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grysbok

@ grysbok @lemmy.sdf.org

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I'm a systems librarian in an academic library. I moved over the Lemmy after Rexxit 2023. I've had an account on sdf.org since 2009 (under a different username), and so I chose this instance out of a sense of nostalgia. I do all sorts of fiber arts (knitting, cross stitch, sewing) and love dogs.

  • Vintage

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  • Oh, shiny. That could do.

  • Vintage

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  • I'd love to replace it but I'm not sure I could deal with CRT whine anymore.

  • Anon updates GNU/linux

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  • I was on my Gentoo linux laptop trying to find an open WiFi network on a sidewalk when someone came out of the nearby bank to shoo me away because she was told I was "trying to hack the bank".

    I was just trying SSH into my school account to send an email using PINE to let my parents know my train was 5 hours delayed. This would have been 2005 or so.

  • Vintage

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  • My parents got rid of mine without asking when I went to college in the 2000s :(

  • Mobile watch parties

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  • Hour+, each way. I was the first kid on, last kid off each day for seven years. I do not recommend.

  • TIL Washington State Is Preparing For a Powerful Megafire That Will Be Nearly Impossible To Fight

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  • Same here, except for me winter is at the bottom and summer is at the top.

  • US: Massachusetts city divests from companies linked to human rights violations in Israel

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  • Do you mean Massachusetts? Or am I missing something?

  • nyarch

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  • Y'all have some good points. What I'm hearing is "install it on a fresh hard drive, play around, then move on to something more stable."

  • nyarch

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  • Well, I was thinking of moving to Linux full-time anyway now that my Windows install is obsolete. Any reason to avoid this distro? Past experience is with Ubuntu, Gentoo, and SuSE. I mostly game.

  • I feel sad to see how utterly puritanical the mindset of people still is in 2025.

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  • My partner has other partners and it works great for us. He gets to visit his girlfriend this weekend and I get to smell up the house with my totally awesome Indian takeout (spicy food give him heartburn) and play the latest Rimworld DLC.

    Edit: the connection is that I can't handle multiple partners because omg scheduling is hard, but I still benefit from the polyamorous nature of the relationship.

  • I can't believe we left him behind like that.

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  • If it helps any, my (living) dog was born in 2008. That's only 14 years after Lycos was created.

  • More like F as in who gives a Fuck

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  • I stole chalk from the math building one night so I could mark up fabric for a sewing project. The math classrooms were the only ones that still had chalkboards.

  • Verbally abused children more likely to have poor mental health as adults, study finds

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  • I'd imagine physical abuse ends once the child is big enough to fight back or move out. Verbal and emotional abuse are more insidious and the child may, in my experience, be deep into adulthood before they put an end to it.

    It's easy to point at "my mom broke my arm for acting up" and see it as abuse, compared to "my mom told me my behavior is the reason I can't have friends over, so I only see my friends at school. For the last 5 years."

    I'd also be curious to see a paper comparing the effects of different sorts of abuse.

  • Verbally abused children more likely to have poor mental health as adults, study finds

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  • My mom would threaten to have my sibling pick the switch. Never actually did, but the threat was there. She told us that her parents would actually do it, implying we should be grateful she was a gentler parent.

  • Society is getting sick of selfish "Conservative values"

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  • Well, both times they were voluntary layoffs. The first company was going to lay off something ridiculous, like a third of the workforce, with overseas employees part of the denominator but not the numerator. The first round was voluntary and offered the best severance package, so that's what I took. I was the newest employee in my group, so I figured the writing was on the wall.

    The second time, my company's (company A) contract wasn't renewed. The company that did get the contract (B) offered to hire all the employees that were currently doing the work away from A. Otherwise the employee would be laid off from A.

    I accepted the (crappy, effectively 30% pay cut) offer from B, got a better offer from C, then went back to B and said "thanks, but no thanks" about 2 months before the contract ended and the new one with B started. This meant that from A's point of view A laid me off, which gave me a month of severance per A's policy.

  • Society is getting sick of selfish "Conservative values"

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  • Naturally.

  • Society is getting sick of selfish "Conservative values"

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  • I've gotten around the "you must work for The Company for 3 years to be fully vested in your retirement" rule. The trick is to be laid off--generally, when you leave in a layoff they instantly vest your account. It's worked for me twice so far.

  • Doctored freezer pizza

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  • I'm glad you're fed. That's the important thing. That other person sucks to try and judge you for how you're eating.

    I like dino nuggets and olives on my doctored pizza.

  • Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons?

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  • I work in an academic library and we're always worrying about evening and weekend coverage.