MidnightBanjo

joined 7 months ago
[–] MidnightBanjo 30 points 1 month ago

It’s a problem even for those of us who are neurotypical (my son is not which is why I follow this community also, so as he gets older I can understand better).

But as someone said, bosses especially will say this and they really just want you to say it was your fault.

In my mind, the difference is if you are excusing the behavior.

“I’m sorry I’m late, I missed my alarm” is an explanation because I’m not excusing the behavior, just explaining.

“I’m late because my alarm didn’t go off” is an excuse because I’m asking to excuse the behavior.

That said, excuses seem to have this bad reputation as being just a reason for laziness, but they really shouldn’t as they can be valid.

Example, my work requires 2FA to log in, which I get via a text. I use a local carrier and “our vendor who handles texting went down”. In that sense, that was my excuse for being late getting logged in - and it wasn’t laziness.

[–] MidnightBanjo 1 points 3 months ago

Happy Bean Day

[–] MidnightBanjo 1 points 3 months ago

Nice! Thanks for the link.

[–] MidnightBanjo 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I would genuinely be curious how that would go. Would they be killed out, or would they adapt and thrive?

[–] MidnightBanjo 1 points 3 months ago

“Peter File” front the IT Crowd springs to mind

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Fun Mini RTS (apps.apple.com)
 

No upfront cost. In app purchases available but not mandatory. Ads only if you choose to watch one for extra coins (not needed). Funny story too

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Fun and Free! (apps.apple.com)
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Awesome Mini RTS (apps.apple.com)
 

No upfront cost. In app purchases are available, but not mandatory. Story and gameplay is awesome. No annoying ads (you only get ads if you choose to watch some for extra coins)

[–] MidnightBanjo 10 points 4 months ago

When you move things, lift correctly (safety videos are online). I’m only 35, but because of all the moving I did in my 20s, without thought of safety, I have frequent lower back pain and it doesn’t take much to hurt it.

[–] MidnightBanjo 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Gotcha.

I know Mental Outlaw had a video about powershell scripts to help reboot Windows 10

Link

That might help speed it up and stop Windows from doing unnecessary background stuff and using resources

[–] MidnightBanjo 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Seeing lots of excellent suggestions for general (7-zip, Notepad++, etc).

Foobar2000 is a good music player

I don’t know if it’s good, but I guess there is now a Lemmy Desktop app https://webcatalog.io/en/apps/lemmy/

I saw you said you use Plex. I assume you use Steam for gaming?

Is there any specific feature/use you want QoL improvements for?

[–] MidnightBanjo 1 points 4 months ago

Bomb Club on iOS (was on Android at one point)

[–] MidnightBanjo 2 points 4 months ago

So many good and bad names on the table. “Utah Venom” sounds awesome. “Utah Ice” on the other hand…

[–] MidnightBanjo 33 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Afraid they packed over a year ago. This is the winner (I like it too, but I really want the dinosaur skiing to be somewhere)

 
 
 

For me it’s quantum computing - especially considering its impact on most current encryption methods

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