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  1. Comment on The search for the ultimate home/apartment spring cleaning guide in ~life.home_improvement

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    I don't have a good answer but this reminds me of Marie Kondo's book where it talks about the Japanese practice of cleaning house on New Year's

    I don't have a good answer but this reminds me of Marie Kondo's book where it talks about the Japanese practice of cleaning house on New Year's

  2. Comment on What are some of your daily use/most important apps? in ~tech

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    Thanks for the strong immich rec I'm looking for a Google photos replacement like how nextcloud could replace drive for me. Have you learned anything, tips or tricks, you could pass along?

    Thanks for the strong immich rec I'm looking for a Google photos replacement like how nextcloud could replace drive for me.

    Have you learned anything, tips or tricks, you could pass along?

  3. Comment on What are some of your daily use/most important apps? in ~tech

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    Notally Podcast Addict Merlin Spotify Proton Pass RevolutionIRC Hermit F-Droid Shazam Tile JuiceSSH Chargie Nextcloud Material Files Wireguard FillUp ChubbyClick Tuner F-Droid Firefox Insight...

    Notally

    Podcast Addict

    Merlin

    Spotify

    Proton Pass

    RevolutionIRC

    Hermit

    F-Droid

    Shazam

    Tile

    JuiceSSH

    Chargie

    Nextcloud

    Material Files

    Wireguard

    FillUp

    ChubbyClick

    Tuner

    F-Droid

    Firefox

    Insight Timer

    ASR

    Strobify

    Scrambled Exif

    Collabora Office

    Google Calendar,

    Google maps...

  4. Comment on "The university campus is rapidly becoming a locus of infantilizing social control that any independent-minded student should seek to escape" in ~life

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    I think it's crazy that the author has problems with universities' COVID policies and lauds the efforts of Fraternities to fight for their right to paarty.

    I think it's crazy that the author has problems with universities' COVID policies and lauds the efforts of Fraternities to fight for their right to paarty.

    22 votes

  5. Comment on UK requesting comments for updating ebike power laws in ~transport

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    Is 250 W effective at all on steep hills? Increasing it seems like an accessibility issue to allow people to use ebikes who otherwise couldn't make it up the hill

    Is 250 W effective at all on steep hills? Increasing it seems like an accessibility issue to allow people to use ebikes who otherwise couldn't make it up the hill

    4 votes

  6. Comment on What are your favorite series that are not from the US or UK and also not popular anime? in ~tv

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    To continue the French thread, I recommend Black Spot/Zone Blanche which is French-Belgian Visually, it reminded me a lot of DARK, being immersed in the forrested, mountainous setting of its...

    To continue the French thread, I recommend Black Spot/Zone Blanche which is French-Belgian

    Visually, it reminded me a lot of DARK, being immersed in the forrested, mountainous setting of its small, remote town. It's got mystery, characters, and police procedural roots... Very enjoyable.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on What are your favorite series that are not from the US or UK and also not popular anime? in ~tv

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    (It was not as good as Dark... The first few episodes were nice but it got bad halfway in...)

    (It was not as good as Dark... The first few episodes were nice but it got bad halfway in...)

  8. Comment on KDE Plasma 6 is (mega) released in ~tech

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    That's fair. Otoh I used LXQt and LXDE before it for many years because it worked well enough and ran reliably, where if I tired to use kde I'd get frustrated trying to adjust settings that didn't...

    That's fair. Otoh I used LXQt and LXDE before it for many years because it worked well enough and ran reliably, where if I tired to use kde I'd get frustrated trying to adjust settings that didn't work, or running really slow. For me the future of computing wasn't that exciting, but being able to use retro hardware was much more important

    2 votes

  9. Comment on KDE Plasma 6 is (mega) released in ~tech

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    I really appreciate the focus on reliability because that is what kept me away for so long. But now KDE is reliable, has wobbly windows AND desktop cube?! 2024 is truly the Year of the Linux Desktop™

    I really appreciate the focus on reliability because that is what kept me away for so long.

    But now KDE is reliable, has wobbly windows AND desktop cube?! 2024 is truly the Year of the Linux Desktop™

    12 votes

  10. Comment on What a bunch of A-list celebs taught me about how to use my phone in ~tech

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    A phone is what keeps me organized. Luckily, or unluckily, I don't have a high volume of texts or calls, and am not distracted by that. But until I'm done for the day, I use it for doing what I...

    A phone is what keeps me organized. Luckily, or unluckily, I don't have a high volume of texts or calls, and am not distracted by that. But until I'm done for the day, I use it for doing what I want to do.

