Fleppensteijn
@Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl
Floris Jan van Fleppensteyn
- Comment on Is it generally safe to walk through a field of cows? 5 days ago:
Where would you come across a bull though? I’ve never seen one in a field with cows.
- Comment on Nobody dare Pluto Pterodactyl 1 week ago:
The languages I’m most familiar with are quite closely related to English, so I don’t think that’s really the case.
Actually, one thing I can think of is that English trends to aspirate initial stops, which probably makes those clusters harder to pronounce
- Comment on Nobody dare Pluto Pterodactyl 1 week ago:
What’s strange is that many other languages don’t allow words starting with pt- or ps- neither but have no trouble pronouncing Greek loan words that do.
- Comment on Solving CAPTCHA for 'Bicycle' -- Include Rider? 1 month ago:
I don’t include the rider. More confusing are stairs and crosswalks: where do they start and end? Often, there is no crosswalk on the picture but you have to select other road markings to continue. So it doesn’t really matter.
- Comment on Lightning bugs 1 month ago:
Only a few years ago, I found fireflies living near me. I never knew they existed in Europe.
Government decided to level their habitat though. They’re building a wildlife rescue center, ironically.
- Comment on Which is the best Lemmy app for mobile? 1 month ago:
Out of the ones I’ve tried (Jerboa, Connect, Thunder), I think Thunder is best (after a little config) : github.com/thunder-app/thunder/releases
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 1 month ago:
I must be out of touch.
I didn’t think I’d need an app to visit YouTube.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 1 month ago:
Tbf the only reason I know that YouTube has paid subscriptions is because of threads like this one, so it doesn’t seem like they’re really pushing their paid service.
Maybe they’re only targeting people who, for some reason, don’t block ads, and that’s why I’m unaware, but they should offer a little more than the things you can get for free already (no ads, downloading) if they want to draw in the adblocker crowd too.
Now people will start to google what’s up with all those ads and end up installing uBlock.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 2 months ago:
I accidentally watched a YouTube video on a browser without blocking. It started with an ad. I thought I’d just endure it this time. Then another ad. OK, just this time then. Suddenly, another ad in the middle of the video. I gave up. Who’d have the patience to sit through this?
Then there’s Google’s habit of completely ignoring the browser’s language settings so I have to sit though ads I don’t even understand.
- Comment on The world has become Applefied. 2 months ago:
I’m missing the ashtrays in the 90s photo
- Comment on Has Google’s search results drastically declined for anyone else? 4 months ago:
I’d say site blocking is SearXNG’s main selling point. (I switched when it got recommended to me on Lemmy :-).) Blocking just a few annoyances (Amazon, Pinterest, etc) make the search results so much better and relevant.
Also, Google is plagued by censorship.
- Comment on What Are Your Favorite Hidden Gem Android Apps with Less Than 1 Million Downloads and 4+ Star Ratings? 7 months ago:
Essentials: DiskUsage, Total Commander
Music Folder Player - just a good music player that plays files in a folder instead of scraping all studio files from wherever as many players seem to do nowadays
Syncthing - to sync files with other devices
- Comment on Do any ATMs in Belgium support balance inquiries? 7 months ago:
Not with my ING account
- Comment on Do any ATMs in Belgium support balance inquiries? 7 months ago:
As far as I know, European banks never give you the option for balance inquiry. ATMs in e.g. Asia may give the option but it won’t work with a European bank card.
- Comment on Do younger people go home earlier now? Or go out less? Is it since COVID? 9 months ago:
I’m usually starving at the end of my workday so I couldn’t imagine having to wait that long
- Comment on Do younger people go home earlier now? Or go out less? Is it since COVID? 9 months ago:
Interesting idea. It sounds like a lot of work though
- Comment on Do younger people go home earlier now? Or go out less? Is it since COVID? 9 months ago:
Aren’t you all at work/school around that time?
- Comment on Do younger people go home earlier now? Or go out less? Is it since COVID? 9 months ago:
Sounds fancy, where are you where that’s normal? We usually eat dinner after coming back from work, and maybe coffee and snacks in the evening around 8.30.
- Comment on Do younger people go home earlier now? Or go out less? Is it since COVID? 9 months ago:
For dinner 6.30 seems very late to me imo
- Comment on Why do dentists have such a bad reputation compared to other kinds of doctors? 10 months ago:
Do they? Maybe it’s more unpleasant because they’re expensive
- Comment on Have the trees started turning colors earlier this year? 10 months ago:
Yes 🤦♂️
- Comment on Have the trees started turning colors earlier this year? 10 months ago:
In Europe too. It already looked like spring in early August. It’s because of the heat.
- Comment on Why are we anonymous here? 10 months ago:
Isn’t it the opposite? Nobody would give out their real name online until Facebook came along and normalized it. Google then forced your personal Gmail email account to be your account for everything as well.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
I disagree. There are large groups of (lower class) people who consume mostly American media, e.g. through Facebook and it does have an effect. American politics are copied in Europe.
- Comment on If frozen yogurt is froyo what is refrigerated yogurt? 10 months ago:
It’s chilled, so choghurt
- Comment on What is the current "favorite" show? 10 months ago:
This Fool and Futurama have new seasons
- Comment on How much data can I download on umetered connection? 11 months ago:
For me, this was the case. Got throttled to dial-up-like speed for a while, but I believe they gave up on this practice long ago. This was at least 20 years ago.