emb
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- Comment on How do you cut out Facebook from your life? 5 days ago:
Some options at various levels:
- Take the phone app off your home screen
- Make sure it’s not in your Firefox address bar’s suggested sites
- Log out on every platform when you’re done looking at it, so there’s even more friction to checking it
- Make a post there announcing you won’t use it any more, possibly why, and share better places people can keep in touch with you. (Then stop using it with any regularity)
- Help your immediate family (or friend group) setup a group chat on some other platform, and share updates with each other there
Individually making good choices is nice, but even better if you can help other people leave it behind.
- Comment on E-mail archive browser for gmail takeout files (.mbox) 2 weeks ago:
Was just recently trying to figure out how to browse my mbox backup, and wound up at the same solution.
I’m stunned that it’s part of a plugin, and not a standard feature. Didn’t see many other actively maintained programs that made it easy either.
- Comment on How do you filter out ai slop on Youtube? 2 weeks ago:
You can add “before:2023” to filter out a lot of it when searching. Doesn’t work for everything, obviously you won’t find yesterday’s news or info on the newest games that way. But I think it’s good hygiene for very broad topics. Beyond that, if it recommends me some new channel, I check the account history and try to see if they were already uploading similar looking videos before the early 20s. If not, I treat it as suspect.
Tho even before the recent AI boom, there was plenty of other low effort (via other means) slop out there.
- Comment on How can you make sure that my post that you are reading now is real and that you are not currently dreaming? 4 weeks ago:
Years ago I looked into lucid dreaming and found that those communities have catalogged several actions that can act as “reality checks”.
Generally in a dream, some things pretty consistently don’t work right. Time/watches, mirrors, light switches. Check one of those and see if anything looks weird. If it makes no sense, probable that you’re dreaming.
Try to remember the sequence of events that led to what you’re doing now. In a dream, there wasn’t anything before.
Or my personal favorite, plug your nose and then try to breathe through it. In a dream it will work.
There’s quite a range of other methods out there too.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Shining Force
It started out really slow, but now I’m mid-late game. I’ve got a band of characters I like and I’m on the cusp of promoting most of them.
It’s older and less refined than other games I’ve played in the genre (ie, Fire Emblems), but it’s been a good time.