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- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 2 weeks ago:
Probably a dumb question, but if the website servers aren’t physically located in Florida, why must the websites follow Florida law?
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 2 weeks ago:
I had the same sandwich (Dave’s Hot Chicken reaper sandwich). I assumed it was just a marketing stunt. After one bite I had to go back and get a milkshake so I could sip it between bites to finish the damn sandwich.
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 3 weeks ago:
TJ Miller
- Comment on The more things change, the more they stay the same. 5 weeks ago:
What episode is this?
- Comment on Why do Conservatives physically look evil? 1 month ago:
Conservatives will think the same about any public figure who’s any degree to the left. It’s just a human cognitive bias at play that we’re all susceptible to. If you think someone is a shitty person, that’s going to cause you to overemphasize whatever physical features you find negative about them. The danger of this is that you might in turn start using those negative features as an unreliable heuristic to judge the character of other people before you even get to really know them.
The different fashion/makeup trends among people across the political spectrum can also come into play similarly.
There are conventionally unattractive public figures on the left too, but if you know beforehand that they’re on your “team”, you probably won’t even take particular notice to these “defects”. In some mirror universe where MTG was as far left as AOC, you’d probably wouldn’t think she looked “evil”.
- Comment on Entirely too many questions about Mastodon. So sorry. 1 month ago:
Generally you post onto the public “federated” timeline. With Mastodon this timeline contains posts from many different Mastodon servers that are all federated with each other, but it appears as one single timeline.
Hashtags are really central to the Mastodon experience. There is no algorithm that automatically suggests posts and accounts like on mainstream centralized services. Instead you gotta purposely use hashtags to discover posts and people. Add descriptive hashtags to your posts, the more the better. This helps people searching for specific topics find your posts.
You can follow people and they can follow you. Posts from people you follow will appear on your home feed. You can also follow hashtags and posts containing those hashtags will appear in your home feed. At the moment there’s no official support for communities like with Lemmy; following hashtags on topics you like is the closest you can get to that functionality. (You can also make separate lists of hashtags outside of your home feed).
The people and interests on Mastodon has a lot of overlap with Lemmy.
Here are a couple of resources you might find helpful: fedi.tips fedi.directory
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Increasing diagnoses of depression, not depression itself.
- Comment on Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire risks 2 months ago:
I feel like every year Anker is recalling one of their power banks. Couple of years ago I had to return one of mine, but I have two other Anker models. Does Anker do more recalls than other brands?
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 months ago:
I remember aged 5 watching my dad install Windows 95 from the floppy disk edition. I think that took like a dozen or so floppies?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s really easy now to scan an entire book with your phone. There are apps (eg Scanner Pro) that can take pictures of two pages at once and split them into individual pdf pages.
I done this with several books over the years. I place my phone on a tripod, point it down on a well lit book, and start scanning. A 300 page book might take about an hour to scan.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It depends on your needs. The typography and image quality is much superior for print than ebooks usually. That being said, I still get ebooks for large reference books so I can search them and copy/paste, eg programming related books. I also read foreign language ebooks so I can lookup the meaning of any word I don’t know with my phone’s dictionaries, or translate a phrase or sentence.
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 4 months ago:
As Wi-Fi is a form of radio technology, we still basically do this today.
- Comment on Max Streaming ‘Enshittifies’ Further, Removes Classic Looney Tunes 5 months ago:
Is this edition of Looney Tunes available on blu-ray? The Max version was a 4k restoration based off new scans of the film iirc.
- Comment on Mastodon.online invitation if anyone wants it 5 months ago:
What country are its servers located?
- Comment on Favourite Metroid game? 5 months ago:
It’s really hard for me to name a single favorite Metroid; I love most of them. In terms of non-linear open exploration, Super Metroid is probably my favorite, followed by AM2R. But I also really enjoyed the boss fights in Metroid Dread; they were really challenging…for me at least.
- Comment on Apple's controversial iPhone accessory may have been discontinued 8 months ago:
For me, the switch to wireless earbuds has been mixed. Not having the cord get tangled and caught on things is nice, but I’ve come to dislike how precarious AirPods can feel (to me at least).
I’m always worried about them falling out of my ear and landing in a gutter or a toilet; I have to be careful pulling them out of their case and putting them back because they’re easy to slip out fingers; I always have to remember to keep the case charged; if I want to take them off temporarily, I can’t just drape them around my neck (at least not with 3rd party accessories but then you have to take those off to charge so more hassle). I feel like I just can’t be as spontaneous with them as with wired ear buds.