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Bruncvik Bruncvik @lemmy.world
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What opinions do you have that you consider (shallow && pedantic)?
  • If you insist on pronouncing "gif" as "gif" instead of "jif", you should pronounce "jpeg" as "jfeg".

  • This bicycle repair kit I bought from LIDL comes with all the same tools as the famous Wera Tool-Check Plus but costs 11€
  • As the saying goes, buy the cheapest tool you think you need, and if it breaks, buy the best. I've had some Lidl tools for a decade, and I used only a very small portion of them to the extent where they broke. And even among them, if I just wore them down (interchangeable tips for my screwdriver), I just ended buying the same.

  • What is your favorite Audiobook?
  • Sorry; you are right. I never saw that reader with any other authors, so it's not something that's really stuck in my memory.

  • Hellooooo!
  • Sorry; the automod here seems to have removed a naughty word in the URL. Linking directly to the picture.

  • Hellooooo!
  • Bring back memories of tthe removed dog. It never fails to make me smile...

  • Every Irish Person on Sunday
  • All three English games in knockout stages ended in heartbreak. I'm prepared for another one. Have enough Bulmers to drown my disappointment.

  • What is your favorite Audiobook?
  • The Hyperion books by Dan Simmons. Hyperion has full cast, the rest doesn't, but still very high quality narration.

    Honourable mentions:

    • Alastair Reynolds and John Lee collaborations. Lee has the perfect voice and tone for Reynolds' precise (and somewhat aloof) language.
    • Neil Gaiman books. Gaiman does his own narration, and I can't imagine his books without his voice.

    Dishonourable mention:

    • John Scalzi, read by Will Wright. Wright reads as if every line in Scalzi's works was hillarious. Scalzi is a very funny writer, but his books have somber set pieces, and Wright ruins the immersion there.
  • Anyone else who used to be on Reddit in the early 2010s remember how it used to be a Wild West?
  • Form yor own opinion. This is the original thread. A follow-up thread claimed that it was removed by Reddit admins because the picture of the van showed the company name and phone number. That thread included the fan with blacked-out identifiers and was allowed to stay up until users didn't start identifying the company in the comments.

  • Anyone else who used to be on Reddit in the early 2010s remember how it used to be a Wild West?
  • There is currently a tiny bit of uproar over at r/irelandshittydrivers. A user took a photo of a work van that blocked two disabled spots. He sent the photo via Whatsapp to the company, which responded in a batshit crazy manner (for some reason, escalated it to praising Osama for 9/11). Naturally, the user posted the photo and the conversation to Reddit. Within a few hours, the company contacted Reddit and had the post removed. If a company with perhaps three customers per week can do it, what do you think large companies can do? Censoring user posts would be only the tip of the iceberg.

  • Perman sub ban because part of another subreddit
  • Posted on r/KotakuInAction by any chance? I usually run into this kind of complaints because of that sub.

    My personal take is that subs that ban people just for posting on other subs are actively perpetuating their little opinion bubbles. They are essentially creating little virtual prisons for their members, and most of them are actually happy about that, which in turn tells all I need to know about those members' intellectual laziness. To twist around Groucho Marx' quote, I would refuse to join a sub that rejected me for posting elsewhere.

  • Ironing
  • Ironing is the only time of the week where I have the time to watch TV or movies. Not that I don't have free time, but I usually spend it in other ways. During ironing, I'm a captive audience. That said, I don't iron all that much. I remember the last season of The Boys took me four months to finish...

  • If your mind got transported back 10 years right now with no time to prepare, how could you exploit your knowledge for personal gain?
  • I wouldn't change anything, but I would be far less stressed that everything would work out just fine.

  • Wells Fargo fires more than a dozen employees for faking work using mouse jigglers and keyboard activity simulation
  • If you worked for me (or any other of about 20 PO's at my company), you'd be comfortable telling me that you were struggling. You'd explain the challenge and your estimate to completion, and I'd either reshuffle our priority list so that you could park the task and pick another one, or find someone for a pair programming session with you. That's the common practice, and nobody should care whether you're yellow on Teams or use a mouse jiggler, as long as you communicate your work and challenges.

