Reddit -> Beehaw until I decided I didn’t like older versions of Lemmy (though it seems most things I didn’t like are better now) -> kbin.social (died) -> kbin.run (died) -> fedia.
Japan-based backend software dev and small-scale farmer.
Basically the handful of countries in western Europe that I visited after graduating highschool in the late '90s. I haven’t been back since and would love to see it again as someone who’s not a very sheltered 17-year-old. The trip was also cut short because there was a huge storm off the US East coast or something that had us end up flying up to Canada, spending the night, and then flying over.
I started Korean a few days ago. I am still in the “learning how this all works” phase. I’m frustrated by my slow reading speed and inability to find something to help that readily.
I’ve said that, if I had it to do over again, I might choose to move to Norway or Finland instead of Japan, but birth? I don’t know that’s possible to answer. Even if my family were the same people, they’d probably be culturally different having been born and raised somewhere. Even if we assume my parents were just plonked down there, I probably still wouldn’t be the same person due to my environment. Some of that almost certainly for better, but I wouldn’t be me.
Dragons of Autumn Twilight was one that set me on quite the Dragonlance collection and reading journey
Yeah, I’m not a fan of those. I’m fine with licorice.
Peeps. I’ve never like marshmallow anything, really, and definitely not those abominations. Most cinnamon-flavored things. Edit: forgot one: chocolate-covered cherries. I don’t know why. I have a cherry tree and will eat the cherries off it and don’t even mind most artificially-cheery-flavored things. I also eat other fruits covered in chocolate (even durian).
If the Japan life/visa/legal/finance subreddits would fully move over, I could finally be rid of reddit. Sadly, they have not. Some subs exist, but it’s worthless without the institutional knowledge that some of the people have; Japanese legalese be tough.
“I’m going to put a device in my pocket and have it cause me pain over events that don’t impact me or if they do impact me, will almost never be improved or helped in any way by that alert” sounds like a really dumb way to be to me.
Dude, what a gnarly bunch of dweebs like, you can’t use that language, doy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3QQDAKxUIk from a linguist about finna (and gonna and other things)
Some of them (the Finnish ones I saw) just had the bottom being the rack, basically, so at least that had dripping and airflow. Having an actual board below it would be a terrible idea, I think, heh.
I’ve always wanted the version built into a cabinet, but I live in a high-humdity area and that just screams of mold issues. Why not the version as pictured in the open? Earthquakes. Still, definitely at the point in my life that it’s awesome at least in theory
I have at least one family member who definitely believes that there are foreigners coming over, stealing opportunities, and getting free rides. I nope’d out of the conversation before it could go any further but, unless they suddenly changed, they believe whatever newsmax says.
Noise-cancelling headphones and allergy meds (at least this time of year)
Well, absent any other gains they wouldn’t do it and I don’t see any other gains. My only assumption is that it must ultimately be profitable.
The Japan-related subs where people share visa, legal, medical, financial and other resources are super important to those of us living here and, despite many times asking, will not move over. Moving over without the people holding that knowledge is pointless. So, as much as I dislike it, I still have to use a very limited section of reddit for things like that (being a new small business owner in Japan be hard).
It is insanity to me that medication, especially prescription medication, can be advertised anywhere. Fuck the US healthcare system.
inconsistency of shortcuts between apps (even things like terminal, where I spend a fair bit of time). I find copy/paste physically uncomfortable to do. Various jankiness around docker (can’t use docker-desktop or the UI, which worked fine, because no license, but trying colima and various things, some of our projects just will not run on m1 or m3) is another pain point. Also just shortcuts and workflow in general (some of which is apparently because I keep the laptop closed and only use an external monitor; I can’t use any shortcut keys to change within windows of the same app (Chrome, for instance)). There’s more.
I hate how ctrl+home works because it almost never does what decades of use in windows/most linux window managers told me it should do and goes to the top of the whole page instead of the top of whatever input has focus. Terminal doesn’t even seem to have this (I can do something like win ctrl+direction_arrow with option, but in terminal 99% of the time where I want to be is at the head of the line).
Octopus lady is great!