What are people using in place of Google docs/sheets/etc? I'm looking for a simple program that syncs with the cloud so I can access my documents on my different computers or my Android phone. I run Windows 10 (don't crucify me). I use libre office for things that can stay on one computer, but for things like school notes, budgeting spreadsheets, or certain reference sheets I've created for work I need to be able to access on my different devices or log in on a web browser and easily have the changes sync. I'm constantly on the go and logging into different devices between work and school and while I want to de-google I've just found the convenience of the google suite has kept me saving non-confidential stuff with them. With some minor searching I found Cryptpad, has anyone used that, or can anyone recommend anything else? I don't do anything crazy, for docs its mostly just typing and basic formatting, importing pictures into my school notes, very simple tables, etc. With Sheets I just use basic math functions to balance my bank accounts and keep my budget on track, so I don't need anything advanced, it just needs to work and sync with the cloud. I don't even care if I have to pay a few bucks for it if it's worthwhile.
shadowSprite 5 months ago • 100%
I look at genre, average review, and watch maybe 30 seconds to a minute of a game play type trailer. If it looks interesting, I'll add it to my wishlist and buy it when I can afford it. I've been let down a few times, and absolutely lost my soul to a few games that I knew nothing about prior.
shadowSprite 5 months ago • 100%
Yes, you're right, my mistake!
shadowSprite 5 months ago • 100%
I used to be an EMT (am going to be working as one again soon) and where I worked we had some good cops and some real shitty cops who had no business being cops, but one thing that they all had in common was that the rules were if someone asked for medical help, they had to call the ambulance. Didn't matter if it looked like obvious bullshit, all the departments in the area I worked had a blanket policy that they weren't medical professionals and they couldn't make that decision. You could have a tiny little cut on your finger and ask for medical help and even the shittiest cops would sigh and call for EMS. These cops infuriate me. How many more people have to get murdered? If someone asks for help fucking help them and sort out the details later.
shadowSprite 5 months ago • 97%
I was a little lost until the iPod and the t9 showed up, then it was almost scary how normal it all felt. I didn't even realize I still remembered t9 but I didn't even have to think.
shadowSprite 5 months ago • 100%
Kids these days are just so lazy, back then the average man could lift way more weight
shadowSprite 5 months ago • 100%
If you've had covid, it's done a number on some young people's cardiovascular systems. I know a person in their 20s who was very healthy, got covid, and was shortly after diagnosed with POTS. I've heard of several other people being diagnosed with POTS after getting covid.
shadowSprite 5 months ago • 100%
Happy late birthday to your orange brain cell!
shadowSprite 5 months ago • 66%
I've gone through some traumatic shit lately, and I'd also like to get a tattoo once I can put in enough OT to save for one.
Is your wife free? :)
shadowSprite 5 months ago • 100%
Shit, I'll never forget being at home watching the towers burn on TV as a kid and seeing things falling from them and asking my mom what they were and hearing "those are people jumping rather than burn to death". Horrifying. What a choice to make.
shadowSprite 5 months ago • 100%
Oh definitely. It just did give me sympathy. I'm much better than I used to be, although I definitely have days and weeks occasionally where I'm like wow, I just want something sweet, and I eat like crap and then have to eat super healthy for awhile to balance it out. But I'm only human, and sometimes I get stressed, depressed, or too broke/tired to eat the way I should. And that's ok. I've tried the ultra healthy lifestyle for awhile and I was honestly miserable and unhappy. I like good food, and everything in moderation and all.
shadowSprite 5 months ago • 100%
I like sweet things. I totally confess that I eat way too many sweet things. 3 or 4 times in my life I've "challenged" myself to go 30 days without eating any sugar except what's in fruits and vegetables and food like that naturally, making sure to eat a very careful diet and no treats or processed food. Every time within a few days I was having awful cravings and mood swings, and by a week I felt like an emotional wreck who just wanted sugar. I completed my "challenges" but it was disturbing.
