randint

randint , 6 days ago

Taiwan is its own country. I will never understand why some people outside China insist that Taiwan is a part of China.

randint , 5 days ago

just fyi, I live in Taiwan, and people never get into trouble for saying that. don’t lecture me on how to behave in my homeland. now I know you didn’t know I lived here, but just maybe, maybe you should refrain from saying stuff you don’t know well enough about

randint , 4 days ago

that was decades ago. it never happens nowadays

randint , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

• large
• tap water can be dirty
• great curry
• massive population
• caste system
• makes many YouTube tutorials
• has some beef with Pakistan
• likes to bob their heads
• arranged marriages
• spices
• really hot and humid
• as other people have mentioned, can be a bit unruly at times

randint , 7 days ago

https://lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz/pictrs/image/d7df9857-3653-46f6-afde-e8dac1d5c1d5.jpeg

https://lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz/pictrs/image/e2425e0c-dcd1-401c-93cc-fd095d0e3f48.jpeg

https://lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz/pictrs/image/d0416522-b666-4a08-840d-2e5736857913.jpeg

You should try out these so-called ear clip headphones (aka clip on buds). I got this pair at a thrift store for ~US$3 yesterday. They latch on to your ear on the outside and do not go deep into your ears. Great for tight earussies or for earussy periods.

randint , 15 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

Why are you being downvoted? Is it not obvious enough that your comment was sarcasm?

randint , 17 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

Dude, this is common fucking knowledge, and nobody cares

The 730 people who upvoted this post do care.

The problem is that lemmy.ml hosts too many popular communities. There are people who want them gone from their feeds but also don’t want their Lemmy experience to become empty and boring.

randint , 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

Usually I’d agree with this, but on this post, the upvote count is a direct representation of how many people care about this issue (out of the number of users who saw this post). That is meaningful.

randint , 17 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

The solution is to build up more attractive alternatives of those communities elsewhere, not endlessly campaign the existing users to just drop them.

Agreed. Maybe I should try creating and managing a community some day. (hopefully this didn’t come off as sarcastic)

The current fedidb stats, to me, state that 488 people is, colloquially speaking, nobody.

This is a wildly misleading and unfair comparison. Let’s take the Trump verdict as an example. The most upvoted post about this had ~2700 upvotes. But that’s only 6% of the MAU! Is that “nobody”? Obviously not. 2k upvotes is a huge deal on a rather small community like Lemmy. How often do you see posts with more than 3k upvotes?

~500 upvotes is already a moderately large number of upvotes. You need to compare this number with how many upvotes a post typically gets.

randint , 15 days ago

[…] is that most votes happen because of a title. People scroll past, see a title, and vote based on that.

Wow, now that I think of it, that is indeed how I vote most of the time.

Thanks, I will seriously consider opening a community.

randint , 15 days ago

I kind of see your point. The information we have is not sufficient, and we cannot really know how much of the Lemmy userbase cares about this issue.

randint , 15 days ago

I’d be interested in seeing, for example, from which instances the voters are distributed.

That would be interesting indeed! I heard that if one hosts their own Lemmy instance, they can see who voted on every post. Don’t have that for now though.

randint , 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

people in China absolutely cannot freely discuss the Tiananmen incident. Not even people in Hong Kong. Once-annual commemorations about this incident in Hong Kong have been canceled for a few years due to pressure from the government. People who ever dare mention this date - 4 June 1989 - on (the Chinese, walled version of) the Internet risk having their account banned and getting police visits at their door. Even the Tiananmen square closed down “for maintenance” on 4 June.

randint , 23 days ago

I have a disdain for Elon but I want to thank you for saying that you do like him. Makes this place less of an echo chamber.

randint , 24 days ago

Cool! Does this mean he’ll be barred from presidency?

randint , 26 days ago

I never knew the words to this melody in its entirety. I only knew it as da dadada da-da drunken sailor.

randint , 27 days ago

soy milk

(kinda fitting actually)

randint , 27 days ago

hi fellow soy milk enjoyer. I named this puppy soy milk too

randint , 27 days ago

I interpreted the to eat in this post rather broadly as to consume.

randint , 27 days ago

No, it’s the other way around. 蚤 means flea and 市 means market. フリーマーケット sounds like flea market.

randint OP , 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago)

I should point out that I got a phone from the notorious Google for GrapheneOS.

