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wulrus

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  • not easy to quit Amazon completely

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  • I already ask that question, and what I order, I really do need.

    E. g. I have a high-end desktop PC from 2011 that is still fine, even though I use it professionally - don't need a new computer.

    But I just ordered lavender, because I have a moth problem. Moths can be managed, but skipping the repellent vector entirely is not advisable.

    Or a belt. The last belt I bought is from the 2000s, and it broke about 7 years ago, and ever since my pants are slipping down. It's not a good impression. I need a belt.

  • Deffo not him...

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  • I want to believe. I would believe.

  • Anyone else hating Shorts (the videos, not the pants or financial instruments)?

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  • Oh man, same. I'm new to the culture, and I thought this was another thing I have to get into now. It's like a friend of mine who married into a Jewish family and now has to learn all this new stuff and he's always like oh so this is a thing?

  • Pay attention

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  • At a protest many years ago in Germany, two undercover cops were beaten up pretty badly by other cops. They had a "safeword", but apparently the other cops were already in a frenzy and didn't stop.

  • Pay attention

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  • At my school, there was this guy in my general circle. Played in a punk band, different one than mine, hanging out at the same parties, didn't talk much, but easy to get along with. Also, looked like a punk and partied like a punk. Really good with his instrument, also did jazz on a high level.

    Many years later, someone sent me a link from a left leaning forum: He was caught as a deep undercover cop. Apparently went to the police academy (~ 3 years in Germany) and got planted shortly after. He "lived" 100 km from his home with roommates who politically active, again in a punk band, participating in apparently as many political groups as he could schedule. Almost all of them were entirely legal, such as advocating for better welfare laws. He sat there, listened, didn't talk much. No contact to actual terrorist cells or anything like that. Minor vandalism and unregistered protests perhaps.

    They only caught him after a few years when someone from our home town recognised him at a punk concert and called him by his real name in front of other people. He just walked away, and his fake personality disappeared immediately. From what I can find, doing low-profile police work ever since.

    It's a bit concerning that they spy on entirely legal groups as well as groups who commit minor offences with such enormous resources. Must have cost like 100k per year; with deep analysis of his reports probably more. Just to get a list of people to "take care of" when we go full Trump here?

    Anyway, my point: Surprising that the undercover cop in the picture makes so many mistakes. He was apparently spotless.

  • Removed

    Nicole endgame

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  • When she finds out about this she can do an ama and be a superstar for one day

  • Google installed Gemini on my devices, disabling Google Assistant and replacing it with Gemini.

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  • I tried Gemini before. The problem was reliability.

    E. g. I say "add an event to my calendar: tomorrow 2 p.m., doctor visit", and it parses the voice perfectly. The regular assistant would then just create the entry.

    But Gemini sometimes goes like: "Adding an entry to your calendar is easy! Do you have an iPhone? Then these are the steps: ..."

  • Diplomacy dies on live TV as Trump and Vance gang up to bully Ukraine leader

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  • His tone is quite different with Kim Jong Un and Putin.

  • 'A big scam company just stole my whole game': A Backrooms indie dev has been forced to seek legal help after someone took their game off Steam and uploaded it to the Nintendo Store

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  • It is not expensive and has good reviews. Let's get it!

  • My initial experience with setting up a voice assistant - attempting to pause pi-hole via voice "stop ad blocker"

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  • The leading all but one languages help to me a Lord with Google assistant not your relevant

  • Capy Baby

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  • Why not wulrus at beach

  • How a significant part of public opinion sees people on bikes

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  • German right wing party AfD had one just like this, but unironically

  • Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed

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  • WULRUS WULRUS WULRUS

  • Switch for Christmas

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  • Wulrus has the utmost approval of this comment

  • Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon?

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  • I remember the “big movement” when Twitter turned into a right wing cesspool.

    At first, the biggest problem was that there were TWO main alternatives: Mastodon and Bluesky. So those who left split into two groups, ending up with a dead timeline, missing out on news. (I and my “bubble” use it to keep up with Covid vaccines, politics, safety etc.)

    I joined the Mastodon group, because it solves the problem of a single crazy billionaire potentially buying & enshittifying it. But I fully admit that it is not user friendly at all. People who are not in IT just want it to WORK, like Twitter used to. They don’t want to “educate themselves” about servers, fediverse and networks. The user experience clearly hasn’t even been a thing. It’s techies writing software for themselves. What it needs is a full analysis of the experience from the start: Who are you, user, why are you considering Mastodon, what are your expectations, what are the experiences in the first 30 seconds after entering “mastadon” (oh, you misspelled it?) or “twitter alternative” into a search engine, etc. “pick an instance” is already the passive-aggressive demand nobody wants to hear.

    In the end, my instance was shut down without a fair warning, all the reconnected and new contacts lost, no option to move. Trying Bluesky now, but many stayed at Twitter (now X), moved to Mastodon with or without success (most onto my dead instance), or gave up on microblogging.

    I think we need something simple again. I remember what SUSE did for Linux in the 90s. Linux users were all like: Only debian is even somewhat useable, but if you should really do LFS. Non-techies willing to switch for “political” or other reasons were hit in the face with “Pick a distro!!!”. SUSE has been called “the Windows among the Linux distros” by those people, but it did the right thing. It provided exactly the simplification we needed: “This is Linux, you simply buy it on CD in a retail store like your other software, you run the installer.” It was a good thing.

    IRC is the one good old thing that still works great. When they tried to enshittify freenode, we just moved, collectively. Many non-IT channels & servers died after 2010, though.

  • Installing Linux Like It's 1999

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  • In the 90s during the first "mild hype", I had Suse for quite a while, twice. Same problem with unavailable software though, I remember PGP Disc not being available back then. I remember the cool kids talking about Red Hat and Debian, you must have been one of them.

    Probably going back now, since my 2011 hardware won't work with Windows 11.

  • Can someone recommend me a decent air purifier?

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    • One important metric: m³ / (hour*$), so how much it can filter for how much money
    • Also the volume on the setting that gives the filtration power needed. Often it is best to get a bigger one, run on middle or low level, especially for office or bedroom.
    • How much m³ / hour overall? When it is against dust, allergens, pm2.5 etc., filtering your room volume once per hour is decent. To protect from viral infections, e. g. at a dentist or doctor, 6x the volume of the room is ideal. For private use, it's nice when it can do once per hour on a lower setting, and for occasional parties 6x of that on a high, loud setting to avoid spread of viruses.

    Pretty good for your money is the Corsi-Rosenthal Box mentioned already. As for things that don't require assembly, Trotec beats all prices in Germany, e. g. the 250E or 350E: https://de.trotec.com/shop/design-luftreiniger-airgoclean-250-e.html That would provide more than you need for typical home use already. For a single room such as your bedroom, you can get something really decent for less than $250.

    The ones that are below HEPA standard are not as bad as somebody mentioned, imo. Against many things, such as dust or allergens, they should be fine. I'm buying only HEPA filters myself, though; doesn't really save much otherwise.

  • What made everyone move to Bluesky or Threads instead of Mastodon?

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  • I came to a very similar conclusion recently: https://lemmy.world/comment/11880279

    Let's hope that Brazil creates a mass-movement that makes it easier to follow. Aren't they even like the world majority in Portuguese?

  • ich😳iel

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  • Relatable: * * * * *