When will "Star Wars: A New Hope" enter public domain?
Assuming copyright laws don’t change by then, otherwise there is no way to know....
How to burn belly fat if I have a cervical spondylosis and scoliosis?
Can Lemmy instances make content of their sub-Lemmys indexable by search engines?
I don’t have my own instance or server, so I don’t know, but it would be interesting to know.
Why don’t investigative journalists hide their names, putting themselves in danger?
Looking for an actual left leaning Lemmy instance
I originally signed up for lemmy about six months ago due to becoming outraged over reddit’s continual coddling of hard right and fascist powermods that use their authority to harass....
Why don't I bruise?
As a kid, I bruised all the time, very easily. Nowadays, I don’t bruise at all, with some exceptions....
What's the best way to protect outdoor faucets in the winter?
It doesn’t freeze here too often, but when it’s going to we’ll go outside and set our faucets to drip to prevent freezing. I just have to remember to do this, and I worry that I’ll forget. Do those faucet covers work? Any other options?
why make fan games and projects?
We all know the story, so many passion projects are taken down by companies and most commonly not even for reasons that make much sense....
Can you survive on pickles alone, for a while?
Almost every jar of pickles claims a serving of pickles has zero calories. Now clearly, this is incorrect and the result of exploiting some ridiculous FDA loophole, since anyone knows that cucumbers provide calories....
Where do milsim video games occurs nowadays ?
When I was young, I played a lot of air-combat games. If I remember well I learned the Ukrainian geography while Bombing Russian troops in Odessa playing USNF Video for the kids . Another game had a campaign in Yemen. If my memory isn’t too rusty, there was also Egypt and Korea campaign....
Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button?
Some article websites (I’m looking at msn.com right now, as an example) show the first page or so of article content and then have a “Continue Reading” button, which you must click to see the rest of the article. This seems so ridiculous, from a UX perspective–I know how to scroll down to continue reading, so why hide...
Can you use an oil lantern inside of a wood stove for all night heat?
Can you place a lit kerosene lantern in a wood stove that has a chimney? In a relatively small room such as a truck camper, would you be exposed to carbon dioxide or would it go out the chimney as if burning wood?
Is there a difference between customers/consumers?
Part of me thinks there may be, but the way you sometimes see them used interchangeably also makes me think that consumer has taken on much of the same meaning as customer. Maybe depends on from which context you’re speaking, i.e. out/in business?
smellulator
What’s stopping us from making smellulators, for games or movies?...
How to handle community mod abuse?
I came to lemmy months ago to get away from the rising reddit infection of hard right activist powermods that use their authority to harass their ideological enemies. For a while it was really nice, to be able to engage with a likeminded community without getting banned for saying things like ‘cheetolini is a seditionist’...
If Trump and Biden both died today, what would happen?
Imagine the following scenario: On the 9th of January 2024 in the morning we wake up to news that President of the USA Joe Biden suffered a stroke and died in White House. The administration confirms that the death was entirely natural and no third party contributed to it. Even before the news reach all TV stations another one...
What's the best way to read a book in a dark room?
Hello everyone....
Is there a list of all the stuff implemented by far right governments in the "West" ?
Every so and on we hear about crazy stuff by “far right government” stuff like...
People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why?
All our coffee is served with two shots by default. We’re not some fancy coffee shop, just a motorway service station that makes coffee to go. We have some regulars who order a decaff with an extra shot. I explain thats going to have three shots total, and they’re happy with it....
Could Superman cook a batch of chilli so spicy that he couldn't eat it?
Is there a term for someone that likes other people to smell their farts?
Looking for a term that identifies someone as a person that, for example, likes to fart in a car and not let people out so that others are forced to smell it.
Are there typically limits to the size that ROMs can be when it comes to emulators?
I was thinking about large ROM hacks like Only Up 64 (Vinesauce’s Joel game play video here for an example of what I am talking about) that state that they can run on real hardware and it made me wonder about ROM hacks and homebrew that can’t run on real hardware....
If a game adds or changes content outside of extra add-ons like DLC (such as a free update) does that content have to be reviewed by ratings boards and risk changing the rating of the game?
I was talking about bg3 and how a certain part could be changed to be much darker, and it occurred to me that it possibly could affect the rating of the game if they did (being vague purposely to avoid spoilers). But then I wondered “do things like that even have to be reviewed by the rating boards?” Because Larian has made...
What caused the change in electronic terminology?
What caused the shift from calling things like rheostats and condensers to resistors and capacitors, or the move from cycles to Hertz?...
How do you turn off the "reply notification" for threads ?
I’m fine to have “reply to my comments” like on that website starting by R. However, having a notification for every comments on the whole thread feels like a lot (and I want to start some more “open discussion thread” to keep some /c I follow alive )...