[never mind🤣] What does this dust aggregation pattern mean?

printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zone · 14 hours ago

Sweet! Are they still available?

printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zone · 18 hours ago

printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 day ago

Did you not notice? That be the same island we made you the governor of on our last little trip.

real answer

My happiest years in my otherwise miserable life were the six years that I spent living in Japan, first as a student and later as a researcher. It would take too much energy, open up too many old wounds, were I to attempt naming all the details, all the nuances, all the - frankly - indescribable feelings that made my life a heaven on earth while living there. And yet, I would not move to Japan to work there if I were held at gunpoint. I value my physical and mental health and my free time - which I think of as my actual “life” - too much to sacrifice them by having to work under Japanese work ethics and Japanese view on mental health. For what? For the occasional indulgence in the most delicious food on earth? The greatest sexual escapades in the known universe? The most beautiful fine arts, music, literature? For the few days that I’d be allowed to visit my family back in Europe every year? No, thank you. Fuck I’m torn to hell.

Anyway, I’d love to live for four-five years each in each country whose native languages I have learned through the years:

German: my first choice would be to live in the wilderness of Schwarzwald, but I’d live to experience Austria and Schweiz too, if only for the linguistic experience alone.
Spanish: I’d love to live in Columbia. One of my best friends is from Columbia and while he, being born and raised there, says that he hates it, I think that my cold Swedish heart has a lot to learn from Latin culture.
Russian: I would like to immerse myself in Russian society, if only to rid myself of any prejudice that I might be living with. I love Russian folk music and its fiery passion. I’d love to experience where that comes from. The climate? History?
Hungarian: jk. I’d never move to the fascist state Hungary, but I’d love to live in the ethnically Hungarian parts of Transylvania, since that’s where my ancestors are from. I already speak the language, so I’d “just” have to learn the culture. And how to wrestle bears?
Icelandic: not much of a choice here, unless you want to count the Faroese islands, whose language is closer to Danish anyway. I’ve been to Iceland and I absolutely loved the harsh climate and the fabulous people. Everybody was so kind. And the language simply sounds badass.

printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 days ago

7,000,000 variants of “oh dear” vs Sir Killalot

printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 days ago

That’s what you get for pulling funding from integration projects. Damn you, Republicans!

printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 days ago

I didn’t quite catch that

printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 days ago

How well would he/it do in today’s Robot Wars, I wonder.

printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 days ago

open the files without them having any chance of interent conention and cant see other files Use a VM and don’t give it internet connectivity.

I use Tuta because Proton has grown too big for my taste. What do you mean it doesn’t work with Tor? Tor is supposed to be your network layer foundation of your connection and shouldn’t have to do with what applications you run on top of it. And just to clarify: Simple Login is not an e-mail provider. It’s an e-mail alias provider.

printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 days ago

Yeah, to be fair, I mostly pirate video. Music, I listen to from Tidal through USB Audio Player (Android). I only ever grab audio that’s not available on Tidal.

printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 days ago

What video file sizes do you guys download and why? I don’t know about sizes, but I stick to 1080p remuxes, because I have brain damage that makes my anus itch just by knowing if and when the video has been re-encoded to save space. Also the blacks. :)

And what is the correlation between video size and quality?
The only correlation might be the size to objective quality, which isn’t what you as a consumer is after anyway, unless you’re a data hoarder or the likes. You’re after the subjective quality: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_quality

Who are y’alls downloading 20+GB movies? Are you storing all that or are you downmixing? Are you stealing your harddrives out of the recycle bin? Nope, I’m just lucky to have an extremely narrow field of interest (no, it’s not Human Centipede). I’m financially hard locked to the 15TB that I spent four years aggregating before LLM data centers f*cked us.

printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 days ago

I don’t know all this fancy stuff. Like, yesterday, I wanted to listen to the songs from the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya so I grabbed them from nyaa, moved them from the “Downloads” directory to the “Music” directory and then played it with VLC.🤷‍♀️

printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 days ago

I haven’t been able to subdue/erase/accept the emotion of jealousy, which sort of makes me unable to enjoy the wonders of it, but I wish I could. 😭

With that said, I am a relationship anarchist. 😊 I don’t believe in distinctions and labels. There is only what you and I have, period. Regardless of whether it’s sexual, romantic, platonic or whatever.

printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 days ago

If you’re only talking about the download process, and you are downloading at home, then a trustworthy VPN is the (only?) way to go. I’d look into Mullvad or IVPN.

If you are also talking about other processes surrounding downloading, such as registration, creating accounts, communicating with people over the Internet, use fake names ( https://www.scifiideas.com/cyberpunk-name-generator/ ), e-mail aliases ( https://simplelogin.io/ ) and respectable DNS providers ( https://quad9.net/ ).

printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 days ago

Tough one, for sure. I myself gave up on using my very same degree. But how about boarding schools, cram schools or special needs schools? Aren’t those students supposedly more motivated and/or calm?

printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 days ago

I once took a prison job as a guard/correctional officer when I needed money. Getting in was easy and the experience made me grow as a person, but because they let anybody in, you’ll have to prepare yourself mentally to work with the occasional asshole(s) with just the worst outlook on humanity and incarcerated people’s ability to change.

Is babysitting still a thing? And walking people’s dogs? Perhaps (home) tutoring? Proofreading, although this one might require a degree, not sure. Postal services?

printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 days ago

If this is a technical question: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/doordash-inc/doordash-food-delivery-grocery-more/doordash-food-grocery-more-15-295-4-release/

printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 days ago

I know this isn’t exactly what you are looking for, but I once asked what an LSD trip feels like: https://piefed.blahaj.zone /c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world/p/918051/drugs-what-does-lsd-feel-like

printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 days ago

We definitely don’t have the right to tell them how to date.

printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 days ago

There’s no way to know for sure, and we have our own lives to live too, so there’s only so much we can do. I dunno, just talk to mom about him, you know? And if you notice any red flags, such as controlling behavior, bad attitude, whatever, tell your mom that she’s worth more than anything in the universe and that she should treat herself accordingly: take. no. shit.