As a service worker, I have a fair few regulars who I know will brighten my day when I see them. It really doesn’t take much; a friendly demeanour, a smile, a joke or two, it all goes a long way to make me feel like we’re having a human interaction rather than me being a machine through which you order food & drinks. I’ve been doing this type of work for years but I still get flabbergasted at people who answer “latte to-go” when I ask them how their day is going.

That being said, something that annoys me (not saying you do this, you sound sweet and self-aware) is when people try to chat us up when we’re clearly busy and in a rush. I don’t want to be rude, and I would love to chat if I had time, but when I have a mountain of tickets to get through I’m not going to be a particularly engaging conversation partner :P

EDIT: I just want to add;

Joy is rebellion. Kindness is radical. Optimism is counterculture.

Love this. it’s basically my motto at work. It’s kinda silly, but even something as simple as getting service from a friendly person can make a difference in someone’s day. Last year, I had a couple come in the café I worked at, chatted them up a bit, made them laugh. Come to learn they’re from out of town, and I ask “what brings you to these parts?” only for the lady to break out into tears and tell me they were here for her mother’s funeral. In between her sobs, she said they wanted to go out for breakfast to clear her thoughts from her grieving, and that she truly appreciated the kind and thoughtful service my coworkers and I gave them.

I went into the back and cried a bit after that, but it truly feels nice to make a positive difference in someone’s day. I think about her a lot when I have a rough day at work, it helps keep me focused on trying my best. You never know what someone’s going through.

I’m not an Apple user but I’ve heard good things about the Alfred launcher on MacOS.

That’s a lot of nuts!

I just took an edible and it’s starting to kick in, but I still want to figure this out.

Getting stoned and getting the magic rocks in my homelab to do my bidding is one of my favourite ways to use up my time on this Earth.

This comment reminded me, I have met some people who played in a French/German improv league (LIBER). They’re based in Berlin and perform in both French and German. I’m not sure how they incorporate both languages, but I believe it’s just a free-for-all, speak what you want, answer in whatever type situation.

Je ne m’attendais pas de voir un thread au sujet de l’impro sur Lemmy!

The improv match format you’re referring to is pretty much exclusively mostly a thing in the Francophone scene. L’impro-match, or l’improvisation gravelienne, or l’impro style LNI started in the 70s’ in Québec out of the experimental theatre scene in Montréal, before spreading to other French-speaking countries.

The closest I’ve found on the Anglo side of things is stuff like theatresports or the Canadian Improv Games. There are similarities but the hockey theming is absent and the formats vary in multiple ways.

EDIT: I found this improv league in Spanish in Argentina who follow the same format with a direct link to the OG Ligue Nationale d’Improvisation. Like I mentioned in a reply to another comment here, there’s also LIBER in Berlin, who play in both French and German. When the referee reads the theme card, they specify if the improv will be in French, German, or a mix of both.

I don’t know about you, but whenever I’ve had schedules where I didn’t get two sequential days off in a week I’d tire out waay fast.

In your situation, I’d probably pick Sunday+Monday as my weekend. You get the extra for working on Sunday, and you get to avoid the stressed people on Mondays. It is nice to have one conventional weekend day off, the other commenters aren’t lying when they say working weekends limits social opportunities.

Here’s the link on Github. It doesn’t seem to be on the main F-Droid repo, only IzzyOnDroid’s, so I don’t know why the other commenter tried to link to it on the main repo.

Crocs. Actual Crocs ^TM are like walking on a cloud of happiness; knock-offs are like walking with shoes made of dried-up old chewing gum.

I like Fluent Reader, it looks nice, can fetch full articles, and IIRC caches them locally for offline viewing, don’t quote me on that last one though.

When you post a link, you can add a thumbnail image URL! In the default lemmy-ui, it should be right under where you upload an image :)

I keep loosely-categorized lists of movies and shows to watch. Whenever someone I know, or someone on a Lemmy thread, mentions a show or movie they like, I look it up. If it looks cool, I add it to the list.

Granted I’m not a huge TV or movie person, but for me this list grows faster than I can watch it.

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People, basically someone calls in to talk about anything they want with the host (comedian Chris Gethard). The caller can hang up any time, the host must hang up after exactly one hour.

People call in to talk about so many different things, and Gethard is really good at getting people to open up in a very genuine yet casual manner.

Oh, I’ve never played CS 1.6 so I can’t directly comment but the main thing I hear is how different the mechanics are.

I imagine nostalgia plays no small role, as well.

They’re completely different games, but if you’re unfamiliar with the Counter-Strike series I can see how it can be confusing.

Counter-Strike 1.6 refers to the original game in the series, which ran on the GoldSrc engine. The “1.6” refers to the final release of this game from 2000.

The next installments in the series were Counter-Strike: Source (2004) and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (2012) which both ran on the Source engine.

Counter-Strike 2 was released in 2023, as an update replacing CS:GO. It runs on the Source 2 engine, which is to what the “2” in the name is referring.

Oops, I didn’t see that part of the question, my bad! I sure hope rice stays affordable, that and tofu represent like half my diet :P

Lentils and potatoes for sure, but we don’t really grow rice in Canada. There are some examples, but we get our rice from the US, Thailand, and India, as well as many other countries. I eat rice very regularly and I have no doubt I’ve never eaten rice grown on Canadian soil.

I got a new job, and the group chat is on WhatsApp, so I’m looking into running a Synapse server with a bridge to it. I really don’t want to have to use Meta’s apps on my phone.

From what I’ve read so far, it seems like it’s going to be the most convoluted install process I’ll have encountered in my self-hosting journey. I’m excited to tackle it, but also a bit overwhelmed. Which is why I’ve been putting it off :P