Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on The only one country 14 hours ago:
Hey NZ is major now, don’t take that away from us!
- Comment on Ate there more galaxies in the universe, than stars that can be seen from Earth with the naked eye, or with a telescope? 1 week ago:
To add on to your “with telescope” numbers, the number you can see with the naked eye is surprisingly small. If you are out on a clear night, you can pretty much only see stars within the milky way, and even then you’re talking the ballpark of 5000. If you’re naming them and counting them on all sides of the earth (not just those visible from your one location) you can double that if you have great eyes.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s probably highly dependent on what you want to do with your life. Are you trying to become an archeologist professor? Work in IT? Run a pub?
- Comment on Is there really no poll function on Lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
There’s really no poll feature. Piefed has polls but Lemmy doesn’t.
You could make a poll by asking a question then reading people’s answers, or by linking a poll website.
- Comment on "Gen Z won't understand this but back in my day, if you ever saw as many ads as you do on social media today, it meant you had at least 3 viruses on your computer" 3 weeks ago:
What was that thing where a website could create a sort of borderless window with a hot chick or cute character in it simply by visiting the website. And you couldn’t close it because it was borderless with no buttons.
- Comment on Adding a Sever 3 weeks ago:
Haha don’t worry, it can be confusing! There are a lot of different mobile apps too (see lemmyapps.com and filter by your phone type) but it sounds like you’re trying to add a second account. You can only log in to your account on the instance you signed up to it with, then you search for the communities you want to follow.
Some apps let you log in to multiple accounts at once, in which case you could sign up for a new account at fedinsfw then log in to that account in your app, then you’d have two accounts you can switch between.
- Comment on Adding a Sever 3 weeks ago:
Lemmy doesn’t have a way to add a server to my knowledge, and subscribing to a community is done by clicking a button on the community page on the default lemmy website. It looks like Lemmy.today uses a themed version of the default website so I fuess you’re using a mobile app?
- Comment on Adding a Sever 3 weeks ago:
So your account is on lemmy.today. What are you trying to do when you say you can’t add the server fedinsfw?
You should probably be using your lemmy.today account to subscribe to specific communities on fedinsfw.
It kind of sounds like you might be trying to log in to fedinsfw with your lemmy.today account? It doesn’t work like that, you should log in to lemmy.today and then subscribe to fedinsfw communities.
It’s also pretty important what you’re using to access Lemmy. There are a dozen or more actively developed apps and at least 4 or 5 different website interfaces. It’s confusing but important to know exactly what steps you took (which website you went to, which app you opened, which buttons you clicked) to get to where you got stuck due to all the options.
- Comment on Be careful: The Fixupxer App on F-droid edit your URL to make it redirect to adware/malware. 3 weeks ago:
They are pretty open about it here. It redirects and I wonder if there was an issue with the domain, looking at archive.org it seems it used to redirect to embedez.com so maybe they lost the domain or got hacked? It doeesn’t seem intentional anyway.
Oh but also in my link above, apparently it’s 100% vibe coded so maybe don’t use it anyway.
- Comment on How does a teenager learn to "eat out" a women without doing it like a dog at a water bowl? 3 weeks ago:
People are being a bit rough with all the downvotes, your partner might not just yell out directions, but you can (and should) ask, in which case they are very likely to answer.
- Comment on Well you see, uh... 3 weeks ago:
My 6 year old: how do you make people
Me: well, when there’s a mum and a dad…
6 year old: no, where did the first person come from?
Me: oh god can I just tell you about the birds and the bees I at least have a chance of properly explaining that one
- Comment on Is this a scam or am I being paranoid? And if so, what kind of scam is this? 3 weeks ago:
Whatever you do, don’t send any money back if they say they sent too much.
- Comment on More than 300,000 pupils estimated absent after England World Cup win 3 weeks ago:
Not sure what the general thought is around here, but I see no issue with taking a single day off school for a rare opportunity to spend quality time with your family watching your national team in a world cup match, if they generally have high attendance.
