alchemist2023

joined 2 years ago
[–] alchemist2023@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This article was all I needed to go install unbound and use that as my upstream server for pihole. Took me 20min and it's been working for the past few hours. Easy and now all my dns are my own. You don't even need a pihole, just point your router dns to the unbound server. It works out of the box with no configuration unless you want to configure it. Easy

[–] alchemist2023@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

review bomb them

[–] alchemist2023@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

funny thing, I took my test in NZ where it's cheaper and easier apparently, still cost a couple of thousand $NZ but I was given a bunch of forms to fill in.. Found a quiet place to do them in time, read them and filled them in. then realised I'd not read them properly and had to request the forms be resent to complete a second time, this time body doubling with the misses to ensure I'd read and completed them appropriately.

felt like it was part of the test

can you read and fill in these forms by yourself? no, no I can't..

[–] alchemist2023@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

diagnosed in my 50's

always known I'm different lol

coasted subjects I liked but failed subjects I hated.

I was disruptive and constantly outside the headmasters office. in those days I got the slipper and cane..

mum called me hyperactive and blamed tartrazine from orange cordial. looking back I was casebook ADHD.

now I have a diagnosis I'm able to get the support and connections to my kids that I never had myself. teaching techniques and understanding what's going on for them when they have meltdowns.

to be fair they didn't have ADHD diagnosis on the 70's so I'm just happy I can support my kids knowing what I know and why

[–] alchemist2023@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'd go one further; strawberry chilli sorbet. sweet strawberry, hot and cold at the same time.. perfection

[–] alchemist2023@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

hey thanks everyone for your points of view. really appreciate your time to comment. my take home is that Ukraine does knows what it's doing with Trump and I'm no longer worried a bad deal will be made. ideally no deal with the US will be made, that's my preference. anyway.. the gods willing Ukraine will continue smashing the Russians cheers all

[–] alchemist2023@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

thanks for the long reply. I hope EU actually sends weapons and puts boots on the ground to assist Ukraine. UK has given some cruise missiles and I'm sure other EU countries will do similar. interesting that the EU financial assistance was loans but as you said these can be cancelled easily. I guess loans are easier to sell to you population. I'd also prefer to not have the US involved now the administration has changed, but disentangling so much bureaucracy is difficult and doesn't happen overnight. I'd suspect Ukraine doesn't want any deals with the US now but needs to keep playing the game until they don't need to. Russia wss never going to play the game anyway, never in good faith. The EU really needs to step up.. but again this takes time to start building up stockpiles and uniforms.. so I can see why the game is being played. I just hope Ukraine wins every hand. thanks 🙏

 

Hey everyone I'm confused about this mineral 'deal' that the US is trying to enforce on Ukraine. Why would Zelenskyy even contemplate a deal with the US with the current fascist administration? obviously he knows they are liars and cheats and won't uphold any part of the agreement they don't want to. surely he wouldn't tie up his national minerals for generations so they can get the old US stockpiles of weapons? unless he's just talking the talk with no intention of carrying through? if I had Zelenskyy ear I would advise against doing any deal with the US and just try to get Europe on board asap. I understand the issue of shutting down starlink would currently severely impact Ukraine, but I can also see how starlink won't be necessary in the near future as drones switch to AI and fibre, and a bunch of tech we don't know about yet.. so what's the deal with the 'deal'? surely it's not being entertained seriously? or is it all bluster for Trump to feel he's achieving something whilst the real power brokers get EU assistance? would love thoughts Slava Ukraini!

[–] alchemist2023@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

this was me about 30 years ago on a larp where at midnight we came across a mage in a circle.. along with a scarecrow.. I smacked the scarecrow with my sword and it screamed and lunged at me.. I ran away bravely and as fast as possible straight into a tree, dropped my lantern and carried on screaming into the night. the most scared I've been in larp, proper suspension of disbelief. thanks for the memory 😆

[–] alchemist2023@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

write them an email https://royalsociety.org/about-us/contact-us/

looks like you guys just damaged yourselves by not taking disciplinary action against Musk. whilst I have nothing to do with you, you guys should know better than to sympathise with Nazis. It makes you the same as them. The US is broken and you have the chance to stand on the right side of history or the wrong side of history, and you will be judged by your actions. and science will suffer your actions/inaction. sort it out or are you just a bunch of Nazi cowards?

[–] alchemist2023@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

left the UK 13yrs ago and never regretted it

skills shortage list is how I got in, and being under 40 (at the time) gave me points in their system.

anyway just going to drop this here if YouTube is allowed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWLlDIzi8SU

[–] alchemist2023@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (6 children)

so honestly, who would you use now? I'd never buy HP, Acer, Lenovo. total crap machines. what other brands of laptop are any good going into 2025/2026? The XPS was always my go-to but now what options are remaining?

 

so I just read this and I'm absolutely disgusted. honestly who do these pricks think they are?? how do we show them this is not to be tolerated in a welcoming safe public space, or anywhere for that matter! fucking bigots spreading fear and hate and misogynistic bullshit. just fuck these guys we need to get an exclusion order against them from being within 100m of a library. we need to stand up to these bullying cunts how? writing to Rachel Boyack hardly vents my spleen enough thanks for listening 🤬🤬🤬🤬

 

so I noticed that Meta put AI on WhatsApp I'm not interested in having Meta use my WhatsApp feed to train their LLM. Found an earlier version on apkmirror, installed that instead turned off auto update on Google play no AI now

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