IPs dont work like that even if we did log them
Chronicon
joined 1 year ago
I just really wish in this case that money could have gotten this person into a better situation for at least a month or two
Yeah, I'm sure they wished for that too. Idk what griping does to help them or anyone else is all, besides make them feel bad. A one time cash infusion is good but its not enough to overhaul a life, to overcome all the barriers put in front of a person. I don't really have a point here I guess.
Edit: EelBolshevism put it better above.
If you needed that money, you are free to ask for support as well. If you don't need it, then why do you care where it went? its not your money nor are you seeking similar donations. Straight up if I became homeless I'd be fucked. I'd probably just die. I have like every leg up in the world but I still can't kick any of my bad habits even when they're self destructive. If I got an influx of money I'd 100% spend it on fast food or something. And people would judge the fuck out of me for it. I do more indulgent shit than that now, but nobody judges me because I didn't have to beg for that money, I work a job. But I don't deserve this any more than anyone else, I'm stuck in the same mental rut but with different life circumstances. And so unless/until there's a program that's going to care for homeless people outside of capitalism, giving them shit is a standby to keep them afloat at least, and if they are lucky, maybe a leg up and out (but that can't be an expectation, they have to be ready to change and its pretty hard to get your shit together when you don't have reliable food and shelter)
on a desktop it might not be significant but I tried using flatpak apps on a device with very limited root emmc storage (16 GB) and ran out of space really fast. Its really common to see a couple multi-hundred-megabyte library downloads for each new app IME.
I like them for some stuff but there are glaring issues that I don't like. I've posted about it before, poor integration of apps/not getting the right permissions is a big problem, the people packaging them don't often do as good of a job as someone like a distro maintainer.
But admittedly my experience using it probably isn't representative (pop os through their shop and arch on a mobile device). Neither were amazing, but not having to compile shit myself or install with an untrusted shell script was nice for some apps. Without some significant improvements it's not a good replacement for a distro's package repos but it might be a good way to broaden the available applications without having to maintain 10x more packages.
I don't mask around those I trust
yeah thats the part I'm not sure I do.
they ran it all night most nights in the living room (with pets) and never cleaned it lol. crazy considering they're otherwise very tidy people, I think they didn't know you could open them and clean them
I just mean over time sitting in air it like, dries out, getting much thicker and stickier, not that it will physically impede the fan turning by quantity
I should buy a standing fan, and a box fan for the window. I have AC in one room and it doesn't get to my bedroom very well (plus with better ventilation I wouldn't need to run the AC as much)
My friends had one that straight up stopped working. It spun fine, but just the air didn't go anywhere basically. It was so dusty it just generated turbulence around it and noise but no real air flow. Dusting it helped but something was wrong with the blade shape, it never worked great lol
yah, canola is also not a great lubricant lol, it gums up eventually (not that long in my experience, but maybe in a fan it will fare better somehow)
3-in-1 oil is similar viscosity to canola but actually designed for lubrication, decent enough for household stuff like this usually! But a good grease is also nice
I've almost never experienced this and I find it pretty weird that its such a common trope. I legit feel like an incomplete phony person sometimes for lack of experiences like this (among others). The closest I've ever gotten is a roommate that used to rile me up on purpose with ridiculous arguments. It was easy to do and I would usually eventually get in on the joke, but some were just annoying.
But like, in terms of super close friends and romantic partners? Not a thing. sometimes I wonder if I'm just masking my "true" self (whatever that even means) so hard that I just never would fight about anything.
But also I just try to be reasonable and give people an out when we disagree and it just doesn't feel like it needs to elevate to fighting/arguing all the time. I get excited but I'm generally just like, explaining myself and usually the other person doesn't share my passion for whatever subject lol
I may just be autistic tho. idk.
I don't think you should pretend it's only "kind of" a specific incident. We literally all know who you mean and saying you're going to shut up about it and then posting it anyhow doesn't really change what you've said. Not that you shouldn't have said anything, clearly you aren't the only one to feel off about it, but don't pretend it can be anonymized, it's just subtweeting.
I don't know what, if anything, should be done, but I also don't see how a rule that didn't exist when that happened is a factor.
This comm is ultimately 95% just charity for people in our little online community. I still think that's a good thing on the whole, but I think we all would prefer if it could be a more structured form of aid, but it can't unless people organize a structure (and mods allow it ig).
i give her money sometimes. i know its the same person. I dont feel scammed. I can see how someone not knowing the history or not having put together the clues could feel that way theoretically but ultimately I dont think there's anything actionable here besides maybe clarifying the policy on alts of banned users. (though sometimes it feels like the ambiguity gives the team latitude to deal with things on a case by case basis in a way thats positive overall)