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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you un-smart a smart tv?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an lg tv that I route through a pihole that blocks most stuff. I wasn’t going to connect it to the internet, but it had airplay support. I think I’m using this list: github.com/TheShawnMiranda/LG-TV-Ad-Block

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is a good point. Lemmy pre protest sucked. There was just no content or activity. Post protest, it’s not too bad here. It’s viable. Slowly, hopefully more people end up here over the years. I still browse Reddit (not logged in, my account is kaput) and it seems the same as it was before though. However, digg too died, so there is hope yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This has been my main observation with Amazon over the past few years. It’s just cheap knockoffs that have gamed the system. It’s frustrating to shop there and a dice roll whenever you order something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here as well⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was also reading an article about nutritional quality of food itself has been declining over the last 50 years. So to get the same nutritional amount, you need to eat more food period.

  There’s also bigger systemic issues about food access that is driving people to “choose” it. Lack of time, cost, availability, transportation all factor in that are beyond a simple idea if a person having a pure choice between two equal (or even somewhat equal) options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🦃 happy turkey day 🦃⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  j eight? J over 8? It took me an embarrassingly long time to remember to use i :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this pit used for?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely not rice. That’s farmed on huge fields and have (in USA at least) telltale levy lines which are used to control flooding the fields. Poke around in northeast Arkansas and you should find some.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it is a bit strange. That was a central hub of where I got news, jokes, stayed connected with internet culture. That’s mostly gone now. So many things feel splintered anymore. I’m old so I don’t keep up with the latest games, but that feels all over the place—too many games, too many communities. Streaming/TV stuff—very few people I know watch the same things I do, and I miss the joy of watching something new and then talking about it the next day moments. Worse now is that most people can’t even access the same content since there are too many services. Music is strange now too. Partly, I’m just not connected to pop culture, but also everyone is listening to VERY different stuff (referring to college-age folks—most other millennials I know just listen to NPR, podcasts and 90s mixes). There doesn’t seem to be any monolithic music culture at all anymore. Everyone has super customized spotify playlists. I know a big part is just millennial aging, but also reddit kept me connected to broader things, and now its just like everything else and enshittified and disappearing. sigh … get off my lawn I guess :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if I finish my coursework over the summer, how is graduation handled?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You earn you degree once your last courses end. So if there’s a summer term, you’ll have competed the requirements for the degree at that point and can say so on jobs. Your transcript will reflect this.

  However if you are talking about the ceremony, most schools don’t have a ceremony at the end of summer and will have these students choose to walk in the December ceremony (if one exists) or the bigger may ceremony. Or choose not to walk at all.

  The specific details are going to vary from university to university though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MilliMobile is a tiny, self-driving robot powered only by light and radio waves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s shwetek patels group at Univ. Washington. They’ve had some interesting stuff in the past, and are good at the PR part of things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it depends on the mood. New stuff is fun, but stuff I know can be instantly trabsportative to moods or mental spaces and it feels good. New stuff can be too mentally engaging if I’m trying to do focus work or zone out. I think I listen to less new stuff now because I’m usually wanting to zone out with music more than actively engage with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its not wrong though⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that the assembler is a specific program that translates mnemonics into the corresponding machine code. Perhaps in early computing this was done by hand so a person was the assembler (and worked in assembler), but now that is handled by software (and supports various macros). So programming in assembly would generate a stream of text that must be assembled by an assembler. (Although I have heard people refer to programming in assembler as well, just not often.)