UK here, I expect we’re similar to the US except with mince pies and mulled wine, which I understand aren’t really a thing over there. We won’t out our decorations up until December, maybe a week in or so. Shops put them up around mid November once bonfire night is over.

I used to live in Morocco. There wouldn’t be much of it except in the richer areas where they expected Westerners. You might see some stuff up in shops. It was just a normal day to them but it was weird for my first one as we spent Christmas Day in the outdoor swimming pool. One thing I remember that was strange was that they didn’t really understand the timing of it. To me, Christmas Day is like the last day of Christmas, and the rest of Christmas is the build up to it. They saw Christmas Day as the first day of Christmas and I remember a shopping centre advertising all the Christmas events they had starting on Christmas Day, like they thought westerners would be out and about. I guessed it was because they compared it to Aid (Eid in other Arabic countries), when they slaughter a sheep on the first day then spend the rest of the holiday eating it. They also sort of treated a Christmas tree as a New Years tree, and you would see trees and decorations up in March and April still.

I have a Samsung smart TV and apart from suggesting I watch stuff on their own Samsung channel thing I don’t think it shows me any adverts. Maybe it’s because I’m not in the US?

ChatGPT says it’s just a guy who’s full of himself. I’m inclined to believe it’s correct on this.

I don’t get all this work from home shit. I much prefer being in the office.

I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic but no that’s not ironic.

Sounds kinda like MS could tell the account wasn’t being used anymore and decided to kill it off rather than leave it to get hacked again. Still, it’s scary to think that MA might delete my account and I’d lose all my online backups. My daily photos are backed up on there.

Personally I think AI generated content could be great when it’s used to create content that otherwise wouldn’t be present. Like when you have a game where all the buildings are just static models with all the doors closed and the curtains shut, imagine resolving all that with buildings you could go in. Basically I want Cyberpunk where all the lights and movement actually mean something.

I donated to Wikipedia which I’ve been dining out on ever since. I actually tried twice to donate to Feddit.uk but the donations work for a few months then it wants to authenticate or something and it craps out.

Helping is one thing, paying for everything is something else. I don’t want my kid lying awake at night worrying about bills but I want her making decisions about how she’s spending her money and having to go without things.

My kid will get a little financial support until she’s out of studies and then I’ll mostly be a safety net. I learnt far more about money when I didn’t have much, and I also learnt empathy for those who don’t have anyone to help.

She’ll definitely be getting a job when she can and if she’s at home she’ll be paying rent, but I’ll just put that aside to help her with a mortgage. I’ll probably buy her first car but it’ll be something cheap. She’ll get money towards a house deposit.

I’ll be figuring it out as it comes but she doesn’t need to be living comfortably all her life. I’d help her with money towards a business if it seemed like a good idea but I’m not bankrolling her. Learning to be responsible with money is important and they can’t learn that in a book.

I honestly don’t mind as long as it’s down with permission. At least Microsoft are trying to do something interesting, computers are so boring nowadays. You could take any of the operating systems and wind them back five years and I probably wouldn’t notice.

Everyone keeps blaming the aliens but I didn’t that they were that bad a fit. But the movie was terrible and at that but where LeBouf started swinging through the trees I was ready to walk out.

The newer one’s not too bad though.

I think they just date from the circles they hang out in. I don’t think rich people hang out with poor people in general, I guess they don’t have much in common given that they have different problems. Rich people go to rich people schools, rich people gyms, etc.

Printers are sold at a loss. If you want cheap toner you’d end up paying more for the printer. If you want to be ethical you probably need a second hand one.

The flooding a network thing really isn’t an issue, they’ll only flood for the first packet just to find the way and then it stops. Fire up Wireshark on a different machine and transfer a file between two other machines, you won’t see anything. I don’t know too much about WiFi but it probably does the same, it’s just a bridge to the same network.

Wired is probably better because machines can estimate your location from the SSID and they can leak the password giving access to the network.

Switches will flood a network when they don’t know the location of a MAC address but this should only happen for the very first packet which is more likely to be DHCP or some boring background thing like that. As soon as the correct devices get the packet and replies then each switch along the way will update its MAC address table and they’ll know exactly which port to use until it expires (which depends on the switch, I don’t have a ballpark idea).

I always thought this was the weakest one. I loved TFE and TSE.

I just browse All the subscribe to communities I see and like. One thing you’ll find on Lemmy is that a lot of the communities are just Lemmy equivalents of Reddit subs, so if there’s one you like you can just search the name of what you like. It’s usually a case of find the version of the sub you want that’s the most popular. Because this is Lemmy and there’ll be different instances of the big subs, like if you want funny you might find [email protected] or [email protected], and more. There’s usually one instance which is the one to use. I understand they’re in the process of fixing this by having it so that they all sort of subscribe to each other and you can just follow one to follow them all. Unfortunately doing this involves using the search which I also find pretty terrible but I understand it’s also a priority issue they’re fixing right now.

You don’t have to stay at that job but I wouldn’t go back to the old one.

This whole thing seems inaccurate. I literally never get even remotely excited about a Linux update, it’s always boring stuff that means nothing to me. I don’t Windows updates because I feel like it delivers them in a big lump and lets me install as I shutdown, which is easy. Apple hasn’t charged for updates in well over a decade.