Girl Talk in 09 in Vancouver. We were early at the venue and they were selecting a few people to be up on stage for the whole show. Never sweat so hard in my life.

Same. I’m still primarily a Plex user for the player (it’s just easier for sharing libraries with everyone) but I love the arr stuff. Just got readarr setup for audio books and audiobookshelf for the player which is really nice.

Probably my favorite feature of the arr suite is in Radarr and list subscribing. I’ve got mine connected to some good letterboxd lists along with things like tmdb popular to keep my library up to date with recent stuff. Also there’s some podcasts I listen to like The Rewatchables. I just subscribe to the lists of movies on letterboxd and I can easily keep up with the podcast.

Yes, I think that is a different situation than what were referring to. Long term disability doesn’t fall under odd day here and there.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a job where I had to prove my sickness. I know that doesn’t apply to everyone but as long as you don’t abuse it, taking the odd day here and there doesn’t cause issues

As someone who daily drives ChatGPT for a lot of stuff, I agree. I heard someone put it this way “AI is perfect for stuff that is hard to find but easy to verify”.

The other day I took a photo of my liquor cabinet and told it to make a cocktail recipe with ingredients on hand. Or if I encounter an error on my PC I’ll just describe the problem. Or for movie recommendations when I have a very specific set of conditions. Or trying to remember a show from my childhood with only a vague set of memories. The list goes on.

Particularly for anything coding. If I’m trying to learn something I always learn best when I can just see an example of the thing in action as documentation is not always great. Or if I’m doing data manipulation and I have the input and output and just need the function to convert one to the other. I recently saved a whole afternoon of effort with that one. Or spec tests I’ll just drop my whole code file in and ask it for full coverage.

These are all things that traditional search engines are poor or incapable of. I’d have a hard time going back if they just turned all this off tomorrow.

I think there’s a lack of education around how to use AI which is actually a problem. Like you shouldn’t be using it to identify if a mushroom is safe to eat. You shouldn’t be using really for anything food or health related for that matter. You should ask it for its sources when you are unsure of its answers.

Personally I use the vinyl ones (left most in the thumbnail) for almost all common tasks. They spread a little when the screw goes in unlike the metal ones. I use the butterfly toggles for bigger jobs

Honestly it’s the social aspect. Everyone I know uses Spotify, so sharing playlists and tracks are super easy. I know there’s converters out there but I can’t be arsed to do that every time I want to send or receive a link. I’ve also got some shared playlists between friends we all contribute to. At social gathering I can turn on the party mode or whatever it’s called and let people add stuff to the queue. The big one though is I’ve got a few friends with really good taste. I can check in on them from time to time to see what they’re listening to right now. Found a lot of great stuff this way.

Same. I watch more YouTube than probably any other streaming service. Plus I got the family plan and I sell the extra seats to my extended family and friends. Works out to be pretty cheap in the end.

I do the same for Spotify, Disney plus. Formally Netflix but they cut down on password sharing

Phone wouldn’t work for me, I’ve got a strict no phone around the TV rule for myself because I’m way too tempted to just use it instead of enjoying the thing I’m watching. Also wouldn’t really want to put an Xbox controller onto my wife or step mother.

I wish there was some kind of application you could run that would abstract all the mouse and keyboard interactions into a remote control friendly interface.

Anyway to do this without a keyboard. I used to have a PC connected to my TV for this but eventually just bought an apple tv for simplicity.

Love his videos (Nick Crowley, not the subject of this video lol). Not sure why Nexpo made this with Nick Crowley when Nick made released basically the same thing a few days ago. https://youtu.be/V0folj9X9nQ

All that aside this story really gets under your skin.

Definitely. Luckily the fediverse by its nature is somewhat insulated from becoming a company with a CEO like Reddit.

I mean, it kind of did. When Digg imploded Reddit received a massive influx of users over night. At the time and with Digg out of the picture there just wasn’t a good alternative to Reddit (slashdot and fark to lesser degrees) so they had the whole market to themselves. Similarly a lot of us came to Lemmy overnight when Reddit turned off their apps. The difference is, Reddit for many many users is still good enough and fundamentally the same as it’s always been.

The fact is though, without search traffic the only way to end up on Lemmy is knowing it already exists and that’s going to hinder growth.

Lemmy could absolutely benefit from a bit more traffic. Lemmy is a good Reddit replacement for the largest subs. Like if you’re into self hosting, Linux and general tech there’s a lot to offer. But if I need to engage with a smaller community or ask a niche question I know there just isn’t enough people here to fulfill that. Either that or a lot of smaller Lemmy communities are just bots reposting from their equivalent subreddit.

I’m pulling a number out of my ass but it seems like for every 50 people to subscribe to a community, you’ll get 1 really active poster and 49 lurkers. My hometown on Reddit has 23k subscribers it’s safe to say it’s got about 400 active users. On Lemmy it’s 86 and as the assumption math goes, there’s only 1 person posting there.

Even if our traffic doubled we’d still be tiny in comparison but at least the small communities would start to come alive

Basically you have to bond over a game, be it physical, like sports or board like regular board games or as many people mentioned here D&D. For sports, regardless of your skill level, there’s a group. Beer leagues and such. Solo sports like mountain biking can work too but you have to be super consistent and really get into the sport where you have common ground.

If physical stuff is out of the question, then you have your board games. Even small towns have meetups.

The important thing is actually doing these. Friends don’t just come to you and you have to be consistent. Most people don’t just become friends in one or two sessions, it takes time and rapport building. And you can’t always wait for others to initiate the friends part. You might have to be the one that goes “hey wanna grab some wings after this.”

I’ve literally gotten spam emails that include a real password I’ve used in the past in the subject with some vaguely threatening message. Thanks to all these leaks, spammers are getting more targeted. Luckily I’ve been generating all my passwords for the last few years so I don’t have to worry about specific passwords getting out as much anymore.

There’s a link in their Read Me on GitHub under the title about launching with Docker. Are you familiar with Docker?

I know this is an odd take but I believe we just see the word ATM as a word instead of an acronym. We see ATM as an adjective now, like Sewing Machine or Answering Machine. That box in the wall is the machine that does the ATMing.

Can we please avoid all the editorializing in AskLemmy. I came to the comments to see an answer to this question and it’s all comments about what people think about him instead of actually answering the question.

That’s fair. Lost had trouble because they were building the track as they went. I still loved the ride though. For me, I don’t think every question needs an answer as long as what it creates feeds into the themes of the show. Like on Lost, I wish they never explained the Smoke Monster, it just wasn’t necessary.

With Leftovers, I’d say it’s ending is the perfect summation of the show and anything else would betray what it was going for.

You’re not alone in not liking the ending though. I’ve had this conversation before and it’s totally ok not to.