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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • If the option isn’t appearing [on going to the post], it likely means the user created the community. In that case you could try DMing them and sorting out the matter if they’re still active or, in the event they’re not, contacting the admins and I think they may be able to handle it.

    Edited for clarity due to skipping steps.


  • I’m pretty sure it used to be easier to get people to move to new things like new forums, Xfire, Ventrillo

    In some respects it was somewhat easier to get them to be on multiple platforms instead of moving. Think of the original messenger proliferation, where sometimes people would be on IRC, XMPP, AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, or etc. so much so that you had software like Pidgin and Trillian to help consolidate server/chat rooms and friends lists to more easily chat with all your contacts.

    Even with Ventrilo, I remember being open to also switching to Mumble or vice versa if there was some hiccup with either.
















  • Other quotes I found compelling from the article were these:

    Ultimately, a personal action versus political action binary is unhelpful. The environmental movement needs to sustain a way to do both: agitate and organize for systemic change while also still encouraging individual behavior changes.
    […]
    Which is to say that personal action and collective, political action are self-reinforcing. Individual lifestyle changes can act as a kind of alloy that strengthens political activism. To do the difficult work of walking more lightly on the planet is to bind commitment to conviction.





  • But isopropyl alcohol and enough elbow grease will get it off, if it’s just a coating on plastic.

    Do beware, however, that you may want to dilute the alcohol to some degree, or simply use a lower concentration form of it. Too strong and it may eat at the underlying plastic just as much as the coating and ruin it.

    unrelated

    are you getting a cut from kagi for writing that instead of search? gimme the deets on that deal if so! 😛



  • If the Otterbox case had a rubberized coating on it to try to improve grip, and with it being 6 years old, there’s a possibility it’s the culprit. You could try ditching the case for a little while, and/or getting a new case and swapping them out, clean the surfaces again and see if you feel the stickiness again after handling your phone and other stuff.

    However, often with those rubberized coatings, the degradation (when severe enough to feel sticky) is more immediately apparent and you’d be more apt to avoid touching anything else afterward. Also in my experience I don’t recall it transferring to other surfaces much, but then again when I dealt with it I noticed ASAP and cleaned my hands right away.