Rentlar

@Rentlar@lemmy.ca

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Rentlar ,

Rehosted for your benefit!

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Rentlar ,

Reject modernity, return to flappy squarE.

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Here, have some useless pixels to make you feel better about yourself: 🏅

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Your region? Is the service you are trying to acquire available to Canadian customers?

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They should be paid overtime and extra overtime for their efforts cooperating with the investigation. They should come chill in Canada while they await the results of the investigation. Smoking a few joints with us and having a few Hawaiian pizzas will make the time go by quickly.

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Oh! I know this one. American Pie by Don McLean.

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The "four seasons" gaffe is still the height of Giuliani's comedy career, but this is up there.

Trump Demands Biden Take a Drug Test Before Debating and Claims the President Was ‘High as a Kite’ During the State of the Union ( www.mediaite.com )

“I just wanna debate this guy, but you know– and I’m gonna demand a drug test too, by the way,” Trump said as the audience cheered. “I am. No, I really am. I don’t want him coming in like the State of the Union. He was high as a kite.”

Rentlar ,

The drug scheduling rules that the Trump White House pharmacy was following were inspired by "It's every day, bro" by Jake Paul.

Visa Adds New Way To Share Customer Shopping Data With Retailers ( www.businesswire.com )

Visa is rolling out new technology that will allow the payments giant to share more information about customers' preferences [non-paywalled source] based on their shopping history with retailers as it seeks to remain a top player in the competitive e-commerce space. From a report:...

Rentlar ,

Maybe the person means prepaid debit cards.

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It already has done much more than you give credit for. People are talking about it. More importantly, legislators are talking about it, which is the first step for things for laws to change/clarify what it means to own a digital product in the UK.

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I've seen enough of your comments to know you're being sarcastic but damn, I could imagine some conservatives actually making an argument like this.

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Lemmuffin day

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beloved features — like the ability to “gild” posts by donating a Reddit Premium subscription — are not returning.

That was like more than half the point of gold. Some random comment getting lots of gold would mean the recipient, in turn, could give out gold too.

Now...

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I need to wake up early ( lemmy.world )

All the vibrating alarm clocks I could find do not sync with your phone, and have to be set manually. I thought about getting an Arduino, but then I will have to build the whole thing by myself. The only logical conclusion I could come up with is to get a programable vibrator. But most of them are either very expensive of look...

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Just use a Japanese Train Conductor Bed that automatically makes you sit up!

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Yeah I was looking to find where Harry Potter was in this guide.

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Using a paper cutter, aligning the worn pages along the outside edge of the book into a nice looking rectangle

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It could have been £300 and you will still complain and be the sucker for paying for that. Is the seller obligated to ship to you at a price of £2?

You could probably shop around a bunch of Oxfams to (maybe) get the book you wanted for cheap. Or you could also find discounted books at the Oxfam and list them for just £1 or 2 above the sticker price. Is that worth your time?

Like I get being upset at institutional practices like soft drinks costing companies a handful of pence per item when they charge £2.50 (or £4.50 at the cinema), and being stingy on the refills. Books on the other hand are a luxury item that (other than the textbook racket by publishers) you can go without.

Rentlar OP ,

Louis discusses his experience with Nextcloud in the first portion of the video.

For him, Nextcloud's gallery app runs much slower than Immich. The Nextcloud app only supports proxy image previews but no proxy video previews, which Immich does.

Rentlar OP ,

Yeah. Hopefully this grant can give Immich the TLC it needs to address its current shortcomings.

Rentlar OP ,

I hope someone can help you with this. Maybe you need to make a post disguised as a tutorial, setting it up incorrectly and have someone correct you :P

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I'll just suggest to you, get an ebike, then you can hide how unfit you are 😏. Takes all the stress out of hills and some of the stress out of having impatient cars behind you, and keeps the enjoyable parts.

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Green Is My Pepper users unite!

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As a Linux aficionado, I appreciate you trying to bring an argument for Windows in good faith and a potential way for Microsoft to improve it. This is even if steering people to Bing is Microsoft's intention with this move so they are unlikely to improve it in the way you suggested.

Since forever, Microsoft-affiliated products are often the only things that get the "trusted" label within the Microsoft ecosystem.

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🤗 (Hugging face) also hosts a large repository including demos of AI models so they have been a helpful resource for open source computing.

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If 18 year olds can vote, drive a lorry, a bus and other jobs like that, they shouldn't need to disqualify people at that age to drive trains.

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For accuracy's sake those were her father's words, the founder of the Indigenous land exploiting mining company that Gina Rinehart inherited.

US prisoners are being assigned dangerous jobs. But what happens if they are hurt or killed? ( apnews.com )

Blas Sanchez was nearing the end of a 20-year stretch in an Arizona prison when he was leased out to work at Hickman’s Family Farms, which sells eggs that end up in the supply chains of huge companies like McDonald’s, Target and Albertsons. While assigned to a machine that churns chicken droppings into compost, his right leg...

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...when he was leased out to work at Hickman's Family Farms

I love how the article opens with this, because leasing people like property is totally cool and fine in America, because old piece paper said it is ok.

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Yeah. I know. I'm saying that it's crazy to me (as a non American) that slavery is viewed as normal in 2024, because the US Constitution says it's OK to buy, sell, lease people if they committed a crime.

Rentlar ,

Tired of microtransactions? Wanna install (better) mods, and any texture pack you please? Just play the Java edition.

How to work with someone that regularly arrives as the wrong answer?

I work with a person that went presented with a problem, works through it and arrives at the wrong solution. When I have them show me the steps they took, it seems like they interpret things incorrectly. This isn't a language barrier, and it's not like they aren't reading what someone wrote....

