Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)H

huey_m

@ huey_m @piefed.social

Posts
1
Comments
45
Joined
4 wk. ago

  • If you live in California you can now tell data brokers to delete your personal information. Here’s how to do it

    Jump

  • People have a legal location of residence in the US.

    In California, if you're homeless, you typically have to set your mail up as "general delivery" to your nearest post office where you go to collect mail every few days. You probably don't have any other address.

    Not sure how this interfaces with this specific law otherwise, but using a post office isn't a bad idea generally because it isn't a totally unexpected thing. A homeless person would probably list that as an address.

    There's also a lot of mail services that will give you an address in that state and will open/scan received mail for you... not sure if California specifically has one, though. But yeah, this doesn't establish legal residency at all, but many entities don't look too closely either... might be worth a shot.

  • Life After I Turned 30 [Sarah's Scribbles]

    Jump

  • My bet on why people don't identify with that anymore is shifting social expectations and economy leading to having kids way later than in their day.

    Which... I love my kids, wouldn't trade 'em for anything. But they can definitely make you feel old both by just watching them age and the extra responsibility reducing the freedom/spontaneity you might have had more of earlier in your youth. If you had kids in your early 20s, this starts earlier. If you don't start until your 30s, you're probably already starting to settle a bit anyway just from being more established in a career and such.

    I'd also be curious to know rates of messing around with harder drugs and drinking and such. My sense is those have gone down, and that kind of thing can be hard on your body.

    Just spit balling here.

  • New EU law requires devices to be repairable - Every phone, television or washing machine you buy in Europe must be easier to repair starting tomorrow. That’s when the European Right to Repair Act tak

    Jump

  • I'll literally change banks over that kind of thing now.

  • Car commuting is borked

    Jump

  • They don't get any details at all. In fact they don't even know you're sick. A doc can write you out if you are a family caregiver and the person you're caring for is sick, for example. Employer gets none of this information, just the dates you're excused for.

  • Car commuting is borked

    Jump

  • Again, that's a labor law thing though. You absolutely should not need to use PTO for a doctor/dental appointment. In most countries in Europe, that doesn't use your PTO... you just get a doctor's note and you get paid. There aren't even a set number of days. You just get it written off.

    I do get the pain, but I think there are more societal benefits to having common days and times off for most jobs though (obviously not possible for all).

  • Car commuting is borked

    Jump

  • That's mostly an issue with poor labor laws not allowing for time off when you should really have it, though.

  • Car commuting is borked

    Jump

  • Tabletop gaming has solved that problem for me and might also explain my sensitivity to working around scheduling issues lol.

  • Car commuting is borked

    Jump

  • How would you ever coordinate with friends and family though if one is you is always working? This is something I distinctly remember from the bad old days of shift work. It's so much easier when you and your friends can all pretty reliably be expected to be available in the evenings or on the weekend...

    I think this is less and less of an issue anyway as telecommuting becomes more and more viable. Now companies fighting that is an arbitrary cultural norm holding us back.

  • Uefa agrees to boycott Fifa competitions if World Cup sell-off plans proceed

    Jump

  • It's all good, man. 😁

  • A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data (via duress passcode). Now He Faces a Felony Charge.

    Jump

  • So exactly how long do you think you are supposed to stay silent

    Until you talk to a lawyer.

  • Uefa agrees to boycott Fifa competitions if World Cup sell-off plans proceed

    Jump

  • Dude... you started the banter and now you're getting upset someone is bantering back with you?

    I was just playing along in good fun, but that is legitimately twat behavior, dude lol.

  • Uefa agrees to boycott Fifa competitions if World Cup sell-off plans proceed

    Jump

  • It's okay, not everyone can get into a sport beyond just watching it casually. 😉 When you live and breathe the sport, you'll understand lol.

  • Uefa agrees to boycott Fifa competitions if World Cup sell-off plans proceed

    Jump

  • If you liked your sport, you'd be obsessed with them, too. 😉

  • Uefa agrees to boycott Fifa competitions if World Cup sell-off plans proceed

    Jump

  • Baseball fans are pretty ride or die. I think it's the necessary induction into the sport due to the arcane nature of it, similar to cricket fans.

  • “Clapping is a First Amendment right:” an interview with the person arrested for clapping at a data center meeting

    Jump

  • “Clapping is a First Amendment right:” an interview with the person arrested for clapping at a data center meeting

    Jump

  • I really am tired of people pretending like this kind of thing is purely an American problem and that Europe has no issues with authoritarianism. coughHungarycough (might be coming to an end, (maybe not, we'll see) but living in 16 years of it.... some stuff here would make Republicans blush). Incidents in the UK with pro Palestinian movements are similarly discouraging...

  • DMs how do you introduce your new campaigns?

    Jump

  • They're just different. Sometimes you want to play Lord of the Rings, with a reasonably clean beginning, middle, and end. There'll be side quests and diversions, but a pretty clean narrative, as if running a published campaign. Other times you want something more open ended where they can chase down random rabbit holes and see where they go. I genuinely like both, or mixing the two, but everyone needs to be on the same page what the goal as players is or someone is gonna get upset.

    I mean, even cohesive epics will usually have player driven deviation, and that's cool, not implying it's a pure one or the other... but there's nothing wrong with a DM wanting to run a "tighter" campaign as long as players are buying into it and are still forging the path there (they're going their own way to Mordor, but they're still going there, in other words).

    I really do like both. Sometimes I want Minecraft where I make my own story, other times I want to play out a choose your own adventure... we're going to get to the same destination, but how we get there and what the ending will be is a big question mark.

    I definitely agree that as a DM, whether epic or open ended, the paths you haven't thought of that your players throw you is easily the most interesting part on that side of the screen.

  • What game did you hate even after sinking a lot of time into it?

    Jump

  • I have a few hundred hours (481 between my wife and I... my guess is about 300-350 of that is me). That's a lot of time. Remember, I said I tried to get through it multiple times, and each time I got bored with it near the end of Act 2, so that playtime adds up. I'm just past the point in my life where I'm willing to put up with much slog to get to good parts near the end, I'll just watch a video with dinner and call it a day. I actually feel like I wasted too much time on it as it is, but I guess if you have lots of time on your hands some might not consider it much... I do, though.

    Again, I've seen the rest of the game and don't agree with the characterization that it's just the halfway point. It might be in terms of actual time played, but again, turns tend to take quite a bit longer in 5e at higher levels.

  • What game did you hate even after sinking a lot of time into it?

    Jump

  • Eh, I don't buy that you need to play an entire game before deciding it's overrated. There's this game criticism catch-22 among gamers that is used to invalidate all criticism... if you don't finish it or play X hours you'll be told you didn't play enough. If you do, you'll be told by someone else it can't be that bad because you finished it or played too many hours for it to be bad.

    I watched the rest on YouTube and didn't feel like I missed much. I really don't feel like what I missed was half the game... actual hours don't mean much here because 5e naturally takes a lot longer to play at higher levels.

  • New Communities @lemmy.world
    huey_m @piefed.social

    Stay At Home Parents

    piefed.social /c/sahp