Edit: uncensored the names

randint OP , 28 days ago

ow, my bad

randint OP , 28 days ago

I didn’t want to fucking swear on the internet

randint OP , 28 days ago

Yes, I actually try to consciously cover it with my hands and never let it sit screen side down.

Thanks, I will try using IPA.

randint OP , 28 days ago

Thanks, I’ll try out IPA on a less obvious spot to see if it damages the case and if it removes the text. If that doesn’t work maybe I’ll just live with covering it with my fingers. I agree, the “AI” is funny.

randint OP , 28 days ago

A rotary tool seems a bit… extreme to me. Maybe I’ll try that out if the IPA treatment suggested by the other commenters fail. I don’t have a laser etcher but I might have some luck if I go ask the machines-go-whrrr-bzzzhhht-keeee-place at my school. Thanks!

randint OP , 28 days ago

This exposes GrapheneOS to a few potential users, and I think this is worth the few hundred dollars that Google might get, lol

randint OP , 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago)

I am aware that I’m not advertising for them by asking a question about this here. I just thought it would be funny to censor Google and Pixel as if they were swear words. It’s fine if you don’t share my sense of humor though.

randint OP , 28 days ago (edited 27 days ago)

Yeah I’ll keep this in mind, thanks.

Edit: why tf does this comment have two downvotes? I understand why my other comments were controversial, but this one too? Really?

randint OP , 28 days ago

Eh, I get you now. Maybe it was not such a good idea to censor words on a place like Lemmy where everyone (except lemmy.ml admins) is so against censoring words.

randint OP , 28 days ago

Thanks! Will try this.

randint OP , 27 days ago

Thanks. Will try this. Actually just an hour ago I removed the period (.) by scratching at it with my fingernails. (I know, fingernails after all these answers hah.) However I don’t think fingernails scale well. Sugar granules must work too.

randint OP , 27 days ago

ikr

randint OP , 26 days ago

Did you get a phone case with your pixel? I didn’t when I bought my pixel 6a.

The phone case was a complimentary gift from the e-commerce platform I bought the phone from. Not from Google themselves. My guess is that they wanted to get rid of these 2023 H2 Limited Edition Pixel × Rhinoshield Phone Case Pixel 8 - Black that no one wanted to buy, so they decided to just give it away. Pretty thoughtful gift actually.

randint , 28 days ago

The proverb you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear means you can’t create a fine product from inferior materials.

I’d argue it’s closer to 朽木不可雕^. 巧婦難為無米之炊 (巧妇难为无米之炊) is more like you can’t make stuff without the necessary requirements.

^朽木不可雕: Lit. Rotten wood can’t be carved, metaphorically You can’t teach a student that is too dumb.

… Well actually no. Upon looking into these 3 idioms further while composing this comment, I leaned more and more towards that 巧婦難為無米之炊 is actually closer. Why? Because 朽木不可雕 applies only to humans and it puts more of a focus on the rotten wood (aka the dumb student).

I guess this comment was kind of useless lol but I decided to post it anyway because I put in way too much effort

randint , 29 days ago

I installed it one week ago after getting a new Pixel 8. Loving it so far.

randint , 1 month ago

I hear it pronounced as “lawn” all the time and it pisses me off to no end. Be thankful that you don’t hear it.

randint , 1 month ago

Loco Roco is the game I grew up with. It’s a really cute game where to pass a level is easy, but to ace a level hard. Give it a try!

randint , 1 month ago

Kinda glad where I live there’s absolutely no way our government would allow CCP police to reach me. (unless the CCP police goes undercover and kidnaps me)

randint , 1 month ago

Pretty sure there’s no way my government would allow it. Sure, secretly kidnapping me might not be too difficult, but my government would never officially give permission to the CCP police to have a talk with me (as the Australian govt. did in this article). I live in Taiwan btw.

randint , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Does the set of whole numbers not include negatives now? I swear it used to do

randint , 1 month ago

gee, you must be fun at parties (/s if it weren’t obvious enough)

randint , 1 month ago

Aluminum has always been my favorite element and metal. I feel the urge to punch this anon in his aluminum-hating fuckface.

randint , 1 month ago

一 (one) also means top (in gay contexts). It’s because 0 looks like a hole and 1 looks like a penis.

randint , 1 month ago

Thank you for giving the correct explanation. Pretty sure all those other “explanations” are just jokes though.

randint , 2 months ago

But that does not restrict its access to Wi-Fi networks!

randint , 1 month ago

Indeed it isn’t universal. My Android phone can’t do this.