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I am pretty ignorant about the differences, I'll admit. I just find something I like and stick with it.

I'll have to look it up again. So I can forget again in a few months.

Saving this to text to my peeps randomly

I don't think it will be. I'm involved in an active subreddit community that is resistent to moving. The people in it skew older, and while progressive, are kind of short on patience for any added stress or friction.

I think if there was a BlueSky-esque version of Lemmy that had a super simple signup - but was also federated - it would get people on board faster.

Then they could get comfortable with it and later move to a different instance if they want. (I started on Lemmy.world and ended up with infosec.pub being my main because world was censoring swear words and I fucking love swearwords)

And frankly, some of the reddit posts in the subreddit I'm thinking of would benefit from being ported over and searchable in their entirety with comments because they have resources and information that is quite evergreen.

I'm trying to talk them into coming over and building community here as well. So I'm not fully out of reddit yet either.

If they know something we don't then whatever that is needs sunlight poured on it. Keeping it in the dark only undermines the fight for the Constitution and does more harm.

Either tell the truth and fight in the light. Or suck it up and fight for what's right - even if the person you are fighting for isn't perfect.

Can you guys get Scottish whiskeys fairly easily? There was one we had years ago while in Europe that we really liked, Highland Bird.

I'm not a whiskey person. But I detest Jack Daniels (paint thinner notes) and like Jameson Irish out of what I can get in my state.

Yes, please tell us where we need to not go to avoid accidentally selling our reddit accounts

What if you have one fat cat and one skinny cat? ....oh wait, the fat one rules us all... must go give her a treat in penance for forgetting that for a moment.

Do you want more Anonymous? Because that's how you get more Anonymous...

As a business person, my first order of business is always to piss off the red teams and then cut them loose. Not these people would do anything illegal or untoward... that we'd know about.

quite a bit /s mixed in there

OMG - that's the same printer we have... it's the only one that still works!!

Some of the plastic pieces have gotten brittle and broken - I've been trying to figure out how to 3-D print replacements. (they broke before 3D printing was a thing and I don't have the broken bits anymore)

I've replaced the rollers once and serviced it myself over the years.

It's valuable enough to fight over it when my Last Will and Testament is read... If there's a fire, save the people, save the cats, save that 1998 printer - the rest can burn and be replaced.

I make sure the important stuff is backed up to external drive on the computers I tech support for family and friends.

So I say, "yeah, it says that, but they are lying. unplug it. If it's not working when it comes back on, I'll come over and restore it. You won't lose anything, we've got backups just for this reason."

So far, I haven't had to go and restore anything. But one of them buys me lunch, so I go and shoot the shit and have a good time for big Windows updates about once a quarter.

I feel you. Add her then acting like it was her idea to get you to do the thing and you have my late grandmother.

Don't let her get to you (easier said than done, I know) but she is also fairly easy to manipulate if you don't let her get under your skin.

You probably already know how she reacts to things, start small and see if you can get certain reactions out of her. You do A, she reacts with B (good or bad), you do C, she preens like she won something.

I managed to trick my grandma into giving up her car keys after her first minor fender bender in her 80s (in fairness she was a good driver, her vision was just going bad) - she ended up believing giving up the car was her idea and that she deserved to get driven around from now on. She loved her independence but also loved having people at her beck and call. She got to feel smart and superior by stopping driving and we didn't have to worry about anyone getting hurt. Everyone was so relieved, she got a lot of praise for that decision which helped too.

Don't let her ruin your health, try to reframe your reactions to her and never, ever let on that's what you are doing. Don't tell the cousin that will rat you out to try to appease her. 'She seems to do what I want? I don't see it that way. She's just making good decisions like she always does... what are you talking about?' Feel free to tell the one you can trust.

I laughed too hard at this.