car enthusiasts may appreciate this-
just rode in the Nissan Z. despite riding on coilovers and very fat 275 rubbers... the NVH of the Nissan Z is quieter and smoother than most continental cars that i have driven and been in.
I have lusted for a certain B58-powered Toyota for a while now after being strapped in the passenger seat to drift on the track. After experiencing the new Nissan Z, i think i'm sold. And that retro 300ZX-inspired rear with a spoiler, 240Z-inspired roofline, bonnet, bumper is sex man..... looks better IRL than in pictures trust me.
The concept Proto Z with the Ikazuchi Yellow and black grills is just chef's kiss. Thank God the production model looks the same as the Proto concept.
here are some photos of the car
Imgur has somehow flagged it as porn, understandable.
today's theme for me is alt frontends and fediverse software:
- https://libredirect.github.io/ is a web extension for firefox and chrome that auto-redirects to alt frontends (as an aside, don't you find it interesting that there are redirects for tiktok and bilibili, but none for zuck's networks?)
- use https://farside.link/ if you don't want to install anything (so instead of https://reddit.com/r/popular, you modify the url to https://farside.link/reddit.com/r/popular and farside redirects you to a random alt frontend instance)
- last but not least, https://fedi.builders/ is a huge list of fediverse software for building a real alternative internet, because alt frontends are more of a stopgap measure, and sooner or later they will be taken down
Awesome stuff!
I have decided that I will be using libreddit till the small communities I follow here get really active.
I think most daily thread regular migrated. Dt has waaay less traffic than before.
And why does lemmy keep asking me to relogin? I wonder if theres some boxes i havent check yet.
not so long ago, maybe 6-7 years ago, just before GE, the daily thread used to be very deserted lol, double digit almost every single day. This chat thread does remind me of the calmness the old DT provided me, and hopefully many other people.
if you go even further back maybe 7-8 years ago, the entire sub was a desert, you could post very strange questions like What does everyone do for a living, What is everyone's favourite food etc... HAHHA
I was there for 1500 subscriber - there wasn't a daily thread or anything. I ran across the sub before, but i wasn't active or anything. The meme golden era where meme chains can last days or weeks, the 'we are serious sub, no meme' time, the screaming political posts and comments era (no meme and only serious posts make monyets cranky), and then return of the meme (monday)
one of the time the amount of people spiked was during the ODF debate i think. tech people already on reddit finally found their way to r/malaysia even if they ignored it before.
Do you get the relogin when opening the site? Or does it ask you to do it every refresh?
try clearing cookies (if you don't want to be logged out everywhere, do it only for this site) because there was a lemmy cookie bug that was fixed last week, and old cookies carried over from before the fix could cause such problems
try clearing cookies
Shit, no wonder. I still have two cookie i haven:t finished yet.
ayo...i just found out about Lemmy NSFW..... somehow it's more cursed than NSFW subreddits cause you know, the entire instance is NSFW. shame they didn't call it Lemmy Smash
uwu seems like lemmy is gaining more traction. Though mostly are DTs regulars. uwu. Just thought I'd pop in and say happy weekend 🥳
YHappy weekend~
Happy weekend for you too!
TFW it's TGIF but you work on Saturday.
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As much as I advocate for sensible, non-emotional investing via passive means, it's hard to ignore:
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the bear case where after a yield curve inversion, the stock market usually only crashes after the yield curve uninverts. This has yet to happen, which adds to the suspense, as it's currently very inverted.
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the bull case where CPI is noticeably heading back towards the Fed's target of 2% (latest report at 3% y/y). The Fed has already said the last Fed meeting decision was a "skip", implying that a hike is still on the cards for future meetings, however the market has been performing very positively over the past 2 months. Related to the bear case, the yield curve will uninvert once the Fed decides to cut rates instead of hiking. On the technical front, on a higher time frame, the monthly MACD had a bullish crossover for all broad-based equities indices. This could still be a FOMO rally, but so was the last 10 years (as the US market's return was primarily driven by higher PE ratios rather than dividend yields or book value, compared to rest of the world where PE ratios are still relatively tame). For all we know, the Fed might pull off this "soft landing" shenanigan.
