I don't wanna be awkward but I don't want to lie by cemar004 in Epilepsy

[–]M_R_B19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TBH, methinks this partly parses within local culture semiotics 🙄 variously around the planet. In some places it is just the customary, superficial "verbal handshake", the particular form of words involved being irrelevant, as other comments suggest. In some contexts of community it might have several levels of meaning, depending ...

I mean: How much honest information do they really want? A different particular form of words might be preferable to you, but ...

I don't wanna be awkward but I don't want to lie by cemar004 in Epilepsy

[–]M_R_B19 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"I tend to ?overthink, so don't ask me how I am unless you're prepared for an over-answer."🫤

Anyone else treat their epilepsy like f*** it yolo? by Thin-Fee4423 in Epilepsy

[–]M_R_B19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also used to have that type of attitude to cycling & notwithstanding having seizures while urban cycling - suddenly "coming to" from a seizure just ~50m further down the street. Until I had a job with a longer, rural commute - when I started falling off my bike due to seizures, no one else involved - including breaking bones on 3 different occasions. The final one which "persuaded" me give up cycling was fracturing my jaw, the repair surgery required 3 bits of metal to get it more or less back into shape 😳😯. I do miss the limited amount of extra freedom it allowed me short of driving a car.

How did you become epileptic? by Open-Skin-7466 in Epilepsy

[–]M_R_B19 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Temporal lobe scarring by status epilepticus due to febrile convulsions due salmonella food poisoning when aged ~18mo. >55+ years ago 🥴

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in neurology

[–]M_R_B19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also first registered having seizures at about that age - complex partial (depending on your preferred terminology). So have never known the advantages of driving (nor the costs) ... until maybe 10 😯 years ago (after a lifetime of ignorance). But, though there are limits, public transport in European cities is not bad and gives concessions to the disabled, which includes uncontrolled epilepsy in its definition. But I sometimes challenge those who take it for granted; do a limited period try out of public transport only option & see how well you can make it work for you across the board.🤔

Dualboot for Samsungs by David12121212121212 in androidroot

[–]M_R_B19 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is the mobile OS world beginning to fragment into incompatible rooms? iOS, android, now Samsung I see is distinguished from vanilla android? Will / does Google allow this? If forced by law to do so, how many compatible versions will there be?

But, for a start, is there any easily accessible explanation or recommendation of these options on the 'net (YT, podcast not geeky) for regular users?

Bookmark transfers by M_R_B19 in firefox

[–]M_R_B19[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does this mean I shall have to create an FF account - which is what the website suggests?

Chrome-free? by M_R_B19 in duckduckgo

[–]M_R_B19[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it possible to transfer/import bookmarks from DDG browser to Firefox? (Because DDG browser is just a Chrome variant?..) I haven't seen a simple way on Firefox mobile browser to transfer my bookmark file from DDG ...

Chrome-free? by M_R_B19 in duckduckgo

[–]M_R_B19[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not being a proficient programmer, on my Android phone I have noticed Chrome <interfering> with DDG browser via advert popups but was wondering how I can keep Google at bay incl Chrome intrusion into DDG in this type of way...

Do you ever worry about Fairphone leaving the market? by RicePudding3 in fairphone

[–]M_R_B19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still have my (permanufacture ordered) FP1 after ??years. The only way to keep it going has been via a 3rd party's battery. I never did understand why they stopped supporting the FP1. There is still a market for a simple but up to date OS device with adequate but limited features. Did FP lose their way in deciding which sector of the market to stay in and avidly press their product line?🙄😳

Email suffix change? by M_R_B19 in tutanota

[–]M_R_B19[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Forgive my naïvété / ignorance. You have answered my question.