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Gabu , to asklemmy in Dear Lemmy, **why** Star Trek??

no other franchise I know of that dominates the federation as much as Star Trek does.

You answered your own question, brother.

highduc , to technology in How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?

I think people who dislike the headphone jack must be young and not have (good) wired headphones.
Older people (older than teenagers and young adults I mean) often have a few pairs of good headphones they got over the years, and it’s a massive waste to just throw them away and buy wireless because that’s what the trends demand. And in most cases wireless won’t sound as good, because the budget needs to go to bluetooth chips, and dacs, and batteries and all that crap, instead of just focusing on audio.

According to Wikipedia, ‘The original 1⁄4 inch (6.35 mm) version descends from as early as 1877’, and it’s been an industry standard since then.
You can use it not just for headphones but as a line out, to connect all kinds of audio devices between them. You can hook up your phone to a car audio system, an old radio (if it has input, I think most do), a guitar pedal or an amplifier, a reverb or an effects unit, etc., just with the “magic” of wires.

criticon ,

I have very decent wired headphones, but it helped that when I bought my S21 Samsung gave me some Buds+ for free, and then I was able to get a pair of Buds Pro for $20 (likely a price error on their site) and I also have some Bose QC35 that I got with airline miles

Also when I exercise I cannot use wired at all. I upgraded to Bluetooth as soon as they were affordable

Now my wired headphones live in my Nintendo switch case

flamingo_pinyata ,

There are honestly no good wireless headphones out there. Yes, in the price range ~300€ you can get some decent earbuds. But still not even close in sound quality to what you can buy for 100€ with a wire.

Thteven ,
@Thteven@lemmy.world avatar

Best option for wireless is to grab a portable DAC/amp like the qudelix5k or fiio btr5 and plug your headphones into that.

I like good headphones but I don’t like spending good amounts of money on headphones with the built-in point of failure of a battery that will inevitably crap out after a couple years. I deal with that enough with my damn phones.

BearOfaTime ,

Meh, this old argument.

You’re on a mobile device in environments with gobs of noise.

Damn few people could tell the difference in sound quality in those situations, fewer still would care (e. g. People like you. Not to be dismissive at all - that’s your thing).

A car is 70db+. Just being outside in a city you’re probably looking at a variable noise level of what, 40-70+?

If that’s important to you, cool, do what you like. But most people are looking for something with far less quality. You don’t need that kind of quality to hear a podcast clearly, or listen to “Dance Dance Track 15”.

xkcd.com/915/

DrRatso ,

You don’t need that kind of quality to hear a podcast clearly, or listen to “Dance Dance Track 15”.

You don’t, but once you’ve had it, turning back and going to something more expensive that is worse, more annoying to use and will be aproaching useless in 3-5 years? For what? Like it straight up is less convenient for me because i forget to charge it and then it starts dying mid-run or mid commute.

smort ,
@smort@lemmy.world avatar

Oh come on. For $230 you can get the Sony WH-1000XM4 (or similar). Works wired or wireless, active noise canceling, pretty long battery life.

For 99% of people, those are “good” wireless headphones. I’ve been very happy with my XM3s for five or six years now

Mango ,

Copper doesn’t discriminate against electrons. Bluetooth however is picky.

prole ,

According to Wikipedia, ‘The original 1⁄4 inch (6.35 mm) version descends from as early as 1877’, and it’s been an industry standard since then.

I could be mistaken, but I believe the modern headphone cable/jack is 1/8”.

1/4" are the bigger ones like the size of a guitar cable.

grabyourmotherskeys ,

When I was a kid, headphones had the beefy one associate with guitars. The smaller ones came out when Walkmans became popular. We called them mini-plugs and you’d buy an adapter to use them with older gear.

Memories based on being born in early '70s. Possibly incorrect.

prole ,

Nah I think you’re right.

highduc ,

You’re correct. But you can use an adapter. Some headphones (especially more expensive ones) come with their own. And some devices (like my USB audio interface) come with a big jack for headphones, but again an adapter makes it irrelevant whether it’s a small jack or a large one.

mypasswordistaco ,
@mypasswordistaco@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

If you’re gunna use an adapter anyway then it makes it irrelevant whether or not there’s a headphone jack in the phone. People in this thread talk about how you can’t use expensive wired headphones with your mobile devices anymore as if adapters don’t exist.

highduc ,

We’re not talking about the same thing here. First off a large jack to small jack adapter would be needed in rare circumstances, if you happen to use a pair of headphones that only uses a large jack with a small device like a phone, which obviously only has a small one.
That whole large jack discussion was started because of the quote from Wikipedia I posted, where they mention just how old the jack is. I’m guessing you haven’t read the rest of the comments since you brought it up?

2nd of all a jack adapter is just “wire”, it’s passive ( doesn’t have any circuitry), and doesn’t require any support.
For a dongle type of adapter that’s quite different. Software and hardware and compatibility come into play.
Lots of dongles have a DAC built into them which is separate from the phone DAC. It’s duplicating something you already have, and if your phone has a good one buit into it (which it should), the flimsy dongle most probably has a very cheap one.
I have a dongle and it only works if I plug it in before taking calls. If I already answer and then use the dongle the sound won’t work out of the headphones so it’s useless…

RavenFellBlade ,
@RavenFellBlade@startrek.website avatar

1/4"? Feh. I use only XLR for my audio needs. /elitist audiophile

June ,

I’m 39, and I almost never used the headphone jack on any of my old phones, and I’m one of those that doesn’t miss the jack.

