PaintedSnail

joined 2 years ago
[–] PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Lucky. I have my PS3, and I'm having a horrible time finding decent replacement controllers. You can't use the new DualShocks, and compatible controllers you can buy are built so cheaply they don't work very well.

[–] PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Nah. That would piss off the mailroom employees, but they don't control who gets sent mail. The weight costing money does hurt the people who make the marketing decisions, though.

[–] PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

For the most part, the only real restriction is that you have to have cash on hand to settle any purchases that day regardless of any sales. The next day all the transactions settle and you can continue. So you just have to keep a larger cash reserve if you're going to do a lot of swing trading.

Some brokers are more flexible with that and will cover you as long as your trades don't put your cash in the negative, but that's up to the broker to manage the risk of a failed transaction.

Or so I understand it.

[–] PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Move to this guy's country, buy stocks

[–] PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Stocks are currently T+1, meaning the trade does not finalize until the next day.

[–] PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You speak to them of how they aren't an island. You speak to them of how even a recession-proof job is still subject to the rising costs felt by everyone. You speak to them of how these rising costs have over time reduced the actual value of what they've been paid, even with regular cost of living increases. You speak to them of how they have to work harder now for the same results. You speak to them of how much less stress having a good safety net provides, since a recession is not the only way one can fall on hard times. You speak to them of how a small decrease in take-home pay results in a much larger decrease in living expenses, resulting in a net gain.

You speak to them of how they need not be the sacrificial lamb, that they deserve to travel and learn and have a good life as well; and that their family should not have to give that up either to protect their health and well being.

You speak to them of how helping everyone is good for everyone, including themselves. The goal is to raise the standard of living across the board.

[–] PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That does come with the unavoidable side effect that the majority of the people will simply not participate. It then follows that sites like Reddit will continue to be the place where the majority of the people will go.

If your goal is to participate in small communities and you are okay with the slow pace of those communities, then that's fine. If your goal is to move people away from corporate-sponsored media for whatever reason, then this won't work.

[–] PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

Well, how does it feel to wnt?

[–] PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And can be properly gutted and de-veined.

[–] PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I believe the intent is to use appdata for user-specific configs and programdata for system-wide configs.

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