This part gripes me when they travel to "less fortunate" or "poor" countries where eating out is $0.50-2.00 but the same or similar thing is $30-500 in the US, however: people earn different levels of income. Like in that "third world" country, people may only live with $10 a day while Americans live with either $7.25 / $15 per hour in minimum wage, so it's not comparable as to why the prices are seen as "cheap" by Americans.

Now, put it this way: if an average joe were to earn the FEDERAL mandated minimum wage of $7.25, is buying a whole weeks worth of groceries affordable with that alone (excluding rent, utilities, insurance, etc)? Do you consider a $200 semi-fancy dinner at a restaurant (not over the top luxurious, but formal & fine dining) with family or friends "cheap" in the US whilst earning $15 (or even $30) per hour in minimum wage?

I have leggings with mesh I use to workout and lounging, for everything basically. I'm thinking about buying a pair of leggings with no mesh, synthetic material also, for daily use as well.

I have the feeling that the ones with mesh cool faster and don't smell funky as quickly as the models with no mesh. I don't know if I'm imagining things.

The ones with no mesh should keep me warm longer and be better for winter?

both leggings are a mix of polyester and spandex: 20% spandex on the mesh model, 33% spandex on the no mesh one.

i used linux many times on desktop and always had problems so i left.

some of them are,needing to compile kernel module for my laptop fans speed control and enrolling it in MOK, ms office 365 not working,and most recently on my latest trying of linux just today. kubuntu refusing to boot after i installed it with luks2 encryption.

so i just use windows 11 now .

No, i don't drink coffee, nor do i drink energy drinks.

Edit: i fucking hate autocorrect

Edit 2: thank you all for the great advice, you all are helping me maximize my procrastination potential

I’m getting really tired of “verify you’re not a bot” checks everywhere.

I understand these checks help prevent bots, but they seem to appear on so many websites now. Does anyone else find them frustrating?

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well it works like this:

basically it is a decentralized search engine that uses activity pub (so probably it is technically in the fediverse)

how??

well instead of the thing scraping the entire web (which is probably by what you guess has many implications and is probably impossible)

it is a human made database of websites that syncs with other databases of websites

so if there for example are 2 databases in 2 servers each with 50 websites: you can get 100 websites

and to make it easier for links and more to be added

i make requests: which are requests for a specific websites or URL to be added, which can be approved or denied

how do you fix such idea

Okay maybe this isnt the best demographics here but like I mean as in if you know someone who's Gen Z, do they have a "idk how to cook" issue?

(Please don't be like "omg its easy, how could you not know" in the comments, be nice in the comments okay 🙈)

I remember that awkward period after we outgrew floppies but before USB flash storage became mainstream when CD-RW and CD+RW (Yes there was a difference and it mattered!) being peddled as the next portable storage format. My first USB stick was 128 megabytes and cost around $60. I actually still have it, but it may no longer work. I believe I bought it in around 2003 or 2004. I remember them steadily decreasing in price, or at least price per unit storage, very quickly over the ensuing years, to the point where they were giving away multi-gig sticks by around 2009 or 2010.

I just finished a PhD in stats, and before that, studied computer science. I had planned to go back to industry to do software engineering or be a data scientist afterwards.

However, it seems that in the meantime, vibe coding has taken over the software industry and swallowed most data scientist roles. Few open positions, and the ones that do exist are just pushing a button instead of thinking and solving problems. Is this a correct assessment? Should I try to get back in or just find a new career? I am not too keen on staying in academia either.

Verification Codes.

One-Time my ass, more like, repeated times. I'm so tired of verification codes up the ass these days. Just today, I had to reset my PayPal password. So that meant there was a code sent to an e-mail address after the reset process was set, to begin with. Then I had to go through the obstacle of verifying the information of the account. And then even after the password was reset, I'm sent ANOTHER freaking code right after!

And it's even more frustrating to deal with, with my bank. I've gotten random verification checks for making internal transfers within my account. Things I've done without any issue. But just one day, I got THREE verification checks to do what I needed to do!

This verification shit has gotten out of hand! I want it to just die, just like captcha. Whatever purpose they originally were intended to do, is lost in translation, because now they're just obstacles that wastes our time every minute we have to bother with them.

Hello Lemmy. I have completed my bachelor’s degree and will start a master’s program in April. This means that I am lucky to have a lot of free time in the next few months. I want to take this opportunity to spend time with my grandma, because she is very old and I probably won’t have that chance again. My question is, how would you spend time with your grandma if she was still alive or you had the necessary time?

In the last day, I've found two accounts banned for threats of violence where I've hardly found any in the last 3 years. Is something in the air?

Any Idea what type of charging port this is, I thought it was ye old Mini B, but its too thick. We're having a clearout and found our old Camcorder, the model is a Luminox LXDV750 12.0 MEGA MAX, can anyone help me find this port?

cross-posted from: https://retrofed.com/c/ask@piefed.social/p/2414142/if-you-could-visit-any-celestial-body-outside-of-earth-which-would-it-be

Assuming you are properly equipped to handle the extreme conditions of space, of course. Does not have to be a planet, or even in the Solar System. Any planet, moon, asteroid, star, or other celestial body is available in this hypothetical!

i think its peertube

because 1: video hosting is expensive

2: it wasn't easy for server admins to get money

3: there probably won't be a youtube exodus for a long time or probably ever

(ignore my opinion)

What other devices can serve the same purpose? I only really need to be able to run Playlet, Netflix, and Plex.

Link : https://vger.to/lemmy.world/c/rape

I'm a french feminist guy. I created a safe space for all Survivors and their loved ones, exactly like r/rape on Reddit. BUT, btw, not EXACLTY. r/rape is pretty wild and had bad moderation. r/SexualAsssault is ALSO weird and sometimes wild. r/MenGetRapedToo is too little to become one day a first-class resource on Reddit.

So, I want make my Lemmy community useful for all users. What are the things you want to see in it ? I've already decided to add links and ressources redirecting to RAINN.org, hotlines, and other useful helps. What can I do After this ?