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I'm saving up for a new phone and I'm thinking of getting a foldable one. Are they really as good/bad as people say they are?

I'm really unnerved by it. What are the potential consequences?

Bonus points: if that place/activity is friendly for disabled people with limited mobility.

Basically I'm tired of all the restrictions smartphone companies are adding, and I just wanna have a cheap budget phone with a data plan then just hotspot it to my pocket-pc.

I dove into an unfortunate rabbit hole last night about dark redditor confessions. I don't think anyone knows if it's genuine or not but someone claimed to be a child therapist and PDF file.

Like this. Basic stuff, "I wish I had been taught how to do my taxes in high school" kind of stuff. Long-form video content is preferred but not required.

I know I should ditch gmail and I'm working on it.

As an avid VPN user it’s infuriating that multilingual websites insist on using the client’s IP address to determine their language and country when web browsers have been sending the Accept-Language HTTP header since the mid-90s.

That's obviously an exaggeration, but why don't manufacturers of basic cars just put a fancy-looking exterior onto them? Aren't you mainly paying for the engine and electrics and upholstery and sound system with fancy cars? Why is it (seemingly) only Lamborghini and Ferrari that look like Lamborghini and Ferrari? Is chassis manufacturing more difficult than it seems to a numbnut like me? I assume it's just pressing sheets of metal into a mould, so I'm probably way off the mark.

We’re seeing in the US that majority of the people are being apathetic or ignorant to what is going on as it doesn’t directly affect them, and others are pointing out that we’re on the same route as Germany. Once Hitler seized power and then later when the county split, what was life like for those people that didn’t say or do anything? Assuming they weren’t in a targeted class, did they just go on and live their lives normally? I know there was a drop in the quality of living for them, but did they not know any better? Was it a state of constant fear, or was there “no war in Ba Sing Se”

A regular twin flat sheet for the top is not long enough to properly tuck it on the sides.

I enjoy matcha, however only drink it cold so far....would a set make a big difference if I start drinking it hot? And would it be a worth while investment?

I read Wikipedia and it says a majority of Americans actually support "deporting all 'illegal immigrants'". Is this actually true?

I mean a previous post, some users suggested that life was "better back then" when there isn't a constant connection to the internet.

How do less banked people charge an electric car?

