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bbbhltz, 5 months ago

I would gift Overcooked to my friends (married with 2 kids) because they are a family of foodies.

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

Maybe. The newest Rpi can I believe.

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

Oui, le bon vieux temps… Jusqu’au jour où ma mère a pris une GameCube et ils étaient en rupture de stock de cartes mémoire.

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

Probably in the works, but there are some adaptable options here:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_honorifics

Like Excellency or Honourable… But as a professor I receive so many emails starting with odd honorifics (e.g. Dear Sire, My Sire, Sir bbbhltz, My Lord, etc.) due to translation software errors that I can’t be bothered to even care about it anymore haha

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

I was a bad reader this year… But some quick sci-fi reads are the Murderbot books (Martha Wells) and the Forward Collection (7 books by 7 authors). An older one is True Names by Vernor Vinge.

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

You probably read the Robot and Monk novellas too?

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

It varies by province and there are definite shortcomings. It is actually pretty shameful that we brag about it. As other users have noted, the wait times are ridiculous, there is also a shortage of GPs in many areas…

• my mother has not seen her GP face-to-face since December 2019; the lady up and took off to another part of Canada! No doctor came to replace her so she handles things remotely.
• my mother once also had a test and the doctors said, “this is probably cancer, you need a biopsy” the next appointment was 9 months later. She managed to get in 6 months later by calling every day. The results came back and it was indeed uterine or ovarian (can’t remember) cancer that had spread and developed into lymphoma. Nthey asked her, “ma’am, why didn’t you come sooner!?” Now, once the diagnosis was made it was a different story. She was treated and had multiple operations and chemo and radiotherapy and is now fine.
• I was misdiagnosed with a disease and found out 16 years later that I absolutely didn’t have that disease (luckily there was no treatment, just minor lifestyle changes)
• getting into a walk-in clinic can be literal hell and if you don’t have a car you are just plain screwed.

Those are just anecdotes from Nova Scotia, though.

Is it bad enough to go to the US? If you have some money and don’t want to wait, that is what lots of people do. Just get it taken care of, nip it in the bud instead of waiting and worrying.

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

I do not, but I’ve seen people do this. Why can’t you use Street complete?

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

Too little, too late.

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

It is possible that your posts/comments were reported and the mods and admins made a decision based on those reports. This post is a little dramatic, but it à propos. I am not that active on the fediverse, but I have found myself banned for odd reasons in different corners. Example: I was accused of French-bashing. I was not. I live in France and I think it is awesome here. I sing the praises of France everywhere I roam. The person who accused me of French-bashing is Irish. I took my ban/block on the chin and reminded myself that the fediverse is not supposed to be a Twitter/Reddit clone.

It is a good thing to ask, though, and keep the hope alive. Communities are built inch-by-inch, not step-by-step.

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

I only just picked one up a week or two ago. I was always a Nintendo person… Then an ex wanted to get an Xbox 360 to play Rock Band or something so I was stuck with that for a bit, then my partner wanted a PS4 to play Crash Bandicoot when it was only on PS4 so I’ve had that for years. I was completely ignorant to the ease of the Switch. Underpowered? Whatever! It is quiet, it is small, and that OLED screen is gorgeous.

The sun is setting for the Switch, but at least I’ll get to experience it before it is fully retired.

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

It might be politically incorrect to share it here, you’re right.

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

I second this recommendation. Their most famous songs are also widely covered by lots of bands—not all of them good—who managed to release them as singles and b-sides like the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PklfXxhTo0 or the 1998 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJZTfl3DmCU. Beyond that their music has been sampled by everyone from Kraftwerk to Rihanna.

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

I think that’s her point.

Although…she probably shouldn’t compare herself to rock bands when the song she is most associated with—at least from a millennial standpoint—was written by half a dozen men (maybe… probably).

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

I have a friend / colleague who was a bit like this. It is a “see it to believe” situation. For her it was when she was at work and she watched her mouse stat moving on its own.

When she thought about how she never did anything bad on her work computer, but sometimes accessed her personal email… She got it.

And now she pays closer attention to things. Like in our city you’re pinged via WiFi when you get on a bus, but you can opt-out or jut turn of your WiFi, so she does that. And she makes email aliases now too. Nothing too serious, mind you, but she is 50 and figuring this out on her own and then teaching her friends and colleagues about it which is way better than going down the rabbit hole. Now there’s a bunch of boomers refusing to use Teams or access work email on their personal devices because she explained that they do have things to hide: the names and ages of their children and grandchildren, where they go for drinks after work, what they watch on YT, etc.

I don’t get into it with people though. People just write me off as some nerd, which is not the case.

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

This is brilliant

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

Professor in France… Same boat as you.

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

Ha, that’s fairly close. Except my students are 19 to 25 and play Suika Game on their MacBook Pros. We keep a journal of what we taught and said each day because when the he exam comes they complain the content wasn’t taught in class, then they give bad evaluations to the prof and leave comments like, “the professor should be more strict with computers and phones in class.”

No phones / No computers is my only rule!

They’re excuse is, “I’m taking notes! I didn’t spend €1200 on this to leave it in my backpack!”

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

Yes!

Still have it. I asked for a game for my birthday that year. At the last minute I said I wanted ST instead. My mom took back the game she had and swapped it for this. I played it like crazy. Although it wasn’t until last year that I realised how to beat the Borg.

bbbhltz, 5 months ago

I was only allowed 1 or 2 new games per year so I played non-stop. I took my Gameboy everywhere. My mother saw something on TV at the time saying that games improved hand-eye coordination so she encouraged me to play like crazy. That might have helped haha.