I’m glad they told me and didn’t just truncate it forcing me to reset everytime.

She laughing at the guy’s fashion choice of wearing more pants on his torso than his legs?

That’s also on the IT department for not implementing a backup solution for users (or upper management not listening to IT that a solution is needed).

If a work laptop dies and the work files are lost, that sounds like a work problem.

You were absolutely right… Two ovens in a room, 1 for plant use and 1 that needs to be super clean for a specific purpose? A sign would have been the bare minimum, that should have been part of your lab training too.

To be fair telling someone “wow, you’re pretty handy to have around” is opening the door for all kinds of inappropriate comments…

Fan fics.

Oh wait you said 5, not 15. Ummm…really gross stories with lots of kissing and cooties.

At least they are brave enough to make the switch for free.

I see, well if you get them for free and it’s working for you…

The biggest hassle for me is forgetting it at work overnight, so I have to use an old lunchbox and remeber why I replaced it, but wont get rid of it for that exact situstion.

I use a lunch box with a good size freezer pack that lasts all day (or at least long enough to survive summer heat past lunchtime). I have a few extras ready to go incase I forget to take it home one day or refreeze it. I also put it in a ziplock bag so when it inevitability leaks it won’t make a mess.

Paper bags in the long run are costing you more than buying a lunch box. I used to have one of those packit freezable lunch bags. It was only a bit larger than paper one but it didn’t condecne as well. The paper bags are great for when going somewhere you don’t want worry about leaving anything behind.

Sandwiches I put in a container to prevent them from getting smushed. I also bring a small reusable bottle water so I have fresh cold water at lunch instead relying on my full size one.

Hey, sorry to revive a thread after 7 years, but I just wanted to say THANK YOU SO MUCH, this completely solved this super-specific-problem that’s been bothering me for years. I’ll be naming my first born child after you.

No Pushing Daisies?

Animation isn’t respected in the snobby “film” crowd. These are the same sorts of people that refuse to take Citizen Kane out of the number 1 movie slot. If movies peaked in 1941, what’s the point?

A lot these comments are more like

I’m upset because (my favorite 20th century show) is not in the top (insert arbitrary number)

Yes, some wireless routers can be used as repeaters.

Routers like that are really multi-purposes devices that handle routing, switching, and wireless. If you’re only using a local network, you can still have the wifi network and all your devices communicate through that. You just won’t have internet access.

With out the router/switch, the cable’s usefullness is reduced - at least in the networking application we’re talking about (the cable itself is incredibly usesful for many other things besides ethernet). You can connect (most) devices directly together for communication, they’ll just self assign an IP address.

In less words, you can have a network with just a wireless router and no cable, but you can’t have a network with only a cable and no router (well, you can’t with ‘normal people’ devices)(also you don’t need a router for a local network, only a switch - but the home versions are often combo devices and just called a router).

Disclaimer; this is mostly off-hand knowage, might be a few details I missunderstand.

Quick edit, I’m rereading your post, and pretty sure you already know boost doesn’t choose the ads, but asking to pick a different provider so…oh well, I’m not gonna delete this.

Those adds aren’t specifically chosen by Boost (or whatever site/app your using). It’s whatever the ad provider decided to inject. Boost just says ‘place add here’ - its up to the ad provider to figure what ad to place here. The ad providers (google or facebook) use their algorithms to guess which adds your most likely to engage with, this why you’ll see the same thing in multiple place, and ultimately the whole point of data collection - to sell us more shit.

If you’re using Lemmy, it’s probably fair to assume that you use some form of add/tracking blocker - which means the ads you get aren’t targeted, and you get the ones that are paying to get broadcast randomly instead of focused based on user data (which I assume costs more, but gets a higher click through rate).

There’s probably some settings the Boost developer can set up, but I’m not sure what the granularity is. Someone who has actually used the service would know, I can only assume there’s some basic categories like language, age group, and generic things (music, tech, sports, ect) that determine if your site shows ads for matchbox cars or “hot (insert race&age) ladies in your area”. I highly doubt there’s a setting called “disable scam ads”.

For a site/app to have full control of what ads they display, they would have to make deals with the actual business wanting to advertise (think a direct youtube sponser vs an auto-ad that plays whatever). For an independent ad developer that would be like giving yourself a full time marketing job, and for a business it would be a nightmare to manage every individual.

This is where the advertising agencies come in; “you pay us lots money of money and we’ll find lots of “billboards” to show your ad to - give us more money and we’ll only show your ad to people likely to buy your stuff”

And on the flip side “let us put a billboard here and we will pay you money everytime someone engages with it, things like popups/video/auto play = more money. We’ll also buy any user data you have so we can optimize the billboards for maxium engagment, that way we can charge the businesses more to advertise and you can fund whatever you’re doing (as long as it’s advertsier friendly, but don’t ask us for clear guidnece on that)”.

Google wants to crush third party app stores/developers in the name of safety, but will gladly serve bullshit to users for as long as they get paid.

Imagine their entire family has no idea where the medal came from, but like 12 random people on the internet have the full story.

Someone knew you were a vegetarian, served you chicken broth with out saying anything, and then later acted surprised you ate it anyway? Wtf?

That’s a good idea. The “probably” really is forced. Especially the second one. I think the “punchline” works better if the serious tension isn’t broken early.

I DM’d you an edit I made, removing “probably”.

I thought about posting it here, but I don’t think we should get in the habit of editing people’s coimcs to our liking and sharing them, probably.

If YOU gave a plushie #31 a real name, maybe they’d be more inclined to help you!!

It’s over 8000!