What laptop should I purchase?
I haven’t owned a functioning laptop in like, ten years because my phone does most of what I like, but I (probably) have tendinitis and carpal tunnel and need something more ergonomic for my terminally online needs. Arguing with strangers on the internet is not as effective on a cell phone lol....
When Y2K happened were there people burning their passports and walking barefoot to Jerusalem or something along those lines?
capybaras ARE magical
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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...
where do you upload videos (that is not YouTube
I want to upload some short videos to post online but I don’t want them on YouTube. Any free video host that is either open source or at least not big corp owned?
Guess I’ll take the rest of the day off
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The prevalence of touchscreens has probably resulted in a decrease in average fingernail length
I feel like I used to see a lot of women with super long nails struggling to use their touchscreen phones. I’m sure at least some of them have chosen slightly shorter nails to make it easier.
In the US, what happens if you sustain a life threatening injury and you don't have insurance?
Assuming nobody else is at fault
Gravity field scaling?
(To be clear, I’m more interested in the reach and scaling of gravity.)...
Is it possible to influence your dreams the next night?
Not referring to lucid dreaming, which is simply controlling your dream. I’d like to know how to control what I dream the next night, regardless if it ends up as a lucid dream....
Thailand Travel 🇹🇭🐘: Take a trip to Southeast Asia
Have you been to Thailand? Are you looking to visit someday? Share your travel plans, questions, blog posts, and ideas with us in !thailand – also because I’ll be planning a trip soon and I’d love your insight. 😉
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?
Convert m4p files? (iTunes DRM?)
Until a decade ago I was one of those blind Apple users that was using iTunes as the only way to organize my music....
What's the best piracy for music?
Title...
With lab grown meat we could see the advent of ethical cannibalism.
Any decent voice typing options for Linux?
I know I can use Google’s voice typing in Google Docs but is there a more convenient, system-wide options available?
Is humanity accidentally selecting for vaccine-resistant traits in viruses?
I was thinking about vaccines and their usefulness, when it occurred to me that, in using vaccines, we’ve sort of pigeonholed viruses into behaving the way covid does. Haven’t we?...
How do you organize your DHCP clients?
I’m setting up DHCP reservations on my home network and came up with a simple schema to identify devices: .100 is for desktops, .200 for mobiles, .010 for my devices, .020 for my wife’s, and so on. Does anyone else use schemas like this? I’ve also got .local DNS names for each device, but having a consistent schema feels...
Whats the least fun fact you know?
Best fortune
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(rec) riseup vpn is a free VPN that supports P2P
Riseup vpn is a free, donations based VPN, that doesn’t require an account and has no logs policey. They doesn’t have lots of serves like Protonvpn for example but they’re running for years and support P2P, so if someone is too short for paying for a VPN, I think its a pretty good for some use cases.
To those who use IPTV services, why?
There are quite a few cheap IPTV subscriptions out there with 50k+ channels, but my question is, why do you still watch live TV? With piracy, you can grab any movie or TV show you want and watch it on demand with Jellyfin or Plex. Am I missing out by not watching TV channels myself?
Email hosting service where you can use your own domain?
Hi everybody,...
BiglyBT Download Issues
Hello, I just downloaded BiglyBt after seeing it on this community. I found some files that I want to download. I got a 30% through and now its completely stalled. It seems it lost connection with all peers/seeds. I’ve tried restarting the program and computer. Still unable to reconnect. Could I get some help on how to restart...