southernbrewer

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah sounds awesome to me too tbh. My mood brightens whenever I see snow and I don't find that low sunlight levels affect me at all.

However apparently between 1-10% of people are affected by seaonal affective disorder so those people may want to avoid Finland during the winter months

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How could it be a bad thing?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

A friend has had a dumb phone for a few years but supplemented with an iPad for things like messaging apps, maps, banking, camera. He finds the iPad just inconvenient enough to avoid social media addiction and always-connected mentality while still convenient enough to deal with the problems you described

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Phone: great for mindlessly scrolling or the odd comment.

Laptop: for actually getting anything done.

I'd use a desktop but sometimes I have to work from cafes or something so I prefer just using a laptop all the time rather than two machines

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I've had a mac for years and still haven't had any need for an iCloud account. It's optional

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's that in football fields?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I've recently gotten a couple (absolutely tech illiterate) friends and family to move to Linux. It's finally there - it's much easier to use than windows now.

And if you don't want to keep shelling out for new computers every few years, doubly so - Linux works fine on decade+ old hardware (and you can keep upgrading practically indefinitely to stay within security windows, so you barely ever need to actually buy new hardware)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Me too. And I live in NZ where there's bloody beaches everywhere. Can't move for beaches

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Is it really called 2% milk? That seems inverted tbh since it's obviously 98% milk and 2% fat. Here (NZ) we call it something like "trim" or "skim" or "98% fat free"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So this is probably useful for statistics collectors in DBMSes, used for planning queries. Any other use cases jump to mind?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

In Dune II (1992) the units move slower when they're off screen. This is useful because you can only select one unit at a time to give orders, so if you want to send an army into the enemy base you send them one at a time. But then you can carefully position your camera to allow the units at the rear to catch up with those in the lead so your whole army arrives at once and overwhelms the enemy.

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