nostupidquestions No Stupid Questions would it be possible to live in the modern world only using a laptop?? no cellphone anything
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    TiresomeOuting
    8 months ago 100%

    There'd be a few times it would be really inconvenient.

    For example some concerts only allow tickets from the Ticketmaster app, not even a printed ticket. Though possibly showing the ticket on the laptop would work but then I'm not sure they'd let you bring a laptop into a concert.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What do you like to do in your free time?
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    TiresomeOuting
    8 months ago 100%

    Ah! That's my problem, I wasn't using a machine! Just doing it by hand. Maybe I'll pick one up.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What do you like to do in your free time?
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    TiresomeOuting
    8 months ago 100%

    You don't have to knead it? Whenever I try to make bread I find I'm kneading forever and it sticks to everything and I get flour all over then it turns out really dense.

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    Radiohead TiresomeOuting 10 months ago 100%
    New Smile Album, Single pitchfork.com

    I'm pretty excited for this album, I feel the two tracks we've gotten so far are really great and a bit different from the first album.

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    coffee Coffee Simple but amazing recipe to improve French Press brewing.
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    TiresomeOuting
    11 months ago 100%

    I have a clever coffee dripper that pretty much does the same thing but more conveniently.

    That said, I like James Hoffman's French press technique better, though it is a bit more of a pain.

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  • moviesandtv Movies and TV Shows Michael Caine Announces Retirement From Acting
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    asklemmy Asklemmy How does healthcare work in your country?
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    TiresomeOuting
    11 months ago 100%

    Woah seriously for vasectomy? I'll want one in about a year should I try to get an appointment now? Though to be honest I wasn't sure if it'd be completely covered or not.

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  • android Android What are we all using for video chat in 2023?
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    canada Canada CUPE statement on violence in Palestine and Israel
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    TiresomeOuting
    11 months ago 100%

    Even within unions it can be bad. I was in a union and the company did something against the contact so I talked to the union reps. They told me I shouldn't grieve because the company gets mad at me, but I insisted so they said they'd look into it and get back to me. A month later they said they asked but found out there is a three week window so I missed it.

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  • camping camping What's your favourite gear?
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    TiresomeOuting
    11 months ago 100%

    It's a l but of a luxury weight wise but my backpacking chair. It's relatively light for a chair but still heavy for portages but it makes the whole camp so much more comfortable.

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  • coolguides Cool Guides A Cool Guide showing how to reheat pizza
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    TiresomeOuting
    12 months ago 100%

    Also the drawing says medium low but shows medium high, unless their knobs are backwards from all the knobs I've seen.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy How does healthcare work in your country?
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    TiresomeOuting
    12 months ago 100%

    Not the other poster but a Canadian too. It varies. To see my GP I can get an appointment within the week, usually same day, though most people here need to wait a couple weeks. Then there GP refers me to specialists, that's usually between 1-6 months wait.

    Emergency yeah you are usually looking at 4 hours wait absolute minimum. Though you don't get charged for it at least. Though I guess it depends on severity, they will prioritize by how serious it is not by first arrival.

    The other thing the other poster didn't mention is that medication is not covered so you have to pay full for that unless you have insurance. Also for some reason dental isn't covered at all without insurance (or I think recently for low income families but I'm not 100% sure if that's implemented yet or not)

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  • syncforlemmy Sync for Lemmy Undo "hide read"?
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    TiresomeOuting
    1 year ago 100%

    I think what they are saying is: Lemmy itself has an option you set on your profile that shows or hides read posts. That'll apply forever no matter which client you use, but you can't even see your own posts that way so it's frustrating.

    Then the clients themselves, like sync, might have their own option to hide read that works independently of the Lemmy setting, in which case they should have more control over it.

    In my case I have Lemmy set to show read posts but sync set to hide them but like other people have said, it doesn't seem to work perfectly.

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  • games Games ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K
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    fantasy Fantasy books, stories, &c Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson
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    TiresomeOuting
    1 year ago 100%

    I liked it quite a bit for the first three quarters or so but I felt the end was a huge info dump. Normally he manages the world building in a way where it's not a huge leap to understand what had happened but in this case there were multiple layers of the narrator saying "oh, you're confused?! Of course you are! Here's an info dump about the cosmere".

