Whooping_Seal

@Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a reason why toilets are made out of one of the most resonating materials possible while also being made in a shape that makes a small fart sound like a damn trombone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised the water softener didn’t help more — is there a specific mineral that is extremely present in the water?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s validity in learning/teaching cursive, if you’re proficient it’s a much faster way of writing. Handwritten notetaking has been shown to be more effective than digital in terms of concept retention (you’re not just regurgitating content verbatim), and cursive can facilitate better notetaking. I’d argue its setting students up for better outcomes in secondary and post-secondary institutions.

  Regardless of that I do agree with your view, we should not just continue things for the sake of tradition, young people aren’t “terrible” for forsaking certain traditions. If anything, re-evaluating what we hold as important is a useful exercise, especially when it comes to education.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There is also last.fm. I would have suggested libre.fm but they are no longer open to registrations it seems

  This would replace the “algorithmic” component of spotify, I would still suggest some other options (sharing stuff in your social circle, seeing who opens for your favourite groups etc.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I would also like to chime in regarding how the community is quite small, there are two (large-ish) Canadian instances but despite this there isn’t really a large francophone population here from what I’ve seen.

  I think the western-anglo bias is in part because the community requires people to host the servers, for the community to even exist in the first place. Smaller regions (such as franco-canada, French speakers only making up ~24% of our population) will make up a smaller portion of the user base and likely found out about the App through other English-language resources.

  Mastodon has a bit of a larger more diverse community, but it also has had the benefit of many more years of larger (but still niche) usage and arguably more severe issues with X formerly known as Twitter becoming a hell-hole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So much for that dream.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  The other nice thing for “state funded media” is they often have translations for international audiences

  For example CBC / Radio-Canada also have an international page, Radio-Canada International offered in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic etc.