JRaccoon

Nothing major, but I have two stories that have stuck with me. I'm not superstitious or anything, and obviously these are just coincidences, but it's interesting how the human mind loves finding connections between things even when there aren't any.

One morning in 2020, during the covid lockdowns, I woke up to the sound of a small bird pecking at my bedroom window. It was really going at it and wouldn't fly away even after opening the blinds. For some reason, I wanted to take a picture of it, and just as I grabbed my phone, it rang and I got the news that my grandmother had passed away during the night. Right then, I noticed the bird flying away. My partner at the time insisted it was my grandma saying her final goodbyes. While I don't believe that, the memory of that moment has stuck with me, and it still makes my eyes water a bit.

The second incident also involves a bird, funnily enough. A friend and I were driving to a national park for an overnight hiking trip when we accidentally drove over something on a small forest road. I didn't see it, but my friend said it looked like a small bird. I wanted to stop and check, but my friend, who was driving, just kept going. I jokingly said something like "Now we have bad karma, and the whole trip will get ruined somehow.” And would you know it, that very same day an unexpected heatwave hit the area, making the entire hike pretty miserable. This has become a running joke between us, every time we go hiking, we joke about how everything will go fine, as long as we can get there without running over anything on the way.

Yeah, just checked the price myself too. $120 is just robbery. I hope 3rd party manufacturers will figure out how to make their stuff work with Switch 2.

While I don't support them doing it, I'm a bit out of the loop on why third-party docks are even needed? What's wrong with the original dock? I'm genuinely curious, I had Switch 1 for 5+ years and it never occurred to me to even look at any third-party docks.

I wonder whether it's just that one missing their software updates, or if all protogens are vulnerable to this fatal case of CWE-369

Periaatteessa voisi verrata sellaiseen, että kuljettaja voidaan tuomita, jos ajaa autolla jalankulkijan päältä, vaikka ajaisi työnantajan autolla, työnantajan määräämää reittiä ja vaikka firman yleisenä käytäntönä olisi, että aina ajetaan vähän ylinopeutta.

The blinking mechanic is really cool. I highly recommend it if you own a decent quality webcam. I wear glasses and was a little worried about how that would affect the tracking, but I didn't have any issues at all.

The story hits right in the feels toward the end. Be warned, might make you weep a bit.

That's very useful, thx for the info. But comments don't have that, for them you have to use the three-dot menu? And in there long pressing the share option doesn't seem to do anything.

You might wanna go to Settings --> General --> Share Link Instance and change that to "Ask". Then, when you select "Share" from the three-dot menu on any post or comment, you can choose between a link to your instance, the author's instance, or the community's instance. Finally, you can copy the link from the share dialog. At least, that's how it works on Android.

When posting a link to comment, it makes most sense to me use the community's instance. In this case: https://lemmy.world/comment/17923298

As a human, I don't agree with your subjective interpretation — but I acknowledge your perspective. 😊✨ I can offer 5 potential ways to view this phenomenon, or even provide a poem about it if that would help facilitate your understanding. Let me know if you would like that!

Kinda off-topic, but am I the only one who usually joins meetings five minutes early? I hate being late, and that way I give myself five minutes of peaceful troubleshooting time if my mic doesn’t connect, for example.

Bats are cool

Thanks. This is kinda important info so I've edited my initial comment.

They are not saying anything on why they are removing it.