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- Comment on The interior of your house is hot, the exterior cool. What would the most efficient orientation be for a box fan? Pushing hot air out of a window or pulling cool air in through it? 4 months ago:
It’s called the linguini effect.
- Comment on The theory that we live in a simulation involves simulants running their own simulations; wouldn't that require impossibly more resources for the main sim? 4 months ago:
“Turing Completeness” != “Turing Test”
- Comment on When creating a story, how many black characters can I create without them calling the story woke? 4 months ago:
I assume this is a joke?
- Comment on Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions? 4 months ago:
I also enjoy “1010! Klooni” on F-Droid.
- Comment on Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions? 4 months ago:
First one coming to mind for me is Pillar Hop. Very simple, chill, and just had ads iirc (I block them, but I’m pretty sure it does, anyway.)
- Comment on Apps that encourage/gamify walking? 5 months ago:
Some folks on Lemmy recently recommended StreetComplete, and I’ve been really enjoying it so far.
It’s a “Pokémon Go” style thing, but you go around answering simple questions about your surroundings which are then used to update/improve the data on OpenStreetMap.
One concern I considered after using the app was that because your contributions are uploaded to OpenStreetMap, in theory I imagine someone could use that data to track where you are / where you’ve been / where you tend to be. So just be aware of that.
- Comment on Why do we say, "when I look in the mirror" instead of "when I look in a mirror?" 5 months ago:
I feel like it has to do with the “mystical” or metaphorical perception of mirrors, especially early on.
Like, as if looking “into a mirror” is analogous to looking "into a (or rather: the) “mirror world”, if that makes sense.
Kind of the same reason we use the proposition “in” or “into” rather than the more physically correct “at”.
- Comment on Streets of Fortuna- Announcement Trailer 5 months ago:
Honestly, agreed. I trust Kitfox enough that I highly doubt it’s shovelware, but the art direction does kind of point that direction.
That said, it looks really interesting. Can’t wait to check it out once it releases!
- Comment on Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity? 5 months ago:
I completely agree that “third places” have been all but eradicated in favor of revenue-generating spaces. This trend alone has lead to the death of a lot of things, including a sense of community and local engagement.
I think it also has a lot to do with how abstracted we are from reality. We’ve built all these systems to replace actual face-to-face communities, and people would rather surround themselves in that than to expose themselves to the unpredictability of real life - for better and worse.
It’s a hard sell to get people to reverse course because it’s so much more painless/numbing to engage with these systems. (Not to even mention AI promising to give every person their own personal Yes-Man.)
- Comment on What have we done? 5 months ago:
I don’t remember.
- Comment on What have we done? 5 months ago:
That’s nothing, I can do it with methanol.
- Comment on Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity? 5 months ago:
I think one of Lemmy’s issues is that everyone wants to create a community instead of contributing to what’s here. People expect to have all the “niche hobby” communities like Reddit had right off the bat, but we don’t have the mass of people to support that - especially when you can have multiple communities for one topic across instances. Everything dilutes to nothing.
So we end up with nearly a 1:1 user/community ratio and every community either gets abandoned or only has 1 power-user posting.
I think the solution is essentially what you’re doing - to take existing communities and breathe life into them. Start out small and focused, and then branch out when it feels necessary.
- Comment on Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity? 5 months ago:
I’m not necessarily looking for “wholesome” content, though. I’m looking for interesting content.
Also, there isn’t enough content to browse just a few subs, and there are a lot of communities being created that i would miss out on, and “opt-out” is generally my preferred way to browse.
- Comment on Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity? 5 months ago:
I think the reason I’ve gotten to this point is that I’ve been angry at things before and I’ve very strongly expressed an opinion that I later on found I disagreed with.
This is probably just an age thing, but I could only do that so many times before I stopped to think maybe it’s worth reevaluating how I look at things.
- Comment on Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity? 5 months ago:
I’ve reached a point in my life where I can be against something without getting mad about it. Sure, sometimes you get a revolution (with all the problems that come with that), but in everyday life, people just aren’t productive when they’re angry. A person living a happy, fulfilled life is more likely to contribute to making the world a better place.
- Comment on Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity? 5 months ago:
Same here. I don’t know if I could in good conscience go back to Reddit, but the constant doomposting makes Lemmy seem more and more unattractive by the day - and that’s after applying a hefty amount of post filters.
I keep telling myself that if I just stick it out, we’ll eventually get enough users to drown out the negativity, but some days I wonder if we’ll ever get there when that’s like 95% of the feed.
- Comment on Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity? 5 months ago:
Imo the problem is that social media is one of the worst possible places to foment political change, yet is by far the most popular.
If people actually have a shit about this stuff, they’d be out campaigning for it, or helping people affected by it, instead of just clicking a button and patting themselves on the back.
Not to say social media can’t bring change of course, but I mean, the people posting the most are pretty much by definition doing the least.
- Comment on Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity? 5 months ago:
Seriously. I wonder how many of those doomers actually volunteer in their community, or are active in their local politics. If the answer was any more than “basically none,” I don’t think we would have most of these issues.
- Comment on The full video from the famous "Tank Man" photo 5 months ago:
I don’t have links, but at least from what I’ve heard, they were washing people down the drains afterward.
- Comment on geology problems 5 months ago:
The other one is actually a scoop of Cookies 'n Cream ice cream.
- Comment on Netflix Announces Minecraft Animated Series 5 months ago:
Why not?
- Comment on Cable or adapter? 5 months ago:
I imagine it would depend on the adaptor. If it’s an “active” adaptor (ie, there is some processing done on the signal using a microprocessor), that introduces at least some lag.
A “passive” adaptor or a (passive) cable should have no latency otherwise.
In terms of quality, there shouldn’t be much difference if any, though it may depend on the particular adaptor you use.
- Comment on What would the IRL (in real-life) of "real-life"/offline life be? 5 months ago:
You might be interested in the philosophy of Hyperreality.
- Comment on The new hobby process 5 months ago:
I still tell people about my projects, but at this point I just also tell them straight-up that I’ll never finish it.
- Comment on I don't feel so good, man 5 months ago:
My favorite fun fact about Russell’s Teapot is that there is actually a teapot in that orbit right now.
- Comment on Why do people throw out old motors, bicycles, anything metal into rivers and lakes instead of a junk yard or the trash system? 5 months ago:
I see answers for why people dump junk, but not why they dump it on rivers/lakes in particular.
To remedy that: dumping junk isn’t legal, and water is good at hiding things. If someone leaves their TV out on the street or whathaveyou, it might be traced back to them, but that’s less likely in a river.
- Comment on Curation services 5 months ago:
Piss, innit.
- Comment on Community 5 months ago:
What is the nutritional value of a lamentation?
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam 6 months ago:
Oh absolutely, the best cardboard I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 6 months ago:
Yep, ban them.
Or…