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Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•For those who tried to enter the dating pool, how did it go?
2·10 hours agoSo. I’ve had multiple experiences. I’m poly, so some strange scenarios ahead, but as an adult here they are, in the order they started:
Met through work, and was a platonic partner of about 5 years. Ended because of housing issues, but the relationship was… Fine. She definitely had issues, but nothing worse than I had. Also the only one of these I date while being coworkers.
Next one I met through work. Only lasted 2 months, and her fiance’s girlfriend had to coach her through breaking up with me because she had a stack of cotton candy where most people have a spine.
Next one I’m still with 6 years later, almost 7. Met on a dating app, and it’s been fairly smooth since.
Next one I met through work. Been together for about 7 years as well (3 weeks after previously mentioned relationship started)
Next one I also met through work, and was a platonic partner of about 5 years. Ended because of housing issues.
Next one lasted 3 months. It ended amicably, we just weren’t great as partners.
Next major partner was the only abusive one I’ve had. Met her through a friend who I met on a dating app. Real piece of work, but I got a room mate for 3 years out of the deal so hey. Silver linings. (I kept the boyfriend in the breakup)
Next one was someone I met on a dating app. Ended it because their spouse was unsafe to be around.
Next one is the girl who coached second partner through breaking up with me. Yeah. Wild experience. I met her through the that partner, we screeched like pterodactyls at each other, and stayed friends after the breakup. We’re officially just FWBs, but… It’ll be 4 years this year, so worth mentioning regardless?
Overall it’s a fuckin’ grab bag. Dating apps are great, meeting through work goes well, and apparently helping your ex’s fiance break up with their partner because said fiance’s spinal cord was replaced with spun sugar doesn’t sour things all that much.
Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•So when you were a kid and didn't like to eat something, you'd give it to your parents. But what do you do with food you dislike as an adult?
4·10 hours agoI just… Don’t cook food I don’t like, generally. It has to be pretty bad for me to not want to eat it. My first attempt at brown rice (severely undercooked), I tried rice and beans (turns out I hate beans to the point of wanting to puke :D). Those went in the trash. But generally I just eat it, maybe I don’t chew if it’s bad enough, but it’s pretty rare regardless.
My room mate either hands it to me, or tosses it if I won’t eat it. That’s the source of most of my tossed food. Food they didn’t want that I was curious enough about to take the offer, then ended up not liking myself.
Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Whats a good hobby to get into, as someones whos home alot with a laptop?
2·12 hours agoI use org-mode lists with check boxes to keep track of where I am in patterns :P
Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Whats a good hobby to get into, as someones whos home alot with a laptop?
9·13 hours agoI do quite a lot of writing, knitting, gaming, crochet, website making, and game development on my old T430. Also emacs is a hobby, and I use it with all of the above, so count that in xD
- Writing: Good creative outlet, lotta fun, you can do it on a toaster if you’re really strapped for PC specs. Fanfic is especially fun, and a very common way to cut your chops writing.
- Knitting: Useful! You get clothes and wash rags and bags at the end of it! Can be rough on the hands though.
- Crochet: See knitting. Harder on the hands IMO, but I also tension like I’m strangling someone, so that could be my fault.
- Gaming: Depends on the game you’re playing. Retro stuff does well, and is a fun hobby in itself.
- Website making: It’s fun having a blog, and if you want to feed the writing into it you could even do some basic ARG-type stuff.
- Game development: RPG Maker, Godot, and Ren’py all work well. If you can’t draw there are some premade assets on itch.io to play around with, free and paid. Requires less coding than you’d expect, especially with RPGMaker/Ren’Py
Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•TV remotes should have an easy-to-find (by touch) "volume toggle" button that toggles between two volume settings.
3·15 hours agoAt least allow a range where you can set the min/max dB the TV can output. A single set volume would be… A little weird sounding, but something that says “No you cannot set off a bomb half an inch from the microphone in the middle of a whispering scene” would be great
Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How is using emails scraped for free off of facebook or Linkedin regulated by the FEC?
8·15 hours agoIdk about the FEC, but I’d start by checking if this would fall under the CAN-SPAM act first, because the FCC will probably have something or other to say about it.
