TranquilTurbulence

@TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you haven’t needed them for such a long time, they probably weren’t all that important anyway.

  Same goes for all the physical items in my home. If I haven’t needed something in a long time, there’s a good chance I never will. This is how I reduce digital and physical clutter in my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When I asked this question, I found out about raindrop.io. It’s a service where you can dump links and go through them when you feel like it.

  The idea is, that if you know you won’t be checking a specific tab today, you can just save it in raindrop instead. I don’t like to have lots of tabs open anyway, but there are some sites I like to save for later. Stuff like vacation planning can produce twenty tabs just like that, and I’ll just throw them all into raindrop.

  Most of them are sorted into logical categories, and I’ll go through them when I remember to. For example, vacation planning will be useful later. When that time comes, I’ll start opening all those links I’ve accumulated over the months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemvotes is a pathway to many discoveries some consider to be depressing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can other countries impose sanctions on the US?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Living without American software would be fine IMO. American silicon is much harder to replace though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Would it help if you were to revolt, rewrite and rebuild?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] If a human is trained by AI slop and then they make something with their own hands, is it still art?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In the age of romanticism, art usually depicted idealized and beautiful things. Then realism emerged, and artists also stared painting poor and ugly people. In social realism, the art was supposed to make you feel a bit uncomfortable. All of that was still clearly art.

  I think art requires an intention. When you paint a picture of a seagull covered in oil, you may want the viewer to feel something about the petrochemical industry. When you take a photo of Chinese children working in a toy factory, you might want your audience to feel what the children are going through.

  When you’re painting using digital tools, you may draw the same line 20 times to get it just right. As an artist, you have a goal in mind, and you will keep pressing undo until each line in the drawing meets your criteria. If you generate a hundred pictures with an AI and pick the one that fits your goals, you’re essentially acting as a curator of art. There’s a goal and an intention behind the selection process. That’s why the one picture that didn’t get deleted is art.

  What if if there’s zero human involvement? If there is no selection process guided by goal or intention, is that still art? Maybe. What if the viewer still feels something when looking at the result. Maybe that could make it art. What if you just look at the clouds or a sunset, and that makes you feel something. Is that art too? This is where it gets really messy and the categories fall apart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] If a human is trained by AI slop and then they make something with their own hands, is it still art?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re encountering a common issue. People simply enjoy neat boxes and categories, but the world is inherently complex and chaotic, making such categories largely irrelevant. While you can create arbitrary categories for everything, these definitions will inevitably be flawed. They’re still useful but far from perfect, with areas of ambiguity and contradictions.

  Consider, for example, where one species ends and another begins. It’s a messy and fuzzy situation, so we simply draw an arbitrary boundary. Similarly, what even constitutes “living”? Draw a line and don’t worry about the details.

  The same problem arises in art. Who created this painting? Well, it was primarily the work of Mister A, but he received significant assistance from his apprentices B, C, D and E. It’s complicated. Let’s just draw a line and stop worrying about the specifics.

  What even is art? It’s very messy. Expect uncertainty and contradictions within these fuzzy categories. Yes, but is this slop? Yet another category problem. Same answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could you be relatively healthy if you replaced traditional carb sources with skittles and multivitamins?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are people really expecting vitamins to heal disease? No wonder why you called it a scam. I just thought that vitamins would just do their nutritional job instead of performing muscles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to deal with agression?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Try to figure out if there’s a pattern. Maybe all the aggression-inducing events have something in common. Maybe that’s an emotion you haven’t processed or even noticed.

  Could be a moment where you feel hurt, ashamed, vulnerable, helpless, hopeless, or whatever. Start by naming that emotion.

  Once you figure that out, you can start processing that emotion and what causes it. Eventually, anger and aggression won’t control you anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And they still find so much to bicker about. I wonder how European coalition governments look like to Americans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You get zooted. Here’s a video that explains everything you need to know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And then there are also point and click adventure games and even visual novels. Who hates those?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate online PvP FPS games, and I know it’s a 100% skill issue. I like to think that the same logic also applies to those who hate all games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that would be nice. My previous car had a diesel engine, so you can imagine how much I would have loved to have a heater in there. Also, the windshield was totally old-school too, so no heating there either. Just start the engine, and start scraping. Every. Morning. Well, at least the seats were warm, but literally nothing else was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ergonomic keyboard + laptop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For a small desk just big enough for a laptop, ergonomic keyboards aren’t an option. However, if you have a large desk but still can’t fit a nice keyboard, consider decluttering to create more space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In colder parts of the world you actually drive with mittens on. I have no idea how’s that going to work with modern touch screen cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ergonomic keyboard + laptop?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use both. Switching is easy, because you get used to it eventually. If you need to type a lot, an ergonomic keyboard will be a lot nicer, so you’ll end up preferring that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you "feel" gender?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe societal expectations of masculinity and femininity have become distorted over time. Conforming to these rigid categories will just lead to sadness.

