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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/52668267

My uncle is Mexican and doesn’t speak much English.

Is there any Spanish community in lemmy or in other parts of the fediverse? I’m looking for something that admits members without having to use an email address or a phone number, as privacy friendly as possible a network that won’t use data and posts to feed their LLM.

Menus and content have to be in Spanish because otherwise my uncle won’t understand it and won’t use it.

Intended use: mostly technical help, FOSS alternatives to proprietary applications and F-Droid.

Parents live far away, so I sent them a qr code generated by my local SimpleX per email.

All they have to do is open their local SimpleX, go to one-time link and scan the qr code, right?

Once our devices have been connected, connection details remains saved in our local SimpleX and I don't need to send a new qr code before I want to talk to them again, right?

I hope you guys understand my question, as somebody who has used VOIP on very limited times.

On a regular phone call, there is a constant line of communication, meaning both sides could talk at the same time if they wanted. I thought VOIP would be like this, but in my experience VOIP is a short audio message you send, the other side hears it and sends you an answer, nothing wrong with that.

I want to talk to family, I don’t want to use whatsapp and I’m experimenting with SimpleX Chat. It allows me to send short audio files as audio messages, but it’s still not a continuous LOC. Would whatsapp be the same?

I want to convince family to use SimpleX, user experience would have to be as similar as possible to whatsapp

I hope you guys understand my question, as somebody who has used VOIP on very limited times.

On a regular phone call, there is a constant line of communication, meaning both sides could talk at the same time if they wanted. I thought VOIP would be like this, but in my experience VOIP is a short audio message you send, the other side hears it and sends you an answer, nothing wrong with that.

I want to talk to family, I don’t want to use whatsapp and I’m experimenting with SimpleX Chat. It allows me to send short audio files as audio messages, but it’s still not a continuous LOC. Would whatsapp be the same?

I have 2 android devices, asus and xiaomi. I don't really use much them, meaning the few times I do I have several standing updates, most of them from f-droid.

On debian I enter a command and the machine downloads and executes all standing upgrades at once.

I don't know if I don't understand android, but on the gui I have to first download the application and then click again to install it. I am never shown an option to bulk download and install, which would save much time.

Is it supposed to be like this? Is there something I don't know?

This happens on both an asus and a xiaomi device.

don't know if this is an appropriate community

I don't particularly like this application, but my whole family uses and they simply won't use any foss alternative I've proposed so far.

I'm even thinking about joining them.

I only need audio, no video calls, no file transfers.

ETA: what free droid apps can do simply that, not needing for me to provide a phone number or my current location / country?

Most of my coworkers are younger than me, there are lots of people in their early 20s.

Some are genuine and even explain me things I don't understand.

Then there are the immature ones who only care about gossip. I don't like working with them.

I'm doing a one year certification to work on a related field and I already know the group I'll be working with. If it doesn't work I can always look elsewhere but I'd prefer staying.

Learning won't be a problem, training on the job with the mature, genuine ones won't be a problem.

The problem will be the childish ones that claim they're willing to help only when the manager is present to do the opposite when he disappears, something that has happened before. In this group there are 2 young girls that are very loud and lazy.

looking to expand my horizons. My last 2 books: the power of introverts and the subtle art of not giving a f*ck.

I know it's the anosognosia and it's not his fault but goddammit I cannot bear it anymore, he is an insufferable child in an old person's body, so needy and clingy, I know I shouldn't make it personal but when he's at home I cannot have a moment of peace or disengage, he is always doing some ridiculous sh%t.

I know I should stop blaming him and blame the illness but I simply cannot separate both things. It is him the one that makes me work extra hard only to keep him safe and he is also the one that yells, kicks and throws fits and argues.

have you managed to control this with meds alone?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36437828

I don't think I could be that:

seems to be very low paid, seniors and their families can be very demanding: some family members with dementia I know are basically 78 year old toddlers, throwing a fit for ridiculous stuff, except that this toddler becomes worse with every passing day, then issues with food: too much for him, but if you take half of the food from the plate, he looks at you as if you killed a puppy (what do you expect me to do?), then the constant need of validation and laughing at his stupid jokes he repeats several times a day, completely unrealistic expectations for the day (visiting 3 malls in 4 hours), they're completely self centered children.

not.for.me, and I'm not even the main caregiver. How can you survive this kind of emotional labor?

does it pay being an occupational therapist?

As a matter of fact there is a chance we become this entitled family who feels we can dictate to an overworked occupational therapist how to do his or her job, because we're the ones paying...

what a bleak future for everyone involved.

I don't think I could be that:

seems to be very low paid, seniors and their families can be very demanding: some family members with dementia I know are basically 78 year old toddlers, throwing a fit for ridiculous stuff, except that this toddler becomes worse with every passing day, then issues with food: too much for him, but if you take half of the food from the plate, he looks at you as if you killed a puppy (what do you expect me to do?), then the constant need of validation and laughing at his stupid jokes he repeats several times a day, completely unrealistic expectations for the day (visiting 3 malls in 4 hours), they're completely self centered children.

not.for.me, and I'm not even the main caregiver. How can you survive this kind of emotional labor?

does it pay being an occupational therapist?

As a matter of fact there is a chance we become this entitled family who feels we can dictate to an overworked occupational therapist how to do his or her job, because we're the ones paying...

what a bleak future for everyone involved.

often means every 4 to 6 months, a visit to the hospital: unfamiliar surroundings, he becomes stressed and aggressive.

Nursing facility is kinda a weak answer because it takes the whole responsibility away from you, it simply transfers this responsibility to an overcrowded facility with unsustainable ratios, burned out caregivers and corporations selling you the idea they do actually care (BS) while you, naively, buy it. Your expectation is they're going to care as much as you, which is a lie: an overworked nurse is going to do the best she can but she has other patients in the facility, other patients with dementia and mood swings, patients trying to escape or sexually assault the young, fit nurse and as soon as she finds something better, she is abandoning ship.

This is modern slavery, but this is a subject for another post.

Options I see: sedate him so he becomes a plant, something I'm against. What kind of life would that be?

Another option I personally feel inclined to: don't medicate him to the point he becomes a plant, let him feel he is young again and whatever happens, happens. He is no longer aware of his age, enjoys cartoon books, let him live and die as happy and oblivious as he can be, even if this means his life is going to be much shorter. If we lock him down, he becomes either angry or depressed, he feels trapped.

I need a dnr/dni btw.

I can already hear some sisters yelling at me and calling me callous and worse things.

staying with him 24/7 is not an option, because we all have lives and jobs to do. At this point he needs constant attention.