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[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 9 points 14 hours ago

All this should tell us is that we have a strong irrational preference for right angles being aligned with each other.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago

Could somebody point out where the safe rocks are?

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 points 17 hours ago

I would guess it's to fool their prey.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why would you ask this rather than adding it to wine yourself to see what amount you found satisfying?

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You said

you would probably end up degrading your own experience; getting irrelevant ads

Irrevant ads = less targeted ads. You seem to think this is a negative. I'm saying it is actually a positive.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's a tax. We should have leaned into educating people about this simple fact when Trump first started raving about it.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

I believe there is a trade off between grippiness and hardness. So depending what kind of surfaces you need to walk on, buying boots with soles that resist wear more may have a downside.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Cobblers will replace heels too. I realize this doesn't matter if the trip isn't worth it, but for future reference.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

TIL: worms are metal.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Getting more targeted ads is not really in your interest. That is an idea promoted by the ad people.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

I get and appreciate that joke. I actually meant the last phrase of the quote (the unintended irony of my question's vagueness now noted!), "which can always be made more precise."

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

Creatine is very helpful for reducing the effects of sleep deprivation. I'm not sure what dose would be ideal, but I would expect it to be pretty large, like 20 grams.

 

Searching F-droid today for 'vpn', something called URNetwork came up, touting itself as better then a VPN, and sounding frankly too good to be true. Duckduckgo searches are finding very little not either going to them (ur.io, or their github, etc) or some site called Product Hunt that I've never come across before. Nothing useful or that gives me confidence even that this isn't a scam.

Does anyone know anything about this product?

 

So is this Thunder itself or some app it is deferring to whose config I should look at?

Basically videos start out dim for a few seconds until the video controls fade out. This means the first few seconds of every video are basically unwatchable, and with short videos this is all or most of the video. For example https://lemmy.world/post/17884719

 

Of the many Lemmy clients I've tried, Thunder is the one I like the best, but the one place I have nits is the creating a comment experience.

After typing the comment you have close you keyboard, to have any hope of the create button being visible (if your comment is really short) and then scroll all the way back up to the top. Isn't the bottom the obviously better place for this button?

Even worse, if in trying to scroll the screen, you accidentally hit the little horizontal bar at the top, you just lose your comment.

Finally, it seems to always lose my place in the thread and put me back at the top after entering a comment.

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