I know it’s seriously uncommon here, but I’m one of the people who vehemently believes in ghosts

I’ve had about 5-too-many times where myself and multiple friends both see the same person disappear in front of us to not believe, among other things 😅 Real estate signs like this would absolutely be a deal breaker for me haha

That being said, I completely get and respect that some people don’t believe. Honestly, I kinda consider non-believers lucky, ghosts are very creepy

When I had a miserable case of Covid (the variant that gives extreme nausea) the only way I was able to eat anything at all was saltine crackers. The only way I could drink anything was ice cubes (sucking on them slowly)

Try those out! If they don’t work, definitely call a doctor. Have someone check up on you, last thing you want is to black out and die (which is very easy to have happen)

That’s not my connotation for Nightwish, but only because I learned of them by playing Littlebigplanet 2 haha (Whoever Owns the Night)

They slap though!

Who bundles up in 68F? It’s literally room temperature

Also it’s useful in cooking because it’s an actual, useful scale. You know when it’s 90C it’s about to be boiling, just makes no sense why you gotta memorize 212F. Random number and all

As a long-time Tenchu fan, I feel this was about Sekiro to be honest. It started life as Tenchu 5, then got turned mid-development into Sekiro. I just wish it had a bigger emphasis on stealth, rather than just swordfighting…

Your mileage may definitely vary haha, I use that feature a lot (I’m lucky / unlucky enough to work with a lot of new technologies)

I also use Nord. I think it’s fine, but self-hosted and open would be better (since you for SURE know what data is passing through and what is happening with it). With Nord it’s like a “trust me bro” black box.

That said, I trust Nord enough for my needs. I don’t do anything too secretive on the VPN and frankly I think the 80/20 is in favor of just using Nord over self-hosting (I don’t really have time for that).

Only reason I don’t use Ecosia is because you can’t search for “Within the past year”. Which is really necessary when you’re a programmer

My one big gripe with Mastadon is that images take absolutely forever to load if they have even a marginal amount of pixels. I scroll art often and I’m left waiting for greater than a minute for these things to load (and I’m on a very, very fast connection).

I learned Gimp alongside Photoshop ~10 years ago and it’s my preferred image editor. It does have some silliness sometimes, but overall I adore it.

One of the best things they ever did was making it one-window by default.

I was, indeed, a frustrated developer. Struck at the worst possible time, too

I’d use Ecosia still if it weren’t for the fact that the filter is missing the “last year” setting. I’m a software engineer - 9 times out of 10, I want to find the bugs for a very specific version of a software, so having the year filter helps.

I now use Brave Search.

Metroid: Fusion is pretty fun!

I thought it only dived three times total?

Minecraft. Still super fun and there are servers for literally everyone (from pure vanilla to factions to semi-anarchy and anarchy)

Everyone in kbin is handsome and / or gorgeous! Everyone in Lemmy is a Lemmy user 😛 /s

In all seriousness, kbin is developed by Ernest who is an extremely devoted and trustworthy dev. Lemmy is developed by CCP shills. That’s the reason I chose kbin.

kbin is also getting steadily updated and I have a very good feeling about its stability and featureset in a few months taking a look at the GitHub.

They ARE different sites, but they’re federated. Basically, sites on the Fediverse (the nickname for the group of sites which share this functionality) can communicate. So, for example, Mastadon, Lemmy and kbin are all on the Fediverse, so they can communicate (when sites on the Fediverse are able to communicate, people say they are “federated”).

Let me give you an example!

Say you’re on Mastadon and you post something. That post will be visible to users on Lemmy and kbin, and people from Lemmy and kbin can comment and interact with it (since they all share the same protocol). Lemmy / kbin users will not have the 400 character limit Mastadon has, but they will still be able to interact.

Same thing if you make a post on Lemmy - on the whole, the Fediverse will be able to see your posts. Same with your comment here (Lemmy users can see it. For an example of a comment from another site, check out Stux’s comment below - they are from Mastadon)

They are all distinct apps with distinct features, they just can communicate with each other. Imagine it like Twitter and Facebook could see each others’ posts.

Now, some instances of Lemmy and kbin (basically, some servers of them) are blocked from federation with others on the Fediverse (aka, recently Beehaw - a Lemmy instance - blocked another Lemmy instance) but that is on a per-instance basis.

Parking lots are absolutely everywhere. Some zones just prohibit large ones for historic reasons or otherwise (it’s possible maybe you were in one of those zones)?

Visit Nashville, TN (around Centennial Park), Orlando, FL (around the Mall at Millennia) or Jacksonville, FL (around St. John’s Town Center) and you’ll see what I mean.

I used Joey for about a year but since the blackout it’s been uninstalled

Code is open-source but it isn’t quite fully open-source. It has some proprietary stuff in it. For it to be fully open-source, check out VS Codium