    I've read everything cosmere, but I'm not very happy with the more recent books that expect cosmere knowledge to make the story enjoyable or even understandable. And I feel like he's getting pretty lazy with that lately (though maybe the secret projects not having a third party editor has something to do with it in this case)

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  • canada Canada Canadian companies not planning to return to five-day weeks after four-day trial
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    androidauto Android Auto First Post ! Do you play videos on your AA head unit? How are you doing it
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    TiresomeOuting
    1 year ago 100%

    I tried fermata auto but it just has a YouTube button that doesn't do anything, am I missing something?

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  • thebear
    The Bear (FX) TiresomeOuting 1 year ago 100%
    S2E4 - Honeydew (Discussion)

    They can't afford anything, yet they send the baker on an international trip to learn molecular gastronomy?! He's gonna end up just making a dish his mom used to make anyway instead of anything fancy.

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    rpg Role Playing Games TTRPG Talent Systems
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    TiresomeOuting
    1 year ago 100%

    WFRP (Warhammer Fantasy role play) has a fun system where there are lots of careers, but those careers have talent options. Each talent isn't limited to one career so there is overlap but the combination of talents and skills is what makes the careers unique.

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  • printsf Print SF What's everyone reading this week?
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    TiresomeOuting
    1 year ago 100%

    I started and finished the first two Murderbot books from Martha Wells (All Systems Red, Artificial Condition). Reading the ebooks I didn't realize how short they were until I got to near the end. I guess they count as novellas? But it's nice to have something fun and easily digestible now and then so I'll start the third tonight.

    Children of Time was very good. There is a sequel, no? But I never read it.

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  • books Books eReader recommendations?
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    TiresomeOuting
    1 year ago 100%

    Cool, Pocketbook Touch Lux 5 looks pretty good, since it's the smallest one. But water resistance is a good idea, that's why my kobo stopped working actually. And I can't see anything on that model about water resistance. Which did you get?

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    Books TiresomeOuting 1 year ago 100%
    eReader recommendations?

    I'm looking for an eReader that doesn't lock me into a particular ecosystem or format. Ideally I came just copy files over to it and have them work. Other than that, small physical dimensions and a backlight would be great! It's been years since I had one but in the market again and I'm not sure the current state of things. My old one was a Kobo and took files just fine.

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    jerboa Jerboa Oh no. [#Jerboa](https://mastodon.social/tags/Jerboa) is crashing on launch after the update :(
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    memes Memes Four apps and counting, how is everyone else doing?
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    selfhosted
    Selfhosted TiresomeOuting 1 year ago 100%
    Machine to run Frigate NVR

    At the moment I've got frigate running on an old dell server through proxmox, writing to drives on that server, but they are shared with a lot of other services. I'd like to separate it and have a machine that is kinda just acting as a full NVR and writing to it's own drives. Anybody have any suggestions for one? Are the mini PC's any good or I guess they wouldn't hold enough drives to have plenty of storage.

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    clacksmith
    Clacksmith TiresomeOuting 1 year ago 100%
    Getting started?

    Any suggestions on an easy way to get started? I'm not sure all the equipment I need and which is just nice to have, for example.

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    ontario
    Ontario TiresomeOuting 1 year ago 100%
    Bigwind Lake New Provincial Park https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/bigwind-lake-provincial-park-announcement-ontario-1.6885058

    Technically it was nonoperating before, but explicitly did not allow camping, and had really rough access, so this is nice. Though I was hoping the new park would have more canoe routes.

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    personalfinancecanada
    Will Suggestions

    Looking to make a will. Anybody have any suggestions? Are online ones any good or do I need a proper lawyer? Things to look out for?

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    food Food and Cooking Seasoning suggestions for popcorn?
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    TiresomeOuting
    1 year ago 100%

    I have that and while it tastes good, some of it ends up airborne and I end up coughing or sneezing like crazy while eating it. Maybe I'm putting on too much?

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  • flashlight flashlight NLD: CCR & brightness adjustable, USB-C rechargeable, motion activated, 80CRI, magnetic lights for the changing table
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    TiresomeOuting
    1 year ago 100%

    What's the model and where do I get it? I'm thinking this would be good in some closets I have that don't have lights.

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  • ontario Ontario Ontario Directory
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    1 year ago 100%

    Are these just cities listed by population, or a list of actual communities? For example, Oshawa is listed but no link and I couldn't find the community, but Vaughan is listed and there is a community: https://lemmy.ca/c/vaughan

    Thanks for making the list, by the way!

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    Radiohead TiresomeOuting 1 year ago 100%
    The Smile - Bending Hectic www.youtube.com

    Seeing as I couldn't find a community for The Smile, I figured people here would be interested. Personally I love it, and have since seeing it live. It's like the first 3/4 is "Bending" then the last is "Hectic".

