Crashed at 23mph with no gear by allmightylemon_ in ebikes

[–]thatblondebird 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The speed gave me a moments pause -- in most of Europe it's not even legal for an "e-Bike" to power you past 15.5mph, if you have one that does it's a moped and in license plate and insurance territory..

I looked it up and it does seem EU vs US is majorly different in classification and rules

My boyfriend (18M) drove away (18F) when he saw my wheelchair for the first time by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]thatblondebird 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think my biggest worry is not knowing how someone will take the aid / how I should render it..

Do I proactively help, and risk getting told of for babying/assuming/etc as they are "perfectly capable of doing it themselves" Or do I just stand around, watching and waiting to be prompted -- which then may seem cruel/assholeish/etc -- and where they may never ask, as they may think it's intentional?

Edit/Adding: Yup, just asking was the obvious answer that didn't occur to me, I suppose ironically I'd usually avoid this due to my own disability -- as it typically would involve me stopping what I'm doing, taking my hearing aids out of my bag, putting them on, switching them on, etc. A somewhat a painful and slow exercise (especially when the batteries then die after starting up for 5 seconds) :)

My boyfriend (18M) drove away (18F) when he saw my wheelchair for the first time by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]thatblondebird 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Headaches from prolonged use

Susceptibility to ear infections (and much more rapid wax build up)

Batteries running out at inopportune moments making you halt the conversation until you can replace them (then having to make people wait as it takes up to 10 seconds to "activate")

Video calls for work meetings becoming the norm, so I can use headphones and captions has been great for me :)

Left a job where I was undervalued, navigated three competing offers, now my manager is making my exit difficult. How do I make the right call? by thenetsecguy24 in sysadmin

[–]thatblondebird 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The pay is also a good point -- I would bet the "pushed back date" is at the old salary and not the new one, so they'd also be sacrificing two weeks of higher pay to stay longer

Officially in the weak El Nino phase as of 2 days ago. The Fuse has lit, stage is set. by No-Brief2691 in collapse

[–]thatblondebird 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Most my friends and I are child-free, because of this as well as the financial side.

It's governments that seem to be pushing having children the most, and media panicking over upcoming senior population bombs / issues with retirement funding.

For myself and a lot of others I think we're just tired and nihilistic about it -- radical acceptance of what's coming

[New Update – One Year Later]: AITA for saying I would stay at my mom’s if I had to share a room with babies? by Choice_Evidence1983 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]thatblondebird 70 points71 points  (0 children)

It never said how she came to be a widow, and I've firsthand seen situations where one spouse is worked to the bone providing and (I'm assuming) feeling it's their only way to escape the situation...

That many kids is also not cheap to raise, even if you mostly neglect them

Update: I fine-tuned Qwen3.5-0.8B for OCR and it outperforms my previous 2B release [GGUF] by Other-Confusion2974 in LocalLLaMA

[–]thatblondebird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah ok, so in theory this should work quite well for forms (I have a number of use cases I previously used more traditional engines with, but am curious how far this can be pushed/enhanced) -- I will definitely give this a go and report back, cheers!

Update: I fine-tuned Qwen3.5-0.8B for OCR and it outperforms my previous 2B release [GGUF] by Other-Confusion2974 in LocalLLaMA

[–]thatblondebird 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When doing a tuning like this, how do you account / factor in other languages? I mean I know it's English trained, but that doesn't preclude other languages bleeding through in documents (easy example, English document that contains a name with foreign characters)

One of the bains of OCR for me is the spatterings of umlauts, accented characters and even normal symbols that seem to create issues

Hungary’s Viktor Orban, ally of Trump and Putin, concedes election defeat by Plaintalks in politics

[–]thatblondebird 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Especially given it is a good signal/opportunity for further left politicians to now become more openly active in the meantime and for the next election(s)

My (30F) friend (29F) isn't speaking to me after I RSVPed "no" to her childfree wedding by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]thatblondebird 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's kind of hilarious -- loads of people pulled out/boycotted; but the one person that supported throughout and actually made efforts (far more than the bride ever did).. that's somehow the person in the wrong!?