    In the past I would go more places without it, but there are a few reasons I don't anymore:

    • 2FA. I can't use a computer without also having a phone with me.
    • If I have an idea while I'm walking or something, I don't want to be separated from my organizational device, and forget to put it in my calendar later, or never send the email, etc.

    So yeah I don't know. I don't usually feel like I use my phone too much?

    6 votes

  11. Comment on More "old web" sites? in ~tech

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    Came here to recommend tildeverse - there is so much on there. Everyone has their own homepage which may or may not have content. There are community projects like radio and collaborate pages, and...

    Came here to recommend tildeverse - there is so much on there. Everyone has their own homepage which may or may not have content. There are community projects like radio and collaborate pages, and most web 1.0 of all, is feels more browsing-oriented than search-oriented: YOU are the web crawler, poking around and discovering cool things

    5 votes

  12. Comment on Danish man on trial over accusations he fraudulently made more than £502,000 in royalties on music streaming sites in ~music

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    "the defendant has also been charged with breaching copyright law by allegedly taking works from other artists, changing their length and tempo, and publishing them under his own name. He has...

    "the defendant has also been charged with breaching copyright law by allegedly taking works from other artists, changing their length and tempo, and publishing them under his own name. He has pleaded not guilty."

    3 votes

  13. Comment on The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests in ~tech

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    He may be killing it, but he's also addicted to tweeting

    He may be killing it, but he's also addicted to tweeting

  14. Comment on Smallest folding bike suggestions in ~transport

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    I saw a prototype once of a 26" wheeled bike which folded down into the footprint of the wheel diameter, and you could wheel it around. I don't know if any manufacturers make something like that,...

    I saw a prototype once of a 26" wheeled bike which folded down into the footprint of the wheel diameter, and you could wheel it around. I don't know if any manufacturers make something like that, but if so that might be a good option

    3 votes

  15. Comment on Signal messenger releases 'usernames' so you no longer need to tell someone your phone number in order for them to message you in ~tech

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    Once a chat has started, does the other user then know your phone number ?

    Once a chat has started, does the other user then know your phone number ?

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content in ~tech

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    So the whole reason for Reddit hiking the API price is that the API was letting the AI scrape reddit more efficiently than just reading the public website?

    So the whole reason for Reddit hiking the API price is that the API was letting the AI scrape reddit more efficiently than just reading the public website?

    4 votes

  17. Comment on Study finds emojis are differently interpreted depending on gender, culture, and age of viewer in ~tech

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    Yeah! Totally! I think if it was something like a :) or the smile emoji, it would be like reading a common word, where your brain doesn't have to think that hard to incorporate it into the...

    Yeah! Totally! I think if it was something like a :) or the smile emoji, it would be like reading a common word, where your brain doesn't have to think that hard to incorporate it into the message. You get used to the ones you see in your communities. Even so, do you experience reading a message that has a lot of them, and it slows you down? Or not at all?

    2 votes

  18. Comment on Study finds emojis are differently interpreted depending on gender, culture, and age of viewer in ~tech

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    Cool! Learned something new today. :) The confusion is that when I do this to other people, I make sure not to open the notification, so that in their text app, or whatever, the message appears...

    Cool! Learned something new today. :) The confusion is that when I do this to other people, I make sure not to open the notification, so that in their text app, or whatever, the message appears unread, so, "left unread". It's plausible deniability.

    But it looks like these other people are less careful, they read the message in the app, so it gets marked as read, and "left on read"

    It just so happens both of these are homonyms in english... unread/on read. So I thought other people were also doing the unread trick I do, which I thought was common.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on Air Canada successfully sued after its AI chatbot gave BC passenger incorrect information: airline claimed it wasn't liable for what its own AI told customers in ~tech

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    I've been wondering about this for some time, because I've noticed some companies have salespeople who will say anything to make the sale, but it does not turn out to be true.

    So they don't think they would have been responsible for what a human "representative," presumably someone on their payroll, would have said?

    I've been wondering about this for some time, because I've noticed some companies have salespeople who will say anything to make the sale, but it does not turn out to be true.

    6 votes

  20. Comment on Air Canada successfully sued after its AI chatbot gave BC passenger incorrect information: airline claimed it wasn't liable for what its own AI told customers in ~tech

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    You joke, but the distinction between AI and Not AI exists somewhere on a spectrum of complexity. One If statement wouldn't count as AI, by most people. But plenty of video game opponents, etc.,...

    You joke, but the distinction between AI and Not AI exists somewhere on a spectrum of complexity.

    One If statement wouldn't count as AI, by most people. But plenty of video game opponents, etc., are probably just complicated logic, e.g. many if statements. The programmers made all the choices earlier, but the "AI opponent" or NPC is still appearing to make choices in the moment.

    7 votes