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    android Android Is there a way to make Android's built-in night light even more intense?
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    TiresomeOuting
    1 year ago 100%

    Most of the apps I found don't actually do this properly. They just put an overlay on top of everything, which on an amoled screen will actually make pitch black into a red color.

    Cf.lumen was kind of writing but gets buggier each android release and isn't updated.

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  • dadsplain Lemmy Dadsplain How was your Father's Day?
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    TiresomeOuting
    1 year ago 100%

    My weekend was booked up celebrating for my dad on Saturday and my wife's on Sunday, so no time for me, but I requested a lunch with my wife and kid on Friday so we went out and it was really great. Didn't really need more than that, but I was pretty dead by the end of the weekend.

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  • camping camping What are your favorite foods to cook on a campfire?
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    ttrpgs TTRPGs What non-d20 systems are you playing right now?
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    TiresomeOuting
    1 year ago 100%

    Is there a way to pm on here?

    It's definitely a work in progress and not purged of all copyrighted content so I don't want to widely distribute it but could give you a link. I'd definitely be interested on some feedback for it.

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  • literature Literature Cormac McCarthy has died at 89
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    1 year ago 100%

    Blood Meridian is my favorite book I've ever read, but also one of the most challenging. But I've had to read it multiple times (three so far) to fully appreciate it, and I think I need even more to fully get it.

    But I can't get it out of my head. The Judge especially just will not get out of my head.

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  • literature Literature What do you use to track your reading?
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    TiresomeOuting
    1 year ago 100%

    This is me. Mostly I just want to know what I've read and what I thought of it, or if I did not finish. I don't need all the other things.

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  • literature Literature What is the most disturbing book you have ever read?
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    TiresomeOuting
    1 year ago 100%

    American Psycho made me so claustrophobic reading it I had to give up really quickly. Which means it was terribly effective, but not something I can make myself read.

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  • literature Literature What is the most disturbing book you have ever read?
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    1 year ago 100%

    I feel like there are multiple levels of terrifying to this book.

    I can't get The Judge out of my head, he has a supernatural quality to him but in a horrible, intelligent way that makes him horrifying.

    But then the other terrifying thing is just the depiction of the normal characters and what they go through and the actions they commit.

    And then finally another level is the depiction of everything else they face. That scene where the boy first witnesses an attack by the Comanche is blood curdling and yet mesmerising within one sentence. For anybody looking for context, search for 'Blood Meridian Legion of horribles quote' for the whole sentence.

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  • literature Literature What is the most disturbing book you have ever read?
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    TiresomeOuting
    1 year ago 100%

    I'm not even sure why I think of Blood Meridian over The Road. Maybe now that I have child rereading the road would make it worse. But I feel that especially upon a few rereads Blood Meridian has some really dark things happening that aren't immediately apparent.

    And I suppose part of my choice might be because I find The Judge to be both the most fascinating and horrifying character in anything I've read or seen.

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  • literature Literature What is the most disturbing book you have ever read?
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    TiresomeOuting
    1 year ago 100%

    I feel like it would need to be a television show instead and even then.... I don't think it's possible to give it credit.

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  • literature Literature What is the most disturbing book you have ever read?
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    TiresomeOuting
    1 year ago 100%

    This is funny, I immediately thought of Blood Meridian when I read the post title, then came in and saw another Cormac McCarthy book!

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  • camping camping Best part of camping. Sludge coffee
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    TiresomeOuting
    1 year ago 100%

    Oh the mesh sounds good!

    But yeah, car camping is fun cause of the kinda things you can bring without worrying about weight!

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  • ttrpgs TTRPGs What non-d20 systems are you playing right now?
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    TiresomeOuting
    1 year ago 100%

    I'm running a hack I wrote that takes Warhammer Fantasy roleplay and Blades in the Dark and meshes them into... Something in between the two.

    I also changed out the d6s for d20s so skills go from 0-16 to allow for more character growth.

    It still needs some tweaking though, I'm not completely sold on the resistance mechanic.

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    Outdoor Recreation TiresomeOuting 1 year ago 100%
    Frost Center / Algonquin Highlands Water Trails www.algonquinhighlands.ca

    Anybody been to this area near Algonquin in Ontario? I can't seem to find a digital map of canoe routes other than the booking one. Edit: Turns out Jeff's Map (of Algonquin) actually has the whole area included!

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