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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, question's long, but the tl;dr of it was do you take more time on: name or appearance?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Is this ever noted in any of the documentation, outside of some fine print, with the printer to let someone know that it's being done? If your product is secretly leaving indicators for anyone aware of the indicators to track your actions in some way, that's problematic in my opinion.

Given a printer is arguably a lesser issue anymore, but the same idea applies with other tech.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Would this require feeding it batteries like a triggerhappy machine gunner?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Supposing it's not a throwaway to look into stuff, I get amusingly stuck on avatars/appearances sometimes. Like do I use some character I like from something for an avatar/reference, or do I toss something together that's kinda silly?

Lot of times it's just vibes

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (16 children)

if you primarily watch videos with your smartphone, couldn't you call it a pocket tv?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They appear to be back, at least on my end, so thanks admins!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I have lots of memories of sitting on his lap in his radio room while he talked to people on the other side of the world before the internet was really a thing.

So your grandfather was part of the ol' "analogue" internet, huh? That's cool!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's impressive! It looks like many of them are "reconditioned" so not completely new, but interesting to see people maintaining them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh cool! Thanks for the heads up!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I feel less conflicted about talking up community-built things than business-built things, since the former can use the attention and typically lacks any sort of marketing or other means of promoting themselves. Businesses don't need any more of either given they often literally have marketing divisions or can afford to hire marketing firms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But the fact that you feel like you’re an ad suggests that maybe you’re doing it too often.

It's not that I feel like that, as I don't talk much about these things, and I don't because even the little I might sometimes feels that way. It's more of a conflicted feeling than feeling outright like an ad, as in that it can come across as promotional even if it may simply be talking about a good experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly I'd only thought of pets after the fact and thought the question was already pretty longwinded, so decided to leave it out. The rest of what you cover is on track with what I was wondering about though!

I was also thinking in terms of a more "natural", for lack of a better word, coexistence when asking without making them livestock. Less planned interactions, more as they come and go sort of interactions.

 

Theme parks are pretty wicked, so I'm wondering if you had your choice of theme and a ridiculous budget to work with, what kind of theme park would you love to build?

 

Calibre is great for managing an ebook library, and okay for reading ebooks but the reader is clearly not its primary focus, so I'm wondering what readers folks here use across platforms.

I know of a few, but I'm always on the lookout for different options that may have features I didn't realize I'd love to use.

 

Do you cave and use both hands? Do you take the chance and try to use them one-handed when more actively using them? Or do you ultimately submit and get an accessory to kinda help, at least with keeping a hold of them?

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a few other answers:just use both hands, get an accessory, and/or balance on pinky and develop the toughest pinky imaginable
spoiler bonus: find some smol phone you like and savor it for as long as it works :::

 

I enjoy challenging myself sometimes to try and read or follow other media in other languages besides English, and although I could skim over bestselling or top/best of lists in other languages, if those are anything like their English contemporaries, I imagine odds are they don't catch some of the lesser known yet still enjoyable works.

So, what are some works in your native language that haven't been translated to English that you'd recommend? Also if it's not clear by the title, could you mention the language it's in?

 

Visual art, music, poetry, stories, whatever you've made that you were content with and have continued to like after completing it.

 

It feels like the universe wants to eat them before I can, sometimes...

 

And do you savor the pasta you copy, or simply copy and indulge?

 

There seem to be plentiful options for text chat servers, so I'm curious for those that self-host their own, what their preferences & experiences have been with them.

Also those mentioned in the title were just a few examples, if you run something else, e.g. Revolt or Mattermost or something else less popular, would be interested in reading about it!

 

From what I gather, I don't know that there's a new norm in this regard yet, besides recognizing that gifs are increasingly old & clunky (despite being fun & amusing), and so I don't know if mp4s or webms or something else might be better if wanting to keep a site lightweight while still having some animated elements.

 

Bars are notable for staying open late, but I'm not really familiar with alternatives that might operate similarly. I think many cafés (at least around my area) tend to close a few hours earlier by comparison, which would be my go-to for an alternative otherwise, so what other options are there?

 

I've looked through some of the web UIs and apps and found that I could hide NSFW posts without signing in, but so far I haven't found one that allows for hiding bot posts. Is that not possible at the moment?

I still haven't decided which UI or app to settle on, hence not signing in, and it's kind of revealing how many bot posts there are when viewing some Lemmy instances this way. 😅

 

So, I basically missed that transitional phase when telephone booths were more commonplace. This has left me with a number of questions about the ol' telephone booths, but this one strikes me as one of the funnier and more unnerving ones to ask.

Was it possible to get locked in a telephone booth? Did some models have locks to keep folks from messing with them? If so, who...Would manage the locks? Local authorities & the phone companies?

Were there any notable stories of a person somehow getting trapped in a telephone booth in otherwise ordinary circumstances (i.e. no disaster had struck)?

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