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 3 weeks ago:
If you look closely, you’ll see that syrup is structural. That’s why it’s in the fridge.
- Comment on How do I deal with children following me around in video games? 4 weeks ago:
Luanti is a voxel game engine, but servers can run different games and mods, picking from an extensive selection.
Despite this, the BFG 9000 does not appear to be available in a mod at all!
- Comment on No, you don't want to know more about KATE's spellchecker, you want to genAI slopify your writing! 5 weeks ago:
That’s the default. It never forces them on you, but there is a UI option for a quick answer. Both the UI option and the “?” shortcut are disabled with the option in settings.
- Comment on No, you don't want to know more about KATE's spellchecker, you want to genAI slopify your writing! 5 weeks ago:
I think they might have changed it. Now they just have the setting to disable quick answers. If you turn on that setting then “?” won’t do anything.
- Comment on Another one… 1 month ago:
Haha I got it straight away, it was a super popular song when I was younger, and the line in the meme “Despite all my rage” clearly identifies it. But I can imagine it would be easy to miss the window. Be born a few years later. Be from a country that doesn’t commonly have American rock bands at the top of the charts. Or just not being into rock or having time to listen to the radio at that point in time.
Then you have to also know who Nicolas Cage is. And also be on lemmy enough to understand how people think.
Ok I can see how this could be pretty obscure.
- Comment on Another one… 1 month ago:
A band called The Smashing Pumpkins have a song called Bullet With Butterfly Wings. A line repeated a lot in the chorus is “Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage”.
The image shows a rat behind Nicolas Cage.
- Comment on Multiple Questions? 1 month ago:
Everything you do in Lemmy is not private. Your instance needs to send everything to other instances, and the data is stored unencrypted in the database. Every time you vote on a post that action is sent to every other instance that has a subscribing user in that community. You can see that in action here: lemvotes.org
For DMs, they are only stored in the sending and receiving instance, but for sure the sys admins of those two instances can look in their database and see the messages in plain text.
Lemmy allows you to enter your Matrix ID in your profile, then (at least in the default Lemmy site) a new button appears on your profile page for others, who can click the button to secure message you on Matrix (which is E2E encrypted).
- Comment on Why when I rent an Apt I need to have the electric turned on first? I spent my first year of contracting living out my car to save all the money I could. Shouldn't the land lord do that not you? 1 month ago:
Well in NZ we have one big electric network and a system for how load is balanced and payments flow between generators and companies supplying to users of the power.
So while there are exceptions, in general we can choose any company, of which there are about 40.
- Comment on Gotta work those monkey stats up 1 month ago:
74 million bananas a year also seems like hardly any. I’m pretty sure my kids ate a sizable portion of that number.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
What if you were smart enough to download all of Wikipedia via Kiwix?
- Comment on Memories of defragging your computer 2 months ago:
Oh good thanks 🙂
- Comment on Memories of defragging your computer 2 months ago:
I still have an HDD, am I supposed to defrag it? I don’t think I’ve ever done that.
- Comment on All in one 2 months ago:
I don’t either, but I know people who have had it, and acne is treatable. Is this a(nother) healthcare thing that makes it more common in the US?
- Comment on Multiple Questions? 2 months ago:
To delete a post in Thunder, click the … on the post, the “Post”, then “Delete post”.
You can’t follow users on Lemmy, only communities.
And it’s not just you, I can’t work out how to DM people in Thunder either 🤷
- Comment on You gotta try #19 2 months ago:
It’s bacon. It’s a WHO group 1 carcinogen, it’s “known to cause cancer”, I’m not sure how much the charcoal changes things.
It’s also considered red meat for the purposes of the Group 2A carcinogens, where red meat “probably” causes cancer.
Not sure what your concern is with charcoal but eating bacon on a regular basis is already living on the edge.
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 2 months ago:
Can this steam be used to turn turbines to make power? Or is it not hot enough to generate the required pressure?
Surely it could at least be fed into a power station that now only needs half the fuel to get it up to temperature?
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings 3 months ago:
Have you tried owning the place you work?