hmmm, but you don’t pronounce most emojis, maybe 🤷‍♂️ but that’d be about it. come to think of it, is pronounceability required to fit the definition?

i look at my wall clock quite a lot, mainly because it’s easier for me to visualise the “distance” of time with it. and hour on my phone is not much different from 5min

i much prefer doing positive attention baiting. on tiktok especially i like going to small artists’ channels and saying nice things about their art (that i do mean), they reply quite often :)

sometimes i even get an amazing treat in return! - more art! not always, but sometimes, i notice artists posting more after i visit their channel a few times. It really makes me feel this comfortable warmth in my chest

'tis very simple. my nose doesn’t smell at all, it’s everyone else’s noses that have smells! just like with accents

also remember to not accidentally put sugar (roughly 1kg sugar [or 2 pounds] per 1000kg cement) into a coment mixer because it will completely destroy the whole batch :(

it’s less about intelligence and more about just not caring and being numb to ads

i used opera for around 13 years. i knew about the flaws but i was simply used to it, and as long as adblock worked i couldn’t be bothered to switch to anything else

then my laptop broke and only that happening gave me the incentive to install something else, i was starting from (close to) scratch anyway

it’ll take a lot of effort for people to abandon what they know, even if they’ll be moving towards something better

i use Zen now :) it’s nice

as a fresh linux convert all of my games work on linux thanks to steam. it even runs my ancient 2007 arcade-esque game that i was sent in an email from the dev better than windows used to

valve has put in the work for us, and now no gamer can use that as an excuse

no need for quotation marks there

ew :(

last time i checked (2024) there was only content aware replace/stretch, and a bunch of those face filters

has that changed?

man, imagine calling people lazy for not wanting to do double the work just so a social media platform has more content

why don’t you start archiving all tech issues from reddit since you have so much free time?

yeah man but when i have an issue i want a solution to that problem, i’m not thinking about the engagement strategies of social media environments

the problem with reddit is that it used to be amazing, and is still the best place to ask questions (though with the number of bots this is slowly becoming less and less true).

i still vividly remember the time when i spent 2 weeks messaging microsoft support that insisted that i need to replace the device i just bought, even though i repeatedly told them the device works fine with a different machine so something must be wrong with my PC. so i got frustrated and asked the same question on reddit, within a few hours someone diagnosed exactly what was wrong, and gave me tips on how to fix it (or well, in that case i needed to walk around the issue rather than fix it)

and even now whenever i look up tech issues the first results that actually have thought behind the words (instead of sponsorships for whatever driver updating software company bought the article) it’s usually on reddit

it’s such a shame it’s been aggressively going down hill, it could’ve truly stayed the front page of the internet for decades. all it had to do was not get worse for the user

tf you expected we’re all broke. you’re lucky some of us haven’t heard of piracy yet (somehow)

there are so many links that i’ve clicked expecting to be horny that turned out to be IT server stuff >:|

if i was in their shoes and had the choice between -

1. no passport, can’t leave anywhere in a normal way

2. a passport that is incorrect, can’t move comfortably because details that don’t match can and will trigger alarms and put eyes on you

3. a passport from a place that isn’t ideal, but matches my details, and allows me to travel without drawing attention to myself

i’d pick 3 as well regardless if i liked my country of origin or not

not here for sure, but Lemmy is not exactly a reflection of the general population

people are starting to grow numb to gen AI, and people have grown numb to worse things so it’s not exactly going to get undone easily

our natural body temperature does its best to perfectly balance out to 36.6C, but you are a biological machine, you keep generating heat by just existing, and you need to release the excess. it’s much easier when the air around you is colder, but when it’s starting to reach the same temperature as your body then your the “uh oh sweating time” triggers to help you along

none of the “smart” devices are actually smart. in my experience they’re really fucking dumb

i once bought a “smart” electric kettle because i thought it’d be nice to boil my water to exact temperatures for my teas. it had a little button on a little screen to turn it on

and of course the screen stopped working, and that was the singular thing that broke. if the kettle had a physical switch i’d have only lost the ability to boil to exact temperatures instead of becoming fully useless

a similar thing happened with my Quest VR. a singular smart thing broke (the proximity sensor) and it bricked the whole thing (the proximity sensor deteced, well, proximity, and input from that decided if the screen inside was turned on. when it broke, the screen never turned on. the proximity sensor could be disabled - but only from within the settings menu that required the screen to be on in the first place. there was no other way to disable it, and that setting reset every full shut down)

never had that happen with my non smart devices, never had a non-critical feature failing bricked my “dumb” machine. oh the proper graphics card melted in my laptop? whatever i just disabled it, it might not perform as it used to but it’s still functional and perfect for just browsing the internet or watching youtube

my dumb printer never just stopped for no reason, my dumb kettle with a physical toggle has been working perfectly for 3 years now, my dumb light bulbs only stop working when they’ve reached the end of their ability to make light, my dumb devices never refuse to work even when what they can do isn’t perfect anymore

i was already annoyed by so many devices being labelled as “smart” when they’re not, and now they’re also adding “AI” to those things… i hate it here