Midnight_Ice

25 years old, I live in Alberta, Canada. I learned on automatic and then my first car was a manual. I have only owned cars with manual transmissions since. So much more fun to drive imo

Do you lay your nose on tissues?

Makes sense

Is it alleged if there’s an Amber Alert? There has to be pretty specific criteria met for them to issue one of those

I swipe and tap to type. It really depends on what I’m doing. If I’m typing one handed, swiping is really nice and super fast. I’ll also swipe to type if my phone is on the table and I’m only typing with one finger. If I’m using both hands, I will generally tap to type.

Edit to add I used SwiftKeys on Android

You Belong With Me by Taylor Swift is always a crowd pleaser

Can someone explain to me how I, a 25 year old student living alone, making less than $30k a year, don’t qualify for this?

This is also a stupid “solution.” We can’t just keep handing out $200 everytime people bring up the impact of inflation. Stop the inflation! Companies are just increasing their profit margins while consumers get less and less.

Yeah those kinds of megathreads are absolutely useless

I think megathreads are useful for things like an album release or a weekly episode release. It gives a place for conversation to occur without flooding the community with duplicate posts. I think the megathreads you’re referring to though are the ones where it’s like “New DIY-ers, ask questions here!” I agree that those should stay gone. No one reads them and they aren’t helpful.

Yeah but how do you know we didn’t send that goose on a mission to shit in your yard? Maybe you should be mad at Canada.

Yeah but the old basic plans restrict video quality to HD. It used to go 720p > 1080p > 4K for quality. Idk if it’s still the same as I haven’t looked at the plans, but I assume you still only get HD unless you pick the highest tier.

If they had plans that offered one screen and 4K resolution, I’d consider going back for sure. But as it stands, paying $24/month for one screen just so I can get the resolution that every other streaming service includes for all plans is ridiculous. Netflix is stuck in the 2010s. I can watch YouTube in 8K in some cases, and that’s free. I don’t understand why Netflix is being so difficult about it.

I cancelled when they announced they were cracking down on password sharing and I haven’t missed it. Every other service, I pay for the amount of screens and I can use that amount simultaneously anywhere. I don’t understand why Netflix insists on being so difficult about it. I’m not spending $24/month just so I can get 4K resolution and not allow anyone else to use the 3 other screens included in that plan.

In my experience, kids who want to be distracted will find a way to do it. I’ve been in classrooms (as an adult) where phones and computers weren’t allowed. Most notably, I’ve observed a grade 7 class where with their social studies teacher, they weren’t allowed technology in the classroom, but with their math teacher, they were. There was not a different level of distraction between the two classrooms. The only difference was in the way kids chose to spend their time instead of working. In the room without technology, they would sit and stare off into space and not work, or distract their neighbour with a conversation, or doodle instead of doing their work. In the room with technology, they’d play a scratch game on their computer, or do work for a different class on Google Classroom (because that’s what they felt like working on at the moment, although they weren’t supposed to be), or doodle in Paint, or text a friend. However, through my observations of both classrooms, neither one of them had more distracted kids. The distraction was just different.

Maybe other people have different experiences in other classrooms, but my observations here have been pretty consistent across every classroom I’ve been in (and it’s been a lot of classrooms, because it’s part of my practicum to get my teaching degree). Teaching kids about respectful technology use and when it’s appropriate to use their phones as a tool in the classroom seems far more beneficial to me than just banning phones.

I’m not necessarily saying they need to learn how the devices work (although some kids do). I’m more saying they need to learn how to use them, as in, when it is appropriate and effective to use their phone, and what they should be using it for. Scrolling through social media in class? Obviously not a good choice when you should be focusing on your learning. Using it as a calculator? Great! We have a calculator in our pocket for just that reason. Fact checking something to make sure what you’re writing in your essay is true? Great! Always back up your writing with sources!

Phones are just mini computers. We use computers in the classroom because we understand they’re a useful tool. Showing kids how to utilize those tools is important. The younger generation (myself included, although I graduated high school 7 years ago now) see cell phones as an extension of themselves. It’s a tool I use daily to find information, view traffic in real time, keep up to date on current events, and communicate with my family and friends. I use it all the time. I’m very strongly of the opinion that technology is never inherently bad. We just need to teach and model appropriate and effective use.

The mods knew this was a risk going in. If anything, it just shows that reddit doesn’t care about its users. They’re ostracizing a large portion of their mods. If there is no one to moderate their site, they’re going to realize why they needed their users very quickly.

I swapped my Sync app on my homescreen out for Jebroa for Lemmy, so when I instinctively go to open Reddit, I open Lemmy instead. Seems to be working well so far!

Ugh tell me about it. My phone bill went up $5/month at the start of the year for no reason. I’m on the same BYOD plan. I talked to my carrier and they were like “rest assured the funds are going towards upgrading our systems and providing better service.” Yeah okay. I don’t get service in half of my city because there aren’t enough towers to handle the population but sure. Charge me more to not be able to make phone calls. Makes sense.

There’s a lot of people here immediately jumping to the “cell phones bad!” conclusion.

Phones are a part of kids lives nowadays. Banning them in schools isn’t going to help anyone. How are children supposed to learn to use technology safely and effectively if we just take it away from them instead? I don’t want to imply that it is only a teachers job to teach kids about safe technology use, because it isn’t, but kids spend 30+ hours a week at school. It is a large portion of their lives and what they learn in the classroom often ends up reflected in their lives outside of school.

I think everyone who jumps to the conclusion to ban cell phones in schools is missing the point. All it does is encourage kids to use their technology in unsupervised spaces instead. It doesn’t teach them how to use it safely or effectively, and it doesn’t prevent them from participating in cyber bullying. All it does is push issues such as that outside of the school where kids have arguably less resources and support systems to deal with it.