It also gave me a ton of empathy for addicts. If I can't not eat sugar without a massive struggle, I can only imagine trying to get clean from heroin or another drug.
shadowSprite 5 months ago • 100%
I'm also joining the group coming here from All, I've never heard of this, but just wanted to chime in and say I'm sorry some of you have to DYI your own healthcare because the system is failing you, please be safe and healthy.
shadowSprite 5 months ago • 100%
Same on both counts
shadowSprite 5 months ago • 100%
I feed my cats their wet food on large plates the size of dinner plates. The assholes still prefer to paw it onto the floor and eat it off there, and then leave a mess everywhere. They get their kibble in a wide shallow bowl, and that stays in place.
shadowSprite 5 months ago • 20%
I wish the EU would fucking invade the US already. Either put us out of our misery or save us, either way, it stops our leaders from spreading the evil and murder around the globe.
shadowSprite 5 months ago • 100%
I just got an autofeeder for my cats. Wonderful thing. My cats still come to me and sit and scream for food for the hour before each mealtime, and we argue about whether or not they currently need my participation in mealtime, right up until the thing kicks on, then they're off like a shot. It's hilarious.
shadowSprite 5 months ago • 100%
(Clearly I don't know anything about aerodynamically engineering)
shadowSprite 5 months ago • 100%
You think zip ties will hold together at those speeds? Not to mention cause drag due to the tiny bumps? Do you know anything about aerodynamical engineering?
You have to zip tie it together, then duct tape over top nice and smooth for extra holding strength and to reduce wind resistance. Boeing, hire me instead!
shadowSprite 5 months ago • 97%
1 is when I have had to pee for the past 2 hours but have had a warm happy kitty on my lap that I didn't want to disturb but now the situation is dire.
2 is every other time.
shadowSprite 6 months ago • 90%
I'm down 40ish in a year. I mean, it's weight I've been trying desperately without success to lose for years, but eventually I'm going to run out. And then when it's 3am on a Tuesday and I'm lying awake mentally working through my budget for the 11th time that week I go "I've been stressed and skipped meals before and never lost weight, do I have cancer? Because I really can't afford that."
shadowSprite 6 months ago • 100%
Alcohol turns me into a very morose, mellow philosopher who thinks the world is even darker and more fucked than I think when I'm sober. It also gives me the munchies.
I thought that was supposed to be weed that did that. But I've never smoked weed, so idk. I've pretty much stopped drinking.
shadowSprite 6 months ago • 100%
I worked at [generic big-name eyeglass store/optometrist] for a few months and we weren't allowed to adjust any eyeglasses that weren't purchased at our store because if they broke while we were trying to bend them we couldn't just get another frame and replace them, but also it was 2022 and they only paid me $12/hr so if someone came in and seemed chill I'd always be like hey, I'm obviously going to try really hard to not break your glasses, but sometimes shit happens and if it does you are on your own because you didn't get them here and I'm not allowed to do this, and would just adjust them.
shadowSprite 6 months ago • 100%
I have mullvad and also browse certain Reddit communities without an account. Some of the servers still get through. If you're using US servers I know there are a few of the NY, Atlanta, and Virginia servers I've been able to get through on. I've also gotten through on some of the West Coast ones but I can't remember which ones, I only remember the last 3 because they were the last ones I trial and error throughed while actually paying attention to which servers I was connecting to instead of picking at random.
shadowSprite 6 months ago • 100%
Ooh, can I share a sweet story instead, because this made it pop into my head and it's a memory of a wonderful person that I wish everyone could have known?
I used to work at this small business when I was younger, and one of the employees was an older guy in his 80s who had retired and worked a few hours a week just to keep busy. He loved us teens and twenty somethings and we adored and respected him.
