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I’m not knowledgeable about most other things
Proper Belgian waffles. I have seen two US supermarkets selling proper Liege waffles that you can take home and microwave yourself, and they taste phenomenal
I hope the ones properly made in Liege would be even better, but yeah the supermarket version is still good
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On phone:
Absolutely not. There is a reason I’m personally noping out of the US and told every international person at my former workplace to do the same so…
Disclaimer, was an international student for many years, not a law expert
I think realistically, an administration has many ways to make it incredibly difficult to recruit international students even without a blanket ban…
Such as making overseas visa applications even more difficult (it already happened between US-China and various Muslim countries during Trump’s first term), making legislation that require more from unis if they have international students, general societal xenophobia, …
I’m not sure if an actual blanket ban would be permitted under US law though
Edit: that’s just my take on whether a blanket ban is feasible. If you ask me personally I recommend every international student to get their rear end out of the US as soon as possible so…
I left town the entire day yesterday and my parent was watching the cats for me. Apparently both kitties were staring at the apartment door from 6 pm onwards until late at night for me to come back…
I had to leave again earlier today and Tommy (one of the cats) seems to not really want me to leave. Poor Tommy is really bonded with me but is scared of just about any other human so…
Autumn. All the places I’ve stayed the past few years have hot & humid summers and cold frigid winters… and Spring has pollens. So yeah Autumn/Fall seems to be the one with the fewest issues for me
donate it to me
Jokes aside… If you don’t use Mac stuff at all and don’t mind bricking the computer, would you be interested in trying out Asahi Linux for science?
I’m not familiar with the project at all so I’m not sure how it works, but it might be cool to try. The lead developer had some personal issues recently but is otherwise quite active on Mastodon
Making two final trips to visit friends/grad school before I leave US for good! A bit exhausting… but good
Also there has been a bunch of massive shitstorms in different gacha games and it has now hit the game I main… Highly suspect it has something to do with Tencent. Don’t judge me for this I just want an outlet from all the politics and stuff
Slay the Spire, on ascension 20, I lose most runs… I think I enjoy torturing myself
I’d wish to reroll my stats or at least try a different build
Tommy does have yellow and green/blue eyes; the exact color seems to depend on lighting and the person
I actually have something fun planned! My now-former employer offers public short-courses in various hobbyist topics. These usually fill up quickly so I registered for a dining etiquette course this Saturday a month or so back. Not an employee at this uni anymore but I am still allowed to attend the course so
I’m so sorry to hear… I have just recently left a job with a shitty supervisor and I’m still in recovery mode even after 2-3 weeks, so I feel it. I don’t know how but I hope situation on your end improves
Short answer is yes, long answer is I’m conflicted… I’ve already decided to get everything that could be affected by tariffs back in November/December… but things changed, I already have job & stuff lined up out of the US, and I might not ever coming back. On one hand I really want to make some splurges on experiences (restaurants, concerts, things to do), but on the other hand I really need all the money I have, and I don’t have a salary at the moment…
Yup I was referring to Sinder
I only really watch clips so I wasn’t that personally invested in the drama itself (other than finding it intriguing). But it did hit a bit too close to home since my boss was almost exactly like that so…
In my case… Ironically, almost everyone I know (which is not many). And not just the -tism, but all the other quirks I learned about myself from evaluations
My parents were literally involved with my psych tests and know everything. Despite them growing up in a culture that didn’t even believe depression is real, they’ve been incredibly kind and understanding
Most of my (now former) coworkers know. Half of them are understanding, the other half… I think they either don’t believe me or don’t have a grasp of the weight of the situation
I guess I try my best to not mask in order to alleviate some mental stress so there’s that…
Try to use some type of boiling water technique to invent drinkable sanitary drinking water that doesn’t get me drunk (might not be necessary in some parts of Asia)
Most parts of the world that is not North America: try to convince some wealthy persons and bar owners to sponsor me to getting a bunch of bread molds and rats/mice, possibly even pigs, to conduct antibiotics and vaccine research, otherwise I might die from random sources…
Not sure if I could reasonably do those given my limited biology knowledge, but I guess they are worth trying. Besides that I’d just try to be less blunt/offensive so I don’t get sent to jail and try to live my best life I guess
See other recommendations for gaming-specific distros as I’m not familiar with them… Overall, most “beginner-friendly” distros (Fedora, Mint, …) that are not named Ubuntu are good. Ubuntu is not bad per-se: they just have their own ways of doing certain things that are counter-intuitive. Also don’t follow the memes and use Arch Linux or something (Arch is good, but not-beginner-friendly)
Some multi-player games have anti-cheats that straight-up won’t work on linux, so if you play any large online-based games it might help to check their linux support first. Otherwise, there are unique examples like Skyrim that are very hard to mod on linux, but most mainstream games should work either out-of-the-box or with very minor tinkering. Unless if you’re into some weird esoteric retro games like me… if so then good luck learning WINE lol
As long as you follow 1 you should be fine. In my opinion most beginner linux distros are more intuitive than Windows so…
I’m not sure if it is a good idea to dual boot unless you are reasonably familiar with computers… as dual booting can be finicky and sometimes Windows can just eat the linux partition. But I think it is doable? Again I don’t recommend dual-booting so…
IMO the biggest decision most beginners have to make is between Gnome/KDE (two of the most popular desktop environments), not between distros. Try to see which one clicks with you more! Also make sure to back up data before switching. Good luck!
First day after I resigned from a somewhat toxic workplace. Currently working on obtaining Apostille for my recent psych eval to be potentially used for my future workplace
I might need to get groceries today… Not sure what to get yet
I believe no one else mentioned this but… China is a case study of why this is a terrible idea
The entire PRC uses the same time zone, even though in any other parts of the world, China should have been split to at least 3 different timezones
It is very disorienting to try and go for breakfast in Tibet at 9 am to find that nothing is open and the sun is just out… So yeah. Imagine if this is extended to 12-hr differences
Wikipedia has a nice summary of this