I get why people want it, I’m just not in that camp, and most of my friends are the same.

BearOfaTime ,

I’m about 20 years older than you, and the only wired earphones I have came with devices. They’re in a box with other crap I don’t use.

I haven’t used wired earphones since about 2006.

So yea, I don’t think “older folks have more wired stuff” holds true at all. All my peers embraced BT and were happy to ditch wires.

shortwavesurfer ,

I am 29 and I don’t use wired headphones anymore

TK420 ,

Ahh yes, you make a statement that is 100% valid and someone else goes, nah, fuck this person, downvote.

Downvoted for a fucking fact. Ugh. Fuck you down voter.

thrawn ,

I have gone too far in the headphone hobby and have exited the nice middle zone where the headphone jack has value. It can’t power my headphones and my phone has no systemwide EQ so there would be no point anyway.

Some people in the headphones sub talked about using qudelix 5k to power it if you wanted mobile but at that point the jack becomes useful only for charging while listening (admittedly useful!). I don’t really think compromise free mobile listening works though, if you have good wired headphones they are fairly likely to be open back already. For those people, a midrange priced Bluetooth Focal Bathys is probably as good as investment as any other closed back for mobile.

Hence why I believe the headphone jack is for those in the middle of the pack: they have closed back wired headphones that are good enough to not want to use Bluetooth, but not headphones too difficult to power or a strong preference for EQ. Which is a ton of people to be fair. I only commented here cause you said “people who dislike the headphone jack must not have good wired headphones,” but I have several and don’t need a headphone jack in my phone. I’m aware that those in my position are a very small portion of the population and agree with most of what you said, just wanted to provide a different perspective.

Oh also, if you’re using an adapter for 1/4” to 1/8”, may as well just use a USB-C or lightning adapter. 1/4 or 2.5mm balanced and a shitload of power would actually make a phone jack useful for my case though!

SnuggleSnail , to piracy in It's funny how google pretends the music on YouTube isn't straight up piracy and everyone just goes along with it

YouTube and Spotify are paying license fees to be allowed to play music on their platform.

Son_of_dad ,

I wanna know who is paying YouTube to allow those stupid fake movies trailers. I wish YouTube had a block channel option.

MidRomney ,

There is a block channel option. I use it all the time.

webhead ,
@webhead@lemmy.world avatar

All I’m aware of is the don’t recommend channel option. I still get stupid fucking channels (like emergency awesome) when I search. Am I missing the option somewhere?

jayrhacker ,
@jayrhacker@kbin.social avatar

I worked for one of the YouTube founders once, killed me when he explained how they benchmarked all the Copyright detection software available at the time and then picked the worst one to use for their licensing system.

NoneYa ,

That’s fucking genius. I love it.

Aatube ,
@Aatube@kbin.social avatar

Is this real?

FutileRecipe ,

They posted it on the Internet, so it has to be.

JackbyDev ,

I only use the best lie detectors

jadelord ,

Tagline for Lemmy (every social media in existence)

jayrhacker ,
@jayrhacker@kbin.social avatar

You think someone would just do that? Just go on the internet and lie?

KRAW , to asklemmy in Indian Food is praised worldwide and celebrated in countries like the UK and Germany. Americans, why do all your comedy shows rag on Indian food?
@KRAW@linux.community avatar

Can you give an example? I know that some people have a hard time with the strong smells, but I honestly have never heard it made fun of in any demeaning way. Maybe at worst a character has a bad time on a toilet due to the Indian food being so spicy, but I can’t think of how it would be made fun of. Seems well loved here in the States in my experience.

givesomefucks ,

Can you give an example?

I thought you meant for Indian food being praised worldwide at first…

Most people I know that enjoy Indian food switched to Thai prerty quickly. They might still get Indian occasionally, but Thai food does everything better.

Most Indian dishes that are popular in other countries, aren’t even Indian. At most they were invented in other countries and portrayed as authentic. So I’m not even sure that counts.

Kind of like how General Tsao’s chicken is an American dish

CanadaPlus , (edited )

Butter chicken was invented for the British (in India), but naan bread and the various dal dishes are authentic, and those are the first things I think of. Thai food is good too, but it’s different.

givesomefucks ,

Yeah…

But that was invented by people from Pakistan who were just living in India…

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_chicken

So its still a stretch to call it Indian food.

And naan is from Iran…

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naan

Muslims brought it to India when they conquered it.

It’s like saying a Big Mac is authentic Native American food

CanadaPlus ,

Gee, how far back does it have to go to be authentic? Tomatoes weren’t in Italy until after Columbus brought them (of course after 1300), and didn’t catch on until well after the later date mentioned of 1700, so there goes all of Italy’s most famous dishes.

Hamburgers are American food. Not Native American food, but American. Next you’re going to tell me baguettes are Middle Eastern food because grain was domesticated there, or that camel meat is Native American food because they evolved in America before crossing the land bridge in pre-human times.

givesomefucks ,

Mate, naan wasn’t invented in India…

It just wasn’t.

It’s Iranian food.

The only reason naan is in India, is one of the many people who conquered that area brought it there.

You can say it’s popular there, but it’s still not Indian food. Just a dish that’s popular in India.

And I have zero idea what the tomatoes rant was about…

Italians got a new ingredient and incorporated it into existing dishes or made completely new ones. It’s not like someone shiped spaghetti sauce to Italy and Italians just decided they should claim they invented it like you’re doing with naan.

