I thought I’d leave some cat food. It’s what I have easily available.

I’m getting closer to making friends with a couple of ravens. We are now on “Wishing each other Good Morning” terms, with them flying a lot lower and closer than before. I’m delighted. They checked out my house from a nearby boulder as well and now I know where to leave food and shiny gifts.

Stop the American bashing, what does it help? Try to replace the word ‘Americans’ in your post with any other nationality or group and see where that leads you. Germans, have you actually? Iranians, have you actually? Gays, have you actually? Blacks, have you actually? Fat people, have you actually? OP, have you actually?

Nice try mister secret agent

Same we’re doing now, which seems to be safe enough so far. What would you suggest, march an army into Russia? You go first!

Yum yum more war porridge, and this time it’s cooked by Chef Intelligence Agency himself! Eat, eat it all up plebs. Last good meal before the war!

“threat grows” What is he going to do? More single drones? Stop escalating for no good reason. Don’t believe the war mongers and their narrative of fear.

Thank you for your voice of reason. Some people here on Lemmy are talking out of their arses and really need to stop.

I believe a lot of the messages of the last few days about “Russia dangerous, send more money to the military” are in bad faith. Not because Russia is all wonderful. But the so-called attacks are tiny. So there’s drones everywhere, yes, but are they causing damage? Why would that warrant a full-on escalation with Russia?

Where have all our peace movements gone?

Everything you touch turns into a subscription model

Today the frankenmouseboard got a new cable. Of course this kind of maintenance only happens once in a blue moon, after procrastinating a huge project up until the last day to then find out it involves clicking Ctrl+C 2500 times and the old cable is finally too old to work anymore. Couldn’t be arsed to go downstairs to fetch proper tools so I just chopped one of my charging cables to length with a kitchen knife (will have to replace when visiting town), looked up a diagram for the cable colours, and fucked it all together with sticky tape.

Now the cable is slightly longer and I’m very pleased with myself. I like this low effort low budget stuff a lot more than the fancy stuff I used to do that required ordering 1234567 parts from China.

Instructions unclear, penis mangled in spokes

The Smart Home Trap: Is It Really Too Difficult To Use A Light Switch?

I’m in my 40s and I feel very tired. My bones are rattling already, way too early. Migraine once a month. I used to think I’m depressed, but really I’m not, just tired. And soo many of the people I know feel the same! Some put it down to long Covid, some say it’s the vaccines, some call it chronic fatigue, some call it other things. But many are tired. And angry, because when I was very young I fought against environmental destruction, grownups told me to stop or go to jail, and look where we are now, while the very same thing is still happening!

For me it’s the polycrisis: the knowledge that things are most probably going to get worse for many people before they get better. Like some bad vibe in the background, while one still has to try to survive every day, which gets harder and harder. I’m earning half of what I used to while everything is twice as expensive, go figure. And I’m one of the lucky ones, with a setup that enables me to work less hours than average.

Also someone mentioned CO2 one of these days, and not to forget the heat - that might be why my brain really doesn’t work very well anymore.

Now permit skirts for boys too <3

It’s Lemmy, I think we’re permitted to be weird around here!

I have very little tech. Last I bought was over a year ago, a refurbished Laptop because I needed Windows 11 for work. There’s two more laptops, one bought used, the other new over 10 years ago. Both run Linux now. I’m waiting for my ancient phone battery to inflate enough to bed my little head on it and sleep and never read another notification!

I used to fly drones, back when it was done for fun, not war. I bought so much stuff, not a week without some shit from China (drone racing causes a lot of damage and there was always new, better gear to have!). Gave it up because I considered it unsustainable - so much trash, so much shipping, disturbs birds, bad fire risk … and these days it seems wiser to not be associated with drones. Since then I have gradually turned into quite the Luddite. I am very careful about the tech I permit in my life because it adds what I call a layer of bullshit between me and my direct experience of the world around me.

Interesting, thanks for sharing! I was taking Loratadine against allergies for years. Not anymore, the allergies have sorted themselves out. Now my bones are coming apart. I can hear them rattling every month when my period comes around. Not funny, but quite funny.

Yes it is, at least an important part. I’m buying very little in general, and it’s either second hand or local most of the time - when I have to order things for repairs, farm or household, there’s enough smaller online shops in my country or at least another European country. I despise big brands, big retail, big anything and try to stay away.

I’m blocking ads - and when I happen to see one on a friend’s screen I’m confused - this is what people are putting up with between trying to read an article or listening to their music?

9 the smol frightened dog of a smol frightened nun. Not sure we’ll make it to heaven.

Left, middle and right. There’s a scroll wheel but that stopped working and it ended up being non-essential. The wheel itself turned out to be too flimsy. Next time a working scroll wheel would be cool!