Fleppensteijn

Fleppensteijn, 6 hours ago

That’s unnecessarily clickbaity, the article doesn’t mention it’s specifically nudes that came back, just old photos.

Fleppensteijn, 14 hours ago

I don’t include the rider. More confusing are stairs and crosswalks: where do they start and end? Often, there is no crosswalk on the picture but you have to select other road markings to continue. So it doesn’t really matter.

Fleppensteijn, 1 day ago

Everyone just copied everything from each other. Floppy, then Twilight CDs. Then came the internet and exploring music there was better than sitting around waiting for a song to come on the radio to quickly press record. It was normal when I was young to share, not really an active choice.

Fleppensteijn, 2 days ago

Well, they’re not wrong. If I had known I’d be in the same place after 10 years, I would’ve made myself more comfortable.

Fleppensteijn, 2 days ago

The article discusses scam calls, not spam calls.

I got that fake Microsoft support scam call only once, back in early 2000s, on my parent’s land line.

Fleppensteijn, 11 days ago

Only a few years ago, I found fireflies living near me. I never knew they existed in Europe.

Government decided to level their habitat though. They’re building a wildlife rescue center, ironically.

Fleppensteijn, 10 days ago

Giving it a try since I haven’t heard of this.

It seems to have cool options, but for navigation it’s just completely unusable.

Fleppensteijn, 12 days ago

You never tried installing Wine?

Fleppensteijn, 13 days ago

Depends on the country. I once got some people in trouble when I passed through Germany because I didn’t know internet is heavily censored/surveilled there. Haven’t had trouble anywhere else though. Do some research on your country.

The biggest threats come from the movie industry. Just use streaming sites for movies and series, torrent the other stuff.

Look into Tribler, I2P and Utopia.

Fleppensteijn, 17 days ago

Out of the ones I’ve tried (Jerboa, Connect, Thunder), I think Thunder is best (after a little config) : github.com/thunder-app/thunder/releases

Fleppensteijn, 20 days ago

I accidentally watched a YouTube video on a browser without blocking. It started with an ad. I thought I’d just endure it this time. Then another ad. OK, just this time then. Suddenly, another ad in the middle of the video. I gave up. Who’d have the patience to sit through this?

Then there’s Google’s habit of completely ignoring the browser’s language settings so I have to sit though ads I don’t even understand.

Fleppensteijn, 19 days ago

Tbf the only reason I know that YouTube has paid subscriptions is because of threads like this one, so it doesn’t seem like they’re really pushing their paid service.

Maybe they’re only targeting people who, for some reason, don’t block ads, and that’s why I’m unaware, but they should offer a little more than the things you can get for free already (no ads, downloading) if they want to draw in the adblocker crowd too.

Now people will start to google what’s up with all those ads and end up installing uBlock.

Fleppensteijn, 19 days ago

I must be out of touch.

I didn’t think I’d need an app to visit YouTube.

Fleppensteijn, 21 days ago

On streaming sites (Fmoviesz), some mirrors have a download button. You can also use the Video Downloadhelper plugin for Firefox.

Fleppensteijn, 24 days ago

If interest rates rise, what will typically happen to bond prices?

Is this basic financial literacy? Who deals with this on a daily basis?

As for the other questions (inflation, interest), any average person knows this. What kind of people did they ask?

Fleppensteijn, 23 days ago

Apparently nearly 70% of US is religious, so I don’t know why you’d be surprised about people believing in ghosts. I would even say you need a deeper understanding of the world to understand why ghosts can’t exist.

Fleppensteijn, 28 days ago

Maybe Here comes the rain again?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=5rToaLF6Fqg

Fleppensteijn, 1 month ago

You don’t have permission to access “www.9news.com/…/273-d919511f-199e-43fe-8e10-db900…” on this server.

🤷‍♂️

I have breakfast while I work in bed. It’s so much better. Then I switch between my chair and my bed throughout the day. Office chairs fuck up my back and I’m constantly tired at my age (since covid)

Fleppensteijn, 1 month ago

Yeah I only got some cheap chair, but honestly the problem is less with the chair, more with how I sit.

Fleppensteijn, 1 month ago

Where would this be unconventional?

Fleppensteijn, 1 month ago

God is unreasonable and scary when you are a Christian, at least for me when I grew up. You’re basically told he can read your mind so you pretend he’s a great guy, but to me an evil God is just Christianity.

Fleppensteijn, 1 month ago

You have to learn to fool yourself and to not ask such questions

Fleppensteijn, 1 month ago

All phones I’ve had, had the jack on the bottom where it’s in the way of me holding the phone or placing the phone on something. I always wondered why it’s not just at the top.

BTW just got a new phone (Oneplus) and I’m glad to have found one that has a jack at all

Fleppensteijn, 1 month ago

I’m missing the ashtrays in the 90s photo

Fleppensteijn, 1 month ago

People coming over for work/business: expats.

Unemployed people migrating to look for a better life or job: (im)migrants.

That’s how I understood it.

I’m kind of in between. I’m not an expat, but immigrant doesn’t sound right neither. I just call myself a foreigner.