I can. Also, the headache is 100% real.

A mobile phone is for emergency calculations only. If your life, job or honor depends on it, you can make it work, but it’s going to suck sooo hard.

A tablet can do much more as long as you have a keyboard. Also, Apple Numbers and Google Sheets are just barely acceptable for light calculations, nothing more.

When you start doing anything even a little bit more demeaning, you really need to use a laptop. Even the browser version of Excel isn’t good enough. You really need to run the actual application.

My thoughts exactly. The number of Linux users and programmers here may distort the picture OP gets from these comments.

I know someone who just started studying game development. No prior programming experience required. I guess that’s not a problem as long as you do your homework properly.

Phones are great when mobility is a high priority. Tablet are great for on the go entertainment. Laptops and desktops are great for everything else.

For example, searching information online is so much nicer if you can ctrl click and you have 15 tabs open in no time. Then you can jump between the tabs quickly to compare sources efficiently.

That’s the first explanation I was able to find, and I still don’t know what everyone here is talking about. Why do Americans love to use so many acronyms for anything and everything?

All these years, preppers may have been right. Having a well supplied fortress of your own can turn out to be very handy.

What did I just watch? Like… educational content, explained by… 🤷 not at all who you would have expected. What a unique mix.

Congrats! I didn’t even think that this message could get more NSFW.

Are you supposed to stick this gun in your mouth and pull the trigger?

Sending some pretty interesting messages to kids…

How do you define intrusive in this case?

If your subconscious mind suddenly reminds of that one time you said something stupid and embarrassing… Yeah, that happens to pretty much everyone. Just tell that thought that nobody remembers that day or cares about what anyone said, so carry on as usual. That’s just the human mind doing its thing, making sure we pay attention to social interactions. Humans are social animals after all.

If troublesome thoughts bombard your mind all the time and you’re having trouble living your normal life, consider talking to a mental health professional.

Many years ago, I formed the opinion that protests rarely accomplish anything useful. If the government has decided to pass a particular bill, build a dam, cut costs or whatever, people often respond by protesting. Usually, the bill is passed, the dam is built and costs are cut regardless. The way I see it, protesting gives people a chance to feel like they’ve done their part, while the government does what they wants anyway. From the perspective of the government, it’s useful to allow people to have a channel where they can safely vent their anger. If you make protests illegal, people will form a resistance and start a guerrilla war, and that never ends well.

There are notable exceptions too, so not all protests end up being useless. It’s just that the probabilities aren’t in our favor. You proposed other forms of political activism, and I totally agree.

To me, all of this is rather theoretical, because I’ve never actually participated in any of this. Instead, I’ve just observed these events from the outside, while you’ve seen it from the inside. I’m really curious to know if agree or disagree with these thoughts.

That seems to be a common theme in medicine. You have a super common symptom that is usually caused by something completely harmless, but there’s also a non-zero chance that you’re absolutely screwed.

Wow. That’s amazing. And terrifying. I hope you’re doing better now.

Wait, it’s possible to have a heart attack for 5 days? I thought a heart attack means your heart stops and you pass out?

Reading these comments is exposing how little I really know how cardiology. This is what it feels like to be on the first peak of the Dunning-Kruger curve.

But isn’t heartburn all about stomach acids? How is that related to the heart? After all, these are two completely separate organs.

Meaning that you would be technically one of the NPCs.

That is a valid question. Initially, I used the community search to find all the communities I might care about, and subscribed to all of them. Occasionally, I also tried the all feed, but didn’t find anything worth my time, so I stopped doing that. Nowadays, my list of communities is pretty stable.

Occasionally I check what’s going on in !newcommunities@lemmy.world

I prefer the whitelist option instead. I just read the “subscribed” feed and ignore the “all” feed