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Why do some TV broadcasts show a person translating it to sign language instead of using subtitles?

I assume there must be a reason why sign language is superior but I genuinely don’t know why.

If the real world worked like Pokémon, what animal would evolve into what animal?

What difficult games/game challenges did you give up on?

Be it a game that’s difficult in its entirety, or a particular challenge in a game that you just couldn’t complete....

If Trump and Biden both died today, what would happen?

Imagine the following scenario: On the 9th of January 2024 in the morning we wake up to news that President of the USA Joe Biden suffered a stroke and died in White House. The administration confirms that the death was entirely natural and no third party contributed to it. Even before the news reach all TV stations another one...

What is a piece of media that has changed your life?

I can barely tell the difference between 60 and 165 hz on my monitor

Title says it all (i have turned on 165hz on settings). Its a cheap monitor, do some 165hz monitors not truly give you that experience? Or are my eyes fucked

Discord on Flathub is now official

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When was a game's price worth it to you?

Say a simple (hours enjoyed playing)/(price of game) equation. How many hours (you enjoyed) per $ do you think is reasonable/expected? Or is there other criteria for you?...

I have never seen an ad in the past 6 years. I use android phone, windows PC and Android TV. Keen to hear when was the last time you saw an AD ?

Which is your favorite Lemmy app?

How do you keep your home servers online during powercuts?

I live in a part of the world where powercuts are pretty frequent. 1 per day is normal. They last between 1 and 8 hours. A day without powercuts feels like a special occasion....

If you were to run for higher office in your country, what controversial thing would the vetting process uncover about you?

In the US, what happens if you sustain a life threatening injury and you don't have insurance?

Assuming nobody else is at fault

What is the most valuable digital data you own?

Anyone who downloaded the GOG Baldur's Gate 3 release from 1337x, scan with Malwarebytes asap!

Originally posted over on /r/piracy (https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/15itrip/1337x_admins_allowing_bg3_torrent_with_bitcoin/)...

What are the benefits to the US Electoral College system?

So I’m a New Zealander and I have a pretty good idea on how the electoral college system works but it honestly sounds like something that can be easily corrupted and it feels like it renders the popular vote absolutely useless unless I’m totally missing something obvious?...

what is everyone using for photos?

Looking for an alternative to synology photos. I moved over to synology about 3 years ago and am now considering moving out of the synology ecosystem. I’m looking for something that has a decent android app, wifi syncing, shareable albums, all the standard stuff....

has lemmy.world been going down these past few days or is it the app I use?

For hours today, yesterday, and intermittently since I’ve been on here (a month or so) lemmy stops loading using jerboa, liftoff, and a web browser....

How do you deal with endless cookies dialogues?

This might be just EU thing, but is there an effective way to deal with endless “accept/reject cookies” dialogues?...

Does anyone here NOT hate Google?

I’m curious because I see a ton of Google hate on here daily. It’s certainly not all unwarranted, and I do agree with some of the privacy concerns....

Average CSS

I am not allowed to credit the site that has this disaster. Its owner said “Nobody should see that”

Reddit just isn't how it used to be.

I left reddit on june 12th last year in protest of spez’s decision to change the reddit api from being free as in free beer to an unbelievably expensive cost. That same day, I joined lemmy on a now abandoned account....

"Moderation tools are nonexistent on here. It also eats up storage like crazy [...] The software is downright frustrating to work with" - Can any other instance admins relate to this?

After a year online the free speech-focused instance ‘Burggit’ is shutting down. Among other motivations, the admins point to grievances with the Lemmy software as one of the main reasons for shutting down the instance. In a first post asking about migrating to Sharkey, one of the admins states:...

If you could make a non-linux OS go mainstream, which one would you pick?

I make the specification of non-linux because otherwise this would just become a thread full of obscure distros that do the same thing as a million other distros....