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  • I was able to advance academics twice through convincing convincing people that I was more than my bad grades.

    First was me convincing another highschool to accept me and let me skip a year after I almost failed my first year in high school.

    Second was applying for my current university, with decent grades, but needing scholarship.

    Both times I spoke with people in charge of making those decisions through online interviews and managed to convince them to take chances on me

  • There's a thing that I sometimes think about. I write in cursive by default and live in Japan.

    Me being Latvian, chances are that that I'm the first Latvian person that someone has encountered. The question is: how many people thought that I wrote something in weird Latvian script and not just English in cursive?

  • I used to start the day with about a 30min walk to work and end it with a 1h20min walk back from uni at the end of the day. Would end up with about 10km a day for about 2 months.

    You kinda get used to it, but I still prefer to ride my motorcycle since it now takes like 25min in total.

  • I had a Sharp SH-03L for a while, it's a business version of one of their flip phones that didn't even have a camera.

    The OS was actually android 8.0 but really stripped down to basically only do the whatever apps a flip phone has.

    I was able to sideload apks through ADB, but ironically, I actually wanted the google stuff to work since a lot of the apps required it to log in and other things.

    The thing was pretty cheap though, paid like $15 for it

  • Skill issue

  • Same feelings here, I used to average around 1k hours per year in my "active" years.

    All of the issues with CS2 kinda put the end to that, played the beta, then stopped for a year, and now I play few games every few days

  • In Latvian it's just

    Hedgehog = Ezis

    Sea urchin = Jūras ezis (Literally sea hedgehog)

    Same almost for the porcupine tho, it is called dzeloņcūka, which basically translates to barbed pig.

  • I work with frozen food boxes and on some of them you can just give few good smacks along the top and half of the tape will just unstick. Then just give a good pull to one of the halfs and you are in.

    To break down the box, just flip it on the side and punch, usually that is enough to get one end of the tape unstuck and you can pull it off.

    No tools needed at all

  • Same rule would quite honestly improve Lemmy quite a bit.

    Not because of political reasons, but because it gets annoying opening any news post, expecting interesting discussion, and getting a bunch of versions of "eAt tHe rIcH" and guillotine comments instead.

    That's like reddit behavior