I actually had the reverse problem: some stupid neighbor kept trying to pair something with my smart TV, to the point where I couldn’t watch TV at times, due to this moron’s insistence. I looked in the settings and also found I couldn’t disable Bluetooth, or blacklist devices, so I thought of a simple solution: changing the TV name to “virus”. From that day on, no one tried to pair anything with my TV.
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pgp@sh.itjust.worksto World News@lemmy.world•Canada's surging cost of living fuels reverse immigrationEnglish1·2 years agoIf you’re moving to Iceland and working in Iceland, that’s fair. Moving to Iceland and working for a US company, earning a US salary, that’s not.
pgp@sh.itjust.worksto World News@lemmy.world•Canada's surging cost of living fuels reverse immigrationEnglish32·2 years agoFight to make your country better! Otherwise, you’ll just contribute to the creation/enlargement of the same problem in some other place. Natives do not want that and start being very wary of digital nomads because of this.
Which past is this that you speak of? And how is the present a better option than anything at all, really?
I know you want to go deeper, but here’s a nice summary of linux’s early history: https://lwn.net/Articles/928581/
pgp@sh.itjust.worksto Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca•TIL that a French and British submarine collided in 2009. They both moved so quietly that they could not detect each other and accidentally happened to run into each other.3·2 years agoI am aware, but it’s not “fantasticly huge” as the ocean. Of course it’s still a remarkable coincidence, just not as remarkable.
pgp@sh.itjust.worksto Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca•TIL that a French and British submarine collided in 2009. They both moved so quietly that they could not detect each other and accidentally happened to run into each other.121·2 years agoThe ocean is huge, but these countries are neighbors, it’s not like a Canada submarine colliding with a south African one…
pgp@sh.itjust.worksto World News@lemmy.world•China urges ‘calm’ after Hamas attack on IsraelEnglish67·2 years agoImagine for a second that literally any country in the world suggested that the US should stop invading countries with fake reasons/proof and plundering their goods.
pgp@sh.itjust.worksto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do some IRC servers enable unregistered chat moreso than other chat services (e.g. Discord)?10·2 years agoThere are service bots, that are used by many of the irc networks, that handle this within irc itself (nickserv, chanserv, etc…).
pgp@sh.itjust.worksto World News@lemmy.world•Paris is crawling with bedbugs. They're even riding the trains, and a ferry.English869·2 years agoThe paper adds that DisneyLand Paris is regularly infested with bedbugs, noting that the tourist hotspot is hugely popular with… you guessed it, Americans.
https://www.thelocal.fr/20170413/are-american-tourists-behind-the-bed-bug-explosion-in-paris
pgp@sh.itjust.worksto World News@lemmy.world•Paris is crawling with bedbugs. They're even riding the trains, and a ferry.English551·2 years agoYou can downvote me all you want, but the French think the same: https://www.thelocal.fr/20170413/are-american-tourists-behind-the-bed-bug-explosion-in-paris
pgp@sh.itjust.worksto News@lemmy.world•Over 60 percent of Gen Z have an anxiety disorder62·2 years agoOk boomer
pgp@sh.itjust.worksto World News@lemmy.world•Paris is crawling with bedbugs. They're even riding the trains, and a ferry.English13122·2 years agoOn behalf of Europe, I’d like to thank the US for this gift.
Wrong, it does matter. Just because it’s not working as you want, doesn’t mean it’s not working as expected.
pgp@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Warning: BMW Wireless Charging May Break iPhone 15's Apple Pay ChipEnglish275·2 years agoBmw wireless charging: exists
New iPhone: breaksMust be bmw’s fault, flawless logic.
pgp@sh.itjust.worksto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Could a child learn everything just from watching Hollywood movies and TV shows?5·2 years agoObviously not, and I’m not even going into the depth of your definition of “everything”, where would a kid learn long division?
pgp@sh.itjust.worksto Fuck Cars@lemmy.ml•Richmond Night Market in Richmond, BC, Canada. Where the main parking lot is twice the area of the actual event space, despite being within walking distance of a major transit interchange.2·2 years agoNorth America is a whole other sphere of reality.
No amount of money can save them from the rising sea levels.