Finding mainstream media on usenet - am I doing it wrong?
Hey crew! I often run into the issue that I can’t find usenet entries for reasonably mainstream stuff. Example: “and just like that”, a quite recent, mainstream-ish tv series. Second season is super available (dropped this year), first one has massive health problems and a lot of missing episodes. The first season is from...
What is a scam so obvious that everyone knows it's a scam?
We’ve heard about the normalized scams. Now let’s hear about the scams that are so completely obviously scams that it is a miracle that anybody would ever fall for them.
Do you send birthday whishes on the birthday of your friend's children?
Or do you have a rule, like only for very close friends or if you actually know their children…?
“The Godfather Saga” vs “The Godfather (1 and 2)”; which one do you prefer?
I recently watched the first two Godfather movies, and after a quick search I found out about the Godfather Saga (the 7-hour chronological cut). In your opinion, which way is the best to watch the first two Godfather movies? Do you prefer the 7-hour version with the additional scenes, or would you rather watch both movies...
What do you do when a great book has an absolutely uninteresting storyline?
I always say to myself that it is not worth to force books through. I do like 1/5th then I drop it if it did not catch me. Now I’m reading Pandora’s star which is a great scifi book and sandwitched inbetween the great scfi chapters there is this uninteresting detective storyline with zero scifi, people talking to eachother...
Gravity field scaling?
(To be clear, I’m more interested in the reach and scaling of gravity.)...
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
Poop is the original processed food
New physical cosmological model : is it coherent ?
The following mechanism, by continually creating matter in the universe, if self coherent, would solve many unsolved physical problems : this cosmology would do without a big bang....
[DISCUSS] Pros/cons of videos for technical documentation?
You probably have already noticed that nowadays it’s becoming fashionable online to share technical material via videos (eg YouTube.)...
Apex Legends is, yet again, falsely banning linux players
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3398415...
How long did it take to regain your memory after surgery?
Sorry if this does fit here, or make sense couldn’t find an ask docs community with my tired 1am brain....
Assuming time travelers are real, but only influenced events so far back enough that a smartphone they lost in the past didn't survive for archeologists to find, how far back are we speaking?
And what were the dominant terrestrial species at said time? Would there even be any? I have zero idea of what’s the expected survival rate of an iPhone in the fossil record, but I like to imagine a giant sloth stepped on one once and we are none the wiser....
Need Help with Lemmy Instance Federation
Hey friends!...
TIL that In World War II, British spies plotted to spike Hitler's food with estrogen to make him less aggressive.
Why does it seem like some of my sweaters have a soft and loose "lint layer" on the inside?
It’s always particularly nice and soft the first time you put it on, but the one I got most recently is so bad it leaves a thin but thorough coat of black fur on my arms when I take it off. What’s the production methods used when making sweaters like this?
Our entire existence may be a sort of stable spacetime bubble that can pop at any moment.
Like ants nesting on a river bank, some only live a few days. A colony could live for many ant generations on a riverbank but when a big flood comes their entire world is wiped out.
recover account-name
Almost 20 years ago, I’ve got a steam account already. Somehow, I’ve lost the account-name, but I still see it in the friend list of my brother....
Are there important communities not on lemmy.world or lemmy.ml?
[Hardware question] Mini pc / compact desktop suggestions
I was an avid single player gamer a long long time ago (15+ years) and the recent Quake II remaster sparked the nostalgia in me and now I want start playing all my favorite classic games (StarCraft, Diablo II, Quake 2 and 3, Battlefield 2, etc.) again....
Streaming at higher resolutions?
I’ve finally invested in a high resolution monitor, which means 1080p content looks pretty bad, especially on a 32 inch display....
Can someone who just wants to keep the rights gained over the last decades really be called progressive? And is it really conservative if someone wants to radically change society?
Do the terms “progressive” and “conservative” still make any sense?...
Set-up for Downloading / Streaming
I torrent to my laptop to watch films and shows (VPN with a killswitch). Want a dedicated setup so bought a Raspberry Pi 4b thinking of KODI setup. Is KODI the way to go, or is there a better way to stream or download movies via the Raspbery Pi4? What can you suggest for my home-made box to replace Disney, Netflix, Amazon Prime...