nicgentile

joined 10 months ago
[–] nicgentile 0 points 3 days ago

The "wolf warriors" used to come in hot a.f.

[–] nicgentile 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not a European, but a well traveled person who has drunk beers in Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, Botswana, Senegal, UK, Poland, China, and the UK, as well as drunk beers from Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic etc, I stopped drinking beer when I drunk American beer. Sure, there are some good microbrews, but holy moly, there are some questionable things that pass for beer in America.

[–] nicgentile 1 points 6 days ago

President S: Yes, we will tariff you as well, and we will ask the cartels to stop sending la cocaína...

President T: Now, now hang on, nobody is talking about the coke. You know I have a son...

[–] nicgentile 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not a lawyer but does this not set a precedent for others in the same predicament to follow?

[–] nicgentile 17 points 1 week ago

Politically, this was a key proponent in creating and managing difficult alliances with African, Asian, and South American countries. China, and potentially Russia and India have been waiting for this splinter. They will flood the markets with cheaper generics and people will adapt. This will be a power play America will never recover.

[–] nicgentile 1 points 1 week ago

Saw this and my mind played this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fvhLrBrPQI

[–] nicgentile 35 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Dang. Had no clue Japanese planes couldn't fly over land.

[–] nicgentile 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Newpipe is my go to app.

[–] nicgentile 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have no kids and I am not mad at Google.

[–] nicgentile 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the link. Keeping an eye on it as well.

[–] nicgentile 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've been using a Unihertz Titan Pocket. I've been too lazy to flush the ROM to LineageOS. I actually will buy a second one as a backup for the future until I can figure out something else.

[–] nicgentile 3 points 3 weeks ago

I came across c/futuramasleepers when it was on Reddit and being a Futurama fan, it worked like a charm. Effect, I wore out Futurama for myself.

So I switched to downloading Family Guy funny moment videos onto my phone. They are usually 1h long, but 20 minutes or so in, I am knocked out, with a laugh to boot.

Before, when I lived alone, I used to put on tv shows, switch off the tv and let the home theater on very low sound do the heavy lifting.

Also, the guy on YouTube, City Planner Plays has been a tremendous source of sleep for me. Put on one of his YouTube videos and bang, out like a light.

 

So this is what I have found as a working solution

Boil about a quarter cup of water. It must be as hot as possible.

Add a heaped tea spoon or two (depending on your preference).

Let it steep for a few minutes, the filter/sieve.

You end up with black liquid as indicated.

I top mine off with hot milk.

That's it. That is what is working for me.

Thanks for the tips.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by nicgentile to c/coffee
 

My default coffee making is to heat milk, add coffee and steep it for a couple of minutes before I sieve it and voila.

This does not seem to work for this coffee. I have tried water, boiling it with the water or milk and it simply will not mix. What am I missing?

Edit: I know about grinding, I have a burr grinder, a French press and I know the various ways to make coffee. None of the methods I know, work.

Burr grinder = bar grinder. I made that mistake.

 

What makes this your car?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by nicgentile to c/selfhosted
 

Hi,

I've selfhosted Grav for two years going to three, but I want to move on to something else. I am looking for a flatfile CMS. I have experimented a bit and the best I found so far is Automad, but it isn't quite there. What alternatives can you recommend? PHP is where I am leaning.

Thanks.

Edit: Given my unclear query, I have struggled themeing. It has always been a pain and for whatever reason, documenting is somewhat unclear.

 

This is test art work from an upcoming project.

 

This is test art work from an upcoming project.

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Gangster girl (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by nicgentile to c/ai_art
 

This is test art work from an upcoming project.

 

This is test art work from an upcoming project.

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YouTube has to be a scam. (self.enshittification)
 

Above is one of my 2 year old nephew's favourite channels. He watches them everyday. For his parents who work from home, it's the greatest thing. If an ad comes up, he cries and they know something is up.

However, they are clicking the ok button on the TV far too often per video cause of this.

They run that 90+ sponsored content so frequently it's become crap. I've seen Land Rover ads, the one above is a house, and the most annoying is when they run other cartoons like Thomas the Tank Engine or something. If the kid wanted that, no problem. But right now the singing cats are his jam. Cars, property? Someone is paying actual money to get ads in front of 2 year old kids?

Tell me this isn't a scam.

 

I've hit rock bottom on this. I want a basic ~$20+ per hour job where I answer calls, chats, emails and help people with whatever they need from home. I don't mind working nights, long hours, overtime, holidays, I have basically nothing to do.

I have experience, I have technical skills, customer support skills, I have led 2 teams, switched to data entry, but the last close to 100 applications have led me nowhere. I imagined it would be easy to get into Amazon support or something like that, but dang, I am not getting anywhere. All I see are bait and switch jobs to sell insurance, or travel agency stuff, or benefits or some sort of MLM.

I got into CloudWorkers with the hopes it is some sort of legit cause I am in deep crap.

I have 2 - 3 weeks where I need to figure this one out, and this in the end of the second month looking for work.

Seriously, why is it this hard?

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