amitten

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Programming questions for beginners in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] amitten@normalcity.life 4 points 11 months ago

One more vote for ChatGPT. I use it all the time to get me pointed in the right direction, or to start fleshing out an algorithm. It’s a great starting place.

Where else on the web does everyone hang out? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
Where else on the web does everyone hang out? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] amitten@normalcity.life 2 points 11 months ago

Just checked out cohost. Looks cool and thanks for the tip.

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[–] amitten@normalcity.life 1 points 11 months ago

I personally think the best way to use discord is to create a server and invite people to it as you meet them online. For me, it’s gaming that connects me with people. My wife and I meet people that we like and want to play with more, and so we invite them. This usually results in getting invited to other small community servers.

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[–] amitten@normalcity.life 1 points 11 months ago

It’s interesting that you say that because I have trouble finding content that I like on all microblogging platforms : Mastodon, X, threads and all. If you crack the code, let me know.

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[–] amitten@normalcity.life 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Discord is built for gaming. Discord allows you to stream a game directly to a channel with one click. Discord allows for fine control over users in the server and what they are allowed to do. Signal doesn’t really have these features, and I’m guessing it’s becsuse the purpose is slightly different.

The closest privacy focused alternative to discord that I know of is Matrix. I’m thinking of moving my discord server where my friends and I play together over to Matrix. We will lose some features but gain some privacy.

I think there are discord clones that work very much like discord, but I’m not aware of their privacy focus. Revolt comes to mind : https://revolt.chat

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[–] amitten@normalcity.life 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I used this video as a guide and it worked: https://youtu.be/WtFBrB4XqBc?si=635fN0fa7jN77evj

This disables the YouTube shorts suggestions, which is how I would get sucked into watching shorts all the time. You can still go to shorts if you want, but I guarantee you will mostly forget about them with the suggestions disabled. Shows how little value they really give.

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[–] amitten@normalcity.life 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I literally had to disable YouTube shorts. My life improved significantly when I just didn't have shorts thrown in my face constantly.

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[–] amitten@normalcity.life 3 points 11 months ago (6 children)

The problem with YouTube is that is so easy to just default to letting it feed your brain. Frequently it's not even enjoyable, it's just straight distraction from anything meaningful. On the flip side, YouTube can be the absolute best place to learn anything.

Can an average person who works a full time job become capable enough to rival a secret agent like James Bond or John Wick on their own ? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] amitten@normalcity.life 2 points 11 months ago

Hehe… magic dick.

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[–] amitten@normalcity.life 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

None of my friends in the United States would say such things either. Must be some really whack friends.

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[–] amitten@normalcity.life 9 points 1 year ago

I don't get the whole twitter-like microblogging thing. Mastodon feels kind of strange to me because it's similar to that. I try to find a cool place to hang out there, but it always feels like a waste. But YouTube... the amount of time I give YouTube.. lol

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Where else on the web does everyone hang out? (normalcity.life)
 

I’m really curious where else everyone here hangs out on the internet besides Lemmy.

I myself am frequently on discord with my wife and friends playing games. I’ve also found myself in and around smaller blogs spaces like Kev Quirk and related people. Reddit used to be a place for me to hang out but I never found a community that I felt connected to. I don’t know if YouTube would be considered a place to hang out, but I frequently spend way more time there than I should. IRC used to be a great place for me.

So, where are your favorite places?

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How do you find RSS feeds that you're interested in? (normalcity.life)
 

I'd like to take my RSS feeds from an aggregator of news to a curated selection of interesting things. Interesting newsletters and blogs are where I think RSS shines, but I struggle to find this content.

What do you do to find these kinds of RSS feeds?

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How do you find RSS feeds that you're interested in? (normalcity.life)
 

I'd like to take my RSS feeds from an aggregator of news to a curated selection of interesting things. Interesting newsletters and blogs are where I think RSS shines, but I struggle to find this content.

What do you do to find these kinds of RSS feeds?

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Questions on creating and modding communities across lemmy instances (normalcity.life)
 

I’ve recently found it beneficial to have a home lemmy instance that does not have a lot of users. This allows me to access content that has been defederated. But, as many have said, using the communities and creating content for them is like oxygen, and we need oxygen for survival.

So if I’m on a very small instance, but want to create a community that gets users, it makes sense to have that community on one of the larger instances. But how would one go about doing that from a smaller instance? Would I create the community from the larger instance and then interact with it from the smaller one? Or is that bad practice?

Any thoughts would be helpful.

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