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YSK Defibrillators doesn't restart a stopped heart

Why YSK: TV has lied to you. If a cardiac arrest happens and you have an AED defibrillator at hand you might still need to do chest compressions....

Do you organize or catalogue your playthroughs/collection/backlog?

For years I’ve been using HowLongToBeat which has good tools for tracking playtime, collections, backlog et.c.. However the site is pretty laggy on my phone, so I’m exploring other options. What is you guys’ approach?

YSK: If service dogs come to you for attention, immediately locate their owner

Why YSK: Service Dog etiquette is to leave them alone as to not distract the dog’s focus. If they’re approaching you, they could be using a last ditch effort to save their owner. They will usually follow you, whine, bark, or otherwise try to grab your attention if this is the case.

YSK embed an image into your comments here when the image is externally hosted

Why YSK: You don’t need to load down the instance by uploading the image to the instance. You only need to know the syntax is on the following line:...

What is the difference between linked instances and allowed instances?

I’ve contributed to the project for a few months and used it for over a year and I still don’t know the difference. I think I asked the maintainers once, but I forget the answer.

I2P - A public service announcement

Just a PSA that I2P exists if you want to try out anonymous torrenting. Head over to I2P for questions on how to set it up....

Is this the replacement for the reddit r/piracy?

Is r/piracy the main sub or is this one?

Default Profile Pictures: Yes? No? Something else?

I recently made a PR for default PFPs. I was thinking of using using a priority of user set pfp > instance default pfp > Lemmy lemming. Is this something people would actually want?...

BirdsiteLIVE status - is it a dead project or... ???

So, somehow I got lost in the internet woods and came across birdsiteLIVE - which is basically a bot that makes twitter accounts viewable on the fediverse with activitypub(it’s one way unfortunately, so twitter accounts won’t see any replies or anything like that)....

[Question] Is this level of activity too much for my network? Should I use a web host instead running a lemmy instance locally?

I’m looking to host a lemmy instance for a small subreddit. I I am unsure if the load would be too much for my home network. In the last 30 days we got 1.7k comments, 96 posts, 95k views, with an average unique of 809....

oh thank god i found you guys

was worried i would never see you guys again !

I don't see how Lemmy will fill the gap of Reddit - it's resulting in fragmentation

Perhaps I’ve misunderstood how Lemmy works, but from what I can tell Lemmy is resulting in fragmentation between communities. If I’ve got this wrong, or browsing Lemmy wrong, please correct me!...

Advice for dealing with Abmahnung from Frommer Legal in Germany

My girlfriend got an Abmahnung from Frommer Legal yesterday. Unfortunately her name is on the internet account and she is very law abiding and worried by it. I’m Canadian and the most I’ve ever gotten has been a threatening letter from an ISP in Canada. Obviously, I didn’t know torrenting was so persecuted in Germany or...

What free apps and games are good to put on an android phone?

So ive had a phone for a bit now but i struggle at finding game sand apps to put on it especially free ones. its kinda mid range dphone it cant run genshin impact at all but it runs stuff like battle cats really well i also struggle at finding good or useful apps to download so if you know any please suggest some or something.

If someone with an innie belly button were to put a toilet plunger over it and pull, how much force would they need to turn their innie into an outie?

Title....

Is there a website where you can paste a $pot1fy playlist and download all the tracks in decent quality?

I am looking to save all the music I like on hardisks due to the recent closure of rarbg which was a wake up call “unless you save it you don’t own it”. So if anyone knows a way to download playlists instead of each single song I will be thankful!

causal UK is back open.

Looks like the mods folded under pressure from the admins....

Beehaw defederation means this is now the largest book sublemmy accessible

Beehaw has decided to defederate from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. I believe it was already separated from lemmygrad. I think this makes this community the largest one accessible to the most instances whereas before [email protected] was. I guess we’ll have to make the most of it!