waterbogan

joined 1 year ago
[–] waterbogan 3 points 2 weeks ago

I can barely manage just the one. I dont know how people can juggle multiple accounts. I would get so confused

[–] waterbogan 2 points 3 weeks ago

What a fever dream of a house. The architect must have been indulging in a lot of acid or cocaine or mushrooms or all of the above and more

[–] waterbogan 2 points 3 weeks ago

Hideous and soulless. A little bit of Dubai in Edmonton!

[–] waterbogan 12 points 3 weeks ago

NO. Not a fan of the current or former CCP or the former Soviet Union

[–] waterbogan 20 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

What is varishangout..net? Initially read it as yarishangout.net and wondered why a space for Toyota Yaris owners got defedded. Also wondering how stereophonic.space got defedded?

[–] waterbogan 4 points 4 weeks ago

Oh please, its been terrible for years now and we all know it. Not in every sub, but the top level ones absolutely are

[–] waterbogan 3 points 1 month ago

Dictator chic on a budget

[–] waterbogan 1 points 1 month ago

Its not the theme or the going with it, it how badly they went with it. That ceiling decoration in the lounge is so .... wrong. And you can buy repro ornate ceiling mouldings that would actually look OK if applied correctly too

[–] waterbogan 1 points 1 month ago

First time I landed in Australia on the Gold Coast I followeed a bin chicken for 20 minutes with a camera trying to get the perfect picture like it was some rare exotic bird. I'm sure the locals were sremoveding or openly laughing behind my back, I dont blame them

[–] waterbogan 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We dont have much in the way of animals but we have birds. The Tui is common in suburban gardens here, but they are beautiful and even as a local I still like seeing them. Pukekos are everywhere but for those from the UK/ Europe/ USA they're prett exotic. Down South, Wekas are absolutely everywhere outside the cities and will walk right into people's homes - I once experienced coitus interruptus when a Weka jumped up on the bed I was in with a guy.

When I was in South Africa I was super excited to see baboons, locally considered something of a nuisance. And in Queensland, Australia, the first time I saw an Australian white ibis, locally known as a bin chicken, the locals must have been very amused to see me chasing it with a camera getting photos

[–] waterbogan 2 points 1 month ago

This SO much. I was involved some years ago with a non profit, run by a guy with significant personal wealth. He burnt through nearly a million bucks, and did manage to get some change to happen , but it was incredibly difficult and incredibly slow, even with the backing and support of a number of other wealthy and connected individuals plus mass public support as well.

[–] waterbogan 2 points 1 month ago

Somebody needs some driver training!

 

Lemmy just randomly went into dark mode on me just now, and I cant find where to toggle it back to light mode is in settings

 

If you or one of your loved ones is struggling with this its worth knowing and worth asking your doctor about. Article mainly discusses generic anticonvulsants that have proven beneficial, but there are others such as Naltrexone that can also be helpful.

 

As the largest organ in the body, the skin can have a profound impact. The chemicals released by diseased and dysfunctional skin soon enter the bloodstream, where they wash around, damaging other tissues. Amid the ensuing systemic inflammation, chemicals from the skin can reach and harm organs that seem entirely unrelated, including your heart and brain.

Well thats it, I’m definitely staying out of the sun now!

 

As the largest organ in the body, the skin can have a profound impact. The chemicals released by diseased and dysfunctional skin soon enter the bloodstream, where they wash around, damaging other tissues. Amid the ensuing systemic inflammation, chemicals from the skin can reach and harm organs that seem entirely unrelated, including your heart and brain.

Well thats it, I'm definitely staying out of the sun now!

 

I believe there are ways to see who's upvoted/ downvoted a thread/post, but I just want to be able to see in one place my own upvotes/ downvotes, and cant see that in my profile anywhere. I have tried some of the other UI's too

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by waterbogan to c/[email protected]
 

Its a great little app for those that are easily sunburnt, has been a godsend in the past. But when I try to open it currently it throws an error message "Data missing or incomplete" I know it gets its UV data from NIWA, but when I checked on their site there is nothing to say it has been discontinued. The cancer society / sunsmart site also still shows it as current too. Cant find anything else about it online.

Anyone else use this app for Android (or IoS)? Is it still working for you?

Edit: have discovered that the developer Jeremy Burke has put out a new version called GlobalUV which I'm trying now, that looks quite similar and seems to be working

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by waterbogan to c/[email protected]
 

Or hold it open while Bluetooth active and in use?

Would be extremely useful to have my screen stay open while phone is playing music in the car. Phone is a Samsung A31 running Android 12, although I have had the same issue on other devices running different versions of Android so not sure its relevant.

 

Saw this proposal originally posted on Github and thought it was worth posting here and expanding on

This is an excellent idea, I liked awarding posts on reddit on my old username, probably spent quite a bit with reddit until they permabanned me for god alone knows what reason.

This plus Premium memberships would give the admins of the bigger servers such as lemmy.world a reliable income stream that would enable them to maintain and improve infrastructure. The money would go to whichever server a user that buys the awards or Premium membership happens to reside on (for me it'd be lemmy.world)

Its a simple reality that running a server with thousands of users on it costs money and time, and it has to come from somewhere more reliable and lucrative than donations

It does raise an issue in that a payment processor would be required, and a business would have to be created for that as well. Perhaps several instances could co-operate and share the payment processor and create between them an organisation or business for that purpose, there would need be some means of tagging each payment so that it can be directed to the correct instance

I want the fediverse to survive and thrive, and for that it needs some income beyond donations to support instance server costs, bandwidth and the time and effort and resources expended on battling DDOS attacks, bots etc etc

 

Made a post in a fairly niche community a few days back, it got 6 replies, only 4 of which I can actually see. Is this some sort of federation issue or something else? Its been showing 6 replies for a couple of days at least now, so if that was it I would have thought the last 2 would have come through by now

Post in question is here; https://lemmy.world/post/2264735

Maybe if someone on another instance or on kbin can take a look for me and see if they can see all 6 I'd appreciate that thanks

 

I'm the Scandinavian architect, partner loads it like a raccoon on meth, which is odd as he is a spectacularly good cordon bleu cook and is generally the one that is ordered and tidy around the house

Which are you

 

I have done this exactly once in my lifetime, two years ago. Maybe in another few decades, I'll do it again, if I live long enough.

And yes, even if your name is Karen but you had a good reason to ask to speak to the manager, you can also reply

 

Post is deleted so I am having to recreate it from memory but it went something like this;

This is actually in a public layby as you can see by this Google Streetview the driveway is off that

Original thread for context is here; https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/13ci65x/irrationally_angry_car_driver_drives_into_a_group/

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