As time went on, the assistant manager left and I ended up being promoted to assistant manager. And eventually daylight savings happened and the clock changed. This employee came in for his first shift after the time change and looked half dejected and half embarrassed and he quietly explained to me that he didn't know how to change the time on his watch, that the previous assistant manager had always done it for him, so now he was trying to deal with his watch being an hour off. I happily changed the time for him, and after that I changed it for him every time change. Even after he retired for good he would come in during my shift and give me his watch and I'd set it forward or back the hour so it could be right and he'd be thrilled every time.
shadowSprite 6 months ago • 100%
I feel the struggle! I wish more industries and the world in general was better adapted for the night owls around us. I wish you could get an office job that was 9pm to 5am, and I wish you could attend college classes in person overnight. Ever since Covid even grocery stores and places like Walmart and Target arent open past 10 or 11 pm anymore, instead of 24 hours like they used to be. Basically, I wish there was a whole different world that took place at night (and I'm not talking about partying, just those of us who wish to live normal life nocturnally). I've seen it put in the way like hundreds and thousands of years ago we would have been so useful to our "tribes", because someone had to stay up overnight and watch for predators and bandits and such, but now there's no need for that so our nocturnal abilities are forced to adapt to a world that tells us we're useless lazy people for staying up late and sleeping during the day.
shadowSprite 6 months ago • 100%
The only time I felt human was when I worked night shift. I can spend hours trying to fall asleep and I sleep like shit until around dawn, then I sleep like the dead until whenever I need to get up. When I worked night shift I'd get home around 7:30-8am, eat a small meal, shower, be in bed by 8:30-9:00 am, and if it took me more than 15 minutes to fall asleep it was unusual. I'd be out solid until anywhere from 2-5pm and wake up feeling refreshed and ready to go. When I switched from days to nights people who'd known me for years kept commenting on how my entire personality changed and how I was so much happier; for the first time in my entire life I wasn't struggling through a constant haze all day every day.
I have an interview this week for a night shift job and my heart is absolutely dancing at the thought of getting back into that schedule again.
shadowSprite 6 months ago • 100%
Medieval combat. I'd love to learn how to sword fight, like genuinely sword fight.
shadowSprite 6 months ago • 100%
What if we can't see God because we're all just a bunch of random synapses firing in some higher beings brain while they're having a fever dream? After our world "ends" they're gonna wake up and go "holy shit that was a fucked up dream"
shadowSprite 6 months ago • 100%
Poor Capone was born in the wrong time. He'd have been considered a hero and a good politician today apparently.
shadowSprite 6 months ago • 100%
Modded Skyrim in VR is amazing too. I've put my Index on and had hours slip by without realizing it. There's nothing like wandering around Skyrim and killing dragons in VR. And then of course there's also Half Life Alyx. That game will make you forget you're in a game...
shadowSprite 6 months ago • 100%
Genuine question, I just tried this on my phone with both Firefox and Brave (my backup browser). Why does Firefox leak so much more data than Brave? Brave pretty much only showed which number version of Android I'm running and my time zone, Firefox showed all kinds of unique data including all the sensor readings from my phone, how many cameras it has, all the hardware components, and that fingerprint reading is allowed and I have all my settings as strict as they can be. I thought Firefox was supposed to be the way better option.
shadowSprite 6 months ago • 88%
I dont smoke, I've never done drugs, and I drink a few times a year. Have I been guilty of a few frivolous purchases in the past? Sure, but now I literally do not have the money, so I can't. I just make lists of things I'd like to buy "someday."
I've gone out and bought a $7 rotisserie chicken, a $3 bag of noodles and a $3 bag of carrots, thrown them in a pot with a bunch of garlic, spices and water, slow cooked them for an entire day, then pulled out the chicken, ripped off all the meat, discarded the carcass, and lived for an entire month off that soup. I was sooo sick of chicken noodle soup.
But I shouldn't have to. Why should I work my ass off for companies who make more and more profits while my rent goes up, food costs more and more, and every other fucking bill goes up, yet if I ask for a raise I'm a lazy millenial?