Well, I lied. If I just ignored the noise, and emotionlessly and periodically added to my investment portfolio come rain or shine, I would've ended up much better. The odds are in my favour if I just stuck to the plan.
Of course, this only comes up when market is up. Even crypto is up after some extremely favourable news yesterday. When the market is down, "oh syukor tak all-in lagi".
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cystic acne sucks man... they're all around my chin area. fucking painful.
currently taking doxycycline, was told to be patient and i need at least 3 months to see effect. it's almost month 3 now but it only got worse. visiting parents in my hometown atm and left my acne cream (some antibiotics + topical retinol cocktail) in my apartment.
gonna try bezoyl peroxide later as stop gap solution.
Good luck man, gf had it and I felt so bad for her. It's hormonal right? Making it even harder to resolve? The worst part of it is people giving normal skincare advice and not hormonal skin care advice lol
Yeah it’s hormonal acne.
The worst part of it is people giving normal skincare advice and not hormonal skin care advice lol
Yo this so much…. Normal skincare advice do not work lol. Even with prescription topical retinol it’s difficult enough to manage.
My dad thinks it’s shingle and keeps asking me to go to this folk medicine place involving them snapping some rubber band near the ears to “kill” the snake…. He said it worked for him 🤣
My parents always nudged me to exercise more while saying I can eat whatever I want. But do you guys think exercise or diet is more effective? Or it's a mix of both? Personally I think it's a mix of both, but sometimes I'd get fatter for no reason(even though I was still exercising) then I'd somehow get slimmer for no reason(I wasn't exercising during this period because I was exhausted from work). My diet was pretty much the same.
I really don't understand how my body works.
If the purpose just to lose weight, I would say go with dieting.
Do exercise when you wanna get in better shape. Saw too many people got demotivated to lose weight because they think they need to exercise and push yourself but I'm the end they feel like eating more because of it.
So I would say focus on the diet first. It's a process, it'll take time. Slow and steady also take care yourself too.
Oh dear... I never really thought of it that way. Must be what happened to me during my previous failures. 🤣 But right now I am saving money on food anyway, so it's much easier to control what I eat. I'm already avoiding excessive outside food by eating dinner at home unless I'm outside.
Back when I was still living with my parents as a student it was much harder to control my desire for food(sry dad mom for wasting your money).
omg i was typing a long ass comment but accidentally cancelled and now it's gone. Here I go retyping it.
The commenters here are right, but so are your parents.
Exercise regulates your hormones and keeps your hunger in check. But after exercising, you're gonna be hungrier than usual. Just make sure you're eating what you normally do. Drinking more plain water might help prevent overeating.
You're a woman so you have hormones that make you crave certain types of food. Give in to those cravings, but keep it in moderation - you want to satisfy your craving, not eat a whole meal of them. E.g. if you're craving chocolate, grab one or two small cubes and eat them slowly. If you're craving fried chicken, have a couple of wings or a drumstick but not too much more. If you suppress it, you're gonna stress yourself out which messes up your metabolism or your productivity.
I have a wall of text typed up which I'll put in a following comment, but you can ignore it because lots of people give diet/exercise advice but you should avoid information overload. Work on yourself little by little and don't feel obliged to apply every advice in your life right away. You can always come back and re-read later.
The wall of text:
I think you should continue to eat whatever you want like your parents say, but not however much you want. You're reducing your carb intake which is a good step! It's much better than completely cutting out carbs because your mind and body are gonna stress out over sudden diet changes.
A very difficult habit you could try to learn is to eat until you're satisfied, and not until you're full. If you'd like to start, it will help if you focus purely on eating when you're having your meals. That means no phones, no work, no TV - anything that causes you to mindlessly put food into your mouth because it makes you lose track of your fullness. You can kinda still do the above, but when you're performing the action of putting food in your mouth and chewing your food make sure to focus purely on those actions and yourself.
