eronth

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[โ€“] eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not about the coffee specifically, it's about all the pleasantries. Sure walks are nice and stargazing is lovely. And yeah, those things are great with friends and partners! But you know what else is a nice little treat? Coffee. Snacks. Watching that movie together. Some lovely flowers. Slick shoes.

Some of the pleasantries that make life worth living are free, but many of them cost money. You obviously can't have everything, but having to give up on literally every pleasantry that costs money (even the cheapest of ones) just to afford enough to live what used to be a normal middle class life is definitely not something that should be treated as normal. There's a clear trend of sinking purchasing power for the masses and, with it, sinking morale.

[โ€“] eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Previously I had the warnings until uBlock killed them. Only one has made it through in recent times, we'll see how things keep going.

[โ€“] eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

6 lessons? ew.

[โ€“] eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

oh good to hear. I heard about windows doing jank stuff on update recently and was really worried I'd have to fight with it soon.

[โ€“] eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's been a while since I saw it, and I don't plan on re-finding nor rewatching just to figure out what I hated at the time. I recall it was one about electricity, and there was something about claims that are fundamentally impossible within the realms of physics.

[โ€“] eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately a lot of people are going to assume you have it under control already and/or would prefer the solitude as you sort through it. That's not the extent of the issue, obviously, but that's a pretty significant compounding factor.

[โ€“] eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

For the screens I'm using, a book page is way narrower than the standard text region of a screen.

[โ€“] eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Sorry, Veritasium. And it's been a while since I've watched his stuff, so I don't remember which videos annoyed me. I know there was one that involved electricity that was just extremely wrong in a few key ways.

[โ€“] eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Got any details on the type of stuff your mom shared for improved UIs?

[โ€“] eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It makes more sense on monitors with large blocks of text or large paragraphs. With a monitor so big relative to a book, and scrolling making it easy to lose where you were, it can sometimes be tough for folks to read through huge chunks. Some people select chunks of text to help break up those monoliths into manageable bites along with putting a clear marker for where they are if they scroll or otherwise lose their place..

[โ€“] eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago

You should probably note what they focus on so people know.

[โ€“] eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

"Through the magic of heat pumps..."

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