I've worked at a lot of different places and in my experience it varies a lot.
Some bosses cut everybody slack. Some bosses are jerks and cut nobody any slack. I would say most of them play favorites with their employees (some are blatant about it, some are more subtle). Some bosses cut the workers with kids more slack. Some bosses cut the workers with kids less slack.
Anecdotal evidence is like that. It's emotionally compelling, but doesn't really tell us what's going on in the bigger picture.
Yes, the pressure is immense and I suspect most would not miss it if they could just let it go and could experience life without it.
Reduce, reuse, recycle in that order of priority.
The economics of Christmas spending is mind boggling. It's not a harmless once a year indulgence.
Thank you, I'm grateful for anyone who gets where I'm coming from with this.
That's awesome, but let's not ignore the billions in profits, and questionable spending, and plastic waste production that goes on every year because people feel cultural pressure to buy things for other adults. For every one thoughtful person like you, there's a thousand buying junk nobody wants or needs.
Thank you for the adult perspective.
So, nobody should ever nudge others towards new behaviors or ideas? And how do you know who I do and don't buy gifts for? Lot of assumptions here.
I don't see it as that black and white. Kids get special treatment in many different contexts.
Thank you, well said.
I don't think it's unreasonable to hope (even if naively so) for a cultural shift away from the "Black Friday" mentality that taints the holidays.
I'm sorry you can't distinguish materialism as distinctly different from celebrating with family and friends. Enjoy being brainwashed by ads.
I specified gifts. You can still enjoy the holiday without excessive unnecessary consumption.
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Reddit finally is good
cool, Spez has a Lemmy account
"Find a job doing what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life."
I used to love software. Then all the Lumberghs took over.
How many optional organs does this poor guy have?
Back when I still enjoyed reddit, I loved /random. How very reddit of them to continue down the road of making it a worse user experience. Because it hasn't been about the users for a long, long time. They do it gradually enough that the average reddit schmuck barely even notices.
I find going on and off DST to be kind of a nuisance, but I don't have strong feelings about it one way or the other. It seems like the experience varies from place to place, and your region's distance to the equator is an important factor. The closer you are to the equator, the less necessary DST is.
Historically, some of the regions that went off of DST much prefer it that way, and never looked back. But others regretted opting out of it, and went back to doing it again after everyone complained about it.
I'm sure 47 will make it all about him, whatever he does. And it will probably be a chaotic mess of software patches when they try to implement it. There will be far worse problems to deal with during the Stupid Ages, but throw this one on the pile I guess.
I've only seen one of them up close in person and it was pretty cool, I do admit. But I still don't want one for myself. Something about the whole thing just feels weird and off. I'd be constantly feeling like it was going to split apart from plastic fatigue if I had one.
Almendres Cromlech - complex of megaliths in Portugal
Legends of Myrtles Plantation - haunted house in Louisiana
Feral child - young child lost in the wild, often raised by animals
YSK About NAPS2 - the free and open source document scanning software
www.naps2.com NAPS2 - Scan documents to PDF and more
NAPS2 is free scanner software made easy. Scan to PDF, edit your documents, and use advanced features like OCR. Available on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
NAPS2 (Not Another PDF Scanner.) Free versions for Linux, Windows, and Mac are available for download. Simple interface but fully featured, NAPS2 is much better than the overly bloated proprietary software that comes with most document scanners. Compatible with many devices.
Bloody Mary (folklore) - spirit invoked via mirror ritual
Gustave (crocodile) - infamous man-eater of the Nile
YSK: Removable drives/thumb drives are potentially dangerous in Windows 11
If you plug a USB drive into Microsoft Windows, in many cases it will try to do things "for you" with the drive. Not a great idea. There could be malware lurking on that USB drive.
There are a couple of things you can do to help mitigate the issue. These tips assume Windows 11.
Turn off Autoplay
- Open Settings. Press Windows + I to open the Settings app.
- Go to Bluetooth & devices. In the left sidebar, click on "Bluetooth & devices."
- Select Autoplay. Scroll down and click on "Autoplay."
- Turn Off Autoplay. You'll see a toggle switch labeled "Use Autoplay for all media and devices." Turn this off.
This will turn it off completely. You can, if you want, make individual settings for different types of devices.
Deny Execute Access (Pro or Enterprise versions of Windows 11)
- Open Group Policy Editor. Press Windows + R, type gpedit.msc, and press Enter.
- Navigate to the Removable Storage Access Policies. Go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates >
YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.
This is not an anti-Kindle rant. I have purchased (rented?) several Kindle titles myself.
However, YSK that you are only licensing access to the book from Amazon, you don't own it like a physical book.
There have been cases where Amazon deletes a title from all devices. (Ironically, one version of "1984" was one such title).
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html
There have also been cases where a customer violated Amazon's terms of service and lost access to all of their Kindle e-books. Amazon has all the power in this relationship. They can and do change the rules on us lowly peasants from time to time.
Here are the terms of use:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201014950
Note, there are indeed ways to download your books and import them into something like Calibre (and remove the DRM from the books). If you do some web searches (and/or search YouTube) you can probably figure it out.
TIL about hair traps
I feel like an idiot for not knowing about these.
Every 2-3 months I have to snake out our shower drain with a 25' snake. Giant PITA.
After some web searches, I stumbled across these hair trap devices. They come in both external and internal configurations. Many different types to choose from.
I purchased an internal one, installed it, and am going to give it a try. In theory I can just pop it out and clean it instead of snaking the pipes. Folks tell me they work well. If this one doesn't work I'll try another type. They are fairly inexpensive.
I want an AI TV that blocks all forms of advertising.
We mostly watch news and sports in my house. So unfortunately, live TV. Occasionally we watch other things. I mute the commercials and browse my phone when they're on.
But I would love a TV that is smart enough to auto hide & mute every kind of ad. Even little logos on the athletes' uniforms. Hide the ads on the pitcher's mound. Hide the billboards and signs in the stadium. Show some cool little generic animation, music video, or slide show during commercial breaks. Hide the damned popup window ads and scrolling ads that some channels do. Remove product placements from movies and shows. Basically make all ads completely vanish.
Is a detection-proof ad blocker theoretically possible?
Not asking for tech support here, just wondering if in theory it would be possible to create a plug-in or even a complete browser that blocks ads in a way that's impossible to detect. One model that comes to mind is a quarantined / containerized non-blocking virtual browser which queries the web server directly, then the UX filters the content from that container and presents it to the user ad-free. As far as the web server can tell, the containerized browser is just vanilla Chromium.
Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira - Sociologist who murdered her "failed experiment" daughter
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - multiple MFAs with root?
aws.amazon.com You can now assign multiple MFA devices in IAM | Amazon Web Services
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), security is our top priority, and configuring multi-factor authentication (MFA) on accounts is an important step in securing your organization. Now, you can add multiple MFA devices to AWS account root users and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users in your AWS...
Has anybody gotten this to work? If I set up multiple MFA devices with my IAM accounts, they all work flawlessly. But if I set up multiple MFA devices with my root account, only the original MFA device works. No matter how carefully I set up and synch a secondary device, it simply will not work with root. As the linked article says, this should be possible with either root or IAM (though in the past this was not the case). Thanks.
Do you remember the Segfault website?
Some of the satire on there was gold. Had a wonderful lampoon vibe.
Muzak - brand of background music designed to manipulate behavior
Online geography course recommendations?
Looking for something engaging and interactive (preferably free, but I don't mind paying a reasonable price). Thanks for your suggestions!