[-] FatherOfHoodoo@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I'm reminded of the old saying: When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

The same would hold true for any third party who isn't physically in your presence at the time of need. You are your primary means of defense, with third parties as a backup...

[-] FatherOfHoodoo@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Yes, they asked for a reminder, not a conversation. Parents have to choose their battles. Demanding non-standard behaviour in order to do a required parenting thing like helping your child remember stuff is a really stupid hill to die on!

[-] FatherOfHoodoo@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Texts are less important than email, and less urgent than a phone call. It's ridiculous to think it's rude not to reply, especially for kids who probably get 5-10 texts an hour.

If something's important enough to you that you want a definite response eventually, send an email. If it requires immediate communication, call. Don't apply false rules of politeness just to get a response out of your kid!

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It looks enormous! I can't even begin to tell you the sheer breadth of disciplines you'll see there. Leatherworking, welding, chainsaw wood milling, blacksmithing, sewing, glassblowing, jewelrymaking, silversmithing, resin-building, timber-framing, knifemaking, machining, woodworking, plasma cutting...

OK, it turns out I could and did begin to tell you. Never mind, just look at the schedule (https://catskillmountainmakerscamp.com/maker-camp-2023...) and demonstrators (https://catskillmountainmakerscamp.com/demonstrators).

[-] FatherOfHoodoo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'll support Senators not having a dress code when there isn't one for anyone else working in Congress...

[-] FatherOfHoodoo@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Imagine how amazing the PR would have been if the title had been: "User gets spectator seating for a SpaceX launch in return for lost handle"

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

I can often dig into the source and quickly figure out what's broken.

And for the 99.9% of humanity for whom that is either impossible, or a dreadful slog,

On Windows, I'm usually shit outta luck. Gotta trawl through tons of messy forums and bullshit SEO-optimised blogspam sites

While this^ is a practical option... This^ is a practical optionof hu

[-] FatherOfHoodoo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This reminds me of one of those documentaries where they show some ridiculous mechanical contraption in a scene, and the narrator says, "Before the technology became extinct, it had become vastly more complex and sophisticated, but alas, it's days were numbered..."

[-] FatherOfHoodoo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ah-hah! Thank you. I figured me being stupid was the explanation...

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How can one set the Connect app such that the main feed only shows posts to subscribed communities?

I feel like this should be easy/I must be stupid...

[-] FatherOfHoodoo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

But my ex was really crazy. You gotta hear this!

[-] FatherOfHoodoo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This is the situation I'm in. Half-a-dozen clients in the energy and automotive industries, each with multiple security regimes and short timeouts. Passwords mutate with time and I stay sane...

[-] FatherOfHoodoo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I don't like to keep any security stuff in "the cloud", written down anywhere, or even on my own devices. It's too easy to lose everything after one security breach.

Instead, I use password algorithms seeded from both the service name/identifier and one or more private passwords. This lets me keep thousands of service/site unique passwords in my head just by memorizing twenty or so words.

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