I've been using RIF and old.reddit.com for as long as they existed. Reddit since the big Digg transition. Hope to never see the same happen to Lemmy!!

I believe in Canada we have high standards for our potable water, unlike the UK for example our water heaters need to be up to par (UK typically has seperate taps AFAIK).

So no need to boil, also if you're trying to get rid of chlorine you can just use Brita filters, carbon filters that restaurants use do the same AFAIK. Also even cities like mine which (at least at some point before now) had way more houses than apartments still chlorinated the entire city's supply.

Filters are insanely good these days. I was thinking about getting a life straw, but there's a slightly more expensive alternative that can do like 500x more filtering before it needs to be replaced, and comes with a pouch you can fill and then pour into a regular water bottle. Life straws are meant to be drank from directly, and the alternatives that company offers are just water bottles with life straws built in - so you put unfiltered water in the bottle itself... Probably gets gross or requires constant cleaning

The Netscape loading logo was pretty cool, and of course it took a while to load every page!

A bit later than what I'd call the early internet, I'd say my favourite memory was winning a Super Soaker CPS 2500 when I was 13.

Yes, lemmy is pretty good quality, we of course need more people to browse new, I hardly ever on Reddit, but when I do it's shit compared to here 👍

Well he is retweeting or tweeting transphobic hate memes himself, so yeah lol

Guess we will just have to mod the shit out of this place until then

I worked for the biggest Canadian chain and they're awful. Got stuck with an assistant manager who was demoted from store manager for treating her staff like shit.

They thought it was a good idea to stick like 3 or 4 of those staff that quit back with her when they applied during a wave of expansion. She was awful. The store manager was good at first, you could tell she didn't like the assistant. Things got bad enough for me to go to the DM since nothing was being done and it just felt like a good cop bad cop situation. The meeting I had was with a Sophia? I think and some other dude being TRAINED for DM (I had my BBA at this point and the best they could offer was temporary lowest ranking position with potential to be permanent part time. Full timers only got 25 hours a week....... Absolutely insulting. Get a degree. There will be jobs....). They took the issues seriously. I was told to contact her again if there was any "retaliation". When I left the office and closed the door they burst into laughter. It didn't sound like uneasy laughter, it sounded like "what a fucking joke" laughter. They also shafted my good friend an assistant (different store I wanted to transfer to, and someone wanted to swap with me as it would be closer for both of us, but DENIED) - they offered her store manager but after she accepted they changed their minds! The DM in training ended up quitting, maybe he was looking for a more professional business!

Anyways a few weeks later after I was sure there was retaliation and not incompetence, I contacted the DM and she gaslight me. She said she never told me to contact her about retaliation. She fucking said there wasn't anything wrong the AM did even though in the meeting she explicitly said she was doing SM stuff that as an AM she could only go to the actual SM and then get them to do it. I should've recorded the meeting! RECORD EVERYTHING, I swear, even if you have a good feeling about things or it's not meetings about problems. If you live in a one party state, protect your ass.

I'm a survivor of narcissist abuse from family, friends, school etc and when it happens in the workplace I shut down, my anxiety goes thru the roof, I get panic attacks, fight or flight response, I have trouble speaking, so I do the only thing I can do - remove myself from the situation. I gave my notice and things were so uncomfortable I had to call in sick. Despite a nasty letter sent to me from the DM which was a blatant attempt to deny my EI, all I had to do was explain my situation to Service Canada, get a doctor's note for my anxiety, and I got it. They mightve gotten off the hook as an employee because of the medical note though... It's not just business that needs heavy reform but government as well.

After loving the shit out of Control, I have to go back and play this sometime. I always knew about it but never seriously looked at playing it.

Speaking of, I might replay Control on the PS5. It was pushing the limits of the PS4 Pro

Don't worry, they will notice a difference when the content eventually stops or drops in quality, or at the very least a large portion of it will move here

As for the app thing, they're clearly ignorant and don't know what they're missing. That or they grew up with gross filtered feeds that were literally engineered to be toxic and addicting. Even I remember how addicting that shit was before they went a bit too crazy with ads and irrelevant posts. Used to be you could scroll and scroll thru Facebook and you wouldn't run out of interesting posts from friends, groups etc. Now it's all pages I don't even like or follow. Adpocalypse 2.0

Neckbeard. Mouthbreather. "Retard" - third page of /r/all and I dgaf if it's /r/nbacirclejerk but the word "retard" should NOT be on the third "front page of the internet" with almost 5 thousand upvotes. This comment is extremely ignorant, it's the way a bully talks, and it's far too normalized. The go touch grass comment would be borderline lol, you're clearly angry and upset - and I completely believe there are ways to use colorful extremely foul language while if not maintaining respect, coming from a good place.

It's a slippery slope when certain levels of toxicity are allowed, and I hope that the moderator team my local group eventually develops understands this and finds balance. We don't need to be toxic posivity nazis, but everyone should be expected to discuss, agree to disagree with a basic level of mutual respect, no?

Too many times I've complained to the KingstonOntario moderator team. Too many times I see them ngaf, while they're constantly very active in a bunch of other subs, personal finance, wallstreetbets (I have a lot of mixed feelings about those groups of people, there's investing in businesses you believe in them there's the other 80% of the stock market which is gambling on the livelihoods of others).

I'll be damned if the KingstonOntario group here doesn't evolve into an actual safe space, IMO we don't need an LGBTQ group like there is on Reddit but if our friends, family, and neighbours need their own space to feel safe and welcome then I'm all for it.

I've been using Reddit since before it blew up, I still remember using Digg every day in my last years of high school and first years of college. It brings me back to the days of Kingston Computer Planet (they had an awesome forum). I've watched global movements like Occupy Wall Street rise and fall. I've watched Ukranians post maybe a few too many "bad ass" drone cottage clips where they drop bombs on brainwashed Russian teenagers while they take a shit or catch some z's (don't get me wrong, fuck Russia, I was very happy to see the footage where they used a drone to guide a Russian solder to surrender while his Russian comrades fired at him). I worked with a team or two when the first /r/place event took place which was awesome and historical. I've watched as the Reddit admins started what they're finalizing now, when they started adding prediction posts or whatever that I couldn't properly view in rif. I tried to like the new interface but I'm almost inclined to redirect www.reddit.com URLs to old.reddit.com from my router or windows network config instead of just manually editing all my bookmarks and whatnot, and I totally would if the platform wasn't dying.

Sadly I think it's just a sign of the times, let's call it late LateStageCapitalism, as we move forward the focus will be even more and more on profits while providing minimal levels of goods or services. If corporations can find a way to charge us to breathe, they will. The ones that seem like they won't, will just be providing regular necessities and make us feel like we're getting something back with coupons, sales, rewards programs... but no matter the appearance or the feeling we have these giant faceless corporations will continue to bring in historically high record profits, siphon wealth into the hands of the few, while stagnating wages as productivity somehow continues to find ways to go up and up.

Arrrr matey, I code all my pirate maps in base64. I suggest ye do the same, matey. Arrrrrrrggggh 🦜

All I'm missing right now is sorting (comments at least) by new, top or best etc