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It's fine if they get it wrong, you explain how you actually wanted it so they understand and then get it right, sometimes you have to spell out what you mean.

If you explained and showed what you wanted and how, after their mistake, then a 2nd or 3rd time they screw up in the same way that's an issue. Words can mean different things to people.

If it's a different screw up each time, and they aren't intentionally being obtuse, then you could probably be clearer or explain yourself better.

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I don't like the pits on olives, but cut up they are alright.

I'm strange but my favourite pizza topping combo is black olives and pineapple.

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Damn, Adam Smith, Father of Capitalism, out here proudly hustling reviews for Amazon products from his deathbed.

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Not gonna be active on Discord tonight. l'm meeting a girl (a real one) in half an hour (wouldn't expect a lot of you to understand anyway) so please don't DM me asking me where l am (im with the girl, ok) you'll most likely get aired because ill be with the girl (again l don't expect you to understand) shes actually really interested in me and its not a situation i can pass up for some meaningless Discord degenerates (because ill be meeting a
girl, not that you really are going to
understand) this is my life now. Meeting
women and not wasting my precious time
online, l have to move on from such simple things and branch out (you wouldnt
understand) @everyone

Connected cars’ illegal data collection and use now on FTC’s “radar” ( arstechnica.com )

The Federal Trade Commission's Office of Technology has issued a warning to automakers that sell connected cars. Companies that offer such products "do not have the free license to monetize people’s information beyond purposes needed to provide their requested product or service," it wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Just...

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And for a low price of a billion dollars, the potential for the executive branch to capitulate to the oligopolies!

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Dude. This ain't a meme. It was passable as a shitpost.

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What clued Ms. Gore into it? Somehow I doubt it was just the fact that the pornographic material in school libraries didn't exist.

Post-Dobbs Texas laws have shown that her former party wants to enslave women to their pregnancies to the point of near-death. Even if not about abortion, I suspect it is one of those "I don't care at all about something until it affects me" type of stories that changed her mind.

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Imagine if your average thief or worker accused of misconduct could say "let's see whether the US Department of Justice wants to charge me" to avoid material consequences.

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S&P is up? Poor people suffer. Is down? Also suffering. Up, down, get it? ... We have the best financial system in the world, because of suffering.

What are some personally spiteful things you want to do against society because of how much you don't like it's direction? ( kbin.social )

For example, I sometimes do want to vote for Trump. Not because I like the man. Not because I find him as a credible leader, in fact, he's a murderer in my eyes by negligence because of his handling of the 2020 COVID Pandemic....

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Thanks to voters like you for Brexit then I guess.

Sure we're all stupid, but I'm putting my money and energy into what I want to make better, rather than worse. Sometimes that drive to do better comes from spite.

I vote and tell others to online here and in real life, I attend city council meetings for the stuff I care about (transit), I go out and meet the poor and suffering where they are and donate to my local food bank. When I boycot something I stick to it. When a platform turns too shitty I find ways to get away from it (Lemmy), or at least get it to arms length (Matrix/Beeper).

Issue is, there's only so many things that I can be not complacent about. The Gaza war is terrible and I talk about it often, yet it's just a situation I can't see a way I can convince the US to hold Israel to account no matter what I do. Rents, affordability, climate, there's stuff I care about but when I am back from my full time job there's just no more room to think about how the world is fucked 10 ways from Sunday, and my mental health is better for not focusing on things I can't fix.

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To boil it down for you:

I can do a lot, but I can't do everything. I'm reserving what I can do to stuff where I can make the largest impact.

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Disclaimer I don't know the ins and outs of HA nor have I used it.

I'm not sure if you have the automatic lock/unlock part figured out but that's the part I can't help with.

In terms of detecting when kid comes home, some ideas:

A low power esp32 board coded to connect to your home network, then if the device name or MAC address is discovered on the network, or have the device send a message every 10 seconds or when a button is pressed.

NFC card and reader in front of the door, can be "hard wired" rather than over wifi if you prefer. The card doesn't run out of battery but access still can be assigned or revoked if lost.

A passcode: many hardware store doorlocks offer this, if the main problem is your kid losing keys. Then just do automation inside the house as you see fit from motion detectors or whatever your heart desires.

E: a few people ITT don't like to have fun thinking of ideas how to use home automation, even if it's unnecessary.

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A lot of people are shocked and outraged about each. Look at the protests and encampments around universities. Similar to people having a finite amount they can donate, they have a finite amount of energy and focus to pay attention to and change.

One group making up bullshit reasons to kill another isn't going to stop with Ukraine, Gaza, Xinjiang, etc. Even if there were major interventions and a global cooperative effort to ease those specific tensions.

My fight is focused on improving transit for everyone, keeping this planet from warming up too much, and keeping rich people from siphoning up every bit of liberty we have left.

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Plus highways are costing states a fuckton to maintain and many are past their design life. About time we put something better in and stop listening to the automobile industry lobbying that got us into this in the first place.

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Do you leave a tip for housekeeping if you're only staying one night in a hotel?

Is it a 'thank you for prepping my room' or 'please clean my room today'? If you tip post cleaning, it's likely going to someone else the next day. Many hotels now only do housekeeping on demand. How do employees feel about this - do they miss the tips or are they happy for a less stressful workday?...

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Tip or don't tip, don't ever feel like there's an expectation to. Not always but I often leave 1-3 bucks in change usually when I check out, especially so if say the floor or bed gets a bit sandy or I check out at 11:10, something like that.

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20-30 minutes, the time is spent dodging cars that pull out without checking the bike lane.

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Car companies offering embedded upgrades as softlocked addons or subscriptions is also down that route. It's where the money's at so it will transcend industry boundaries. They will try to hide behind "digital" everything to try to escape legislation as long as possible.

Again, I can't nor do I want to force you to sign this.

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