What and who to follow on Mastodon?
New to mastodon, never used Twitter, refuse to use Xitter. Any tips and who and what to follow? And who and what do you follow?...
After watching batman throw around explosives left and right I no longer believe batman doesn't use guns because of some sort of moral quandary but rather he just prefers the challenge.
Are people in the stock photos real?
[Feature Request] It would be really useful if we could set nicknames to WiFi ssids.
I, often, find myself wondering what all these WiFi’s are on my phone and I think it would be useful to be able to set a nickname for a wifi network so to remember which one is which. For example “parents house” etc. What do you think?
Do you have favorites or specific list preferences about trivial things like color or music?
I always feel awkward when asked my favorite color, song, or any other type of trivial question. I have my standard responses I remain consistent with over time, but they are only consistent lies. Are those types of questions fundamentally awkward to you too?...
Is Chuck E Cheese a restaurant or entertainment center with a restaurant inside?
What are You Working on Wednesday
Weekly thread to discuss whatever you’re working on, big or small, at work or in your free time.
Planning on moving over from Windows 10 to Linux for my Personal Work Station. Can't decide which OS I should switch to.
Windows has been a thorn in my side for years. But ever since I started moved to Linux on my Laptop and swapping my professional software to a cross platform alternative, I’ve been dreaming on removing it from my SSD....
(De)centralisation of Lemmy communities in numbers
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/893150...
What skincare products do you use?
Looking specifically for men but I’m open to all opinions. I’ve been doing some experimenting over the last 2 and a bit years, trying to find what works best for me. I’d love to get some opinions on what has worked for others....
[SOLVED] Trouble running Baldur's gate 3 on Arch.
The game starts but I have extreme performance issues. I’m not talking about low fps or input delay, I have a decent gaming pc, and it’s relatively new. I’m talking about stutters, heavy ones. I manged to snap two screenshots of this happening on 60fps cap and uncapped:...
What is your favorite alcoholic cocktail?
Or what has been your go to lately? I’m usually a whiskey and ginger kinda guy but I’m trying to branch out a little these days. What’re you drinking?...
Whats the best way to get live content on the heigh sees
Title says it all
The ending of Mrs Doubtfire was the first drag queen story time
Spotify/Ytm
I am trying to move away from spotify but am really stuck. Ytm has opensource mobile apps that can directly use ytm and its recommendations but spotify doesn’t have any decent option, but i like the recommendations more in spotify....
Sometimes when I say danke (thanks or thank you) some of my friends will say (and the spelling is wrong but it's as close as I can get) they will say danata or maybe it's dinata.
I assumed they meant thanks but a Google search doesn’t give me that kind of result. What does dinata mean and what language is it from?
What is the dumbest reason to kill somebody?
How might a public flogging of an authoritarian ruler in 2024 impact the world?
No one specific. Just the concept of the public spectacle.
Importing Google Photos Takeout to Immich
I’m trying to decide how to import my Google Photos Takeout backup. I see two general ways:...
Chromium PWAs: how to open links with system link handler (default browser)?
I use Chromium only for PWAs like the Element Web UI of my server, to avoid Electron....
Timing of Periodic Mainteance Tasks on TrueNAS Scale
EDIT: I found something looking through the source code on Github. I couldn’t find anything at first, but then I searchedfor “periodic” and found something in middelwared/main.py....
Do you host anything specific for tracking house plants and gardening?
A friend was looking for an app so I explored some FOSS ones. It might be helpful to take it a step further and self host it so that family members can coordinate care....
[META] Should i open a suicide watch /c/ ? EDIT: The /c/ has been made read the body for info.
EDIT : !loneliness has been created . The /c/ will also work as suicide watch. It was @wesker 's idea to change the /c/ to include lonely people more ....
AAC vs AC3 bitrates
In the past I’ve chosen I’ve often kept AC3 audio tracks thinking that their substantially higher bitrates made them better than the AAC tracks I compared them to. As I’ve since learned that AAC can be comparable to AC3 at a substantially lower bitrate, to have a means of comparing the two codecs, what would the...