Also learn to be okay with not emptying your plate. It's a habit a lot of us learn as kids, but we should stop thinking about the kids in Africa because it's not our fault they're not getting food. And if you're worried about the farmers who painstakingly grew our rice, they have more machines that help them these days anyway.
With regards to snacking, obviously you should minimize it, but don't completely avoid it. Some tips are:
- Snack with a purpose. E.g. you're nearing your period and you are craving. Snacking because bored should be avoided.
- Drink a bit of plain water first. If you still want to snack after 10 mins, then go ahead.
- Put effort into your snacking. Turn snacking into an action that takes effort. Rather than reaching for a bag of chips, put some in a bowl, slice up a bit of cucumbers to have alongside it. Rather than just having some chocolate, slice up a fruit to have alongside it.
- Remember that it's still a snack and not a full meal though, so small amounts is enough.
- Focus still applies when snacking - avoid distractions while performing the action of putting food in your mouth.
Coming in a bit late but I'll say this: if you want to exercise for fitness, yes please do. But exercise and/or dieting for weight loss is basically... Bunk. Yes there will be (short-term) results but much of the state of evidence in 2023 will tell you that TLDR your body is very good at staying alive and if your weight setpoint is such-and-such, then work with the body you have to give you the fitness that'll give you good long term prospects. Even your own personal experience (at your age) is telling you there's no real meaningful correlation, meaningful as in you can't minmax your way to a solution. General advice about living well seems sound, but nutrition and fitness science literature is showing there's really no standard pathway that you can hack. BBIAB with citations.
it's a mix of both. I have been doing intermittent fasting for 4-5 years now, i used to be able to lose my weight and maintain it at low -er level. my metabolism has perhaps slowed down and IF is no longer working on its own and I could no longer eat whatever the hell i bloody want. Perhaps try swimming, it's like the only sports that doesn't feel like Essesise imo.
Also are you a woman? I'm asking because women can gain weight due to hormonal fluctuations so it's natural? And if by fatter you mean appearance-wise, could be due to salt retention and what not - try cutting down sodium intake.
Disclaimer: This is not health advice. I'm only describing what I know from chubbyemu's personal experience.
Always do diet control first. No point burning calories if the intake valve is wide open.
Basic exercise follows. Don't overdo it at the start. Go slow and steady. Only ramp up when progress plateaued with diet + basic.
Yeah Im doing diet control alright. I've definitely reduced my calory/carb intake and it's been working great. I want to go keto, but I'll have to prepare for every single meal and it's inconvenient when I eat with others(some places don't let you bring your own food)
From just adjusting my parking brake to changing the master pump. No wonder the car locks up so easily, only the front brakes were working, I thought the tires were just shit.
Now my car can actually brake and doesn't move a couple of centimeters when I pull the parking brake.
did it feel like the car's sliding when braking? and since the rears didn't work the fronts were probably working way harder?
Dude, is this the same issue you talked about months ago? Glad that you had it fixed!
Different Kancil lol but same issue.
Commenting so I could be the 100th commenter here 😁. Currently at 99 as I am typing.
Wtf just happened and how can i missed the train uhuk
@cendawanita I've been trying out foundkey and akkoma today, and I definitely see why you prefer the interface of the *keys over akkoma (do you know if akkoma inherited its ui from pleroma?)
however, I couldn't get posts from foundkey to federate over to lemmy. hopefully that's caused by a setting that can be changed, and it's not due to the *keys being incompatible with lemmy by default.
anyway, which of the *keys did you say you have experience with? (and how many of them are there? I've seen misskey, calckey, foundkey. anything else you know of?)