Or that someone from another country moved there and showed everyone how to make it like Butter Chicken.

They’re just not comparable examples…

CanadaPlus ,

Yeah, tandoori naan is apparently popular across neighboring countries too. I’d say India can still claim some co-ownership, just like Europeans and their various loaf breads, but I guess that’s a matter of definition, so sure, it’s not exclusively Indian.

The dal dishes are Indian, though. Curries in general are Indian - that one goes all the way back to Harrapa IIRC. Since you seem intent on keeping score, that’s 2 to 1.

givesomefucks ,

A tandor is just a type of oven champ…

It makes a difference for some stuff, but not naan.

Curries in general are Indian

Yes… Which is what I was talking about Thai doing it better…

Why are you talking about scores?

Is you just now understanding my first comment a point for me or you?

Honestly, if we’re keeping score I think we should both get a point for that. I legitimately had given up on trying and wasn’t going to reply again, but then I saw you got it!

Radicalized , (edited )

I think after a cuisine or manner of cooking has been used in a region for almost a thousand years we are free to say it is authentic to that region, even though it was introduced. That you would deny Indians that, while accepting that Thai cuisine only started using chilli peppers in the last 300 years, opens a broader discussion about your personal understanding of culture and ethnicity.

Further, a Big Mac is a product made by a single corporation, lmao. I’m not going to justify that with further argument. But to use your Naitive American angle; a big part of NA cuisine is a bread called ‘bannock’. It can be savoury or sweet, and every tribe cooks it a little different from every other tribe. It is an important part of Indegenous cooking… and it’s an introduced food. The word bannock isn’t even from any native word. It came about from Scottish settlers/workers surviving on meagre company rations of flour and oil in isolated regions where they had no idea how to get food from the land. First Nations were introduced to it then found themselves in a similar situation as they were pushed off their land and given flour rations by the government so they wouldn’t all die. This all happened so recently my grandparents knew people affected by this.

It’s integral to their culture, even, and anyone who would deny bannock isn’t naitive would rightly be called an idiot by any indigenous person I know. Even though it’s an introduced food. That’s how culture, and food, work.

givesomefucks ,

That you would deny Indians that, while accepting that Thai cuisine only started using chilli peppers in the last 300 years, opens a broader discussion about your personal understanding of culture and ethnicity.

Not really…

Because one is an ingredient, and one is a a cooked item that someone mentioned as a food that was invented in India.

Those seem like two very different types of things.

But I don’t know why you want for chili peppers instead of just curry.

Curry was invented in India, but me and most people I know think Thai curry is better. Which is literally what I said in the beginning…

What is even going on in this thread?

Why do so many people that know nothing about this care so much?

Is it just because India is the topic?

Radicalized , (edited )

No one made mention of anything being ‘invented’ anywhere until you, just now. I think I’d like to quote from one of history’s true greatest food scholars when I say, “What is even going on in this thread?”

I’m outta here.

givesomefucks ,

No one made mention of anything being ‘invented’ anywhere until you

That’s what it is…

When OP said “Indian food” you took it as any food that’s sold in India, regardless of where it originated

So like, if there’s a taco bell, then tacos are Indian.

If there’s spaghetti, then spaghetti is Indian.

I’d think that would also mean all those people “worldwide” aren’t eating Indian food either then. They’re eating the food of whatever country theyre in. Do you think Uber Eats has spaceships? Is that what ufos really are?

I’m outta here.

Good night, thanks for sticking around long enough I could start to understand what you were talking about. That shit was a trip.

Cheradenine ,

According to your source

Naan as known today originates from Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt.

The word Naan originates from Iran.

Anyway you might as well try to make the case that any Indian dish that contains tomatoes, potatoes, chillies, squash, and much else isn’t really Indian because they didn’t exist there until a few hundred years ago.

Deceptichum ,
@Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

Such an odd way to hear people talk about food.

I’d never consider food to be “switchable”, let alone think another culture does it “better”. Like there’s so much diversity between Indian/Thai, on a dish by dish basis no country is better.

givesomefucks ,

I mean, I can’t think of another type of curry that’s popular in America…

Like sure, if you’re in a huge city there might be one or two other options.

I’d never consider food to be “switchable”, let alone think another culture does it “better”.

I’m honestly at a loss how someone wouldn’t be able to understand that…

Not sure I understand why you think a Thai restaurant would be making Indian food or vice versa.

Obviously they’re not making the same dishes, but that’s like insisting no one can prefer clam chowder to tomato soup because it’s not the same dish

hitmyspot ,

I think the point is they are very different cuisines, not interchangeable. They both just happen to be spicier than the American palate is used to.

I don’t choose food based on country of origin but what I fancy to eat. Sometimes that’s Indian foods sometimes thai, sometimes vietnamese etc.

I live in Australia where there is not a great selection of Indian food (despite a relatively high Indian population) compared to the UK where I also lived. Even so, there are different styles of Indian food with different dishes available just in my suburb. It’s nothing like Thai food, which also has a large variety. Both Indian and Thai restaurants have a few dishes that are ‘classic’ and available at most mainstream restaurants. Like, it would be odd to not have Pad Thai available, or in an Indian, butter chicken.

Sometimes I’ll want a pad Thai. Sometimes a butter chicken. The pad Thai is not better than the butter chicken. A green curry is not better than a jalfrezi. They are different flavour profiles.

