They were warned it was there and even spotted it themselves, yet drifted away from the group and were subsequently attacked by a protective mother.

That’s deff not the hippos fault, that’s on whoever was captaining the canoe.

Don’t fuck around near hippos.

The internet used to be a library. You could visit where and when you want, browsing information relatively undisturbed.

Now; every corner of the internet is trying to sell you something, with many of them stealing your information in an attempt to leverage it against you to coerce or even force you to pay up.

I miss when an adblocker was a foreign concept, because it used to be a solution in search of a problem. Now ads are so invasive and overwhelming that browsing without blocking them is unbearable - if you can even browse without having to signup and subscribe to yet another ‘service’.

That seems… Less than ideal.

Maybe don’t fuck around near hippos. 🤦

One of my favourites is Game Dev Tycoon.

TLDR; The devs released the ‘cracked’ version themselves on various file sharing sites. Their crack had an extra event though; after a while of playing, your studio would inevitably go bankrupt due to video game piracy, forcing a loss. This only occurs in the cracked version as well, so players complaining about it automatically outed themselves as pirates.

I liked playing the original on emulators. The tick rate was tied to the fps, so when you cranked it up, the entire game ran super fast. Great for walking across Hyrule Field.

Soothing to the throat

Ribbed - for her pleasure.

I got a warehousing job on the far side of the city from me. To get there, I was dependent on the busses, but the first bus on the schedule for the day got me there ~5-10min late. This was discussed during my hiring interview and wasn’t a problem… In the beginning.

Just over three months working there, the manager pulled me into his office and told me I am required to arrive at work on-time. This needs to be fixed or he will begin writing me up for tardiness. He was the same manager that interviewed me and agreed the 5-10min because of the bus was not a problem. Now he’s claiming no memory of this conversation and that It’s my problem to fix despite me not having any other options.

This is where I told him; Ok, I guess today was my last day then. I then told him I expect the overtime hours I have not been paid, to be on my final paycheque.

This warehouse worked 4 x 10hr shifts per week, instead of the typical 5 x 8hr. This had not been discussed during my interview, I actually didn’t find out about it until my first day, when I went to leave after 8hrs. I live in BC Canada. BCs Employment Standards Act requires overtime be paid for hours in excess of 40 per week, as well as more than 8hrs per day. This means the ninth and tenth hour of each shift, is overtime, per BC law.

BCs ESA does provide a method of averaging hours across a week; allowing 4x10hr shifts without overtime. That requires a written and signed agreement between both parties though. I hadn’t even been told the schedule, let alone signed such an agreement. I hadn’t really pushed back about this though, because I was ok having an extra day off each week, it was still only 40hrs; this was basically just a matter of missing paperwork.

When I told the manager I expected to be paid that overtime, he brushed it off and told me to collect my stuff and get out. Even had a supervisor escort me around to ensure I didn’t take or damage anything.

I left and immediately headed to the Employment Standards Office in my city. They took the details and opened an investigation. It wasn’t a super fast process, but 3ish months later I received a cheque in the mail, as well as a call back from the ESA Office: the company apparently fired their entire HR department and backpaid myself as well as all current staff a years worth of unpaid overtime, to avoid direct fines and a possible lawsuit. All over some missing paperwork for an arrangement most of the employees were happy with anyway. They even ended up paying for my Employment Insurance claim, because EI agreed I was essentially forced to quit - ie fired without cause.

Valve core tool

Paycheck and auto billing to the same checking account. A seprate general use checking accout thats linked to my debit card, so I have to explicitly move money out of the billing account to spend it. Plus a savings account.

CC is for emergency purchases between paychecks, online purchases, or the rare CC required transaction such as rental equipment (Home Depot for example requires a CC, no other options).

Can’t force me to login, when I haven’t visited since the creation of my Lemmy account. (3yrs)

Breakers have a saftey feature where they trip internally and don’t require the lever to move. This prevents someone from jambing/tieing the lever in the ‘on’ position to prevent it from tripping.

This also means that to reset a tripped breaker, you have to move it fully into the off position, THEN move it back to the on position. The lever will typically sit in the midway position to indicate that it has tripped, and will not reset just by pushing it back to on.

If you can’t move it to off, then the breaker needs to be replaced.

Whenever a device needs to connect to a web domain, the first thing it has to do is retrieve that domains IP address. Thats a DNS request.

While I don’t remember which domains exactly (this was 5+ years ago when I last checked); just the fact that it’s reaching out to external connections 20k+ times a day is concerning.

For context; my entire network has made 28k dns requests in the last 24hrs. Thats 3 mobile phones that are in use constantly, three PCs, and a handful of IOT devices like smart bulbs/switches.

20k from one device is A LOT.

It’s primarily an idle device that’s awaiting a voice command. Supposedly it’s processing audio locally to find the wake word ‘ok google’ and only then uploading the audio to be processed as a voice command on googles servers. So what’s it uploading/connecting to 20k times a day while it’s suposed to be idle…?

Like it’s trying to connect to where? Why?

I don’t know exactly. That’s the problem.

I export my password vault every now and again, encrypted with my master password and stored on at least 3 seprate devices. (selfhosted Vaultwarden/Bitwarden)

That youtube channel is a great way to learn what stupid mistakes drivers commonly make, to know what to look for/avoid.

When I setup pihole, the google home speakers I had were making dns requests something like 20k times a day. More than pretty much every other device on my network.

I removed them all after that.

My local news has a classifieds section (free to list/post whatever you’ve got for sale). Sold my old pedal bike that way when I got an ebike a couple months ago.

As long as you’re not shooting for absolute top dollar for them, a good option.

There’s also a couple bike shops near me that’ll either outright buy a bike off you and resell it, or use it for parts, or even sell on consignment. Neither were interested in my bike though, partly because I was selling it in August (end of the busy season for them).

Because two would make it a straw.

Hell, most if not all of the lighting in my apartment is LED.

Between 8 rooms (counting the hallway and both bathrooms), theres only 5 fixtures that accept ‘bulbs’. 4 table lamps and the light in the vent hood over the stove. Everything else is ‘non-servicable’ lighting like LED boards built into full fixtures (celing lights), LED tape lights (under counter/shelf lights), and some string lights that nobody can be bothered to take down after xmas.

I haven’t had to replace a dead light in at least 8 years though.

Elongated fleshy donut.