I've not tried them but you can get replacement pads which apparently have a cooling gel in them. Eg these.
No idea if they're any good but would be interested in hearing from someone with first-hand experience.
Avoid talking to them!
They might make sense, and we haven't finished indoctrinating you!
There's no sound but all I can hear is Yakety Sax
Aussie here, to me xmas = summer time. Xmas movies always felt irrelevant, and the idea of Santa wearing all his gear is mental when it's often 40C+ and humid af.
Being cold would feel alien that time of year, even more so if it snowed because that doesn't happen in 99% of the country regardless of the time of year.
I don't know how I feel about this, but tbh that is based on what they were, not what they are.
That is brilliant, should I be worried? 🤣 (Just noticed I had a message, oops)
I suspect we're not taking about actual storytelling here as much as anecdotes that signal whether you will or will not agree with the rest of what's about to be said, but to answer the question as asked, imho good storytelling depends as much on the listener as the teller.
Some find joy to be infectious, they'll enjoy a story because the teller's eyes light up, and watching someone loving the shit out of something is itself a joyful experience.
Some will only enjoy a story if it's of direct positive relevance to them, regardless of who's telling it.
Does your ISP block ports? Many do, at least where I am. Some allow you to opt-out.
She makes some good points, but only focuses on Google's monopoly being an issue. It is, but there's no mention of privacy concerns, the oversaturation of ads, space being created for ads by deliberately worsening the UX, etc. The industry itself is a shitshow.
The issue isn't so much that Google has a monopoly on the enormously invasive data that's collected. The issue is that it is being collected.
As cool (heh) as this is, it saddens me knowing it's just going to be used for data mining and ads
Bet you they will make them work in inhospitable conditions and forget they exist until they don't meet an unrealistic performance target.
No wait, sorry. I was thinking of their human workers.
Saw someone making a sandwich once in stop-start traffic, cutting board resting against the (airbag) steering wheel and using a knife. Didn't hear about them on the news that evening so can only assume Darwin missed it.
It's just virtualised Deliverance
Spiders keep bugs under control
Snakes keep spiders under control
Dogs keep snakes under control
Humans keep dogs under control (sometimes)
Cats keep humans under control
As I understand it these are basically an insurance policy. The promoter takes out a policy detailing the odds of a payout being required, and pay a premium based on the insurer's risk assessment.
And of course the insurer wants to minimise the odds of paying out, and the promoter wants to minimise their premium - so the top prize is usually, as above, near-unwinnable.
Yup, this is on form for them. This isn't the first product they've done it to and surely won't be the last.
The moment the news broke we started migration planning, a short while later their new pricing came through and immediately justified the project spend. Tens of thousands of VMs migrated, a ton of labour, and even some hardware refreshes thrown in - and still cheaper than renewing, by a looong shot.
Shame, I liked VMware.
Hi there, I recall on Boost for Reddit that I could open a post, and collapse comment threads to a single line, which was excellent - it made it really easy to scroll past comments I've already read or decided I'm not interested in, and I might be wrong but I think there was an option to auto-collapse everything but new comments? On Lemmy, replies are collapsed but the comment I tapped on remains open, regardless of whether it's the top of a comment thread or one mid-conversation. So best I can collapse to is a post and all of its top-level comments.
The other one is that on Reddit I was able to create a group and add subs to it. That group would appear in my sidebar, and when opened it'd be a feed of those subs without needing to join each one (which makes 'Subscribed' really busy). On Lemmy I can add favourites to the sidebar, but they show up in the list individually - I'd like for example to have a single entry in that list called Home Tech, when I tap it I get a feed of only home automation or homelab stuff. Then another one just for memes. Etc
If these settings already exist and I've just missed them please let me know, otherwise I'd really appreciate if they could be added to BfL.
Thanks for the fantastic app and ongoing support!