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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • It’s “home”

    This appears to be a home depot.

    The promo is that the labour is $99, but you need to buy the carpet, the underlayment/underpadding, the tack strips, and everything else from the installer. They generally don’t install the in-store carpeting, so it needs to be ordered in, which costs more. This also does include any stairs, or transitions.

    There is also a minimum floor size.








  • Some games/software expected/relied on a certain CPU speed to run correctly. If your computer was faster than that, the software would run too fast. The turbo button let you toggle between the maximum speed your computer could go, and the speed that the software needed/expected in order to run normally.

    Basically, there was an actual reason for the turbo button, it wasn’t just marketing on computers.




  • You can only change it for yourself by changing it to subscribed, or changing it to all. https://lemmy.ca/settings

    Compared to other social media sites, lemmy doesn’t curate/manipulate in the “feed”. This is both good and bad. Because .ca isn’t just Canadians, but every instance we are linked to, whatever communities from here that get a little traction globally will poison the feed.

    It order to fix that, .ca would need to limit what kinds of communities can be made on this instance. They do this with the no porn/bigotry rule, but that’s still not very specific. There is also the issue of a small number of people on the platform creating 50+ communities, not doing anything with them, not even making a single post. This poisons looking for new communities.
    They could decide to change the rules and remove a bunch of communities, but I assume the admins discussed this, coming to the conclusion that it would drive a large amount of people away.




  • It’s generally the difference between using it as a descriptor, and a noun. Noun bad.

    Compare “I really like watching the female football game” and “I really like watching the women’s football game”
    “Female” isn’t trans-inclusive, but people aren’t going to look at you weird either way you say it.

    Now compare that to:
    “I really like watching the females play football.” and “I really like watching the women play football.”
    “Females” here makes you sound like you’re getting sexual gratification from watching the players, or that you see them as nothing more than a vagina, “women” sounds like you might like the game.




  • Which is saying something, because the main quest in Fallout 4 is awful.

    • Be frozen in time for an unknown number of years
    • Get unfrozen, and watch your kid get stolen
    • Get refrozen for an unknown number of years

    You learn that you were frozen for over 200 years total. It is most likely that your child is dead, just like everyone else you have ever known, so why would you look for them?