[-] DeviantOvary@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Not in detail, but it actually does:

“Often the mothers are saying exactly what I am but need their child to hear it from an expert,” says Dr. Dendy Engelman, a Manhattan dermatologist. “They’re like, ‘Maybe she’ll listen to you because she certainly doesn’t listen to me.’”

While younger kids may be reasoned with, teenagers aren't as easy to handle as some say. Puberty is a hell of a drug.

[-] DeviantOvary@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

IMHO, this is a very sensitive topic, and I'm glad I don't have kids for this to be a worry for me.

Smartphones became a big thing when I was already in high school, and social media at the time still wasn't this aggressive, but my father did monitor my activity on the PC, mostly secretly, and it made me feel anxious. This violation of privacy damaged my already shit/barely existent relationship with him. It's also why I'm so paranoid of secretly being monitored. You have to already have a pretty good relationship with your parents for this not to potentially mess you up, at least in my experience.

What the solution to this is, I don't know. Better digital/tech education in schools and at home would be a good step in that direction, but strict ad and product regulations should also be implemented, which - unfortunately expectedly - is being fought against (at least in the USA, according to the article).

[-] DeviantOvary@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

It's somehow always the guys in management/on top. On the first sign of inconvenience, they start complaining about all the security measures, because now it affects them personally, and they're not here to be managed! Security is for everyone else, but definitely not them. They're above it.

[-] DeviantOvary@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

We have three month password expiry policy on AD accounts, but the requirements aren't extreme. We'd do away with it, but then we have our own CEO writing their password down on a piece of paper and giving it to us to troubleshoot their laptop (we have admin accounts for a reason ffs), after being repeatedly told not to, forcing employees to rotate their passwords suddenly doesn't sound too crazy. People are just way too irresponsible sometimes. Plus, we need to have it for certifications, so there's that.

[-] DeviantOvary@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

Fyi it could be filters need changing. Right now if we turn on the aircon at work, I get terribly sore throat that would last for days. Turns out they change/clean the filters only once a year, and it's even worse in some other rooms where it also smells bad.

[-] DeviantOvary@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Cries in having no sunlight in the apartment. Mine didn't survive the dark apartment life, so can't confirm.

[-] DeviantOvary@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

One of my family cats is currently at the end of her life due to kidney disease. It really sucks, glad they're doing something about it. Now if only they could do the same for dogs.

[-] DeviantOvary@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's funny to me how easy English has it. All you have to do is use "they", and if people think that's awkward, they should see how difficult it is to navigate it in a language with complex verb conjugations with gendered nouns and verbs. It's complicated to the point that non-binary people will still use their assigned-at-birth (if that's the term?) pronouns, to save everyone - including themselves - a headache. There's of course a movement to change the language, but it's difficult.

[-] DeviantOvary@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

As a Linux main, I don't think it's hard, but it's also still not as good as Windows in some ways I find important. Fractional scaling for instance. I had a different resolutions multimonitor setup, and I definitely had more issues than on Windows. Also, now with two same reso monitors, I still have to switch to Windows to RDP into my work Win machine, because on Linux it's so blurry due to difference in scaling, it hurts my eyes. Of course, I'm most likely in minority of a minority, but it's still a thing.

[-] DeviantOvary@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I did that when I worked customer support. The only way I could retain the little bit of sanity I had left. But to be honest, we were so understaffed that even if I slipped, they wouldn't have fired me. There was one guy who was so angry with a customer that he wrote their number down, and then over his break called the customer with his private phone to argue with them. Still didn't get fired, lol.

[-] DeviantOvary@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Seems like they didn't set www to redirect to the main site. If you go to https://dripapp.org it works fine.

[-] DeviantOvary@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

Not all. Jumping spiders and wolf spiders took all the good eyes and ran away with them.

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