jmbmkn

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[–] jmbmkn 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems reasonable to change your first name to make your life more convenient, but unless people encounter these names, they'll never used to saying them.

In the UK it takes knowledge to know how to pronounce Irish names but one you've met a few Siobhans and Eoins you get used to it.

There is an element of historical oppression here though. Some people choose to use an Irish spelling because, well, the English keep trying to erase other cultures. That example didn't work out as well as I thought it would.

[–] jmbmkn 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is sci-fi because of Wesley Crusher from Star Trek

[–] jmbmkn 4 points 1 year ago

5 and 7 are the same picture

[–] jmbmkn 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really hope it's a perspective trick because that indicates some real thought on the part of the scammer. They intentionally made something that while technically true, is misleading, but possible to photograph without revealing the scam.

[–] jmbmkn 1 points 1 year ago

Self hostable recipe manager https://mealie.io/

[–] jmbmkn 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

They chose not to after researching options. Pretty sure they decides account portability was a key feature needed and AP doesn''t do this. As in taking your account and all your posts and data witj you to a new server. I assume there is a technical reason why this would be very difficult to add to AP/Mastodon otherwise they could have just added it themselves.

[–] jmbmkn 2 points 1 year ago

Anyone else here nostalgic for installing MIUI on their nexus 5?

[–] jmbmkn 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does someone inflate their knees?

[–] jmbmkn 1 points 1 year ago

I just finished The Disposessed and found it critiqued both the capitalist and anarchist society. The people of Annares have simple happiness, but they starve and strive to keep the society alive. It's also very explicit that it only works because they don't uphold their anarchist ideals and coerce everyone into work through social pressure.

I think a film would work and would present a "you could have a different society, but it would never be a paradise" type idea.

[–] jmbmkn 3 points 1 year ago

I manage to live without Amazon. I just pretend it doesn't exist, I don't know if it's cheaper or quicker on Amazon as I don't see it (I use a search engine that can block results). It's also probably other aspects of my life that also make it possible, spare money, spare time, no kids, live in a city.

[–] jmbmkn 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a relief. What I was dreading was that it was parody and M$ had added this to Windows 11.

[–] jmbmkn 3 points 1 year ago

Edinburgh resident here, just a fact not that it makes my opinion more valid. Really feel this will not stick and is just the councillors making statements to get us on side. It should not be down to city councils to even attempt to intervene on this. The industry should make smaller cars. There is also an obvious joke here for those defending SUVs in Edinburgh, the roads are so filled with pot holes, its like driving on a farm track. A pot hole literally snapped the axle on my (albeit very old) bike once.

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