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Cake day: October 3rd, 2023
  • beastlykings@sh.itjust.workstoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What acronyms are you annoyed to see take on other meanings?
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    10 days ago

    Ooh I’ve got one! I wanna do a poll within this thread, so please respond with a spoiler tag so you don’t influence anyone’s answers.

    But what does IMHO mean to you?

    Comment below and then come back and read this:

    spoiler

    To me it means in my humble opinion, but it seems more and more these days I see people referring to it as in my honest opinion.

    Is this a coincidence? Or a commentary on how people have gotten more rude or self centered? IDK, I’m not qualified to answer. I just think it’s really interesting that it means both things, and it completely changes the vibe of what you’re saying if someone interprets it one way or the other.

  • beastlykings@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?
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    15 days ago

    Yikes, kids are dumb lol.

    I never grew up around waves, so when my brother and I visited family on the coast and we were playing in the waves, other people wouldn’t join us. We were going further and further out. Finally we convinced the guy to join us, and no lie, he said he jokingly said “ok I guess I’ll die too”. We didn’t know what he meant. All three of us got stuck in a mild rip current. I almost drowned trying to swim directly into it. Nobody told me any different. My brother and the other guy were stronger swimmers, they were ok. It all happened very fast. We gave that guy an earful afterwards, he was like “I thought you knew” 🤦‍♂️

  • beastlykings@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?
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    15 days ago

    Didn’t rip my hand off, but I definitely fell off one of those things, busted the back of my head open. I kind of… Fell backwards with my legs wrapped around the saddle, and hit the bottom edge with my head.

    Split open like a mouth.

    Rushed to the hospital. 23 stitches and 13 staples to close it up again. I have to have my hair cut a special way to hide the scar. People are always surprised when I show them.

    I still rode those things afterwards. Kids were tougher back then lol, had to be 🤷‍♂️

  • beastlykings@sh.itjust.worksOPtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Looking for a new distro. Ditching Windows.
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    1 month ago

    Thanks for the recommendation! Nothing wrong with simple and standard. I won’t lie though, I fired up Fedora last night to play with, and I really liked what I saw 😅

    I’m excited to go full Linux. It’s been a long time coming for me. Like I say, I tried to do it years ago. I recently did it for a year or more. I don’t remember switching back to Windows, it just kind of… Happened 🤷‍♂️

  • beastlykings@sh.itjust.worksOPtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Looking for a new distro. Ditching Windows.
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    1 month ago

    Thanks! HDR isn’t important to me right now. Though I think I need to specify that I’ll be installing this on a framework laptop, and therefore, from what I’ve learned recently, Wayland is actually preferred because it enables some track pad gestures that x11 lacks somehow.

    I’m definitely leaning towards bazzite, because people seem to think it’s not that bad even for general use, and it ticks a lot of boxes.

    Though nixOS is on the table. I at least wanna try my hand at configuring it.