Dicska
@Dicska@lemmy.world
- Comment on Pioneer species 2 days ago:
Huh, I never heard of whackaroo before (neither did my keyboard app)!
It’s a non-English one, and we “break” the “road” (also path) when we cut a path in the forest.
- Comment on Pioneer species 2 days ago:
Weirdly, pioneer is ‘roadbreaker’ in my language (as in, making way, like ice breakers do). This would be just a literal name for us.
- Comment on Good job! 3 days ago:
I’m not trying to get you to keep using it (I should have stopped using it myself, as well), but if you insist using it for another month, you might as well just delete the app right now, and just visiting (the owl’s website name).com with the uBlock Origin extension.
I’ve been using it that way from the start, and never installed the app. Zero push notifications, and as opposed to push notifications, you can actually filter your emails if you want to keep certain type of messages for some reason. It’s still not the best, but certainly less annoying.
What made me decide to stop (at two years, also ~2 months from now) is the constant of unnecessary inflation of sections to keep you grinding, always moving the goal line. Well, and the obvious AI solutions, clearly meaning they booted a lot of people for cheap labour. And for gutting the discussions. Especially that: I used to learn more from the discussions/comments than the actual sections.
But apart from obsession, there’s really no difference between still using it for another X days and quitting right now (says me, wanting to make it a nice and round 730 days). Yes, you might be able to learn a few extra words, and AT BEST one new thing about grammar, but the difference is just negligible, and you might have actually learned more from some other source during those X days, instead - with fewer of the aforementioned annoyances.
- Comment on Good job! 3 days ago:
Is that some kind of confirmational yes? I know that the boring, general yes would be ‘tak’. Or how does this thing work?
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 2 weeks ago:
I might be utterly prude, but the shininess of the exact same clothing has literally zero effect on my hotness meter. I don’t even understand why it would.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the tip, I should give it a try. I’m not sure I still have the energy to invest months until I start to understand stuff while sucking and losing all the time, but I will get there eventually.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 3 weeks ago:
Not too surprisingly, you can add League of Legends (another Riot games title) to the list. While I’m not a fan of kernel level anticheat, I do love most of these games, and it’s really frustrating how I don’t see any change in the future. After more than a year of struggling, I finally managed to get my Mint working (turns out my old mobo was faulty), but it looks like I will still have to keep Windows for basically all multiplayer titles I play.
- Comment on Show your pride 4 weeks ago:
That is the very definition of colour. The part of the electromagnetic spectrum that we can see. The rest of the scale includes infrared, gamma or X-ray. If you want, you can call them invisible colours - or you can call green superhighultraviolet.
- Comment on Space is beautiful 4 weeks ago:
Meh, amateurs. Being cringy as a kid at times is pretty much inevitable. That’s when you learn your ways.
You can watch me being cringy as an adult for decades.
- Comment on mercy merci 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on mercy merci 4 weeks ago:
You have to jump this high to be let inside
- Comment on How will YOU choose 4 weeks ago:
Hell. I will need it tomorrow when I wake up after 4 hours of sleep.
- Comment on If proton decay isn't true 5 weeks ago:
You don’t need to, I can tell you what’s inside.
Iron.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 1 month ago:
Oh yes you’re right - I’m not a native speaker and I think we phrase it slightly differently, and I took that literally. Thanks for the explanation!
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 1 month ago:
Oh, I was thinking they meant 65-75 people before the pendulum (the second counter on the grandfather clock?) swung back, so 65-75 people per second. I didn’t think so deeply about the maths behind it, just accepted it as a possible meaning. But I’ll do it now.
- Comment on No excuses 1 month ago:
Be kind, you never know what someone is going through.
It’s your car.
- Comment on The Usual Suspect 1 month ago:
Maybe if had said ‘shooting at a synagogue’
Police shooting civilians
- Comment on *A clean colon is like driving on a country road on a sunny day...* 1 month ago:
Hang them on the fence inside out and hose them down with a garden hose.
- Comment on It's depressing, man 2 months ago:
The difference is not huge, but that is the definition of median.
Example: There are five kids in the class: Alicia (4’), Beth (4’), Charles (5’), Dan (7’) and Emma (3 miles). The average height of the class is 1060 feet. Are half of the kids taller/shorter than that? Nah. However, the median is Charles’ height, 5 feet. ~Half of the students are above that, and ~half of them are below. If it’s an even number of students, the median is between the two middle ones.
Also, I’m slightly worried about Emma.
- Comment on Bountiful harvest 2 months ago:
We can’t tell for sure without a banana.
- Comment on Kinky 2 months ago:
You might be bad with faces, but how about faeces?
- Comment on Kinky 2 months ago:
“I’m Brenda.”
- Comment on Uh oh lol 2 months ago:
Let’s suppose that for some reason it’s completely normal, and it’s just simply speeding toward us.
OP says it’s billions of light years away. Doesn’t that mean that we still have a few billion years?
- Comment on Youngest actor ever 2 months ago:
Thanks! My lazy ass brain forgot that shows can also be found on imdb, not just single films. And here I was, thinking I found a glitch.
- Comment on Youngest actor ever 2 months ago:
In hindsight it looks pretty obvious - for some reason I didn’t even take a closer look at the imdb page of The Young and the Restless, and I had no idea it was a show. Thanks for the answer!
- Comment on Youngest actor ever 2 months ago:
Thanks for cracking the case - I never heard of that title before, and I automatically assumed that would be a standalone film. It makes perfect sense, knowing it’s actually a show. Thanks for the info!
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- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 months ago:
*ZIP*
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
We have a family album with a bunch of photos from my brother’s toddlerhood in ~'83, mostly black and white. Those cameras were still around for a while (not in South Africa, though). Maybe family heirloom, maybe it was just cheaper, or some hobby stuff.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 2 months ago:
I’ll be the dancer. Just make sure I can hear your conversation.
