I remember seeing this before and someone shopped the bone just a little ahead of him. 😆
Well that's the thing, doing that technique I mentioned takes no time whatsoever for me but DOES take time for them. It's a nice petty little revenge.
Take this with a grain of salt, but there is one example of answering scam calls that was really effective for me. I had been getting spoofed calls that looked like they were coming from my bank. The first one I actually answered and got some real people on the phone (thankfully realized it was a scam before saying anything bad).
Anyway, these guys were calling me several times a day. I finally decided to start answering every call and just setting my phone down on the table and letting it run. The calls are probably automated, but when you answer it transfers it to a real person. By picking it up every time I was wasting that real person's time. They stopped calling very fast after I started doing it and haven't called since.
As a fellow spare time dev who dreams of having that much success, I feel your pain, and also want to wish you a heartfelt congratulations. That's a massive achievement! I hope you have success with it whenever you launch. 👏
I really thought there was going to be a bezos hidden in there.
This meme is selling shovels, and the comments here are more than happy to dig holes it seems.
Nail clippers. Got them originally to help with a bad habit of cuticle picking, but I've learned they're weirdly useful. They can cut things in a pinch and no security check gives a shit about them unlike a pocket knife.
That game hurt. So many opportunities handed to us and thrown away.
You mean CE doesnt stand for "clear everything"? And here I thought more letters meant more clearing.
Yeah wow. Hard to imagine firing your coach mid season will improve things, but maybe they decided the writing was on the wall.
Yeah the sweet stuff isn't my thing either. Thankfully only a few are like that here. The others aren't acidic, but they're more just savory, not sweet. "Best Foods" is a pretty standard American style mayo from my experience, and isn't sweet.
Thanks for the info! What I had in France came out of a packet, so definitely wasn't homemade. I don't doubt doing it this way is good, though.
Thanks I'll keep an eye out for that brand, too. I haven't heard of that one before.
Probably not. There was an "american" section in the supermarket and most of it was things I've never seen before/and or british food. 😅
All I can say is they called it mayo, and this was speaking in French not English.
OK, got it. I think I probably had the more vinegar kind. It was also served with moules frites.
I've definitely gotten grain mustard from that brand before, so I'll keep an eye out for it. Thanks. 👍
French mayo in the states?
I was recently on a vacation in Marseille, and I was really taken by the mayo there. This was often served with frites. Does anyone know a brand I could get in the west coast US that would be similar?
The main difference I noticed was a slight tang to it? Not sure how to describe it better. Hopefully someone has had it. 😅
This article perfectly sums up the issues with this way of writing. Unfortunately people often don't acknowledge the nuance there, and will jump down this reviewer's throat for the take I imagine.
It's icing on the cake that apparently there was even an in-lore term for something like a trans character of this species that they didn't use. That makes it seem like they didn't even study their own lore well enough. Never what you want to be thinking about a writing team. 🫤
Instance appreciation post
I originally chose this instance because it seemed to be aimed at people who don't really want to join a specific community. All I can say is I barely ever think about this instance and I mean that as a huge compliment. You guys run a tight ship with almost no hiccups or issues so far. Thanks for keeping the lights on.
Looking for new search engine
I've been using duckduckgo for years now with no issues, but today I opened it and realized there were no longer any search results before scrolling. It was all ads/info cards. So I guess I'm looking for a replacement. Any suggestions?
Related: anyone know if there's a way in the Adnauseum Firefox extension to hide ads on a specific trusted site? I like their goal of not punishing ads following the do not track standard, but DDG has crossed a threshold and I now want to blacklist them specifically.
Browse all communities on an instance?
Is there any way in boost to browse all communities on an instance other than your own?
(opinion) Lowland Shore has the best events since Grothmar
I'm so impressed with the regular events in Lowland Shore so far. I think they're the best in the game excepting maybe Grothmar. Just like that zone they managed to make almost all of them have some little gameplay twist or gimmick that makes them more interesting than bog standard versions we've seen a hundred times before.
I'm honestly having so much fun exploring this map and just taking it in as it comes. Such a great feeling after years of repetitive meta events that all boil down to the same zerg rush gameplay.
Janthir actually makes me want to log in and get lost in the world in a way I haven't felt for a while.
What android keyboard app do you use and why?
I use Gboard.
The main things I like about it are:
- Very customizable (I like having number row always visible, and having long press for symbols on each letter).
- Has gif support built in.
My biggest pain point is:
- It auto corrects words that are spelled correctly to other words. I type "our" and it changes to "out", I recently typed "purpose" and it changed it to "purple". Autocorrect is awesome and necessary, but I hate that it corrects words to other words and not just typos. I wish I could find a keyboard that has the things I like without this annoyance.
Am I looking for a unicorn? Let me know! 😄
Is this just a news community now?
I made a comment to this effect the other day. Scrolling through this community, out of about the 10 most recent posts, I see one that is borderline oniony and the rest are just straight up news, mostly US politics-related.
Is this OK? Is this what this community is for? I ask because I want to see can't-believe-it's-real headlines, but if this is going to be another doom scroll bad news sub I'm going to leave and look elsewhere. Just curious to hear people's feelings on this before I do.
Content creators who highlight small indie games?
What are some of your favorite content creators that highlight small indie games? Can be big or small, I'm just looking to find some lesser known games for a change.
Edit: I'm checking all of these out, thanks everyone!
Is CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?
Has something new come along? It's been so long since I've needed to do this that I assume CCleaner has enshittified by now.
(Spoilers for new patch) feeling disconnected from my character
I haven't been following the general reactions to the new patch, but fair warning going into this that I personally was pretty disappointed in it from a story standpoint.
I was very pleased with Soto overall, and I think they seriously improved on many of the issues I've had with the writing over the years, but I can't help but feel that somehow it has regressed in the newest patch.
The crux of my issue is that I want to distrust peitha and keep her at arms length, but it really feels like the story is making it crystal clear that I'm not allowed to feel that way. The speed at which not just my character, but even the astral ward, an organization dedicated to stopping her kind for thousands of years, is happy to not only help her, but to frequently espouse how much they trust her completely. I don't think I've ever felt less connected to my character.
I was hoping for the story to keep her in a suspicious and interesting place, where we're helping her for now but no one is sure what to think yet. Instead we're back to the often hamfisted story telling of the end of dragons era, where it feels like every character is to be taken at complete face value.
To be honest I hope she does betray us, because that would at least be an interesting direction, and something to shake my character's naive level of confidence. Though if they do go that way at this point they laid it on pretty thick with the implicit trust angle.
I'm curious if anyone else feels the same, or differently. Would love to hear other's takes on it.
Search isn't global?
I've been trying to get the app setup today, and I'm struggling to find communities through search. It seems like the search is only checking communities on my instance, not everywhere? Not sure if I'm missing something but I can't find a way to search the broader fediverse.