As the title say, 5 months ago i broke up with my girlfriend, who was also one of my best friends for like 12 years. I know, very cliché. It was my first serious relationship, and the strong bond we had also before made it extremely difficult to detach from one other (for me at least). We knew each other since we were kids and apart from some periods where we wouldnt hang out often we always kept in touch, after all we went in the same high school. After Covid we started developing our friendship and our bond until finally after 2 years of a strange relationship on the edge of the border of friendship and something more, we finally started dating. It was the happiest period of my life. It was incredible, i could feel that we really loved each other on a very deep, almost visceral (don't know if its the correct word but i intend it in a good way) level because of our previous friendship that evolved in a relation. Even though we lived in 2 different city for university, the bond would grow stronger and the time were we wouldnt see each other would wrench my stomach from how much i misser her. And her too, she told me multiple times how she felt phisically the pain of missing me. I made the mistake of assuming it couldn't end, cause of all the years of friendship before and also cause we had some contrasts but we always managed to talk out of it, and i got the feeling that we would pass every obstacle. Of course, i was wrong or i wouldnt be writing this essay. Febraury she left me. To cut it short, she loved me no more. I asked if it was something i had done, she said no, even if i could think of some occasion were i was an idiot. She also said things that hurt me, she said she felt she couldnt always count on me as she did for her previous boyfriend. I was left in shock. I thought i always did everything i could, also she brought up an incident where we didnt understand each other about a phone call she asked me to do late at night. I didnt get she was asking because she had to get home on foot and she wanted to have someone on the phone. I said maybe another time cause i was out with friends and i genuinly thought it was a pleasure call, just to chat. When we met some time later i explained and all was good but she brought up again in a long discussion we had a month before breaking up. I was very sad cause i tought i had explained the misunderstanding. Anyways she left me in the only way i feel like im impotent in changing her idea. What could i do if she doesnt love me anymore? Love comes and goes and i have to accept. Still, after five months i feel im worsening. Having mentioned shes a good friend, shes in my group of friends, so she of course was invited for some parties and for graduations. Ive seen her threen times. I cant watch her in the eyes. Whener i get a glance at her body i freeze and stare in the emptiness. I get silent, im visibly disturbed. I just cant make my mind on the fact she isnt on my side anymore. That she isnt there to love no more. I know its egoistic and dont get me wrong i wish all the best for her. I wish she find somebody and lives the happiest life she can. But i cant go like this no more. The more i see her the more i understand im not getting better, in fact the exact opposite. I think its due to the fact im not letting go the idea she could change her mind, come back to me, love me again, realising she had made a mistake. I dont dare to think any other scenario. I just cant. I think i want to talk to her, but what do i say? It doesnt make sense. I dont have anything to say. She hasnt anything to say probably. I see her smiling and laughing i just cant accept in my head she has erased me like that. She went on, im here stuck on memories and feelings. I dont dare to think i will have anyone anymore. Im sure im not doing things right. Im holding on something i shouldnt, but im scared to just accept the fact its over. Now, i doubt everyone will ever read all of this. Also cause i started as question and finished telling my story, but i needed to vent. Im not talking to much about this with my friends cause i dont want to bother them too much. Dont want to be pedantic. I feel very chilidsh, im almost 23 and i cant live through a break up. I like to think of myself like a bit mature, but god feelings are hard to deal with. Anyways if anyone has tips, ill gladly take some. The ones i got for now are: you just have to accept and let time heal. And i think its solid, maybe the best. But its not working so im open. Wish everybody a good day and thank you for reading, sorry if bad english. Correct many mistaked sorry for the one guy who read it filler with errors. PS: i uninstalled instagram to avoid seeing her photos and stories. Thought it was better this way.

As an American who grew up at a religious school in the 90s, we absolutely did not (or at least I never had access to one). Obviously places like Kora or Tibet have been effected in their history (I still want to read your answers 😁), but what about, for example, New Zealand? Or Sierra Leonne? Or Portugal? I'm just curious to see how pervasive the new Global Language already is by this point.

Some random dude walked up to me while I was waiting outside a food place for my food and asked me this question.

Let me explain. So imagine this tv show with the plot taking place about like a few decades before the internet was invented. If I see that, I suddenly feel some sort of anxiety as in: "Damn, how did people even get information?", like I suddenly imagine myself, there, as a child, and not having access to this seemlingly unlimited access to information that I currently have, and not to mention, entertainment content. So like, that feeling of feeling like I'm in the past (as in: I'm imagining myself being in the past), but not have access to the internet just gives me a very bad feeling. Idk how to describe it. As an introvert, I'd hate the pre-internet era.

Context: A young adult tells his mother that he's depressed and that life is meaningless and that he wants to die (suicide is not directly mentioned but implied). Then the mother proceeds to express "regretting giving birth to you" directly to that young adult.

Maybe I am not understanding the fedivers well enough, but why am I not seeing communities like !flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com from my europe.pub account?

SRI ETF = social responsible index exchange trade fund

How is someone that gets out of breath eating a donut going to protect and serve anyone?

My friend has very bad brain fog from a physical condition. It's so bad she often pauses when she speaks like a YouTube video trying to buffer on a bad internet connection and she told me she wants to be more like her former self. She's on medication for the condition, but the brain fog is one symptom that persists. She wants some good insight on how effective amphetamines are for brain fog in the non-ADHD population. She could only find people who have both ADHD and brain fog which could skew things. She doesn't have ADHD, just brain fog.

When you add, the end result is a sum. The process of addition can also be called summation. If this is the case, why doesn’t anyone call the process of multiplication production? It would also open up to some good jokes…FACTORies do PRODUCTION

All I see out there are gay rights, trans rights, whatever parades. And people actually show up. like wth. given that it's 5% population max.

