case there is a misunderstanding but try to get yourself out of an uncomfortable situation before it gets worse. Your safety is still priority number one.

Edit: some more

Don't expect a relationship to last. Chances are it won't. But this isn't as pessimistic of a tip as you might expect. Even a single day of joy can be worth it if you manage your expectations. I've had a relationship crash and burn after seven years, I've had ones that lasted a couple of months and I've had someone ghost me after the second date. And still, all of them gave me amazing memories that I wouldn't want to miss and they helped me grow as a person. Allow things to grow on their own and enjoy the process. Maybe you will marry that person. Maybe you'll date them for a few months or years. Maybe you will never get past second base but stay platonic friends. Maybe you will spend the most amazing day of your life with them and then never see them again because you accidentally spilled something over their favorite t-shirt.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Sure. I use it as a structured place to keep notes on anything that may be important later, not specifically tasks:

  • Important people in my life (friends and family) with a short bio, where we met, favorite food, allergies, ideas what I could get them for their birthdays, links to their social media profiles, plans for shared vacations, maybe a few photos.
  • Recipes from all kinds of sources. If they are from a video or one of those "scroll past three pages of sentimental nonsense" sites, I summarize them and translate them into German with metric units.
  • Lists with interesting links about 3D printing, software development and so on. Keeping these in a wiki instead of just my browser's bookmarks list allows me to better categorize them and add notes.
  • A list of open questions and project ideas that I can't research right now like "Where is the best place to get custom printed LEGO minifigs?" and "Why do the zfs drives in my home server sometimes have problems waking up from sleep?"
  • Lists of interesting products/books/movies/... that I might buy/read/watch/... at some point
  • Some writing stuff: D&D campaigns, short stories, diary-like entries
  • A list of all computers in my household with hardware specs, operating system and so on

All of those get put into categories and the categories are displayed on the main page via the categorytree plugin. The nice thing about having a wiki is that you have a lot of options for linking or embedding related content while still keeping it somewhat organized.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 9 points 1 week ago

Last week I found out that there are off-brand batteries for my DSLR cameras that can be charged directly through USB-C so I don't have to pack a different charger for every camera. Let that sink in!

Overall pretty great, in a pinch I can charge my laptop on a Nintendo Switch power supply. Now if I could just upgrade the last few remaining Micro-USB and Lightning devices without spending a fortune...

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Polarion. Wouldn't recommend it but it's what my employer wants me to use.

For personal stuff, I use a private MediaWiki instance (same software that runs Wikipedia) as my external brain.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

See my first bullet point:

“I don’t like either option”: pick the lesser evil or vote third party

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 21 points 1 week ago

There are 36 million Ukrainians. I doubt you'll find any property that they all have in common, except for being humans.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 10 points 1 week ago

Honestly, that was the option I had hoped for when I made that joke. I‘m happy for you.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

So? What are those reasons?

  • "I don't like either option": pick the lesser evil or vote third party
  • "But Harris won't stop the genocide in Palestine": neither will Trump.
  • "My vote wouldn't change anything": it would. See OP.
  • "I can't vote because I have to work": vote by mail. Demand that elections are held on a Sunday or national holiday like in most other western democracies. (As an aside, I wonder why conservatives haven't pushed for this yet. Voting on a Sunday and setting up polling stations next to churches would probably help them a lot)
  • "I can't vote because I can't physically get to a polling station (disabled, sick, too far)": vote by mail
  • "I can't vote because my state's ruling party won't let me": you should be furious about this and do anything in your power to change this.

Did I forget any? Probably. Enough to change the election outcome in the majority of states? Most certainly not.

Yes, the US have some fucked up rules that make voting hard for some people and for that exact reason urgently need a voting system reform. Make voting easier and make changes that break the two party system.

Honestly, here in Germany we're infamous for still using fax machines for half our bureaucracy and even we manage to do it better than you. Here, elections are always on a Sunday when the vast majority of voters has the day off. Every elegible citizen gets a letter a couple of weeks before the election, informing them of their assigned polling station, based on their primary home address. If for any reason you can't be at your assigned polling station on election day (you work on Sundays, are on vacation, whatever), requesting a mail-in ballot is as easy as going to a website and entering your address and a PIN from the letter. Alternatively you can request one by mail. If for any reason you don't get that initial letter, figure out which polling station is the correct one for you (usually the closest one; ask your neighbors), show up on election day and show some government-issued ID. Done.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sooo... have you decided yet, which one you want to be?

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

For me, the key was finding a regular time during the day when I do the lessons. That's why I recommended you do it during the ad breaks.

 

For tabletop miniatures I prefer to use a flexible resin to avoid small details breaking off when removing supports or when a mini falls off the table. So far I've used Ameralabs TGM-7 but now that my current bottle is almost empty I'm thinking about looking into alternatives. At over 75€ per liter, TGM-7 is really expensive compared to other resins.

Amazon recommended me RESIONE TH72 as an alternative and there are others on the market like Sunlu Standard Plus. So far I couldn't find a good comparison between them. Do any of you have experience with any of those or other recommendations?

 

Finally found out what kept me from uploading photos directly to lemmy so hopefully it will work this time.

This is part of a series that I shot in 2020 and now I’ll finally have the chance to show them in an exhibition on Berlin later this year.

 

The fediverse is discussing if we should defederate from Meta's new Threads app. Here's why I probably won't (for now).

(Federation between plume and my lemmy instance doesn't work correctly at the moment, otherwise I would have made this a proper crosspost)

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