It’s interesting to see how this strategy changes depending on the species.

Some birds will fake being injured to lure predators away from their chicks, and others will attack anything coming too close.

I usually do. This was from my google news feed, which opens in Chrome. I could have opened it with FF, which has uBlock origin, but it’s not worth it.

I just got mildly infuriated when this crap appeared.

I though this was the place for this but apparently not. I’ll delete the post and never try posting anything on lemmy again. Have a nice day.

Rice. I know it’s common in Asian countries but absolutely not where I’m from.

I’m a francophone and tried to explain that France is not “dépaysant” enough for a vacation and the closest word I came up with is “exotic”, but it’s not exactly what I want to convey.

I’m not a cable expert by any means and can’t answer all the questions, but I can tell you that the protocol used by cable is called DOSCIS. So it might guide you into some of those answers.

And the coax cable itself doesn’t go very far now because it’s connected to a fiber network somewhere in your neighbourhood.

I’m not sure how my install works, as I just found a script that installed everything for me and it worked on different SBCs. However, when I look into “About”, HA says the installation method is supervised. And according to the article, this is precisely what is going to stop being supported.

Home Assistant is deprecating two installation methods, meaning they will continue working for now, but support will end in six months with the release of Home Assistant 2025.12. This includes Home Assistant Core, which runs in a Python environment, and Home Assistant Supervised, which involves running your own operating system underneath Home Assistant.

This is what I do. I have an Orange Pi 3b as a file server but it also runs HA in a docker image on top of that. I guess I’ll just wait and see if it stops working. If so I’ll try to reinstall using whatever “new/official/supported” method they want, and if not working, I’ll jut give up on HA.

Meh, I guess I will need to find a new way to install Home Assistant on my Orange Pi.

The instructions I found apparently uses the supervised version even if it’s running in docker.

It’s been a while since I looked into installing/reinstalling HA but AFAIK using anything else than a Raspberry Pi seems discouraged, which is… discouraging.

A few years ago I had a depression and two dreams were coming back repeatedly.

My apartment was a floating in the middle of the ocean and I had to defend it against “invaders”, like my landlords, my parents, some of my “friends”. They were all trying to “attack” me and invade my now lonely isolated floating apartment.

The other one is my fit coworker hunting and running after me to capture me and bring me back forcefully to my parents, from which I was running away, in my mid thirties.

Depends on the stuff and on what you will be watching it.

TV shows that were originally aired in SD will be fine in low resolution. Cartoons can usually be pretty low quality too. Old cartoons in SD on a CRT usually look great.

However stuff made for HD will probably need better quality to be enjoyable.

I’ve been collecting since the days of RealPlayer and still have lots of stuff in SD. Some shows are getting difficult to watch on a giant screen but the advantage of the small files is that they can be read by a toaster.

TLDR: More in lower resolution unless it’s some modern shows or movies where HD is a necessity.

But then you have to deal with physical media or rip it, and also deal with the anti theft protections. Skip all of this and simply download files.

I use Eternity. AFAIK it doesn’t have ads and it’s pretty much what I’m looking for. I tried others but they had ads and I couldn’t tolerate that.

I wish it wouldn’t be that complicated just to sit. I’m a short man (5’6") and it’s impossible to sit correctly in most office chairs, as the seats are simply too big. My knees can’t bend if my back is against the backrest.

Also they are often too tall and my feet don’t touch the ground, so I need a foot stool.

Even fucking desks are too high.

So I have a chair that’s too big and too high, and a desk that’s also too high when I’m sitting.

I hate that the world is standardized around an average. Finding an appropriate desk or chair for smaller people, at an affordable price, is a pretty good challenge.

I still have an IRC server but the eggdrop’s usefulness has pretty much been reduced to fetching YouTube titles and the URL of images on tenor. Its main use was to fetch titles for all URLs pasted on channels where it is, but because me and most of the users are now using TheLounge as a client, there is no need for that anymore, except for a few exceptions. At one point it was also displaying all the things my friends upvoted on reddit, but since reddit closed its API and I came here…

IRC with TheLounge is still very useful though.

That’s me with TCL.

I’ve had an eggdrop for years (obviously) and I’m very bad with TCL, so any new script that I want to add is a bash script executed by the TCL script.

Honestly, I wouldn’t have thought that something with that title could have been an Onion article. And to me that’s what “Not The Onion” is all about.

It doesn’t suffice that it’s simply a real article, it must make people wonder if it’s satire or not.

In your case, maybe if it was worded differently, but the way it is, it doesn’t make me think it could be something I confused for an Onion headline.

He just changed his reason to “Make America rich again”. Apparently he forgot about the drugs thing.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/trump-order-tariffs-steel-aluminum-b2695793.html

I had never owned a brand new expensive vehicle

You mean a pavement princess?

I have a bike that gets scratched up every time I lock it to a bike rack and meanwhile people buying expensive work trucks are melting down if there is a scratch on their WORK truck.

Writing in the dust is not vandalism. FFS!

From what I have seen when she orders doordash, it’s also a hassle to get something fixed (because it happens often), and half the people will not eat at the same time than others, because the order is half wrong and they will deliver the rest, eventually.

I guess if you’re always ordering alone it’s not a big issue, but she’s always ordering multiple meals and I can’t recall one time where it all went smoothly. There is always something wrong that has to be fixed, gotta contact them, get it fixed, it takes time and not everyone has their food at the same time.

From my perspective, it just sucks to order for a group with doordash. It would be better to just have one or a few people of the group to go get the food directly at the restaurant.

I really can’t understand people that live in a city with restaurants close to them, and still being unable to get off their ass and walk/cycle/drive to get their food.

The only time I order food directly from restaurants is when I’m in the countryside or a rural area with friends or family, and the to and fro time would be unacceptably long if I’d go grab it myself.

My sister uses doordash and there’s always something wrong. Yet she insists on trying again and again, and I can’t understand why.

I have never used them or Uber or others like this, and refuse to do so. They exploit their workers, they charge exorbitant fees, and when something’s wrong, it’s nobody’s fault.

If I want food, I go get it myself. I’m my own delivery boy! And contrary to a lot of people delivering food, I will not park on a sidewalk or in a bike lane.