I would say there is more crossover between dishes from Vietnam, Thailand malaysia and China, with varying levels of spice and flavour but very similar dishes available and common.

Again, you might prefer a Vietnamese sweet and sour chicken, but that doesn’t mean Cantonese or Hong Kong style is better or worse.

givesomefucks ,

I mean…

Yeah, if I compared a pizza to a bowl of ice cream they’d be pretty different…

But curry is pretty much the only popular Indian food worldwide, everything else was invented in those other countries, it’s not really from India. Or like butter chicken was invented by a foreigner who moved to India.

If a dish is invented in a foreign country to appeal to the taste of foreigners…

It’s really hard to attribute it to the country of origin, or the country of invention. It’s literally Taco Bell. Often it takes the country it’s portrayed as from for a long ass time to even hear about it.

Like, I forget which one but maybe it’s chicken Alfredo? Some dish that is sold in Italian restaurants in other countries for so long, and tourists wouldn’t stop asking for it in Italy, that now it’s actually in Italian restaurants just to keep tourists happy

But back to curry, most people I know like curry, but prefer Thai to Indian.

Which is all I said, but apparently I did a very bad job of saying it if so many of you didn’t get it.

hitmyspot ,

Lol, there are many different types of curry. That’s like saying noodles. It encompasses Italian, Thai, Japanese, Korean…

Yes, food doesn’t have boundaries and fusion food can be great. Your point about people graduating from Indian to Thai still doesn’t make sense in that context.

You can also take the opposite and look at fortune cookies. Invented by immigrants and now associated with Chinese food. Is that any different to a foreign person creating a recipe in China with Chinese ingredients, or a French person in the UK using Chinese cooking techniques.

Is tempura less Japanese because the batter originated with Portuguese traders?

givesomefucks ,

Lol, there are many different types of curry

Seriously…

Why am I getting so many replies the last few days, where someone tells me what I’ve been saying, but they’re super smug about it and act like I didn’t know?

It’s super weird that it started happening all of a sudden, and all over lemmy

AWistfulNihilist ,

You are totally ignorant to how odd and out of place your comments seem to people reading them. You came in with a strange non sequitur that wasn’t really relevant to the discussion at all, then got all weird when people engaged you on it, like your version of whatever was going on here didn’t happen.

You are the odd one out here! It was fun to read tho.

ElJefe ,

A reply I got from him on a thread below just read like trump wrote it, and then goes on to say that he “literally just said” what I then replied. I’m like mf where??

ieatpillowtags ,

If you meet an asshole on the way to work, then you met an asshole. If everyone you meet all day is an ass, the problem is likely with you!

brambledog ,

Indian curry is a gravy while Thai curry is a soup and the flavor profiles of their curries largely have no overlap.

They both are amazing.

lagomorphlecture ,

That’s always how ethnic food works though. It always starts with the original base food then gets modified by the local culture to fit their tastes and available ingredients. Chinese is the same. American Chinese food isn’t the same as Indian Chinese food which isn’t the same as French Chinese food. American Thai food isn’t 100% authentic either, it’s just different than Indian food because it’s not based on Indian food.

givesomefucks ,

American Chinese food isn’t the same as Indian Chinese food which isn’t the same as French Chinese food.

Sooooo…

If it’s all different, then it’s not the same.

And if it’s not the same, it’s not a single thing “praised worldwide”.

It’s impressive how long people keep commenting on this thread, but still super weird y’all keep agreeing with me but acting like you’re explaining what I said to me.

x2XS2L0U , to android in Finally installed F-Droid

Some of them are not underrated, but I’d just share my favorites…

  • AntennaPod for podcasts.
  • Aurora Store if you need some Google apps to be updated.
  • Binary Eye is a nice and slim qr code scanner and generator.
  • CriticalMaps is a good tool if you’re into critical mass events.
  • GadgetBridge can be a companion app for your smartwatch (if you have the right one).
  • GPS logger just logs your position in an interval you can set. I use it to track my movement in 30min bits.
  • GymRoutines is a privacy friendly gym exercise app with a database of your progress.
  • K9 mail (soon to be rebranded as Thunderbird mobile) is a powerful mail app.
  • KeePassDX is an android password manager compatible with keepass files.
  • LibreTorrent is a nice way to torrent your favorite linux distros while on the go.
  • Location Map Viewer I use with the gpx files I get from GPS logger to visualize my movements.
  • mpv just plays a lot of media without being a bloated thing like vlc. I use mpv for videos, vlc for music.
  • NewPipeSponsorblock is available in a custom repo only.
  • Ning is a nice way to get an overview over a local network.
  • OpenTracks can be used in combination with GadgetBridge to record your sports with gps.
  • OSMand gives you a frontend for using openstreetmap with offline maps, navigation and more.
  • PDF Doc Scan is my way to digitalize important letters as a pdf on the go.
  • StreetComplete is a gamificated way to fill in missing things in openstreetmap. it’s fun.
  • Syncthing-Fork (important to use the fork) is a file sync tool I use to backup a lot of my phones folders to a pc.
  • Tusky is my favorite way to browse mastodon.
  • VLC is a powerful media player (I then use only to shuffle through my mp3s).
alphacyberranger ,
@alphacyberranger@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks for this list.

Chicagoz ,

Interesting list. Antennapod is an excellent podcast app - use it every day. I’ve never found VLC to be bloated though. And am curious about the SyncThing fork vs. regular SyncThing.

otter ,

This is such a great list, saving and installing a few!

