Appa! Yip yip!
(Ok, it’s a yak not a sky bison, but it’s still who I saw first)

PAX - before there was PAX Prime or PAX East.
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The thing that gets me a lot of the time is falling up. I would trip while running or riding a bike, and lose contact with the ground. Soon I’m beyond any trees that I could grab, and just falling. Up. Until it wakes me up.

I’ve had nightmares about it since I was a kid (I don’t know when “old” starts, but I’m probably closer to that than to being a kid. Well, in age - I’m still pretty immature 😅)

I have had quite a few nightmares about not being able to find my kids during zombie apocalypses.
Same basic thing tho: the scariest part wasn’t the setting or scenario, it was not being able to save my kids from harm.

Omg, I can finally use my cane and carry more than one f*n thing at a time! Or - on a rough day - use my walker and carry my coffee without fear of a tiny bump into something spilling coffee everywhere! It’s the little things like that that I miss

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

For Android, I know Sync and Connect both allow it, but I don’t know how good either are at it.

The one I found is trees

If there’s another that’s more active, I haven’t noticed it yet. I admit to being a lurker there still.

I sit on the couch with a comfy blanket, a giant thing of water nearby, and play video games. Usually some Zelda game, but always something gentle where it doesn’t matter if I fall asleep while playing.

Also, I have some form of chicken soup (see my other reply for a delicious recipe)

There’s a delicious recipe for chicken/tortilla/lime soup somewhere on imgur… Lemme find it rq… Here we go:

https://imgur.io/xZu0m?r

(I had to check where I fall these days, since I thought of myself as Gen X forever, especially vs Millennial, but I guess I’m a Xennial?)

Anyway, I feel like “cringe” is in this same bucket :-P

Thanks, I didn’t realize that, either. I always thought it literal eggs, or literal lemons, or literal donkey-balls… (none of which sound pleasant to me)

This whole thread is enlightening to me, so thanks for asking and making your language more inclusive, OP!

Also, I like using “weak-sauce” if I have to watch my language - I think I’m too old to use “cringe” as often, unless it’s, like, really cringe.

P.s. I’m disabled, walking problems, bad back, one leg a little shorter than the other… I use “lame” to mean shitty/uncouth/sucky/disappointing/boring and don’t take offense to it…

Maybe use “sucks”? Or “uncool” (“That thing I did was so uncool. It was really sucky.”) would probably be my top suggestions.

I have seen signs hung around nearby schools trying to get the word “gay” out of common use to mean the same thing that “lame” is used for, but I don’t remember a lot of the things that were on the list. If I find a copy of the sign (or one like it) I’ll add it. (ok, that was 5 years ago, so they may not still be used? … That’s naive, even for me.)

As someone else said, though, I think it’s used so infrequently to mean “disabled” in modern English, that you probably don’t have to worry about it.

In the game Crackdown - you had to increase your agility and strength, and weapons proficiencies to be strong enough to move onto the next area.

You could get the xp by doing things like killing guys while jumping or whatever, or you could find “agility orbs” at the tops of a lot of buildings (and smokestacks, billboards, factories, etc.) and get extra xp from finding them. As you level up your agility, you can get to taller places. Eventually I’d just climb places because I could not because I saw an orb.

That and blowing shit up with a rocket launcher, getting a faction really pissed at me, and then quietly leaving the scene after I get ran out of rockets. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Android clients Sync For Lemmy, Connect, and Summit all seem to allow filtering by instance. Summit even appears to allow regex filtering.

Hope it helps!

Oh yeah! I have actually seen that (well, Phone(1) anyhow). I think it’s on my short-list for after my Pixel6a! Thanks for bringing it back to my attention 😁

Clear is one of my favorite colors! (along with purple and glow-in-the-dark)

Huh. Well, it was a feature that my parents paid the telco for, so I don’t know how it worked, but it was exactly what it says on the tin: an 800 telephone number that I could use from any phone and call my house phone.

Pagers were mostly a thing that dealers had so you could buy drugs. My mom got me one because I was always out driving around - sometimes up to 2 hours away on a whim - and she wanted to be able to check on me. We didn’t have a cell phone, so this was the solution for her.

It may have been misused at some point, but “baud” was a word long before the internet, and I distinctly remember my modem at the time using the word baud on the box. I was just a teenager, so I’m sure I was missing key information. It was used, tho.

Here, this is proving us both right:

If your modem-to-modem connection is at 14400 bps, it’s going to be sending 6 bits per signal transition (or symbol) at 2400 baud. A speed of 28800 bps is obtained by 3200 baud at 9 bits/baud. When people misuse the word baud, they may mean the modem speed (such as 33.6k).

Kilobaud is definitely a word that means a thing. Baud is a literal unit of measure that uses the metric prefixes.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Like the translucent (still corded, so not that hi-tech) phone with the bright colors for all the components? I had one of those! I think the outer part of my cord was actually clear, too.

Ooh, and that dope clear pager was hella rad!

On that note, remember payphones?? (getting paged by my mom and having to find a payphone to call the family 800# and check in…)