QualifiedKitten

joined 1 year ago

I've heard that some apps may make it a little too easy for some users to accidentally up/down vote without realizing. I've definitely caught a few accidental votes myself, so I'm not sure how many more I didn't notice. Also, totally random anecdote, but the pockets in my "house pants" have a weird fabric that combined with the on body detection to keep my phone unlocked sometimes allows my thighs to "butt dial" if I put my phone in my pocket with the screen facing my body, and I'm sure other people have similar stories about accidental inputs, so I wouldn't worry about it too much.

[–] QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Garmin. You'll probably spend a bit more on the hardware, but there's nothing locked behind a subscription. I had the Fitbit Sense and switched to the Garmin Forerunner 265. If the skin temperature sensor is important to you, you'll want a different model, but that's the only thing I've noticed as missing so far.

[–] QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

Niche interests and/or local stuff. My city has basically no activity over here, so I still browse the local subreddit regularly.

[–] QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

While searching for pictures, I saw something saying that they're supposedly still available for sale in Australia, so maybe there's a chance they'll get worn out before hitting the landfill?

[–] QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world 71 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

Great job CNN... Didn't think to include any pictures of the actual leggings?? They're high rise, no underwear hanging out, just the seam shape and placement is similar to a "whale tail".

https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/thursday-shares-popular-activewear-brand-86033068.jpg

https://preview.redd.it/its-another-no-for-the-breezethrough-v0-xhext9xq5ted1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=15948d77f2b045aeec47988bd60dea4363cb63b7

[–] QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

🙋

I went crabbing and the resources I found said that killing them before cooking them was likely more humane than boiling them alive, so that's what I did.

My old neighbor's cat once left a paralyzed/twitching rat outside my door, which I found in the morning. I quickly realized that the rat was not going to recover (it had already been there for hours), so I had to figure out a way to quickly end its suffering. I did not eat the rat though.

[–] QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world 68 points 4 months ago (6 children)

There's got to be some sort of "wholesome" community around here, right? I like this. I want to see more of this.

[–] QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Some of the Lemmy apps have keyword filters. I'm using Thunder, but I know some others have it too. No clue if there's anything for desktop though.

[–] QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Does it have any mechanisms to detect someone who might just install the app on an old phone that just lives in the glove box? Seems like a real easy way to get around the "don't use your phone" aspect.

[–] QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I've used Windows since I can remember... at least since Windows 95, then probably early 2000's, added OSX into the mix. I currently use an old Mac Mini as my Plex machine, and the computer provided by my employer runs Windows.

My "journey" began around 2015 on an old Dell laptop that I set up to dual boot Windows and Linux. I tried 2 or 3 distros, one of which was probably Ubuntu, before settling on Mint. I remember having enough minor issues with Mint that I kept booting back to Windows, and eventually stopped booting to Mint at all.

Then one day, I have no clue what I was trying to do, but I was confident that I knew what I was doing, so I just went for it without pulling up the instructions. Welp, I ended up deleting my bootloader, or something like that, and now couldn't boot to any OS. I tried using my parents' Mac to create a bootable USB, but that wasn't working. I wound up buying and returning a random open box laptop from Best Buy just so I could create a functional bootable USB. I also found help from a very kind internet stranger who walked me through the process to fix my bootloader. They happened to only use Arch btw, so that's what we used to get my laptop fixed.

That whole drama really scared me away from fiddling with it for a while, then I just got busy and had no motivation. That laptop is collecting dust and still dual boots Windows (7?) and headless Arch. I'm thinking of fiddling around with Linux again, but most definitely need something more noobie friendly than Arch without a DE.

[–] QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A brand new account doesn't necessarily mean the user hasn't been lurking for a while. I lurked on Reddit without an account for years before creating an account there, and during the Reddit drama last year, I lurked here and a few other places, but didn't create an account anywhere until I actually wanted to participate.

[–] QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Any idea how things might be handled when things get crossposted? Will replies on the crossposted threads also become comments on their sites? Or only replies to the original post?

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