What's your fave "No thoughts, head empty" music to listen to?
The theme of the Impact Site area from Pikmin has been my fave for as long as I can remember
Using gaming controllers for anything other than gaming ?
Wondering if anyone has experimented with using controllers (PS/xbox/other) to do anything other than gaming ?
How do you Lemmings like your tea?
What are your thoughts on the loblaws barriers?
Loblaws recently installed 7 foot high Plexiglass barriers that funnel people out of the stores. They claim it will stop theft and make people safer....
How do we make search results show lemmy pages?
Any podcasts at the level of Huberman Lab in terms of science and self-improvement?
I was not a podcast guy at all, but I stumbled upon Andrew Huberman a few months ago and wow, what an amazing source of information and it has helped me a lot while making conmutes and training sessions a lot less wasteful....
Do you believe in Aliens?
Hey guys, what are your thoughts on the existence of extraterrestrial life and the potential involvement of governments in concealing or studying such entities.
I don't enjoy it when people compliment me. Why could it be?
Not to brag but I’m a pretty confident person in my social circle. I’m funny, make people laugh etc. etc....
Does anyone else notice an uptick of extreme troll accounts?
I swear, every time most of the time I see someone being particularly rude, ignorant, and inappropriate on a post (usually political in origin, or they swing it to being political) I click on their profile and see it has been created that same day....
Will China beat America in the artificial intelligence race?
They say that he who creates AGI will control the entire world. I wouldn’t want America to dominate earth with their misaligned AI.
I got really emotional (bipolar episode) and sent hate-mail to my past liberal teacher who used to bully me. Then someone who claimed to be a police officer texted me saying that they have a...
warrant on me for harassment. Is this guy real? It’s been four months and nothing has happened…
Do you correlate dates with times on a digital clock?
I mean oddities mostly. I corelate the area code of my highschool love, and often the birthday of another. It has no significance beyond a few pleasant memories, but it is just one of life’s oddities for me. Do you experience similar oddities?
Were the BLM protests of 2020 a success?
JUST TODAY I was going to buy WinRar. I've used the software forever, for free, and I just thought... I appreciate this, they've never given me grief, and I'm going to pay them.
And I went on their page to subscribe for a lifetime membership, and they wanted 20 bucks, which I was okay with, but it does not include Major Updates! I guess I’ll buy it and just click the do not check for updates button but that seemed kind of, I don’t know....
Why stand in line to board an airplane?
The seats are assigned. People have been standing in line for 15 minutes now. Why on earth would anyone want to stand there, when they could just sit and wait until the line clears?...
What is an interesting fact that you recently discovered?
Can someone demystify computer Ports for me? Please? Blocking, unblocking, opening, allowing, VPNs and their effect, what ports are and what they do, step by step, when you have to interact with them?
It’s the one thing when I’m configuring things that makes me wince because I know it will give me the business, and I know it shouldn’t, but it does, every time. I have no real idea what I’m doing, what it is, how it works, so of course I’m blindly following instructions like a monkey at a typewriter....
Well, the eclipse came and went, and the world didn't end. What did we do wrong?
How can we secure a solar eclipse induced apocalypse next time? More virgin sacrifices? Less? Virgins are quite abundant these days. We could go either way…
Could real neurons be used for LLMs?
There’s a video on YouTube where someone has managed to train a network of rat neurons to play doom, the way they did it seems reminiscent of how we train ML models...
to those of you who get bored at work if there's lots of downtime, why?
I read posts about people quitting jobs because they’re boring or there is not much to do and I don’t get it: what’s wrong with being paid for doing nothing or not much at all?...
What's your favourite field of science? 🔬
Mine’s physics! I enjoy it so much 😃
What are some interesting online zines to read?
Would you watch the earth form from nothing to the current time for 500.000 $?
I give you a cozy chair and you are now going to watch the beginning of earth til today with all your senses. You won’t age, everything freezes. But once you reach this minute you will get a million dollars....
what does everyone think about piped bot and other bots
What are everyone’s thoughts on bots like piped bot and tdlr bot