If we had evolved around a red dwarf, would red be our white? And we'd have primary colors that make up red?

I've seen this happen a bunch of time now that people just ask a question and it's deleted a day or so later. Do they delete the question themselves, or is that some automatic thing? If they do it themselves, why?

When you see something has too much up or down votes, does this change your point of view? Also how many people hides votes and etc?

Like I'm not one of THOSE. I know higher = better with framerates.

Other than them both being dickheads

Hey there, I was wondering if this is normal or if anyone can relate to this.

i fixed the question. for people who do so, is it because your native language does so, like french? or is it because of stylistic choice?

Would it be realistic to use licence plate readers that cities have (like Flock) to track ICE activity? Most of the time local police are at the scene of these events, even though they should not be helping in any way (in a santuary state). The police could collect the plate number of all the ice vehicles, and put them into a hotlist.

Person 1: "Israel and Palestine have both done some horrid things to each other and deprived each other of basic needs. That isn’t something where genocide comes to mind."

The question sounds hyper stupid but hear me out.

Shouldn't it be the default and not require the suspect/subject to actually ask for one? Has there ever been any attempt to make that the norm in any countries? I think the only question should be "do you have your own lawyer you like to use, or are you happy enough with the court-appointed one?"

I mean odds are if you got hit and bounced off the windshield and roof or something it would not be that bad. But getting ran over you would be pretty much screwed. How come they use these in a vice versa context?

If so, should I edit all my posts/comments and update them to generic hosting links?

I'm applying for sysadmin type jobs and feel a lack of degree is holding me back. Should I simply lie? Can't see most employers actually checking on a degree I would have earned 30+ years ago.

JP recently appeared on "Jubilee", the YouTube channel known for having "debate-ish" videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwk5MPE_6zE

Why do americans assume they invented the Internet also known as a Interconnected Network which evolved out of multiple countries connecting their academic networks together creating an interconnected network which evolved into the internet when non academic users where granted access

Apart from children, who usually don’t snore. People have told me I don’t snore at all. No one has told me I do and I even recorded myself asleep once.

I ate some fermented bean curd that I saw at the korean market yesterday, and the flavor was let's just say quite strong and horrible. Having never had fermented bean curd before I just assumed this is how it was supposed to taste, and it was just one of those things asians eat that tastes terribly at first but they've somehow developed a taste for it. I did wonder why they bothered to make it "spicy" when the taste was so strong that spiciness was totally superfluous. So I forced down the one piece I ate and threw out the rest.

I’m French. I grew up with my parents’ English since age 5, American English. People often assume I myself live in America and grew up there. I do have citizenship there but I don’t really want to go due to recent political stuff. 😓

Let's leave the networking aspect aside for a moment.

My dad has recently been caught having an affair with his young personal assistant. Huge scandal; mom was very angry. Now they’re in the middle of divorce proceedings. Mom moved out, the other woman moved in and I chose to stay with him because we’re super close; he’s like my best friend. Now mom’s telling me to go and live with her and go no contact with him cause he’s a bad person and by continuing having a relationship with him I’m condoning his actions and “ignoring her suffering”. My relationship with my dad hasn’t changed, I don’t see why I should end it.

We have an 83 or 84 year old neighbour who is said to have schizophrenia. I live with my mum and my brother and we live in the UK.

I’m at I think 1.5” length. I am very goblin mode and have just been letting everything grow out as much as possible.

Just wondering if this is a common thing people do lol. Saw a flight to Ireland was an ATR-72, a prop plane. so I chose another flight and I got an A320 instead

Context was the idea of a government banning certain popular foods

The only time I ever see caseless phones is in the movies. Everyone I know protects their phone like it costs $1k to replace it. So I'm curious, is my circle unusual or the norm?