  • Longtime webusers of lemmy, what’s your favorite memory from using the internet in the late '90s?What do you miss about the early web?
  • Geocities. That's how I lerned HTML. Used their WYSIWYG editor and then tinkered with the code. Built several pages close to my interest, and even scored some free stuff from marketing early online retailers like CDNow.

    Also spent a lot of time browsing other Geocities pages and contacting people with shared interest.

  • Do you avoid discussing some topics online even if you have something you'd like to say about them?
  • I don't mind discussing politics or religion, even though I don't repeat myself in the same discussion and don't engage with trolls. However, I absolutely never discuss my family, my personal matters and my racist views.

  • What a frightening suggestion...
  • Given how many times I genocided entire nations in Civilization, I guess they'd better send me a one-way ticket to Nuremberg.

  • Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows
  • I'm still using Winamp 2.91. I'm just too used to it to change. Now, if someone added Flac support to the same interface, I'd be happy. And if someone ported it to Linux and Android, I'd pay big bucks for it.

  • Indiana judge rules tacos, burritos are sandwiches
  • This tuling was passed due to a contract obligation to open a sandwich store. These cases are ueually related to regulations. Kind of like when an Irish court ruled that Subway subs are cakes, so higher VAT and sugar tax would apply to them. (In all fairness, the sugar content in the Subway "bread" is several times higher than the max allowed for bread.)

  • Microsoft extolling the benefits of cloud storage in their Office save dialog
  • I've had exactly the same experience. Let me addd one more: when OneDrive decides to back up open files, they ate regularly deleted both from local and cloud. Those are the files I tend to use the most, and I grew so frustrated that I ended recreating my Documents folder steucture in my Downloads folder, which doesn't get synced. (IT is useless; when I complained abou that, they told me that One Drive was a third-party application, and they didn't support those. )

  • Waiting in a queue to see a Web site

    Waiting for 30 minutes to access the Web site of the Road Safety Authority, the Irish equivalent of the DMV. Too bad they don't have physical offices where I could queue personally...

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    Tak sme si to zase posrali...

    Bude kopec analýz, ale to je na neskôr. Teraz už len čakám na poludnie, aby som si mohol dať pohárik na ukľudnenie.

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    Slovakia Election Update: Will Fico Win?

    Gotta love his pronunciation of "Fico"...

    There are a few more inconsistencies, such as confusing the Christian Democratic Union (in coalition with OLANO) with KDH, a party that runs independently and is polling 6-7%. Still, a good primer on what is at stake in Slovakia this month.

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    Bojnice

    Given the small amount of tourists this summer, Bojnice is still undiscovered by most. Featuring a wonderful castle, impressive zoo, loads of other tourist attractions, hotels and restaurants, this is a wonderful weekend getaway for tourists who want to do a road trip around the country.

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    foreignpolicy.com The West Can’t Ignore Slovakia’s Election

    A pro-Kremlin candidate is leading the polls—and could shatter the country’s support for Ukraine.

    The West Can’t Ignore Slovakia’s Election
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    imgur.com The Calvary at Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia

    Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and so much more from users.

    Banska Štiavnica is a UNESCO World Heritage site, partially because of the Calvary. These photos are from my personal archive. Come think of it, I should begin updating the photos. Since I took them, the rest of the Calvary, including the Upper Church, have been restored. Last year, they started working on the footpaths to the top, which should be the last stage of the project.

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    Welcome to Slovakia

    Welcome to the Slovakia community at lemmy.world. Feel free to discuss anything related to Slovakia or of any interest to Slovaks. Just be mindful of the following:

    • Janosik was Slovak
    • Real bryndza is from Slovakia
    • Kofola is superior to Coke or Pepsi
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