Adding on (and likely seconding a few):

  • 2048: game
  • Aegis: for 2Fa stuff
  • AntennaPod: second this one
  • AnkiDroid: Flashcards, the Anki project is huge and extends way past android. Worth exploring if you want/need to memorize things
  • Droid-ify: Fdroid client I use, but I keep the main app installed too
  • Eat Poop You Cat: game to be played in a group
  • Feeder: for RSS
  • FFShare: for compressing photos/videos before sharing
  • FlorisBoard: The keybaord I liked, although I don’t use it full time
  • GPTAssist: Frontend for chatGPT
  • Material Files: File manager
  • Native Alpha: Have websites run like apps, while isolating each site
  • OpenFoodFacts: A bit buggy, but it’s similar to OSM but for food
  • RetroStack: Another game
  • SDMaid SE: Same dev from the popular playstore one, is rebuilding a better one from scratch, AND it’s now FOSS
  • SkyMap:
  • Survival manual
  • Termux
  • Translate You
  • UntrackMe: To redirect Tiktok/Twitter/Pinterest/etc. links to the frontends
  • URLCheck: Highly recommend getting this one to clean trackers from links
  • Unitto: Calculator of choice. I explored a bunch before settling on this one

For OSM specifically, I second the ones mentioned. Here are some other OSM related things: lemmy.ca/post/6586265

otter ,

Formatting, please 😅

LarryTheMatador ,

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  • helenslunch ,
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    The only apps that work on iOS are from the Apple Store.

    Nunya ,

    Thanks for the recommendations, especially URLCheck. I already had FDroid and have been trying to figure out an easy way to clean tracking URLs.

    otter ,

    Glad to help! It works really nicely

    BenGFHC ,

    Why is it important to use the fork of syncthing?

    BearOfaTime ,

    I use it because it moves a lot of settings into the sync jobs.

    So now I can set individual sync jobs to only run on my home wifi and ac power, and other sync jobs (like my photos) to sync over any network and any power state.

    DeltaTangoLima ,
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    The dev said a couple of weeks ago that they’re planning on closing their Google Play Developer account, so using the fork means you’ll be able to keep up with new releases from that point.

    LarryTheMatador ,

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  • csfirecracker ,

    Yes. These are all android apps from the f-droid app store

    toothpaste_sandwich ,

    I do love OSMand, it is easily the app I have used and depended on the most in the past ten-ish years.

    sabreW4K3 ,
    @sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf avatar

    I didn’t know about the SyncThing Fork.

    AbidanYre , to selfhosted in After I’m Gone Backup Solution
    redbr64 ,
    @redbr64@lemmy.world avatar

    This is really good, I just realized I read it a while back, and it prompted me and and a technically competent friend to at the very least be each other’s bitwarden “killswitch” users - forget what it’s called, the person that can take over your vault if you are dead/disappear, it is configurable in different ways, like if they request access and you don’t respond by X days, they get it. We don’t have the same skill set, but are both competent enough to figure it out or find someone that can access everything needed if given all the credentials stored there. I should do more and document, but this is a first good step if shit hits the fan

    Redhotkurt ,
    @Redhotkurt@kbin.social avatar

    I just read that README, quite sobering. Now I'm thinking of bus scenario backup plans. Like, there's stuff that is eventually gonna stop working if left unattended too long, and you just assume you're gonna be around to maintain it, you know?

    YourFavouriteNPC , to asklemmy in What is something that definitely should not exist?
    @YourFavouriteNPC@feddit.de avatar

    Billionaires

    slazer2au , to youshouldknow in YSK: Social media platforms attach trackers to the end of share URLs (which you can and should delete)

    Tldr, anything after a ‘?’ In a url is unnecessary.

    otter , (edited )

    It’s getting worse too. Recently I’ve noticed Reddit links from friends looking like:

    reddit.com/r/example/s/1234567

    Which then redirects to the actual reddit.com/r/example/post/comments/1938473

    I believe Spotify and Tiktok do short tracker-filled links like that too. If you’re on android, URLCheck can wrangle those links to find the actual content without the trackers. I’ve set it to intercept all clicked links so I can modify as needed.

    On web / iOS, I’m not sure

    example ,

    I haven’t checked how reddit does this but just from the example it seems like there is no anti tracking from the use of urlcheck that you’re describing.

    reddit appears to generate tracking link with a specific numeric identifier in their database, so instead of attaching a bunch of removable url parameters they instead do a lookup in their database and then redirect to the original destination.

    this also means your app checking the redirect will need to fetch the url to determine the destination, which means their tracking still works just fine.

    edit: a word

    otter ,

    I’ve been meaning to look into how the URL expansion works. If it happened on the device then I guess it doesn’t help much, but if it happens elsewhere it might fix the tracking?

    It might also limit how much identifying information is attached to it. If the original link opens in my app, then they can tie accounts together. If it’s wrangled by a third party app, then I open the clean link, they just get my IP address

    candybrie ,

    If the goal is to share clean links, getting the url after the redirect accomplishes it. The tracking that’s done isn’t on your friends/whoever you share the link with, but done on the app. Which does generally defeat the purpose of their tracking.

    example ,

    true, my comment was primarily from the perspective of the recipient of tracking links

    Nemo ,

    Not always, but it’s a good rule of thumb.

