Can I safely throw away old smartphones?
I’ve been cleaning up my home office and found 2 pretty old smartphones in a box, around 10 years old I’d say. I don’t have any old chargers to check if they still work so I’m unsure what sort of data is on there, if any, or if they still charge up even....
Followup: Have you pranked someone for halloween yet or plan to? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I have once again succeeded with a prank, tho shorter than I wanted.
Does Bing Chat give reliable answers to math and physics questions? If not is it possible to make it more reliable?
I realize and understand the criticisms of ChatGPT and I have personally seem how bad it can be. Once I asked to count the number of days till a random date giving the present date and it failed miserably, again and again. Trust me! I get the criticism. But, what about Bing Chat Bot?...
Any way to group communities across difference instances together ?
Lets say I want to ask Lemmitors a question. There might an AskLemmy community at my home server so I can ask there. But there might be a much larger AskLemmy community on a server elsewhere. Is there a way to ensure that people who subscribe to AskLemmy on the other server could also see my post on AskLemmy on my home server ?
Community block lists
With all the noise on lemmy, spam, and political content I have no interest in, the thought occurred to have blocklists similar to adblock lists. Has anyone looked into this before, is it already a thing? Any thoughts on that?
Is there a push to make product containers re-usable?
I’m looking at an empty bottle of Valentina hot sauce. It has a flip top cap but is not twist off and seems to be press fitted on in some way - ideally there would be a way to easily remove it and re-purpose the container or at least clean it out for recycling....
So how are instances defederated? (lemmyf.uk)
Is it done by majority vote or does one instance have more control than others cough cough lemmy world cough if so then this is not really federated is it and with each instance we now have basically upgraded mod power to admin power so one more question is each instance independently monetized?
Shows like house of cards but showing realpolitik in CCP/Chinese Congress like House of Cards for the US
This is an elaboration on my previous question regarding depictions of single party communist political systems but I am particularly interested in China and how things work in their seat of power....
What do you use to reduce images before posting?
I’m using imagepipe from fdroid, into webp format, keeping aspect ratio. Most of my posts don’t need high res imagery anyway, just something to get the message across. What do you use?
How to summarize a scanned PDF document by AI?
Don’t have ChatGPT...
Your best friend - why are they your best friend? What is it that they are doing that you feel like at home with them?
And, how did you get to know them? And how long did it take for you to think of them as your best friend?
In your opinion, how do you think lemmy is measuring up so far as a Reddit alternative?
I know every one hates reddit I know. I guess I’m looking for unbiased type of answers. Anyway, how do you think lemmy is doing so far?
How are these smartphone back covers made? (lemmy.ml)
The plastic is polished black, the logo and text is reflective silver grey. I’m interested in replacing with a custom made cover, but I don’t know the process that was used to achieve this. I have found out that they most probably used laser etching for my iPod, but I can’t find anything on this. Thanks....
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Why can't Sam Bankman-Fried get swole off bread and water like ICE Cube did?
Youtuber creators with under 1000 subs that are your favorite?
Would love to see what niche/under appreciated creators are out there! Also what your favorite videos are of theirs!...
Earth temperatures are hitting record highs. What are we getting Olympic gold in?
What are the best voice-changer AIs accessible to the average user?
I have heard about AIs that can clone voices from samples, but not sure which one to use....
Is there any chance the decay of the extended family can be reversed?
It seems like we went extended family 👉 nuclear family 👉 lonely atomisation...
How does it feel being into a loving relationship with someone?
M. 34...
How do you see yourself in your imagination?
What’s your position in your imaginary world? What do you see yourself as? As a person that you want to be or as a perfect version of your current self? Or do you not imagine yourself as yourself at all? In some other form? Not as a human but rather some sort of an idea?...
What thing could you do the most significantly better than your parents?
What are two songs you like that describe opposite situations?
What is your personal definition of value?
I’ve spent my life wasting my time, rationalized with words. In terms of my own human life, I’ve reached for a vague sense of meaning, purpose, significance… and value. At least, value of distinct characteristics of instances relatable THROUGH those characteristics measured....
Trying to find a song about being wedgied
When I was a kid, like a real little kid, I remember having this one song I liked a lot about a guy trying to deal with getting wedgies at school. I remember almost nothing about it now, other than the guy eventually finds that Fruit of the Loom brand underwear has stretchy enough elastic to make the wedges painless. (This song...