sheridan

@sheridan@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  TJ Miller

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The more things change, the more they stay the same.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What episode is this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Conservatives physically look evil?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Increasing diagnoses of depression, not depression itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire risks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 😂😂😂⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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.