Do other countries/areas of the world have entire months dedicated to some specific thing, such as Pride month, AAPI month, Black History month, etc. Part of me thinks this is a U.S.-specific phenomenon, but I'm curious about the rest of the world.

There is this girl I like, she knows I would like to go on a date with her someday. She isn't sure what she wants at the moment. That's all fine but I genuinely begin to develop feelings for her. And I just don't really care all that much for a friendship anymore. It screws with my psyche, it's like only being allowed to smell a fine wine instead of drinking it. (bad analogy, but fuck it)

I'm not looking for medical advice, but more understanding. I have chronic back pain. I can alleviate it completely with only 2 things - alcohol and a heating pad. Ibuprofen lessens it but it's still present. Muscle relaxers do nothing (which makes sense because it's not muscle related, it's spinal disk degeneration).

Let's imagine that organs can be perfectly grown in a lab and installed into a body without any chance of rejection or other complications usually associated with organ transplant.

Assume these joined St. Petersburg:

I hope thats ok to ask but I only ever created memes with mematic and its only possible for free to create ones as images.

Often when I'm playing Scrabble, I'm testing every normally -ed word with the -t variant to see if I can make it fit, but only a small percentage of them gets accepted or is in the dictionary. Some seem self-explanatory, but others seem arbitrary, and feel like hangovers from an old mediaeval version of the language.

My brother and I joked about it. Then I thought for a second if something happens to one of us and they are searching. They will think we are cooking meth?

Got a 10-foot boat running on a trolling motor and LIPO4 battery. Never came close to running the battery down, plenty of juice.

By workplace I mean everything that requires labor, I don't mean just the employees but also the employers

Disclaimer: I use a password manager, so please don't direct your comments at me.

My sister Lena’s boyfriend Dominic has French parents who he says don’t speak any English at all. Dominic could just translate for them, but if our parents our meeting his, is there a more convenient way or will he just have to translate all the time?

We have all seen AI-based searches available on the web like Copilot, Perplexity, DuckAssist etc, which scour the web for information, present them in a summarized form, and also cite sources in support of the summary.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30556425

I have zero understanding why its not something that governments can provide through an online pre-recorded trainings, why is it so difficult to learn deaf sign languages to the point of most known practical way to do it is by getting a minor degree in it (most usually in education)? If anyone wondering which sign language, I'm interested in learning more than one if I find a feasible way to learn them so: American Sign Language/Black American Sign Language (dialect - both are used in the US and Canada), Brazilian Sign Language, British Sign Language, Catalan Sign Language, French Sign Language, Inuit Sign Language, Quebec Sign Language, Swedish Sign Language

So, my granola recipe calls for 1 dl honey, but I was dumb and forgot to get it. I have a little bit of honey left, but not nearly enough. Can I use syrup instead? The granola will be baked at 150 degrees C.

I want to rent a botnet and point it at my own website + service stack so that I can better understand how they work and protect myself against it.

to me, they seem the same, but surely there’s a subtle nuance.

Why ElevenLabs requires consent of a person before voice cloning, whereas several other platforms don't require this? Is this just a private policy of ElevenLabs?

I've got no problem with them, but these are obviously kids who grew up in a different age than me, and it shows, I know what could seem a joke to me could come off different to them. Especially this being In the trades and the type of jokes we make here. I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable, we're all trying to just get through the day after all

If you dare say adolescence

I don't know if I'm a low key alcoholic or so cheap because in my past I was homeless and dependent on the charity of (sometimes) strangers and feel I only "deserve" alcohol when it's on sale.

Like, do you need to wiggle it on each tooth like you would a regular toothbrush? Or do you just “drag” it along each tooth and let its own vibrations take care of the plaque?

I (32 F) like the look/vibe (love the flannel/plaid look especially). I also like how intimidating they can be. I'm not sure how I'd go about trying to find one, though.

The prequel to the 'A Quiet Place' saga got me thinking.

Like, seriously, I have had a few people talk about how my fiancé wasn’t conventionally attractive, but he’s attractive to me :)