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I’ve recently realized (thanks to another Lemmy discussion), that I have no joy, passion, or happiness left 🤣

I want to live vicariously through the collective! What’s bringing you joy, happiness, and/or what are you passionate about.

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As always, thank you all so much for answering my questions! I hope you everyone is having a great day!!

Original question by @zachimusprime44@lemmy.world

Mine is this little tidbit about Khaki's from https://www.heddels.com/2019/05/history-khaki-anything-drab/

"Tried and tested by all the major powers, khaki-dyed, lightweight cotton twills became the de facto uniform for any colonizing power. If you were going to ship your boys abroad to pillage and conquer someplace in the Southern Hemisphere, khaki was your go-to color."

Fortune Teller shop (also music)

Zelda - Link to the Past

I heard this song for the first time, and I kept hearing

My lover’s got no money, he’s got his thrombolyse

Turns out it was "strong beliefs", and not a medical term

Have a listen: https://song.link/t/70681623

I had to remove the battery from my chromebook because it swelled up.

I'd like to get a new battery. I only need enough juice to survive being unplugged for a few minutes without shutting down abruptly.

The chromebook was about $60 to buy. With shipping and tax, a new battery is priced $40-80.

I like the device, I have put the time in to getting linux functioning how I like, so I'd rather not start fresh with a new chromebook. And I have no money.

Is there some kind of vendor that sells old batteries that don't have much power in them? I was hoping to spend about $20. Maybe some sort of recycler.

location: Canada

part #: gm02xl

Secondary questions:

• Is it possible to bypass the battery as a power source when plugged in so that they don't get swollen in the future? I would rather just leave devices plugged in all the time.

• Is there a way to make the USB power more securely attached so it doesn't disconnect at the slightest movement? Super glue?

The bright red rubbery utensil meant for scraping cake mix and gravy out of bowls. What is that? This really is my kitchenware. I'll put it whatever side you say.

Has the system finally cracked? Have the wealthy and powerful simply taken so much leaving the rest of us grasping at our very survival, easily manipulated into turning against other groups and even each other in an attempt to make sense of it all? Is society destined to destroy itself or descend into eternal servitude to our masters? How do we get out of this spiral of madness?

Im a liberal-left woman who's college educated (Im trying to become a teacher) whos a dual israeli/US citizen but atm feel alienated from both countries so wondering what in your guys views country would be a general fit for someone like me, maybe theres expats here who can help out

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/49854495

Came across the Bunnies and Burrows ttrpg, and it made me wonder if there was a wargame equivalent. I mean, the Warriors series is still super popular, sk there's gotta be a cat-bases wargame somewhere!

Hey you that knows everything about painting. Student here and my employer is paying me to repaint. I'm very much a beginner (painted like 3 times in my life). They know it and they still let me do it (to give me some hours during the summer break).

I'm done with the primer and boy is it ugly... Do you know if everything looks ok? Do you see something painfully wrong? And if you have some tips and tricks, I'm happy to hear them!

Pictures I took of my "masterpiece" : https://imgur.com/a/GzwH6Wb

Btw, if this isn't the right community to ask this, please let me know!

Hey folks!

One of my life goals for 2025 was going back to single purpose devices and avoiding algorithm-based media consumption. No smartphones, no AIs, no Spotify.

I'm quite happy with my offline music library, even if it took a while to organize. I use MusicBee (it FINALLY runs perfectly via Wine, if you install some dependencies in your prefix) to listen, find artwork, find lyrics, create playlists and so on and I sync them to my Innioasis, a little iPod Classic clone that supports modern features like USB-C charging.

But here's the thing... how are people finding new music nowadays? I'd assume TikTok and automatic suggestions from your music streaming services, but are there alternatives?

