I use this to retain the old style, if that helps you.
Mkengine
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Mkengine@feddit.deto Animals and Pets@beehaw.org•Cat likes people but not other cats. How to keep her from being lonely indoors?1·1 year agoI can’t tell you what to do, but maybe my experience will help you. My wife and I got two cats 9 years ago, a third two years ago and last year, unfortunately, one of our cats died, so after a while we filled up to three again because there was stress between the other two. I would say that what we see as “aggressive” is actually more defensive behavior, every time we brought in new cats there was a lot of hissing and growling. We always kept new cats in a separate room for 7 days, with a close-meshed door net attached to the door frame so that the cats could sniff each other but not touch. This has always worked really well so far and in the end they are always inseparable. I would try it, friends of mine had different experiences and had to give up a cat. But that’s not the end of the world either, in the end the animals should feel comfortable and if it doesn’t work out, you can find a better home for the new cat. Yes it would be stress for the new cat if it doesn’t work out, but in the other hand there is the possibility that it works out and it is less stressful for the animal than when it stays in the shelter.
Additionally in between we found a baby stray cat and brought her up (took about 3 weeks of nursing) and our cats were much more open than with new adult cats. Maybe this baby bonus could work with your cat as well if you want to invest the time, it was a great experience. Especially because the cat would have died if we left it where we found it.
I hope I can now play all buzz games, some of them had the problem that the blue button was continuously pressed and you couldn’t play the game.
Mkengine@feddit.deto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What occupation requires the most education/training only to be very low paid?1·1 year agoAs a European, could you explain College degree, graduate, post graduate, etc. ? We have Bachelor’s and Master’s degree here, I thought we got that from you?
Mkengine@feddit.deto Technology@lemmy.world•Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usageEnglish15·1 year agoSwitching from Firefox to Librewolf has some pros and cons. Librewolf is a fork of Firefox focused on privacy and security, with telemetry stripped out and privacy settings maxed out by default. You’ll gain better out-of-the-box privacy protections, meaning less tracking and data collection without having to tweak settings yourself.
However, you might lose some convenience. Librewolf might not support certain Firefox features like Sync, since it relies on Mozilla’s servers (not sure about that point, maybe it does work). It can also break some websites due to the stricter privacy settings. Another thing to consider is that you won’t get updates as quickly as Firefox.
Regarding browser fingerprinting, it’s a tricky beast. Librewolf can help somewhat by making your fingerprint less unique, but it’s not a silver bullet. Tools like uBlock Origin and container tabs are great, but adding something like the CanvasBlocker extension can also help reduce fingerprinting. Ultimately, no setup is perfect, but Librewolf is a solid step towards better privacy.
Mkengine@feddit.deto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•The theory that we live in a simulation involves simulants running their own simulations; wouldn't that require impossibly more resources for the main sim?1·1 year agoJust to spin this a bit further, if we are living in a simulation, does it have a purpose? Sometimes I ask myself if the purpose of such a simulation for humanity could be to see how long it takes from the big bang to the creation of artificial life. Maybe our purpose is to create such artificial life that can travel to the stars, because as humans we are not really fit to do that. Maybe we are a mere step on the ladder of our universe’s purpose.
Mkengine@feddit.deto Patient Gamers@sh.itjust.works•Steam summer sale is on now! What games do you recommend?1·1 year agoFor me it’s a great party game. I regularly meet with some friends since 2013 to play local multiplayer games. For the most time we played Nintendo games, but since I got a Steam Deck we wanted to try some non Nintendo games, so I am building a steam local multiplayer library. And stick fight is usually our starter game since the rounds are so short.
Mkengine@feddit.deto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•A new survey found that almost 40% of companies posted a fake job listing this year (2024)1·1 year agoBut is it a fake position if you intend to fill it with a foreign worker?
Mkengine@feddit.deto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Can someone explain me USA obsession with prom and similar school rituals?2·1 year agoThank you, that was a really good explanation!
Mkengine@feddit.deto Work Reform@lemmy.world•Amazon hit with $5.9 million fine for violating California labor law2·1 year agoDoes the fine have to be paid from profits made in California? If not I don’t see why this is relevant, other than semantics.
Mkengine@feddit.deto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•People who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?1·1 year agoAnd then you also have different meanings depending on pronunciation, here some examples:
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umfahren: to drive around something or to run over something
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Montage: the act of assembling or the plural of Monday
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übersetzen: to ferry across a river or to translate into another language
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umschreiben: to rewrite or to paraphrase
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durchschauen: to look through something or to understand
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unterstellen: to place something underneath or to imply or accuse someone of something
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unterhalten: to hold something underneath or to support or to converse with someone or to entertain
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wiederholen: to fetch something back or to repeat something
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Mkengine@feddit.deto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•People who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?2·1 year agoAs a native German speaker, I really dislike the formality levels and hope someday everyone uses the informal level. In a big company it’s really annoying to start with the formal level and then awkwardly switching to informal level when contacting someone for the first time.
Mkengine@feddit.deto Linux@programming.dev•Is it a good idea to use KDE plasma on linux mint?2·1 year agoI never installed Linux myself, only used it for a bit, so what do you have to do to not be a complete noob? This is only a half serious question, but what do you think you have to do, to be a proficient Linux user? This sounds a bit like when I got my master’s degree and did not have the feeling that I know anything or have learned valuable skills, but to someone with only a high school diploma I would look rather proficient.
Sorry, I didn’t make that clear, I meant in Germany, as the commenter talked about the German translation of turkey.
Mkengine@feddit.deto Technology@lemmy.world•Intel is trucking a 916,000-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab, spawning road closures over nine daysEnglish2·1 year agoSo what is the actual transistor size then? And why use an SI unit then anyway? Why not use femto-bananas then when it does not reflect the real size?
I have no opinion on this, but maybe it just takes more time. I don’t hear anyone calling Chinas capital ‘Peking’ anymore, only Bejing, but that didn’t happen instantly either.
Mkengine@feddit.deto DACH - jetzt auf feddit.org@feddit.de•BSW will Rede Selenskyjs im Bundestag boykottierenDeutsch1·1 year agoIch hab sie nicht so wirklich verfolgt, ist sie bei irgendwas links oder ist das nur ne weitere rechte Partei?
Mkengine@feddit.deto Technology@lemmy.world•AI trained on photos from kids’ entire childhood without their consentEnglish71·1 year agoHe said that it’s creepy but convenient, digital privacy and laziness don’t go hand in hand generally. Every week I read about another alternative for Google Photos, so the solution is not far away (three posts down I found this for example). To each their own I guess, but with such simple solutions I can’t justify using Google’s spyware.
For now you can use RedReader to circumvent their app.
My two use cases are project brainstorming and boilerplate code, which saves a lot of time for me. For example sometimes I find an interesting paper and want to try it out in Python. If they did not provide code that will take some time and trial and error to get it running. Or I just copy the whole paper into ChatGPT and get an initial script that sometimes even works with it’s first try. But that is not the point, I can do the last steps myself, it really is a time saver for me with regards to programming.