In your android settings, go to network & internet > advanced > private DNS and paste the link dns.adguard-dns.com into the box. All ads will assume you have no Internet connection. Doesn’t appear to work on YouTube, but covers anything from the Google Play store banners/videos/etc.

Wait, THAT was the issue? (I thought it was another program that got sold, and the new owner bundled it with malware or something.) Is there something wrong with MuseGroup? I’ve been using MuseScore for ages.

Martha and John Kent may not have changed the world, but Superman sure did

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When I was in middle school, a girl did in fact get a bug bite on her eyeball. It was blood red for a week and she couldn’t see well, but long term she was fine.

Actually, you’re right. You said I had ASPD, not ASD. Sorry about that.

Hey, Abigail here. I just want people to know the reason this person got banned is likely because of a deleted comment not included in that thread. OP called me autistic mentally unwell for not liking politics. THAT kind of behavior is not acceptable on lemmy.blahaj.zone, so I reported the comment and let Ada handle it. Ada tried in good faith to reason with OP but it was clear they just wanted to fight. So yeah, they got banned. Ada’s a fantastic lady who’s been great at keeping the trolls at bay.

Edit: and the bit about me misgendering them is also wrong. Gender didn’t come into play until after I had left the conversation. English default on the internet is male for strangers.

I really like this analogy!

If an employee delivering pizza harassed me, they would be fired. They couldn’t be hired at that same pizza place again - they’d have a blacklisted ssn.

If a gig work worker harassed me, they could easily resign up using someone else’s info. In fact, that’s a common method for harassing women - they sign up with a fake woman’s profile so you let your guard down.

At my org, edge for all outlook links rolled out last week. Not only does it not let you use your default browser, half of the screen is taken up with a popup asking to make edge your default every time!

funny that you mention reproducing…

When I worked in electronics manufacturing, production engineers were frequently out on the floor. Common issues were:

• a machine was placing a part incorrectly
• assembly workers couldn’t understand blueprints
• materials were getting damaged in a process that shouldn’t have been a problem
• a custom design tool/rig was not acting like it was supposed to
• there’s something clearly wrong with a process (like it was designed for one person and not an assembly line)

If anything major (or potentially major) came up, production completely stopped until the problem could be assessed by an engineer. Assembly workers weren’t allowed to fix things and they couldn’t estimate the cost of continuing to run a job with defects. Our engineers didn’t work 2nd/3rd shift though, so every time a job had issues we’d have to drop it and leave it for first shift. A downed line for 8+ hours is a LOT of money and for a bigger company would warrant calling someone in.

(I think the bigger issue is not “work ethics” like the article said or “need” like you said, but that the US has rules and pay requirements for on call employees)

Reminds me of back when I was in college and worked at a circuit board factory at night. Masks were not allowed and everyone made fun of me for wearing gloves. When those gloves wore out and got holes, my manager said they were “too expensive” to replace - even though management provided a bunch of PPE we were not “allowed” to use (earplugs, goggles, gloves, replacement hand tools, etc) because it would drive up the department’s budget.

I’m glad I only had to do it for four years. It’s been a decade since I quit and I STILL feel fiberglass in my hands sometimes. When I worked there my insurance basically only covered ER visits so I never used it. Now that I’m white collar I can afford to get checkups for the long term effects of that job - but most doctors seem completely untrained in caring for the consequences of manual labor.

this hyper-attractive girl

I swear, it’s actually really difficult to make ai women that AREN’T yassified. Is all the training data for what “real” women look like from Instagram?

I had an email go to spam in the middle of a discussion with my insurance company. Even though I had already had 5 exchanges with them.

@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone fyi, the defederation list may need to be updated due to the upcoming instance migrations.

So every time I get the “couldn’t load image, bad state” error, that’s a video? I thought that was an issue in the server side. @zach@bigfoot.ninja

I always unlock developer settings on a new phone to fix my Bluetooth volume. Android assumes Bluetooth devices have adjustable audio, so if they don’t it sets the default to max. Then you basically have two settings: “kinda quiet” and “I’m slowly losing my hearing”. Disabling absolute volume makes it so your phone only registers your phone’s volume buttons.