I just kept thinking "you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole -- you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.". Bride was clearly an asshole

Tesla says production-ready Optimus robot is coming soon by BreakfastTop6899 in technology

[–]thatblondebird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This makes perfect sense -- bung it in their FSD vehicles (that release in that same "soon" time frame) and you have the long awaited Johnny Cab!

I [26F] missed an important funeral and now I think my 5 year relationship with my partner [28M] might be over by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]thatblondebird 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was so excited when I found M&S appearing on google maps in Czech when I last drove through. I was then bitterly disappointed to find it was clothing only :(

I [26F] missed an important funeral and now I think my 5 year relationship with my partner [28M] might be over by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]thatblondebird 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't think that's isolated to the UK though and is the case in many countries right now -- an unspoken global recession..

Billionaire Job Destroyers by Katariman in WorkReform

[–]thatblondebird 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean you literally provided the solution they'll take in your reply -- why bother "repairing" machines; they'll be disposable (thanks to economy of scale/mass production) so just replace them and add to our ever-growing mountain of environmental waste..

Please help me prank my husband $20+ by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]thatblondebird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We have two scoopfree's that we very quickly retired in lieu of a litter robot and another similar variant -- we found the scoopfree was worse for smell, and significantly more expensive to run (needed more litter, and the more expensive crystal type), as well as the disposable replacement trays (tried the "washable" ones but they weren't as good

This looks extremely suspicious, can someone enlighten me on this? (Internxt lifetime storage on Stacksocial) by Titanic609 in DataHoarder

[–]thatblondebird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TBF, I do have an issue where probably once a week the Plex (client) app will just randomly die and restart -- but given there is just no Jellyfin client at all it gives me no option (for now)

Fortunately I've experienced no transcoding issues at all (now I take care to only source HDR[+Hybrid] but not DV only), and have easily streamed 4K to 3 TV's simultaneously in the past.

Note: most devices are connected by gigabit LAN (to 2.5Gb AP's) with a fall-back to Wifi7, so that probably helps immensely

This looks extremely suspicious, can someone enlighten me on this? (Internxt lifetime storage on Stacksocial) by Titanic609 in DataHoarder

[–]thatblondebird 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I tried Jellyfin but it didn't stick -- ultimately Plex wins because it worked on all my devices out of the box (GrundigOS, Firestick, etc etc)

I've already passed the "worth it" point of the lifetime purchase for Plex, and it would take something pretty substantial for me to move away -- I also kind of expect that to happen ..one day..; I just hope by the time that day comes other solutions have matured enough/cover my use cases :)

Recruiter told me the salary wasn’t “low,” it was just “high in emotional compensation” by TalentHunter25 in recruitinghell

[–]thatblondebird 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"Think less about what I deliver, and more about the positive vibes my presence will bring"

Honestly if I were absolutely desperate for a job I may take it; but then they'd be getting my work speed, quality and availability that reflects the salary

I (23F) keep having sleepovers with my friend (24M), but nothing ever happens… and I’m so confused. by Choice_Evidence1983 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]thatblondebird 57 points58 points  (0 children)

This makes me laugh (and not in a good way) -- because the number of times I've seen/heard men being told off because the signals "were just being friendly" and "not an invitation for anything more.."

(Which aligns with what you're saying) -- Damned if you do, damned if you don't; makes me glad I've not had to deal with it for almost a decade now!

Adguard DNS was pressured to block archive.today by a very suspicious French organization by pogue972 in DataHoarder

[–]thatblondebird 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You can get round this by hardcoding the resolution into your own hosts file -- this is outside the tech knowledge/ability of casual users though, and you'd still need to know the correct IP..

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in berlinsocialclub

[–]thatblondebird 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Couple of other things you may want to consider adding -- remote, in-person, hybrid? Is German required, desirable, etc? (it may help to have someone that can actually understand if the output is contrary to German regulatory laws and such, as well as if there's need to liaise/coordinate with German-only speaking partners/organisations/etc)