    InFerNo ,

    No, this applies to these specific parameters. Removing question marks and ampersands from urls will often break the pages if you don’t know what you’re doing or don’t know what the parameters are for.

    lolcatnip ,

    Except when it’s not.

    ilinamorato ,

    Not true on every site. Try it in your browser without the query string first before assuming that’s the case. The app I work on, for instance, uses the query string to set date/time ranges and filter data.

    Sanity_in_Moderation ,

    On YouTube, adding “&t=37s” starts the video at 37 seconds. It is pretty useful.

    That is the full extent of my coding knowledge.

    Sanity_in_Moderation ,

    I don’t know why “amp;” appeared. I didn’t write it and it is not necessary. It’s just the and symbol. Followed by t=__s

    mihnt ,
    @mihnt@lemmy.world avatar

    & is just the HTML entity for &.

    Eagle0110 ,

    Though I’ve always wondered if that’s always consistently the case, and when that’s not the case is there any mostly consistent way to identify the separator symbol in the URL text strings :/

    TWeaK , to gaming in Rant: Valve's new Steam Deck screws speak volumes about their ethos.

    While other companies around the world are constantly in search of new ways to screw their own consumers

    You bastard, take that upvote.

    ComradeKhoumrag ,
    @ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub avatar

    I read the title with that connotation. Was actually looking forward to hearing a valid complaint of the steam deck but Surprise!

    lukas ,
    @lukas@lemmy.haigner.me avatar

    I can already hear my business administration professor scream that everyone in the free market tries to screw each other from that statement lol. Why yes of course, money. Planned obsolescence is the only logical choice, people! I bet nobody will source old, but durable products and repair them instead, no no. That’ll never happen!

    zerbey , to asklemmy in In your opinion, what's the age limit for Trick r Treating?

    The rule is, if you dress up you get candy. I don’t care how old you are, but you have to be dressed up.

    Maximilious ,
    @Maximilious@kbin.social avatar

    I always end up over buying and want that candy GONE! No age restrictions for me either.

    TenderfootGungi ,

    The key to buying Halloween candy is to buy the things you would want to eat yourself. We freeze the leftovers and slowly eat them. Still working on last years!

    Empricorn ,

    “I’m Backwards-Jacket Guy!”

    magnetosphere ,
    @magnetosphere@kbin.social avatar

    I make an exception for parents watching their young kids. I have no problem rewarding good, responsible parents.

    Plus, we give out juice boxes. Sometimes, when parents see their kids walking away with juice boxes, they’ll ask for one themselves. Walking around the neighborhood with kids is thirsty work! I’ll happily give juice to parents!

    the_itsb , to asklemmy in What's some sex ed info you didn't know until embarrasingly late?
    @the_itsb@hexbear.net avatar

    I did not understand orgasms or realize I wasn’t having them with my partners until I finally did have one. 😂 I genuinely didn’t understand that it could feel that good until it did.

    Another win for abstinence-based sex ed in rural America!

    SnokenKeekaGuard OP ,
    @SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    How does one not know what an orgasm is supposed to feel like??? Like did you never masturbate or anything (I feel rude saying that, pls feel free to ignore the invasion of privacy).

    But also being on reddit taught me that this is smth many women have gone through

    UnverifiedAPK ,

    In my experience it’s women who squirt that are more likely not to know what an orgasm is supposed to feel like. They’ll definitely feel good, like edging, then get to a point where it feels like they’ve overstimulated themselves to the point of peeing the bed and stop. Not realizing there’s a “getting over the hill” moment to an orgasm.

    UlyssesT ,

    Ever meet a true fedora-tipping gentlesir that insisted that feeemale orgasms can’t exist because there would be no biological purpose to them?

    They’re out there. expert-shapiro

    jmankman ,

    I’ve never understood why “feel good makes men want to do it more” can’t be applied to women as well

    UlyssesT ,

    The way I’ve seen logiclords explain it, it’s because male orgasms result in sperm ejaculation, and feeemale orgasms do not, therefore feeeemale orgasms have no such contributing factor to conception therefore they have no reason to exist. kubrick-stare

    msage ,

    And their doctor wife agrees with them

    Uranium3006 ,
    @Uranium3006@kbin.social avatar

    We shouldn't have let the religious right gut sex ed

    JokeDeity ,

    We shouldn’t have let the religious right

    irmoz ,

    That is a win in their perspective. For those types, sex is something a woman lets her man do to her. Her pleasure is not even secondary, it isn’t even a consideration.

    wick ,

    Tbf, they theoretically would rather men didn’t get any pleasure either, and procreation happened by holding hands after praying.

    irmoz ,

    Haha you’re not wrong there

    empireOfLove , (edited ) to nostupidquestions in What impact would reversing the Earth's rotation have?

    Regardless of how fast or slow you reversed the direction. Pretty much every weather pattern and ocean current on the surface of the planet would be thrown into a massive calamity. The Corolis effect and momentum imparted to surface fluids around our rotating ball is a huge, huge deal with weather flow, like the “jet stream”. It directs how storm systems (the flow of water that all life depends on) form and track and which typical track they take as the rotation of the earth is constantly deflecting them. There would be huge, unending storm systems as existing patterns now crashed head on into new ones, with storm fronts spanning entire continents. Even after the storms subsided and it settled into a new normal after 20, 30, maybe 50 years… agricultural breadbaskets would be either destroyed, completely inhospitable to their original crops, or stranded in drought. And human civilization would likely fall with them.