Have some fucking empathy.
shadowSprite 6 months ago • 100%
The funny thing is that I've never had avocado toast and I tried coffee once, hated it, and never tried it again. I can't drink energy drinks either. Take that, financial columnists!
shadowSprite 6 months ago • 100%
I wasn't smart enough to make that choice this time around, but next life being born into a rich family is my number one criteria :)
shadowSprite 6 months ago • 100%
When I was in my late teens/early twenties I truly thought that in ten years I'd own a home for sure, with some hard work and dedication.
Ten years later, I don't even get to buy groceries every week or eat every day. I've lost 30 pounds in the last year just from skipping so many meals.
I can't wait to see what the next ten years holds.
And if one more person tells me I should make sure to invest for retirement... I can't even feed myself, what you want me to invest? My retirement plan is work until I'm too old/sick/injured and then off myself.
shadowSprite 6 months ago • 93%
Phone calls. Knowing I have to make a phone call wrecks my entire week.
shadowSprite 7 months ago • 100%
That's badass! I'm useless with any craft needles, cross stitch, sewing, knitting, crochet, etc, but I spent enough time as a kid trying that I can appreciate the time and talent put into even simple looking pieces!
shadowSprite 7 months ago • 100%
Back at you!
In reference to your user name, what do you stitch?
shadowSprite 7 months ago • 100%
Happy International Women's Day, from a fellow woman on the internet. I honestly didn't even realize that was today, my life has been a complete mess lately. I'm sorry you've gotten gross messages online, I like to joke that I'm so unattractive and unlovable that even online no one bothers me 😂
shadowSprite 7 months ago • 100%
Amen. You'll never hear me whining about that. Anyone desperate enough to risk their life to cross the border has to be escaping hell. I used to live in an area with a lot of immigrants and some refugees and my job put me in contact with them frequently and I never saw any reason to have a problem with any of them. Despite what the media says, they were no worse than any other person, and a lot of them were good people who were clearly doing their best.
I have a Lenovo Yoga running Windows 10 on a 1TB SSD and at some point will probably have to upgrade it to Windows 11. I use it for school and have to keep Windows on it for now because of what I'm currently doing. I want to start getting into Linux in hopes of making the switch sometime down the line. Is partitioning the disk and dual booting Windows/Linux a thing and is it possible/easy to do? If so, what distro would anyone recommend? (I've heard good things about Mint). Back in the day I had gotten bored one night, installed Ubuntu on an external drive and played around with it a very tiny bit before forgetting about it, but that's the extent of my Linux knowledge, so kindly keep explanations ELI5 :) Edit: Thank you everyone! You've given me lots of good advice and knowledge, some terms to Google, and some good places to start. I appreciate it! Looking forward to joining the wonderful world of Linux!
What exactly are Maven and Gradle and Ant? I'm learning Java in school right now and nowhere in class or in my textbook have they ever been mentioned, but every time I'm asked to code a project of course I have to pick whether I use Java with Maven, Java with Gradle, or Java with Ant. I always just pick Java with Maven because I have no idea what I'm actually doing, but it would be nice to know what I'm picking and why. I googled it but just found a bunch of articles that assume you already know what they are and want to know the differences between the 3. I read a few of those articles and now I'm even more confused, they talked about how they are good for different things because they are different languages with different dependencies. But... isn't Java the language? So can someone explain what exactly Maven and Gradle and Ant are and why I need to pick which one I want to use when I'm coding in Java? Edit: also, how do I know which one to pick, and when it matters what to pick?
That's the question really. I hear the terms metadata and torrents thrown around all the time when talking about internet and privacy, but I don't really understand them and when I tried googling torrents I was just confused. Can someone explain one or both like I'm 5?
Is there a way to get my TI-84 to not draw the whole line in a graph? For example, if I want to graph a piece work function like f(×) = x+1 for x<2 and x-7 for x>2 can I get it to draw that to easily visualize it, or do I just have to have it draw both full graphs? It would be so much easier for me to see if I could get it to cut off where it needs to.