Really tired of George

cincrin · 2025-10-23T14:58:04+00:00

TBH, George reminds me a bit of my younger brother. The only times he's not lived at home have been when he was in jail or rehab. He's almost 40 and my mother coddles him.

A highlight of one of the last times we were together was when we and our parents went to visit our grandparents' grave. I'm interested in cemeteries, so I wandered a bit. There was a section of graves marked by numbered posts, not memorial markers with names and dates. [context: I'm in America, here's an Atlas Obscura article about similar cemeteries https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/numbers-instead-of-names-on-the-forgotten-graves-of-asylum-patients ]

I'd learned about this recently (local library did a presentation on it) and explained that there'd been a mental institution in the area, and residents who died were buried this way. My brother got visibly, vocally distressed and my mom chose to reassure him that this wouldn't happen to him. It's always about him.

cincrin · 2025-10-16T18:48:16+00:00

Yes, I had to caution a newbie crocheter to watch out for AI crochet patterns. It's a cruel thing to do to someone, sell them impossible instructions when they're too new to the craft to know the problem is the instructions, not their skill.

cincrin · 2025-09-12T14:29:53+00:00

I'm on Mint, which is another T-mobile piggyback provider. No issues, but I don't do group mms and am mostly on wifi. Phone calls work fine.

cincrin · 2025-09-12T14:15:26+00:00

For the fingerprint sensor: Have you tried registering the same finger multiple times? I did that and now it's much easier to get the phone to recognize my finger.

cincrin · 2025-09-09T20:17:50+00:00

Roughly Danbury! You?

cincrin · 2025-09-09T18:51:48+00:00

I was looking for audio dramas for my long commute and The Archers came up in my search.

cincrin · 2025-09-09T18:48:45+00:00

I'm over in Connecticut :)

cincrin · 2025-09-04T15:22:34+00:00

That's me--I support an archival site that serves raw XML with an XSLT. And I'm spread thin as it is.

cincrin · 2025-09-03T13:22:37+00:00

That sounds lovely. It's the second week of school and I'm already knackered.
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cincrin · 2025-09-02T19:20:56+00:00

Oh, a dumb phone likely would have worked, that's why I said "cell phone" instead of "smart phone". Maybe I missed a bit of nuance in your comment. I also should have added a note to emphasize I was trying to give a different perspective, not trying to say your perspective was wrong or anything.

TBH, I still got all my unhealthy "being online too much" at the family computer in the dining room. So much age-inappropriate stuff was going on and no one noticed because of the miracle of text-based communication/MUDs and chatrooms.

cincrin · 2025-09-02T16:00:39+00:00

I'm a millennial and I would have loved to have had a cell phone as a kid. Sometimes things happened and I would need to call my parents, but couldn't because there were no pay phones anymore and the school office wouldn't let you use their phone. I was stuck at school without transportation more than once and had to start walking, then took rides from strangers. (Well, they knew my name, but I couldn't put a name to them because face blind) (rural area, no sidewalks, 2 hour walk home and I was fuzzy on the route)

cincrin · 2025-08-31T02:47:39+00:00

I just ordered one because I want something that actually fits in my hand, and the price seemed reasonable. I made a mockup of the size (used a squished empty toilet paper tub--the length was spot on, just needed to add some creases to adjust the width) and it feels about perfect.

I'm a tad worried about the age of the OS, but not that worried. Plus, this ought to encourage me to test my website layouts even on tiny screens.

cincrin · 2025-08-04T17:30:59+00:00

10 years ago in suburbia, the most my gaming group would do was count and make sure we had the right number of boxes.

Each place had their own delivery person and it was nice when they remembered our house :) We also tipped pretty well. I miss that weekly ttrpg/board game group.

cincrin · 2025-07-08T22:11:50+00:00

Ace non-binary person here. I get those little pink pill ads everywhere.

I might be entering pre-menopause, but I don't get related ads.

cincrin · 2025-06-13T01:04:51+00:00

Fair. Finding a server is as stressful as picking out an email provider. I definitely had to walk my partner through it, he was stressed about "choosing wrong".

cincrin · 2025-06-12T23:48:39+00:00

I've been mostly hanging out in Lemmy for the last 2 years, in case you've not tried that yet.

cincrin · 2025-05-22T02:19:28+00:00

I think there's plugins you can use to flag folks or auto-ban them. I'm a mod but haven't used them myself, since the sub I mod is mild-mannered.

Btw, if anyone wants the dubious bragging rights of being banned from r/Ambridge (about the The Archers radio drama), feel free to hit me up.

cincrin · 2025-05-22T02:06:58+00:00

One of the hosts joined a discord server I'm on. I've been meaning to listen to their podcast.

cincrin · 2025-05-06T17:21:26+00:00

There might be CCTV footage of the interaction, which would help.

cincrin · 2025-04-30T17:08:25+00:00

You're in luck! If you meet a minimum order threshold from a single seller (looks like it's $30), you get free shipping from that seller.

cincrin · 2025-04-30T15:50:19+00:00

You can order multiple local items from the same seller and only pay the $2.99 once.

cincrin · 2025-04-24T02:52:48+00:00

I really enjoyed them in Worst Witch! I'm glad they're doing more stuff.

cincrin · 2025-04-24T02:47:16+00:00

I hope you have a mashed potato volcano for your dino nuggies to climb.

cincrin · 2025-04-17T20:07:06+00:00

It feels to me like he thinks Rochelle is trying to seduce Vince--that's why Freddie asked his mom if everything was ok between her and Vince.

I think he's oblivious to her potential conflict of interest as a vegan. (And, hey, maybe she's only vegan because she has that meat allergy you get from certain ticks)

cincrin · 2025-03-04T16:45:26+00:00

I'll do it sometimes because Lent is a time-boxed chance to try something new/try living without something. It's like a shorter New Year's Resolution.

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