    Bayz0r ,

    Coriolis effect

    empireOfLove , (edited )

    Thank
    I dont of the science English good

    Meho_Nohome ,
    @Meho_Nohome@sh.itjust.works avatar

    You did done enough good.

    sznowicki ,

    Good agree done

    Ferris ,

    it’s a french scientist’s name

    empireOfLove ,

    I’ll never forgive the french!

    Poayjay , to asklemmy in Is Sugar really as addictive as Cocaine/drugs in general?

    I challenge anyone who says sugar isn’t addictive to go a week without. No sugar. No sugar substitutes like fructose. I’ve done it. It is awful.

    I’ve also done hard drugs. Quitting those are awful too.

    The difference is that I haven’t done drugs in decades but I still have a pack of Oreos on my counter.

    JoMiran ,
    @JoMiran@lemmy.ml avatar

    To that challenge I would specify “in anything”. Sugar and equivalent is in almost all processed foods.

    blargerer ,

    Going without a basic macro nutrient making you feel bad doesn't mean its addictive. You'd feel like shit if you tried to go without oxygen too. Your body doesn't need as much sugar as many consume, but it's more than nothing.

    danhakimi ,

    Well, your body needs carbs. And theoretically, you could do a low-carb diet, even a keto diet, but... keto is fucking dumb.

    So, yes, in practice, you're gonna want at least some sugar in your diet.

    Drusas ,

    Sugar is not a basic macronutrient. The macronutrients are protein, carbohydrates, and fat.

    Globulart ,

    I’m pretty addicted to oxygen at this point to be fair…

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  • Tuss ,

    That would be comparable with asking someone who smokes weed a couple of times a year to quit cold turkey.

    Of course it’s not going to make any difference to you if you stop taking sugar or not.

    However ask someone who “needs” to have that redbull every day. Who drinks sugary lattes, eats sweetened bread and so on.

    Ask them to quit and they will most likely experience withdrawal symptoms and have a really hard time to keep away from sugar.

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  • squaresinger ,

    To second your point with something that’s easier to grasp:

    It’s quite common for people who are heavily addicted to nicotine to be able to enjoy a little bit of alcohol sometimes or completely go without. Or be able to go shopping without getting addicted to it.

    Being addicted to one thing doesn’t mean you automatically get addicted to all other things that people can get addicted to.

    Subject6051 OP ,

    I challenge anyone who says sugar isn’t addictive to go a week without. No sugar. No sugar substitutes like fructose. I’ve done it. It is awful.

    I’ve also done hard drugs. Quitting those are awful too.

    ok that makes more sense.

    Repelle ,

    I have dropped all sugar a couple times. It’s not easy, but also not terribly hard for me. That’s not to say that is the case for everyone, just me. I have seen people come out of addiction to a few different drugs and it was not at all comparable. To compare my experiences with sugar would be as insulting as OP describes, if not more so.

    But humans are all different, so I wouldn’t be shocked if for some it is comparable.

    danhakimi , (edited )

    See, the impracticality here is not that I'd be jonesing for sugar, it's that almost all processed food and most natural food has a little sugar in it, and also that our bodies literally require some simple carbohydrates to operate. Best case, you go on a hard keto overnight, and yes, the first week is terrible, because keto is a stupid fucking diet that doctors don't recommend because it sucks.

    Yes, if I eat nothing but beef and saltines for a week, I'm going to feel like shit. That's not an addiction issue.

    arin ,

    Bruh saltines has carbs, cut that out too

    danhakimi ,

    but no simple carbs, no sugars. Got some carbs in on a technicality!

    LogarithmicCamel , (edited )

    I did it many times and it wasn’t awful in any way. If you cut all carbs, that’s different though, and it has little to do with addiction and a lot to do with your body entering ketosis. That’s not to deny that food can be addictive. Anything can be addictive. People get addicted to porn, phones and computer games after all. But people blow this sugar thing way out of proportion.

    Drusas ,

    Not literally everyone is addicted to sugar. I barely have it and many days don't have any of it at all (and I know it's not in the food I'm eating because I make the food I'm eating).

    meekah ,
    @meekah@lemmy.world avatar

    Do you also know what the plants you use to make your food consist of?

    Onions are about 4% sugar, for example. And that is excluding more complex carbohydrates that are essentially the same to your body. I highly doubt you don’t eat any sugar for days on end.

    You barely eat sugar. Sure. But not eating any is close to impossible I’d argue.

    Drusas ,

    Often, yes. It's something I've had to look up in order to properly reintroduce foods on the low FODMAP diet.

    Anyway, this conversation is about refined sugar. I eat fruit, for example.

    meekah ,
    @meekah@lemmy.world avatar

    fruit is natures provider of “refined” sugar. you body doesn’t care whether you first actually refined it and then put it in a cake. It’s the same sugar while it’s still inside the apple (I know nobody refines sugar from apples but you get my point)

    Drusas ,

    That's not how sugar works.

    Globulart ,

    Are you just talking about refined sugar or are you including natural sugar in that too?

    Is it even possible to eat healthily for a week with no sugar?

    I feel like if I’m allowed fruit it’d be pretty easy tbh.

    jmcs ,

    Is it even possible to eat healthily for a week with no sugar?

    Healthy as in survivable sure, but I’m pretty sure at that point you would already notice the side effects of not having access to carbohydrates.

    I feel like if I’m allowed fruit it’d be pretty easy tbh

    Most fruits have a huge amount of sugars (and are therefore not healthy in large amounts), so I would say they count as sugar for this purpose.

