kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

Has the time since the invention of agriculture been long enough for any evolutionary changes to occur, and if so, what are some of those changes?

Edit: I meant specifically humans.

What's the best advice you've learned though your time on Earth (as opposed to the moon)?

Is it possible for someone to "become gay" or were they always predisposed to it?

every time i go to a new song on vlc or any other audio player the song skips 3 times and then it just works until in don’t like the song and go to do it again. I think it may be related to pulseaudio or the kernel.

Improved Steam & menu buttons?

I’ve always been somewhat disappointed with the responsiveness and tactile feel of the steam/menu buttons beneath the track pads. Is anyone out there selling clickier replacements for these?

Origins of modern right wing discrimination? EA Wins Worst Company in America in 2013. (Trigger warning: violence against LGBT)

I wonder if anyone else remembers this. It came to my mind because I was reading this story:...

Who is the most intelligent main character in a mobster show?

I’ll go first:...

What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?

Making couple friends in your 30s when child free?

How do people in relationships make friends when you choose to be child free? Every other couple we know is having kids and I don’t care to come over to hang out when your kids are running around screaming. Getting lonely in our 30s

Cleaning Game Boy cartridges? Best way to not cause damage while cleaning/restoring

Hello everyone,...

can anyone suggest a good selfhosted email client? with iOS app or PWA

Not looking for a server as I use fastmail currently but a client would be nice. I am currently using spark on iOS and Mac OS and just fastmail website on my Linux desktop. I’m realizing spark is nothing special and would rather not renew my subscription.

A good way to access multiple web UIs on one local device?

Currently my home server runs a few services that have a web UI. I currently access them by typing in the IP address and port number, but it’s now starting to get annoying to remember the ports....

My favorite Mastodon and Lemmy clients:

I was looking for a place to share my two favorite Mastodon and Lemmy clients, they are called Voyager Connect Boost for Lemmy and Moshidon for Mastodon (if you are really serious about privacy I recommend Connect still) (the official Mastodon app works fine though, you just can’t follow new hashtags from it)...

There's one thing keeping me from switching to Linux on my PC, it is the lack of support from FL Studio and a lot of VST plugins for music creation. (My experience using Wine has not been very good.)

IPTV Watch Together

Does anybody know of a way to use their IPTV service to watch together with friends besides screen sharing? I wanted to watch some sports with friends and I hate that when I use discord, there’s lots of frame drops and quality issues. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Poop is the original processed food

Why do most people choose to use WhatsApp over telegram??

Telegram is just actually superior in terms of features I don’t get it.

You could have a natural talent for something you will never attempt

Does anyone know of an alternative to Readwise?

I’m looking for a solution to easily keep bookmarks digitally of physical books I read. Previously I would type up the just I was wanting to save into a Google Keep note, but that is fairly disruptive to my reading time and really slows things down....

Hey is there a standard / preferred format for image alt text / transcription on Lemmy?

Right now I just use the body of my image posts and write something like “alt text: meme name and used text”.

Visio alternative

Hello self-hosters! Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a self-hosted Microsoft Visio alternative, or something at least very similar. I’m basically looking to create infrastructure diagrams for my self hosted server and apps. I already have WikiJS as a wik/documentation solution, but don’t mind migrating to...

Is anyone using Debian Sid for gaming?

Well I’m hopping around… again. I thought I had a good stable setup going but then something happens upstream that goes against what I want/believe in (looking at you RedHat) and I’m back on the hunt again....

Can someone help me create my own lemmy instance ?

and maybe teach me how to use it. I am a novice ubuntu user but i am getting friendly with terminal. no fancy stuff just to self host and have the option to block unwanted instances and communities, also wanted to browse the lemmyverse without encountring an api rate limit error. link me if this is already asked before. thanks.