  If you’re a woman who enjoys tinkering with electronics, go for it. If you’re a man who feels comfortable expressing your emotions, do so. Why not explore both while you’re at it?

  In matters like these, it’s perfectly fine to disregard cultural norms and follow your own path. There’s no reason to conform to societal expectations that contradict your true self. You don’t need to identify with any specific gender; simply be a human and engage in human activities.

  I think gender has become another “tribe” that people naturally gravitate towards and identify with. It seems quite human to desire such social groupings. Thousands of years ago, your family and literal tribe fulfilled this role. Today, we seek similar social connections through other means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some website logins have the username and password entry on different pages?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is usually the right answer. In the past, logging in was a simple pipeline with no forks along the way. That’s why a simple username + password did the trick. Nowadays, logging in has become a complicated journey with several ways to get to the destination. Once the site knows your email, it knows what’s the next step in your case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I only know one method. You just destroy the rivet completely with a small metal drill. It’s not clean or nice, but who cares as long as it works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And if glue isn’t holding it together, consider using rivets or screws instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do .ml users get a bad rep?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve tried reading my local and federated feeds but found little value in them. While most posts are interesting, they’re either too niche, too boring or just fly straight over my head. Consequently, I prefer to stick with the subscribed feed almost exclusively. That’s where I can reliably find stuff worth my time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do .ml users get a bad rep?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t asked the admins, but here’s my guess.
  Being the most well known instance means that you get a lot of traffic. Let’s say that 1% of the people using your instance are annoying morons. In a smaller instance that 1% translates to maybe one ban a month or whatever. In a bigger place, it becomes a constant onslaught stupid idiot bullshit nobody has the time or energy to deal with. Either you get a bunch of admins and mods to deal with that nonsense or you start banning users more aggressively.

  However, some part of that drama is public on https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.world. Have a look. Just scroll down to censures given and read the reasons why lemmy.world has defederated from so many instances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do .ml users get a bad rep?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I took a look at those stats a while back, and the defederation procedure totally goes both ways.

  As far as I can tell, bigger instances have bumped into issues that were resolved through defederation. Smaller instances haven’t faced those kinds of problems, so they haven’t defederated with any instances yet.

  If all the big instances have defederated your instance, that’s clear sign that there might be something wrong with that place. If your instance has defederated from a bunch of other instances, take a look at the size of that instance before drawing conclusions. For example lemmy.world is a special case and a clear outlier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do .ml users get a bad rep?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a good point. Some instances have special rules and settings like that. Sounds a bit rare though. I haven’t heard of many instances that put the extra effort into customizing the experience on that level

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do .ml users get a bad rep?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a side note: The instance you’re on doesn’t really matter very much if you never read the local feed. If you do, you’ll definitely notice the local vibe sooner or later.

  If you’re on an instance that is widely defederated, you may also notice that it’s difficult to find communities. Also, people may comment on your instance if it happens to be particularly notorious. Other than that, instances don’t really matter that much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the AI bubble bursts..⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m assuming RAM factories are investing in new production lines to meet the increased demand. This means there should be ample capacity to spare when demand decreases. That’s the ideal time to purchase those 500 GB of RAM for all your Chrome tabs.

  The plan is that when interest rates rise again, investors won’t have access to cheap loans and AI companies won’t be able to build more data centres. This should lead to a demand collapse and manufacturers being left with surplus capacity. I doubt they can reduce production quickly enough, so they’ll likely push cheap products onto the market for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the US was partitioned, what new states would you want to appear?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How about drawing a grid on the entire country, and labelling each new square state in chessboard style? American streets try to be sensible and consistent like that, so why not just apply the same idea on a federal level too? If you’re in the state D5, you’ll know that D4 right next door.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isint lemmy more popular?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also the client situation is confusing to normies. Search for Lemmy on the spyware cancer store and you’ll see what I mean.

  Pixelfed and Mastodon have already figured that out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After hearing so many recommendations for Sidebery, I finally had the perfect chance to test it out. I was searching for a specific YouTube video I’d seen almost a year ago. Zero idea who made it or the exact title was, just the general topic and a few probable keywords. Even with Gemini’s fancy AI crap and Google integrations, it was a dead end.

  I tried various search terms and ended up with a mountain of tabs. That’s when I realized I needed to organize the chaos, and Sidebery was a lifesaver. RAM usage hit about 14 GB, but I finally found the video.

  I created three tab panels: one for the main topic, another for interesting but unrelated finds, and a third for random stuff to revisit later today. Sidebery can close duplicates and move tabs between panels, and that made it much easier to manage everything. Regular tabs just can’t handle this kind of workflow.

  This experience really drove home why people use dedicated tab managers. Keeping everything in a single row still feels bizarre to me, but with the right tools, having a 100 tabs open is completely understandable.