postnataldrip

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[–] postnataldrip 7 points 6 days ago

Tl;dr is just the AI stuff you'll need the subscription for.

That said what made things like Notepad so useful was, largely, the fact it had no bells or whistles. It was simple and lightweight, and did exactly what you told it to do, and nothing more. Exactly what I want to edit config files and the like.

Now it's almost a document editor that requires an M365 subscription... sounds familiar...

[–] postnataldrip 80 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Judging by those USB plugs that hand is enormous

[–] postnataldrip 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fairly sure they came with an internal hard drive

[–] postnataldrip 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] postnataldrip 8 points 1 month ago

Aussie racing driver Will Power (wikipedia link)

Also the Lambo test driver Max Venturi

[–] postnataldrip 7 points 1 month ago

People are so lazy these days, they couldn't even be bothered putting it in a bag or lighting it on fire. smh

[–] postnataldrip 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In two different companies I've seen people refer to "the database" when they actually mean a spreadsheet. That's not just a terminology mixup, these things were super complex, with pseudo-relational tables, lookups, links to other files etc. The sort of thing that should be in an actual database, that has less chance of breaking in obscure ways when someone inserts a row or types a value over a formula. It was actually pretty impressive, in an "impending doom at any moment" kind of way.

Also had one where there was a spreadsheet of everyone in the business top to bottom, shared by HR and IT. Both groups needed a list of staff, so why not just keep one, right? This thing had personal details like home address and medical conditions, plus things like salary (inc garnishments), performance management notes etc, as well as of course their username and password (which was assigned to them and they couldn't change) and security questions and answers. It didn't even have a password on the file. I noped tf out of that place as quickly as I could, but for reasons even worse than that stupid spreadsheet.

[–] postnataldrip 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don't think you necessarily had ill intent, but this kind of question will get some resistance because often, obscure = specific. Eg 30 seconds of internetting says that was [redacted].

Whether that's enough anonymity is up to you, but for many here it won't be.

[–] postnataldrip 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wish that was the case in AU, ours is paid upfront in a lump sum and is non-refundable. If you refinance above 80% you pay it again, in full, upfront. If you pay the loan down to below 80%, doesn't matter, no prorata refund. It's 20-30k down the toilet, just in LMI. That's on top of the 50-80k in stamp duty also pissed away :(

To make it worse, many add the LMI to their mortgage, so they pay interest on the higher balance. It's also a deterrent for people to refinance while they're within that 80+% LVR bracket, so shopping for a better deal is mostly pointless. Banks aren't just disinterested in pushing for a better deal, they're actively incentivised against it.

[–] postnataldrip 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Regardless of your stance on the name change, doesn't the executive order (and subsequent updating of the names register or whatever it's called) make it official? In which case the maps are just being updated to reflect it.

Afaik they're not changing it anywhere outside the US as (so far...) that's the only place it's been changed, so it's not like they're pushing that name in places where it's not official.

It's also not unheard of to have map details that vary depending on where you are, to align with the official stance of wherever the map is being viewed from. Ukraine, bits of the India/Pakistan border, IIRC some islands off Japan disputed by China, etc.

Not saying the name change isn't stupid and not suggesting at all that the companies in question aren't scum, but getting angry at the map maintainers for this change seems pointless. What did you expect them to do?

Am I missing something?

[–] postnataldrip 5 points 1 month ago

Or a meating in their case

[–] postnataldrip 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Walt Disney

 
 

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!

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