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Chat Pluto 6 months ago 100%
So I took the Novavax booster shot for Covid-19 earlier today...

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2164041 > UUUGGGGGHHH > > I hate it. > > Admittedly, I took 4 Tylenols (which you should never do so please think of your health and don't do it) over the course of today till now. > > I *still* feel something, especially where the shot was, and my head feels a bit light-headed and strange. > > Don't get me wrong: I'm glad I took it and I'm actually a bit proud that this may be my seventh shot so far (probably sixth, though). > > But the first day? Yeah, not so good.

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Chat legios 6 months ago 100%
Are any of you really affected by lyrics/tones of songs?

I tend to find song lyrics, tones of music etc. really hit me super hard. I'm curious to know how others feel? So a couple of songs to add to this: [ Oceanlab - Breaking Ties ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g13nsQaCxbg) [ Randy Boyer & Eric Tadla feat. Dan Sanfilippo - Alive (HeatBeat Mix) ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POtXdBmNx2o) (Sorry, I'm an old-school DJ) But I do want input. I find music really hits me hard, and that's actually OK. So hit me with your songs.

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Chat Pluto 7 months ago 100%
I just ordered Vietnamese food from GrubHub and it was sooooo good.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2004926 > I was hungry asf. > > But damn, got some white rice, beef, and some veggies (cucumber and radish) all with that signature sauce that Vietnamese restaurants usually have (I'm not sure what it's called). > > And by the Vietnamese gods, it was amazing. > > Just like eating it at the restaurant itself; still nice and warm (but then again, the restaurant *was* nearby my area). > > Came in a white plastic container or whatever material you call it. > > Oh God, I look back fondly on that meal I had almost an hour ago today. > > I was soooooooooooo hungry too and now I'm not. > > How is it that you can feel horrible when you're hungry (physically and emotionally) and then feel content and all is right with the world after having eaten? > > Dunno... Just don't know... > > Anyway, how you all doing? And what did you all eat today (so far)?

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Chat Nusm 9 months ago 100%
Disappointing

I tried to sign up for this instance, but my signup is still stuck in "processing". I tried signing up with a different username & email, and I got a popup that said sign ups are closed. I emailed Jonah at two different email addresses that I found for him, sent him a message through Lemmy and a message through Matrix to ask if I could get my original sign up approved. I got no response to anything. I noticed that the instance was updated to 0.19.0, but not 0.19.1 that came soon after and fixed some problems with the .19 release. I haven't seen any posts/updates from Jonah since the update, and it seems like he has abandoned the instance. I really wanted to move here, but it doesn't seem like it's being maintained, and that's disappointing.

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Chat empireOfLove 9 months ago 100%
I love y'all, but I'm throwing in the towel.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/8329608 > lemmy.one was a great start for me into the fediverse, but the time has come to move on. It's become apparent to me that the (singular) admin just isn't there, and this instance has been dead for almost a week now due to the outgoing federation bug that needs a second upgrade to repair. > > I know Jonah has a lot on his plate, and it's the holidays after all so I don't blame him... but this has happened a few times now. unless he's going to bring new people on to share the technical admin load and get us more prompt attention, I'm jumping to dbzer0 which has significantly more active technical administration and more communities that I'm interested in. > > Peace out y'all!

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Chat Pluto 1 year ago 100%
The Dissociation Machine mentalhellth.xyz

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/626872 > Let me know if you can read the article in full.

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Chat ShustOne 1 year ago 100%
Would anyone object to me linking to fundraisers for those impacted by the Maui fires?

This would be a list of vetted fundraisers where the money goes directly to people who lost homes in Maui this week. Is that okay for this place or do we want to avoid fundraising type stuff here? Looking for honest thoughts from the crew. If anyone knows a more appropriate place that would also be appreciated.

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Chat Rocinante 1 year ago 100%
Looking for outdoor camera I can access when I'm away from home.

Don't have much technical background so was looking to pick up whatever options were on Amazon, and not keeping it indoors since aware that the company I choose could decide to spy on me. But, I don't really care for outside the house. Question is if having these type of devices running on the same wifi network I'm using is safe for my other devices? And does running that device on the guest wifi help?

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Chat wallmenis 1 year ago 100%
I feel hopeless...

Every day I feel like the world will colapse. No freedom of expression. Companies want to control each aspect of our lives. This hit me really hard: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity I want to believe that people will wake up and stand up against this, but it won't happen because of cource fomo will hit and addiction keeps people on board. I don't want to rely on discord, meta, microsoft and google... Nobody from the mainstream cares about freedom as long as they get their fix. Not to mention how the environment suffers from this... Only God can save us...

