[-] Elrainia@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Like a lot of people, I’ve done the full tour from Mosaic, through Mozilla and Phoenix/Firebird to Firefox and have spent much of the last quarter of a century in the Firefox fold. During that time I’ve also spent a fair time with one foot in the Safari camp and have occasionally checked in with Chrome (just to see what the fuss was about). A couple of years ago, I stumbled across Vivaldi and I realised recently that it’s sort of become my browser of choice. I love it’s customisation and speed and as OP said, it’s tab management is the best out there.

Sadly, it feels like were back in 2005 when IE ruled the roost and set the rules (very badly), and Chrome was the brave new world that was going to reclaim the web for the common man. Now we’re looking to Firefox to save the day. Maybe it will, maybe it won’t, but I honestly think there is genuine mileage in supporting projects like Vivaldi (whatever you may feel about Chromium), and let’s face it, it doesn’t take long to download a browser and check it out for a couple of hours.

[-] Elrainia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I had my first migraine over 40 years ago and have been a regular headache suffer for most of my adult life. I’ve mentioned it to my doctor more times than I care to remember, and last August I mentioned it again. He told me to stop taking pain killers, I said “really, are you completely insane, they’re the only thing that make most days manageable!”. Anyway, I did what I was told, and although September was tough, I can’t actually believe the results.

I keep a bullet journal, and have some personal data of reasonable quality. During August 2022 I had a headache on 28 days out of 31 and 2 migraines (both in the same week). During July 2023 I had 1 headache and no migraines.

In a routine NHS email a few months later, I spotted this article:

https://patient.info/news-and-features/can-taking-painkillers-actually-give-you-headaches

I attribute a lot of my headache free life to this advice, and I’ve saved a boatload of cash from not buying my weekly collection of pain killers.

As other people have commented, it’s a complex medical area, but if you’ve tried everything else and pop pills regularly, it might be worth a shot…

[-] Elrainia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Never heard that before, but I like it 👍

[-] Elrainia@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I learnt to drive in another era (early 90s) and I have to agree that lane usage and signalling on roundabouts appears to be completely random.

In the example given, I was taught you should be in the left hand lane and signal left for the first exit. For all other exits, you should be in the right hand lane and signal right UNTIL you’ve passed the exit before you want to turn. You should then signal left and change lanes to take the exit.

Just checked the Highway Code and section 186 does suggest this is still the “right” way to do this, but I think it’s easier said than done (e.g. 4 exits and 3 approach lanes. I would go for the middle lane for the second exit (straight on) and I probably wouldn’t signal).

https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/changes-and-answers/-highway-code-for-roundabouts

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Elrainia@lemmy.world to c/memmy@lemmy.ml

Just upgrade Memmy through the App Store (iPad) and have found that a number of images are cropped on the right hand side when you tap on the thumbnail. They were displaying fine before the upgrade an hour or so ago.

If you save the image, it’s fine, so definitely a display issue.

[-] Elrainia@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

A big thank you to everyone working on wefwef. The rate of development is so impressive and much appreciated 👏

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Apollo Recognition (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Elrainia@lemmy.world to c/wefwef@lemmy.world

Given the strong genetic link between wefwef and Apollo, I think it would be great to acknowledge and describe the origins of wefwef’s UX design. In a few months, there will (hopefully) be new signups who never used Reddit, and never had the opportunity to use the awesome piece of software Christian developed over the better part of a decade. I’d like to see the legacy and history of Apollo live on, even if it’s just that iconic icon and a few sentences.

Maybe we could have an “Ode to Apollo” somewhere under the settings menu?

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submitted 1 year ago by Elrainia@lemmy.world to c/wefwef@lemmy.world

Quite surprised this doesn’t work by default as wefwef is a web app, but it would be great if tapping at the top of the screen would automatically take you back to the top of the list currently being displayed.

I didn’t realise how often I used that feature in Apollo until I started using wefwef (which feels like home from home, except when it doesn’t 😂). Apollo had the added bonus of tapping again to take you back to where you were in the list before you tapped to go to the top!

Not a priority, but definitely a nice to have in my book.

Elrainia

joined 1 year ago