Here’s a link for how it can apply to political campaigns: https://womencampaign.com/blog/navigating-can-spam-a-guide-for-political-campaigns/
Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is happening with this potatoe?
8·1 day agoRoom mate searched it, it looks like internal bruising? Pretty severe, but yeah. Lack of oxygen, or freezing. Idk that I’d eat it myself, but it’s allegedly safe. Allegedly.
Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolto
Technology@lemmy.world•As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body partsEnglish
5·2 days agoProbably because of how it’s marketed. It’s not marketed as “This product will be completely wrong about everything half the time, and give bad advice, and all of the other ills you’ve heard of on the news” it’s marketed as “The future we’ve always dreamed of, and if you don’t get in now you’ll crumble under the weight of it. It will be the next sliced bread.”
Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you like working from home? Yes or no, gimme some reasons.
5·2 days agoDespite socializing a lot when I was working at the office, I pretty much immediately loved working from home after the initial 3 months. I’d gone back in temporarily a couple of times for a few reasons, and the whole environment was… Bad.
I run really hot in general, so being able to control my AC was great, since I swear the office was on 74 with about a thousand bodies worth of heat in a comparatively small space. To emphasize: I tend to open a window when it’s anywhere between 0-50F (-17 to 10C) outside.
Everyone had on different kinds of perfume, which just blended into this awful smell on top of whatever cleaning chemicals they used. Having 30+ people talking within earshot made it hard to focus on anything. I could go on. I didn’t realize how much I hated it until I started working from home, and it was so much better.
Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolto
Technology@lemmy.world•This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE.English
101·2 days agoThe biggest concern with these come from the fact that it’s hard to decontaminate 3d printed stuff due to the texture, as far as I can tell? PLA, and PETG are food safe, but 3d printing does leave a texture that’s hard to fully clean, which can cause problems over time.
For microplastics: You’re getting a lot from a lot of sources, and as with anything it’s an “Is the risk worth the benefit” situation
Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolto
Technology@lemmy.world•Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next monthEnglish
15·2 days ago… I don’t need another domain. I don’t need another domain. I do NOT need another domain…
Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are things you did during the early days of the COVID pandemic to try to keep from contracting the virus?
2·2 days agoI was, too, they just sent us to work from home. I had some contact with coworkers, but not very much, and it was on a recorded phone line where professionalism was expected, and an average handle time was enforced, so not like you could have any real conversations
Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some of your earliest memories of school?
2·2 days agoNah, I grew up in Louisiana, everyone was just tan because it was normal to spend a lot of time outside xD I don’t tan well, and I’ve never spent much time outside
Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Using the same abbreviation scheme as "internationalization" -> "i18n", the word "to" can be abreviated as "t0o".
4·2 days agoThere is no “Boo, hiss throws tomato” button, so have an upvote instead xD
Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Can I oil wood with cooking oil?
6·3 days agoYes, you can, but most would recommend against it because they do spoil, and it’s noticeable when they do
Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolto
Technology@lemmy.world•DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICEEnglish
2·3 days agoThis. If you want to be sure that the flacs are worth it, go do one of those 128kbps mp3 vs 320 mp3 vs flac tests and see if you can hear the difference. I can’t, so I just do 128 mp3s and save the storage. Almost 2k songs in 10gb of space :D
Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolto
Technology@lemmy.world•DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICEEnglish
1·3 days agoYeah, a friend of mine was recently buying markers, and a lot of companies also just… Don’t have their own stores. They either redirect to Amazon, or if they to they still fulfill it through Amazon. Etsy is also full of resellers.
Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI controls is coming to FirefoxEnglish
1·3 days agoIt’s a word according to wiktionary, and that’s good enough for me
Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Will carrier drone and mesh nets be the coms of the revolution?
2·3 days agoMesh networks:
- Aren’t encrypted
- Easy to track the origin location
- Easily jammed
Drones:
- Easily spotted to take down
- Easily jammed
Probably not, no?

Weather Master: https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.pranshulgg.weather_master_app
It’s good enough to tell me what I can see out of the window, and what I’ll probably see out of the window for the next few days