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Chat VoidCrow 1 year ago 100%
I've decided to pick up trash picking as a hobby

Every time I walk outside I try to remember to bring a plastic bag with me so I can pick up whatever piece of trash I see on the ground. It's a bit of a double-edged sword really, while it's nice to take care of the earth around you it's also quite sad to see just how much trash is around you at all times. Thankfully it ends up being nice in the end because I now see less and less litter around on my usual routes. Keeping in mind that some is enough (I don't need to pick up every little piece esp if I'm on my way to someplace like work) and that what's small to you means the world to the plants, insects, and whatever animal that may be in that area does help with this hobby as well I'm hoping to do more volunteer work and bigger actions for helping the local area at some point in the near future but for now this is a good habit to have

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Chat ShustOne 1 year ago 100%
What is the image upload size limit?

Is there an easy way to see file types and size limits? Thank you!

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Chat normal_user 1 year ago 100%
is there a browser extensions that blocks news sites with AI generated articles ?

You know the types of sites that I'm talking about. You start reading for a bit and it just starts repeating itself. Everytime it feels like I just wasted my time and I need to search for another, hopefully not ai generated, article. So is there a way to block them all ? Like an adblocker but for AI generated news sites ?

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Chat loopy 1 year ago 100%
New community: Family and Friends of Persons with Addiction (fafopwa)

An online support group for people to share experiences and resources, and give support to one another through the many challenges of having a friend/family member struggling with addiction. !fafopwa@vlemmy.net

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Chat aessedai 1 year ago 100%
Looking for a YT channel where I can watch makers build their projects

Hey y'all. I'm new to these parts and am really settling into Lemmy. I am looking for YouTube channels I can have playing in the background while I work from home. I benefit from body doubling so watching someone else work keeps me focused while I work alone. I'm looking for content creators that record their builds in a workshop without much dialogue. Fly on the wall type stuff. Thanks in advance!

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Chat NightOwl 1 year ago 100%
I wish there was a bot that joined new communities automatically on some of the major instances, so comments would be available to see from the get go for people who subscribe

Would help with finding new communities, and not having to do the URL search thing before subscribing to something new

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Chat Frexican21 1 year ago 100%
Anyone else confused about the point of Lemmit.online?

From what I can gather, a bot creates communities based on subreddits recommended to them by users, then fills said communities with posts from Reddit. I don't really get the point of this, as 90% of posts it seems are just copied from Reddit but without any of the actual engagement, as the OP didn't post it and no one is commenting. It just seems like clutter and a waste of space, but it's also all over my feed. Anyone else confused?

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Chat shortwavesurfer 1 year ago 100%
new thunder alpha release

Yep, Thunder is totally my new lemmy app of choice. Post mark as read has been added and that was my final delay to usingit full time. https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder/releases

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Chat waspentalive 1 year ago 100%
Youtube Ads are getting too frequent..

[[[ Solved - Using FreeTube for now ]]] It seems youtube is breaking into the middle of long-form video much more often. And most of the ads are for snake oil - Fear mongering "Tinnitus will KILL your brain in three years" baloney. Is there a Fediverse equivalent to YouTube? Can the Fediverse be applied to this? Will it solve the above complaint? I have been to Odysee but with very few exceptions none of the content I want is there (They have Veritasium, and minute Physics, but not Vsause, Technology Connections, or Stand Up Maths)

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Chat LinkOpensChest_wav 1 year ago 100%
Does anyone use imgchest? imgchest.com

I came across it when I was looking for an alternative to imgur back when imgur wasn't playing nice with uBlock Origin on mobile for a while. I know [imgbb](https://imgbb.com/) is more privacy oriented, but in my experience [imgchest](https://imgchest.com/) is easier to navigate, especially on mobile. I'm not promoting the site, just curious if anyone else has tried it since I rarely see images linked from there, and if not what's your favorite alternative to imgur? I've been thinking about this because I'm trying to avoid uploading images directly to the server here.

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Chat MyMulligan 1 year ago 100%
With many instances holding off until bugs are ironed out with the Lemmy update, Jerboa is not playing nice. YSK, I found Connect for Lemmy as an alternative. (actually it won't let me post 🤨)

I know many instances are not upgrading until the majority of bugs and issues are resolved. In the meantime if Jerboa got upgraded (it looks nice, BTW) then it won't play nice with the older versions of Lemmy. On Saturday I discovered Connect for Lemmy inside the Google Play Store. I figured for us who need something to read on our phones while we poop, this would be good until our instance gets updated. Whoops. Just discovered I'm having issues posting or commenting with Connect while in my instance. I'm guessing you do have to log into an instance that's upgraded or view everything in a browser. Bummer.

