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Cake day: July 6th, 2023
  • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Would you wear a body cam at work?
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    5 days ago

    Where I work; the public facing staff, security and customer service roles, are now offered to wear one at the start of their shift. They all want to use one.

    These workers face abuse - physical assault, threats, harassment - from members of the public.

    What has been found is that when they turn the body worn camera on, the other person tends to stop the abuse or at least de-escalates somewhat. (Prior to having body worn cameras available, some of these staff had tried to use their phone to film when in an incident, but it almost always triggered an immediate violent response - one staff had their phone taken and smashed, another was hit in the face)

    There has been a decrease in mental health injury claims since using these. My own talks with these staff are that they feel safer, and had asked their employer to procure more body worn cameras as there wasn’t enough for all the staff.

    The staff are not required to have them constantly on, they press a button to switch it on when an aggressive situation is forming or they believe they are in danger.

  • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.orgtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Immutable distros recommindation?
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    1 month ago

    Kalpa needs to attract more developers to keep up with Aeon’s pace. I understand it is usable as a daily driver, but it’s not just a one to one mirror of Aeon with Plasma on top.

    https://sfalken.tech/posts/2024-06-08-how-do-aeon-and-kalpa-relate/

    Richard Brown is all in on Aeon along with whatever contributors are helping him. Stephen Falken appears to have no one helping him work on Kalpa unfortunately. I disagree with Richard’s stance that Kalpa shouldn’t exist, but I do wish there were some capable people able to help that project.

    I don’t mind using Gnome anyway, it actually does solve some networking issues that I’ve always had with Plasma. (Dolphin not handling it well whilst Gnome Files has no issues)

  • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.orgtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Immutable distros recommindation?
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    1 month ago

    I’ve been using Opensuse Aeon just over a year and it’s done great.

    Tumbleweed user for the last 5 years, and dealt with a few issues over that time. The usually infrequent update break that comes with rolling release. And the Opensuse ‘Patterns’ started, which I loathe and it’s a disaster to try to disable them every install.

    Aeon hasn’t had any of those issues. It’s been very much a “turn it on and get to work”.

    I’ve generally had less issues with Aeon than Tumbleweed - like certain flatpaks not crashing.

    But downsides as I see them:

    I’m not a gnome guy. It’s fine though, I don’t hate it. But some people can’t stand it.

    I had a bit of trouble running wine. Something about the default security policy. There’s a known workaround.

  • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the most expensive thing you broke as a kid and what's the story behind it?
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    3 months ago

    Kitchen window. About 2x3 metres if I remember right.

    We had a trampoline in our backyard, outside the kitchen so mum could watch us while cooking or whatever. There was a huge hill (our house was in a bit of a mountainous area), and we decided to throw some rocks down the hill and bounce them off the trampoline… but we were uncoordinated 10 year olds so we missed every time. And it was just a bunch of little stones gathering in our backyard.

    Then I found one rock. Pretty big, had to lift it with two hands and shot-put it down the hill. That was the one that we finally landed on the trampoline. And it bounced right through the kitchen window.

  • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you use Facebook or Instagram?
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    5 months ago

    I typically log in to facebook a couple times a month to see if anyone sent me any messages.

    But then I check it frequently during crises. Our town (small regional town out in the bush) has a community group that shares location and severity of bushfires or storms, local power outages, missing animals, emergency calls, criminal activity (break ins, theft of equipment, suspicious behaviour like unfamiliar vehicles parking outside their house, etc).