    Globulart ,

    Yeah I don’t mean survivable. I was thinking about the implication from the comment that sugar is this horrific substance which is prone to abuse and should be avoided at all costs.

    If the point is for refined sugar then I’m with them. If they’re talking about sugar as a whole though, then it would be unhealthy to go for a week without any.

    ExLisper ,

    I can easily go for a week without sugar. I did it recently. I wanted to lose some weight so I cut out sugar. Usually I have some desert after lunch but I just stopped. Usually I put sugar in my coffee but I stopped. I don’t drink sugary drinks so that was easy. I didn’t have any bad cravings or anything. I would simply think about eating ice cream and even if I had some in the fridge I would just say ‘nope’ and move on. I was doing this until I lost the weight I wanted to lose so for about 2 months.

    If sugar is as addictive as drugs does it mean I just start smoking and doing drugs and it will be as easy to quit?

    Knusper , to asklemmy in What was a profound moment that a video game caused you to experience, and why?

    Kind of feels disparate from it being a video game, but it’s difficult to really make this experience another way:

    I wanted to play a healer in an MMO. It was a shitty MMO, so healers could only be female characters wearing skimpy armor.

    Well, it took about half a minute until I had people walk up to me, to then just stop 3 meters away. From the way they were moving, I have to assume, they were working their cameras to look underneath my skirt, and probably doing so with only one hand.

    Some of them were sending me “hello :)” messages, which I guess is basic decency, if you’re going to use my body, but it felt weird, too, since we had nothing to talk about.

    All in all, it felt uncomfortable. And I did not even have to fear for them to start touching or even raping me. Plus, I was able to log out, delete my account and basically just leave all of that behind.

    Well, except for one thing I did not leave behind: I do not want to be the other side in that experience either.

    luciferofastora ,

    When sexist objectification accidentally teaches a point against sexist objectification

    Algaroth ,

    It happened to me when I played Star Wars: The Old Republic. I’d played it since the beta and finished the story with all classes but I decided to play as a female sith warrior and I constantly got messages from dudes complimenting my thick ass or wanting me to humiliate them and be their dominatrix mistress. It really put into perspective the shit women go through. Especially since my character didn’t even have a skimpy outfit.

    calypsopub ,

    I’m a woman who has played SWTOR since its inception 12 years ago and I’ve never had anything like that happen. I’ve played through the whole story on 16+ toons, one for each class/sex combo. I’m not surprised by what you say, just lucky I’ve never experienced it.

    Algaroth ,

    Happened to me multiple times on that character. Never with any of my male characters.

    Pechente , to asklemmy in what tech company is the worst in you're opinion?

    Nobody mentioned Adobe yet. They’re absolutely the worst. They offer creative products behind a 70$ / month paywall and they hold a monopoly in their field. Only need their software sporadically? Sorry, no plan for you.

    They haven’t significantly updated some of their software in like 20 years. I currently have the displeasure of using After Effects again and apart from not even supporting system dark mode on macOS or even fullscreen mode, there are all kinds of weird small bugs that you just get used to when using the software for a while.

    Fuck Adobe.

    Moonguide ,

    Remember kids. It is always morally correct to pirate adobe products.

    I’m a graphic designer and honestly, been thinking long and hard about switching to Affinity. Affinity Designer even seems like it would streamline most of my workflow.

    Pechente ,

    I switched to Affinity! It’s great. Not all of the features are there but most of them. It’s also much less buggy and the interface is way better thought out.

    They don’t make a replacement for After Effects though, that’s why I’m stuck with it for one project.

    RatherBeMTB ,

    Blender

    0ops ,

    That’s my experience. Less features (like still no object blending in designer), but much faster and smoother over all. Admittedly I haven’t used an Adobe product in a few years, but when I first switched I was amazed at how much more performant the affinity suite was.

    lol3droflxp ,
    @lol3droflxp@kbin.social avatar

    I really like Affinity, but I’m using it casually for my photography hobby

    scorpious ,

    I use Affinity sometimes, but PS, AI, & AE rule the roost because they are just better at most tasks.

    PSSm: Apple Motion flies way below the radar and can do a LOT of things better/more elegantly than AE.

    I delivered two seasons worth of graphics for a network show, and 85-90% was done completely in Motion.

    thepiguy ,

    Affinity designer is a great tool if you are looking to use it. I can’t say for the newer versions due to reasons, but some 4 years ago that I tried it, it absolutely blew me away. Easy to use, lots of advanced features, stable, great pricing. And they got a v2 as well, unfortunately v1 customers will need to rebut though at a discounted price.

    redballooon ,

    Have you heard of Oracle? It’s the database version of Adobe, but maybe worse. They seem to deploy more lawyers than technical staff.

    6xpipe_ ,
    @6xpipe_@lemmy.world avatar

    They’re also the company who mainstreamed the software subscription model.

    It used to be that only services required subscriptions. Applications would be a one time payment. But, Adobe converted to the subscription model and because they hold a monopoly over the design space, people/companies had no choice but to go along. Once they were successful, every business in the world decided that they also wanted that sweet monthly payment and now software licensing sucks.

    I refuse to even pirate Adobe products on principle.

    TL;DR Fuck Adobe, use open source.

    schnurrito ,

    Which Adobe product doesn’t have a good FOSS replacement?

    Custodian1623 ,

    The suite itself. Being able to drop photoshop files into after effects and after effects files into premiere timelines while being able to go back and edit any piece is huge for efficiency.

    pixelscript ,

    DreamWeaver.

    And thank god for it, too.

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