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Chat admin 1 year ago 100%
Did you know there’s no emoji for the cool S? Please add your name to this petition for change chng.it

I was outraged to discover this lack of emoji support for cool S

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Chat shortwavesurfer 1 year ago 100%
electric bill total ripoff

My local electric provider offers a power plan called flatbill where they will give you the same price for a whole year. Seems great right? Not so much. They offered me a monthly rate of $154 which i knew right away was way overpriced as i almost always pay more than what i owe to build up a credit in case something comes up and i cant pay it. So i keep a very sharp eye on my usage. I did the math and found out that my average power bill over the last year was $113 per month. I always pay $130 to build the credit and they wanted to charge me $154. Na, im good. I will handle it myself.

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Chat dill 1 year ago 100%
let's discuss "karma"

I am curious to hear opinions on the concept of user karma in general. Do people miss it? Are we better off without it? From a technicial perspective, I don't see why it couldn't be implemented. I understand Lemmy doesn't track this explicitly. However, using a users post and comment history you could come to a number pretty easily, right? I was considering making a toy app that would take a user and instance and spit out a karma score for post and comments, what would stop others from doing the same? Will it be inevitably pulled into existence by Lemmy users as we mature the platform?

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Chat MyMulligan 1 year ago 100%
It's Thursday. What are people planning to do this weekend?

It's yard work and the zoo for me. I hope all within the communities have a great weekend. Go socialize with those you care about. Peace.

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Chat DidacticDumbass 1 year ago 100%
Share your latest hobbies!

Starting doing something you've never done before? Getting back into something you used to do? Is it fun and exciting? Is it challenging? I recently starting to learn roller skating (quad skating). It is so thrilling! I can't do a lot yet, I can barely stop, can't skate backwards, and definitely no transitions. I can skate forward, scissor, scooter push, and I am getting tight with turns. I take classes on the weekends, which are an hour, and then I skate 3 more hours in the regular session. I am inching my way through the fundamentals, and I am not falling as often as I did just a week ago. I am wearing a helmet, because I care about my head, but I have become comfortable enough to take it off since it is not required, just wrist guards. I own my own skates, Riedell R3s with Sonar Caymans (indoors), and Sketchers 4 Wheelers (outdoors), which I modified by replacing the plastic plates and trucks with Sure-Grip Super X. Now they are not so scary. ALSO! I just got my first skate board! I walked into a local skate shop I had no idea existed until someone mentioned it, and only went in to see what offerings they had for roller skates so I would not have to order online. They got wheels and bearings, plus tools and protective gear, which is all I need and expected. I walked out with an 8.5 Real deck (recycled), Ventura trucks, Slime Balls 78a wheels, Bones Reds bearings, and black tape. Assembly was free in-house and the dude got it together under 10. I have yet to ride it, but I learned there is a skate park near me, so I have a lot to look forward to! Edit: fixed details

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Chat Ranger 1 year ago 100%
Is there any random deleted content from Reddit you'd like to share here after doing a wipe of your account? Memes are fun too.

Here's one comment I deleted it, but a few people found it useful Issue was: https://web.archive.org/web/20230308190437/https:/old.reddit.com/r/OLED_Gaming/comments/wbwgwy/hdmi_21_issue_with_sony_a80j_and_rtx_3080_ti/ **HDMI 2.1 issue with Sony A80J and RTX 3080 TI** >Purchased a 55 inch Sony A80J from costco for 4k PC gaming with my new Zotac Trinity OC 3080 TI. > >Problem is that none of the HDMI ports (both 2.0 and 2.1) worth with the PC. I do see an input, but it's heavily distorted with pink and green lines/sections and black jittery areas... can't use my mouse or my keyboard. One possible solution I suggested was: >I experienced this issue on the X90J with the unresponsive green lines and frozen screen. It seemed to be triggered after watching dolby vision content from the Amazon app one day. What fixed it was switching to a hdmi signal where things were normal, which for me was setting hdmi to VRR (standard, dolby and enhanced had the green frozen screen) and then triggering HDR in windows. Like toggling on and off Windows HDR. After that things went back to normal. > >I use a fiber HDMI 2.1 cable, so it seemed to be more a Sony software problem that required a random fix.

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Chat HectorBarbossa99 1 year ago 100%
Thoughts on canon in fiction? I think I'm done with it tbh

First off, I wanna say that I'm a meganerd, I get that. This is something really dumb , but bear with me. As a teenager *mumble mumble* years ago, I was super into Star Wars, and as such was super into canon. I always kept up with canon, and what was going on behind the scenes in all the movies, books, comics, and TV shows. I took the cancellation of the EU pretty hard, but was excited for what was to come with Disney's new trilogy and all the exciting other content that took place in the already existing timeline, which was promised to flow better with the overall narrative presented with the six main films. But now, it seems like they're changing what's considered canon so much to the point that it's confusing (looking at recent Kanan comic and Ahsoka novel retcons and others), and I'm starting to get to a point where, I really just don't care enough to worry about a gospel truth of a nonexistent world. It's frustrating to get invested into a franchise where at any moment, your favorite comic, novel ,game, or TV show can just be written off as never having happened in universe. For people who take these works of fiction seriously, it's exhausting! So I've found my solution, one which I maybe should have had long ago- I just don't care anymore. This started with Star Wars but has honestly just gone off into all my favorite works of fiction, to the point that the only thing I care about is whether its a great work of art and whether or not I have a great time with it. Does anyone else have any thoughts regarding canon in fiction, and whether or not you actually care about it or whether you don't care about it at all?

