Papanca
@Papanca@lemmy.world
- Comment on One thing I hope to see in the Fediverse is people engaging with old content 3 months ago:
I’ve had it happen that i joined a community and commented in some interesting thread and only then noticed that it was 3 or even 6 months old
- Comment on Welcome to Neurodivergence! The place to unite Neurodivergent folks. 4 months ago:
I think this one:
!neurodivergence@lemmy.giftedmc.com
- Comment on A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years 4 months ago:
Exactly; if Usually, it takes years, if not decades, before laws and regulations are actually in place
- Comment on A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years 4 months ago:
And now for 50 years worth of security updates for a phone like that. Not to mention what people might do with throwing a phone in the trash or something
- Comment on 13 Best Open Source ChatGPT Alternatives 4 months ago:
That’s unfortunate! I never had it crash and i use it a lot
- Comment on 13 Best Open Source ChatGPT Alternatives 4 months ago:
I use chat.petals.dev I think that is also open source
- Comment on Six months after the initial reddit surge (graphs) 4 months ago:
Yes, i made four, because when i joined Lemmy, everyone seemed to urge new users to spread across the fediverse. So, i did. But over time, i did away with two accounts and am contemplating ditching another one.
- Comment on Giving blood exception 5 months ago:
And to clarify; i live in Europe
- Comment on Giving blood exception 5 months ago:
I am not allowed to give blood, because i once got a blood transfusion in the eighties and i have a tiny, tiny risk of infecting people with mad cow disease. I only found out when i decided to give blood some years back and found out i am not allowed to.
- Comment on What do you most appreciate in a community/magazine sidebar, and/or instance about page? 5 months ago:
I prefer an elaborate description, if appropriate presuming people don’t know much about the topic yet. Bonus points for adding wikis (i don’t think it’s possible in Lemmy for now?) and links. And a friendly tone. Those concise oneliners, to me, feel like; if you don’t understand what this community is for, you are not welcome here anyway.
- Comment on YSK about the New York Times' onion service 6 months ago:
Even on Tor, if you use the clear web site provided in the link, yes, you will see the box asking for a subscription. You can click the x to get rid of it.
Ah, ok. I just noticed the popup. Of course i did click the link that was indicated in the post itself, not the title.
- Comment on YSK about the New York Times' onion service 6 months ago:
Which is what i used of course, and i still got the subscription wall
- Comment on YSK about the New York Times' onion service 6 months ago:
Subscription wall
- Comment on Google abandons “Web Environment Integrity” 6 months ago:
They will tweak the most unimportant detail and say; we listened to you, now take it!
- Comment on Lemmy active users down, comments steady and posts up 6 months ago:
I noticed that many people commented that there should be more engagement, ‘just like reddit’. So, i’m wondering if some of these people left and will return later to see if it’s more ‘reddit like’. So, those might be people who don’t necessarily want to post and comment themselves, but are waiting until they can get served with an endless stream of posts to scroll through.
Just thinking out loud here.
- Comment on Should I worry about "legitimate interest" tracking cookies? 7 months ago:
I asked about it too, read the answers here:
- Comment on Business owner 'hires' ChatGPT for customer service, then fires the humans 7 months ago:
Thanks for sharing. If you see that list of type of jobs at the end, it’s easy to see which jobs could get replaced within a reasonably short amount of time. Greed will always find a way to profit from whatever development arises. If they have 1 mountain of gold, they want 2 mountains of gold.
- Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it 7 months ago:
I heard about their plans maybe a month ago and i deleted all my stuff there and left youtube forever. I also already had deleted my gmail before that. I now use freetube on my pc and libretube on my phone.
It’s tiring to have to take measures to make sure you can use the internet as it used to be, though. I feel like i have a digital armor with ghostery, encrypted email, foss software, etc, etc…
- Comment on Why are you here at this very moment in your life? 7 months ago:
Because of every choice i made and the effect thereof
- Comment on Ecosia adds Microsoft Clarity and optional Google search results and advertising 7 months ago:
Yup, i’ve sent this link before:
restoreprivacy.com/startpage-system1-privacy-one-…
For me that was reason enough to not use them anymore, but for a long time, i almost exclusively used it.
- Comment on Is there something like F-droid, but for windows software? 7 months ago:
That was what i feared, yes
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- Comment on Light sources for winter 7 months ago:
Just as a heads up to everyone, so not OP obviously; Never buy lamps that are marketed as grow lights; that is just a scam to sell you way overpriced lighting. You also generally don’t need to buy these purple lights, because white lamps include these colors already, so unless you go for very specific effects, just buy a full spectrum light. I usually just do a search for suitable light temperature etc for my plants, probably around 4000 K or so, and then buy a led light. Don’t buy lamps that can become hot, so as not to burn the plants.
- Comment on How to tell a girl "I love You" without telling her "I love you"..... 7 months ago:
Or regular pants with (deep) pockets. I know women who shop in the men’s department, solely because of the pockets
- Comment on A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades 7 months ago:
Though i agree with you, i never feel like ‘i’m only one person’. For instance, if someone turns off the lights and recycles their trash, they often say; how does it help, i’m only one person after all. But there are so many people thinking the exact same thing and together we can help change the world.
So, yes, companies should be changed and i think this is also about politics and economics, which are usually conservative and greedy. But i never feel like the things i do are in vain; i’m standing with perhaps millions of invisible people who care about the environment and try to do their best and who all might be thinking; i’m only one person. Many people do want to change and try their best, but it’s time that all these conglomerates are being forced to change for real, instead of getting subsidized, and just greenwash their products.
- Comment on A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades 7 months ago:
I’m not saying consumers are not to blame, but i have objections against the phrasing; as if it’s primarily blaming consumers. I myself am not quite a minimalist, but do have strong tendencies in that direction. So, i never cared about fashion, or buying the newest gadgets. And i know there are people who are the complete opposite. However, i do feel that companies fuel the greed of consumers big time.
While consumers need to educate themselves/be educated by their caretakers and schools, i feel the heart of the matter is the marketing culture and the tendency of companies of hiding shady practices, like profiting from child slaves who have to mine precious metals, or women slaving away in factories for long hours, while risking their lives and bodies due to unsafe machinery, buildings and being bullied by their employees, for a shamefully low salary.
- Comment on A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades 7 months ago:
- Comment on A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades 7 months ago:
Consumers however are at the heart of an unhealthy culture of frequent device upgrades
Yes, blame it on the consumer and not on the companies that spend an incredible amount of money to first hire marketeers that think all day long of the best way to push ‘new’ products, and then run costly campaigns to spread the word.
- Comment on Long Haired Men, How Do You Take Care of Your Hair?? 7 months ago:
A receding hairline, apart from genetics, might happen when you tie your hair very, very tight. A loose tail would not be an issue.
- Comment on Will it ever get to a point where data is so over-harvested that it starts to lose value? 7 months ago:
I almost spit out my tea, thanks!