TikTok would probably work for me if I didn't stop using social media, but I did. Apple Music's algorithm sucked tremendously when I used it in the past - it always recommended me Ed Sheeran, an artist I strongly dislike and not anywhere near adjacent to my taste in music (and tapping 'Not Interested' a million times never worked) and Spotify's worked well for a while, but then it started getting extremely repetitive and pushy, "Shuffle" became essentially "Your 10 most recently listened to songs, repeated often, and sometimes we sprinkle two suggestions you already didn't like but we think you should like actually"

A job I applied for is asking me to submit a work sample, but I no longer have access to any documents from past employers.

My only option seems to be to recreate a document myself, which I am able to do. Is this how most people approach such a request?

I assume it would not be necessary to reveal that it isn't the actual document unless prompted nor would they be able to tell.

There is also a possibility a writing sample might be requested if I advance to the next round, but again I have no samples in possession.

I am surely not a swimmer, but after the recent tragic flooding in Texas, it got me and my roommate wondering...

I want to swap the side panel with an aclyics sheet. But it doing so will leave a ugly silver dempt on the top and bottom side of the pc, since the original side pane wraps around to hold itself in place. Is there a way to patch it up?

Or anything else concerning, for that matter. (BPA, maybe?)

I eat a tin of these basically every day. Have been doing so for well over a year now.

No, I'm not doing the whole "sardine diet" or whatever it's called where you eat nothing but sardines. I'm proud to say I started eating sardines daily before that fad came up. And I eat a lot more than just sardines.

Anyway, I know "fish" in general tends to have high levels of mercury, but I've heard that basically the amount of harmful heavy metal sort of toxins in fish generally varies directly with the lifespan of the particular type of fish in question. (The longer it's been swimming around in mercury-laden (or whatever-laden) water and eating mercury-laden (or whatever-laden) stuff, the more mercury will build up in its system by the time its caught, cooked, put on a table, and consumed by a human.) And I've heard that sardines in particular are quite low in such harmful toxins. (Maybe anchovies would be even lower? Not sure.)

My googling for an answer to the question of whether the level of harmful stuff in sardines is so low that eating them daily wouldn't be an issue hasn't really yielded helpful results. So, why not ask here?

(I have heard that EVOO is "better for you" (whatever that means, specifically) than non-virgin olive oil. And the particular brand of sardines in "olive oil" I get don't say "virgin" anywhere on the packaging, so that might be a reason to switch brands. Not sure whether it's really worth it or not. And the other brands are always way more expensive.)

Argh. Alright sounds very dumb but here am I seeking for opinions to knock some sense into me.

So, I have this girl who is my online-only friend who I've been chatting with for almost 4 years now. We gotten really close and too close to call her just a friend. She termed that we might be in a situationship. My knowledge regarding relationships is 0 as I have no prior experience in relationships. So I'm learning as we go.

I'm enjoying so much of her presence with me chatting online that I think I am not doing any rational thinking, like, putting off stuff just to catch her online to chat and bunch of other stuff. I have recognised this having adverse effects on me so I've started to prioritise things this week due to which I have gotten very less time chatting her.

Today, being the weekend I wanted to spend all evening chatting with her with no limits on my schedule as it is a weekend. I have set these crazy expectations of just spending all evening with her doing nothing but chatting.

But to my disappointment, she replied late and turns out that she was out somewhere attending a party of her friend. I just told her to enjoy the night and acted nonchalantly. But insidesl, there is this huge disappointment that was crushing me.

I have started to think some very bad stuff like:

• that I should just let people be and enjoy being alone
• depending on people always leads to disappointments
• expectations should be curbed and always have low expectations about everything
• being alone is the best way to treat yourself
• stay away from people and indulge in alone entertainment like watching web series or movies at home

I know, very dumb of me to think of these things but on the other hand these stuff brings some sort of solace to my distraught mind.

Also as I have been learning about myself a lot since I've gotten close to her, I have identified myself being cynical, toxic(we always fight and patch up, not sure if it's toxic I'm still learning), jealous and showing signs of limerence with anxiously attached relationship traits. Crazy package I know but I'm willing to get better and I feel the first step is recognising my bad behaviours. This is why I'm here seeking for opinions to knock some sense into me.