Gabadabs

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[–] Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 13 hours ago

Sure, but it makes it impossible for anyone that doesn't have a smartphone with Bluetooth to use them, and makes me have another account I don't want, among other issues. If the apartment's WiFi has issues, the machines lose connection and you can't use them, It's a vastly worse experience then using quarters or even just a card reader.

[–] Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Why does every apartment I ever live in now never have laundry in unit, and requires you use a mobile app w/ an account to pay to do laundry. Why do I need to load a digital wallet that requires I pay a fee if I only want to add just the amount for one load? It's absurd. Let me put quarters in.

It's multifaceted, police do sometimes serve as a deterrent to or to protect people, but it's important to also recognize the position they hold isn't to help your average people as much as it is to maintain order for the benefit of the state. They are the internally focused gun that will just as soon shoot a killer as a black child walking down the street with a nerf gun. Either one serves the same purpose, stay in line or else, do what we say or else, they sow fear in the population while making the privileged feel some illusion of safety. They'll help you get your stolen car back, while also arresting a mother for stealing food from Walmart, or a homeless person for sleeping in their car. If you are any sort of minority, a police officer is a much greater threat than a help, and we've seen that in a history of high and low profile cases where police murder black people with absolutely no consequences, or in their use to suppress even the most by-the-book protests. Instead of solving the core problems that cause the majority of crimes, like poverty.

[–] Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Happens, I'd bet money it was a multi-location stop and they were intending to deliver that neighbor's package and accidentally grabbed yours. It's easy to make a mistake here and there when you're delivering to thousands of houses in a given week.

[–] Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago

What's crazy us, there's actually enough existing housing for everyone, at least in the US to have a home. It's just all owned by massive real estate corporations and left empty. The state doesn't need to build more housing, they just won't distribute what's there. But let's be real, they don't want people to stop being homeless. Our prison industry is private and for-profit, they want them to be homeless so they can criminalize and arrest them, so they can make them do cheap/free prison labor.

[–] Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago

Israel doesn't want to relocate Palestinians, they want to kill them, while actively preventing them from relocating.

[–] Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

USA. I accumulate an hour of PTO for every 40 hours I work, up to a maximum of 40 hours a year. I have to use it pretty sparingly.

[–] Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

Blighttown is an area that turns away a lot of players haha, the lower portion isn't too bad. The poison water slows you, but if you roll through it you can navigate it pretty fast, and there's a merchant that sells an item that cures poison, that you can find right before you enter the depths. There's no shame whatsoever in looking up help online in dark souls.

[–] Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

No shame at all, they're very flawed games and the problems they have do drive some people away. The latter half of DS1 is extremely rough, honestly.

[–] Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I'd have to say Dark Souls, honestly any of them. Once you know what you are doing, where you're going, it's easy to just get lost in playing

[–] Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

I've personally been using a raspberry pi with a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard. I just run jellyfin in Firefox and navigate with the mouse - the keyboard rarely ever being necessary. I was able to increase the icon size so it's acceptable on a tv and bookmark any streaming websites I use. It's certainly not as clean as using something like an apple tv, but it's serviceable and I don't have to fiddle with plugins like when I tried Kodi. Honestly though, apple tv probably fulfills what you're looking for like others have said.

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