This may not be the type of answer you are looking for, but personally I check on my friends and family. It helps me somewhat avoid overly browsing Lemmy. I’ll send them a text asking how they are or what’s new.

I tell my brain that this is a local and personalized news source. 🙃

I am a woman with a small forehead (low hairline) and it always looks like I’m wearing a wig. I hate it. I yearn for a normal-sized forehead.

I have an xperia 1 iii running LineageOS w/microG and I was able to get and install the sony stock Photography Pro, Cinema Pro, and Videography Pro apps, however several features of these apps are missing, such as the ability to do panorama shots and other stuff.

I’m so glad his focus for the last two years was on terrorizing queer people instead actually fixing anything. /s

The odds of ever needing to call customer service for a product or service weigh heavily in my decision to buy it.

And every support line needs a “direct to tier 2 support” option. I don’t care if every caller chooses it. If I wanted tier 1 support I would be on the website.

I know we all had to be way more patient and lenient during the pandemic, but I would say that it’s way more the store’s responsibility than yours for a defective product, and they should take responsibility for the consequences of doing business with manufacturers who have no customer support.

I think you make a great point that we didn’t really get to an ending point from the pandemic trauma. For some of us, our nervous systems are still in panic mode.

But we also have the threats of climate collapse, global food and water shortages, a shift to the right or alt-right in several governments around the world, and technology being weaponized against us at an increasing rate. These threats to us are real. There are too many to list here.

To OP, please know that you are not alone. There are a lot of us who look at the state of the world and recognize the severity and criticality of these problems. My advice would be to get involved in something --anything – that helps or gives back to the community in some way. I started with donating blood. Will it change the world? No, but it helps someone, somewhere, and that helps my brain find peace.

A school shouldn’t make kids pay to call their legal guardian. Make phone calls free.

To be fair, we live in an age where it’s getting easier for the average person to create altered or fake videos that can be quite convincing.

Also news outlets want to avoid being sued for libel.

Jfc my heart goes out to everyone who is financially coerced into getting one of these policies. This is not okay. People who have a voice need to push back on this. Your own devices should never be used against you.

What’s a good resource for someone who wants to do this but doesn’t know much about car computer systems?

The medical system in the US should not be called healthcare; it is a system that is designed to extract as much money as possible out of patients when they are least capable of fighting back. It’s cruel, and every lawmaker that opposes a nationalized or public system is complicit in the cruelty.

Our for-profit medical system is a crime against humanity.

I feel it’s important to note the Purple-brand mattresses and pillows all come coated in a white plastic powder. Sometimes a lot of it.

Breathing in micro/nano plastic powder is not good.

Purple claims it’s safe, inert, and non-toxic. The reality is that breathing in powdered plastic is not safe.

I would recommend using a well-sealed allergy-type pillow cover for any purple pillow, at a minimum.

Were they actually being dishonest about it, or were they not disclosing it? There are a lot of things people don’t disclose before meeting up. Outside of a romantic relationship context, cis people tend to be more accepting of trans people in general if the cis people don’t know right away that the person is trans and find out later.

But for sexual/romantic relationships it’s different because most people want to know the genitals of their potential partners up front. This makes it difficult for trans people, who are stuck deciding at what point they should disclose the state of their genitals, in a way that is considered honest, keeps them safe, and maintains some privacy.

Flight attendant: “Why are these screens pushed in and stained orange?”

Yes, please! Keep pushing on the screen harder and harder until it breaks. Then do it on the screen next to you.

Let’s not celebrate our shitty prison system’s utter disregard to keep the people inside it safe.

Yeah but most people aren’t lemmy users, meaning that the people who are here and have tech questions probably do more with their computers.

I have windows-only software i use that interfaces with hardware and the only way it all works is using an actual windows PC – not a VM.

Does anyone remember that Rick and Morty episode with the planet that has the sun that constantly screams? I think I would rather live there than listen to Trump talk ever again.