(quite interesting, even though you @ me, i didn't get notif also)
re: akkoma - ya it's a pleroma fork actually. can't quite remember if there was any technical reason for it, it was mostly because the pleroma dev+main instances was infested by nazis and rightwingers and lolis. iirc when i joined in nov 22, that was the "lore" that i picked up.
of the *keys, misskey is the original flavour but the japanese founder dev is apparently a bit of a lone wolf and so the dev for that became quite slow. And I think there was fallout when he, in running the japanese instance for it, wouldn't commit to moderating against homophobic speech or protecting explicit support of lgbtqia. So there was a big break from then on from there. The rest are forks of misskey, but you've pretty much named the major players:
- foundkey is a fork by this swiss guy. Apparently decent but is by this one guy, so that could be an issue.
- calckey is by this german guy I think. This one is going to go on relaunch on the 19th with new name etc. Supposedly it's because the fork has branched out enough it's its own thing, but idk. Sounds cool though, another german dude to go toe up against Eugen's Mastodon. I've noticed a lot more on the Black Americans side are beginning to rec Calckey because of all the functionalities you've also noticed (I'm on a walled-up instance for BIPOCs for example, that runs on it). Just because of what I perceive to be real good prospects in terms of userbase and with it development and funding support, I recommend Calckey, and--
- hajkey (it's swedish for shark, so "hai-ki") - this one also another difference in ideology. The people behind blahaj.zone have been key contributers to the Calckey code repo but they fell out over the growth mindset with the soon-to-be-renamed Calckey so this is a soft fork. So they'll stay within the calckey development cycle. (but who knows how soft it would be; one issue i'm sort of understanding is how resource intensive it can be as an instance grows, especially on the antenna function - btw, my favourite fedi function when it comes to scouting posts from other people.) My kitajagakita alt is one awkward.company, that one runs on this software.
re: federation - the problem is normative centralization - mastodon is the main dog especially in the western and western-facing userbase, so lemmy and *keys and *oma devs do try to make sure the federation works well there. But Lemmy is already a little janky, and maybe that's why it doesn't really play well with the foundkey yet (esp if the fk dev has enough on his plate). try setting up on an instance on calckey (not the main one, they're having continual performance issues) or hajkey and see if there's any improvement from last month (even kbin wasn't federating well with calckey).
LONG POST IS LONG
@cendawanita@monyet.cc @cafe@monyet.cc testing from calckey 14.0.0-dev46
so far, to make this work I've had to:
- pick a calckey instance that's running a pre-release of the latest version 14
- made sure it was already on https://monyet.cc/instances to increase the chances of federation working
- search for the /c/cafe community first, and made sure the follow request completed successfully
- and only then, search for your post, and reply to it, tagging/mentioning the community too
probably some of the steps are not needed, but I just wanted to throw everything that would increase the chances of it working at my attempt 😆
Thinking of going out to look for Japanese clothing this weekend for the bon odori event.
Any recommended place for those stuff? Preferably thrift stores. Ain't gonna use them often.
Jalan Jalan Japan I suppose
Gah... got boned by the recent IPTA concert debacle, cancelled for "reasons".
Where did the "Subscribed" option go on lemmy.world?
Hmm? Would you care to elaborate a bit?
Or maybe you haven't sign in yet? This version of Lemmy UI have a problem of npt signing in when you first open the browser, refreshing will fix it.
Oh oops it was me not logged in haha. Thanks.
wow! the fediverse is so dahsyat la. I posted something in !cafe from my calckey account to test if cross posting works.
my original intention was for you all to see it, but within half an hour, it has already collected 10 comments from the rest of the lemmyverse!
Yeah, people tend to browse with "all" to see more content, but unlike Reddit, c/cafe doesn't comes with country identifier like r/malaysians does, so no one will think twice about answering your question since it's also pretty general.
Same thing with my watermelon post which get a tons of views, upvotes, and comment from lemmyverse and people from different country. The tone is a bit different than what we always get from monyet.cc, and the advice is not malaysia climate specific.
I originally create c/food for us msians and monyet.cc, but lately i got a few people not from msia posting on it. This two case got me thinking.
Which I think it's good in a sense. We're no doubt a Malaysian-centric instance, but it's not like our rule specifies against it. Any user traffic is good I guess.
The ~powaaaah of the fediverse /skeletor