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Chat shortwavesurfer 1 year ago 100%
Thunder - An open-source cross-platform Lemmy client for iOS and Android github.com

Looks nice so far. I got it from IzzyOnDroid's repo by searching "lemmy" in Droid-ify Edit: oh yeah, i am really liking what i see. Refreshing gives haptic feedback and so do the toggle switches in settings.

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Chat dill 1 year ago 100%
confession

I can't hold this back any longer. I joined lemmy.one mostly because I thought the name beehaw was kinda stupid.

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Chat Jormar 1 year ago 100%
[NOT COMPLAINT] 503 error

I just had a 503 error for the first time! I never thought I could get so excited about getting such a thing. Usually, I would be angry, but I'm not because this means people do flow in. This made me remember the old days of the Internet. Ah, to feel young again... "The giants' blood, a sacred elixir of untold vitality, transforms barren soil into a tapestry of enchanted life."

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Chat MyMulligan 1 year ago 100%
Are you doing your part?

I see many communities that got started in the last ten days. Sadly, some that I'm most interested in are not that active. Some are not active at all. What are you doing to help your community? How do you go from lurking to contributing? Spreading the word? Also, what's for breakfast?

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Chat waspentalive 1 year ago 100%
Microwave Madness = Appliance Advice needed

**#Solved** Our microwave has just begun to show a failure mode. With no settings on the timer/modes when we close the door we hear a 60-cycle hum. We put a coffee cup with water in and closed the door but did not push any button and noted the hum. The water got warm, for the exposure of 20 to 30 seconds, the water got the expected level of warmth we think. Is there any danger if we leave the door open? (No hum with the door open) Could the Magnatron be running at a higher output than it is supposed to when the door is closed but the microwave is not under the control of its built-in circuitry? Of course, there is no danger of the microwave doing anything other than heating stuff (No mad science going on)? We know that microwave ovens work by making the water molecules vibrate faster.

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Chat MxRemy 1 year ago 100%
Share images from Pixelfed?

I saw somewhere that, instead of attaching images directly to Lemmy posts, you should instead post them to a Pixelfed instance and link to it. If a lot of people did that, it should reduce the load on Lemmy instances. I made a Pixelfed account so I could do that, but I don't like that people have to click through to see the image. For some ridiculous reason I kinda thought the image would show without having to do that lol. Are those the only two possible options, or am I missing something?

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Chat CarrierLost 1 year ago 100%
How’s it going in the .one?

It’s been an interesting 10-ish days on the internet in general. Big thanks to [@jonah@lemmy.one](https://lemmy.one/u/jonah) for hosting Lemmy.one. It’s a cool community, and I’m really enjoying the fediverse thus far. Looking forward to seeing how it develops!

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Chat hemmes 1 year ago 97%
We Need Downvotes on Lemmy.one

Really loving the new experiences here on Lemmy.one. But I’m seeing many subs with off-topic posts. Community downvotes will help overworked mods find and remove such posts. I understand no one likes to be downvoted but it’s a necessary tool for our community and only helps users understand and refine what and where they are to be posting their content.

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Chat hemmes 1 year ago 100%
What’s With The Wacky List Refreshing

Sorry if this is not the right sub to be posting this question. I'm experiencing weird refreshing behavior when browsing posts. I could be in the middle of looking at a picture or reading a post in the list and all of a sudden the page moves all over the place, and refreshes with new posts. If I had expanded picture, it closes the picture and resorts that post somewhere else in the list. It's almost behaving like live update sorting in Reddit comments. It's very jarring. More recently I had tapped on a post to read it further, started to write a reply, and the refresh happened on the post and the text I was typing was still in the reply box, but it was to some other post.

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Chat hrimfaxi_work 1 year ago 100%
I started making cold brew after quitting energy drinks...

*ralphwiggumimindanger.jpg*

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Chat rigo 1 year ago 100%
Free Talk Friday

Cutting down the frequency of these a bit, think I'll aim for a few times a week. Happy Friday!!

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Chat ErikDegenerik 1 year ago 100%
Is it possible to subscribe to kbin instances or whatever they're called from Lemmy?

I follow mma and see they have a community on kbin. Can I somehow subscribe to it from lemmy.one?

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