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Thoven

@ Thoven @lemdro.id

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  • It took shockingly few generations for our ruling class to become morons

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  • Hard times create strong men

    Strong men create good times

    Good times create weak men

    Weak men create hard times

    The cycle continues

  • Any SIMPLE note taking app (available for web too) that syncs with cloud?

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  • I used simple note for a long time and enjoyed it. Did have some occasional sync conflicts resulting in lost notes, which was frustrating. Now I'm hosting a Joplin server and really enjoying it. I'm not actually sure if Joplin can be used in a browser, but to my knowledge it has apps for every OS.

  • What commonly given advice is actually wrong or toxic?

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  • I always say money doesn't buy happiness, but it is a prerequisite. Starving homeless people don't have a lot of opportunity to seek whatever makes them happy.

  • Part of internet most harmful to teens?

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  • For boys, the incel and alpha male shit is what I see really affecting their life trajectories. Once they get into those mindsets they start to repel good influences and quickly end up in echo chambers. The only people who will put up with them are equally toxic and they feed off each other and quickly spiral. A good boy can turn into a woman hating rebel that doesn't listen to any adults shockingly quickly.

    Unfortunately, I do not know specifically where this content lives for you to block. I'd definitely start with YouTube and tiktok. Also, talk to your kids about this stuff! It's great that you're trying to responsibly manage their Internet access. A lot of parents don't, and everything you're protecting them from on their electronics they can easily pick up from others at school. Even if you homeschool to prevent this eventually they'll grow up and leave the nest. The only holistic way to give them the best shot (no method is guaranteed, they still have free will) is to teach them the critical thinking skills and morals they need to identify and reject this stuff on their own.

  • What happened to the Dem Party in America? It's kind of like once Kamala lost, which they deserved, and lost congress. They ran like a dog with its tail between its legs instead of fighting?

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  • Don't worry, they'll be back next election cycle. That's when they pretend to care so much and fight. All the candidates that genuinely care, on both sides, get shut down by the big dogs before they ever make it to the public eye.

  • What's the best way to get rid of an old mattress? Wrong answers only. Worst idea I'll actually do.

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  • Tear some holes in it, sprinkle in nuts, and leave in your backyard. Congratulations: you now have a rodent hotel!

  • [Update] Recent outage

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  • Have you removed the donation link that helped cover the instance's maintenance? Wouldn't mind throwing a couple bucks your way to help facilitate the migration.

  • What Phone do you guys use?

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  • I had it replaced once, perhaps 15 months after purchasing. The problem was not with the screen, but the screen protector was separating down the seam. Possibly due to my profession in the medical field, which occasionally sees me and my phone exposed to high intensity UV light. Apparently this shrinks the material. Modern phones aren't something you can so easily work on yourself. I had it replaced by an authorized repair shop in my area. Apparently they had a recall on either the whole model or my production run, because they had a one time replacement deal for $250. This got me a new internal screen, battery, and possibly hinge?

  • What Phone do you guys use?

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  • I love having a foldable. It makes reading, writing, and media consumption so much more enjoyable. But still fits in the pocket unlike a tablet. I don't have any particular loyalty to Samsung, but it's the best foldable I've found so far.

  • What Phone do you guys use?

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  • Fold 5. Battery is getting annoying, so decent odds I pick up the 8 when it drops in the summer. I miss the days when you could just pop a battery out. It's expensive but the larger screen is amazing and I'll probably never go back. I'm not married to having a Samsung foldable specifically, but the only really competitive options are banned in the US.

  • With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?

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  • I prefer a spoon, but I've found that for most cakes a spoon isn't long enough to take a proper vertical bite

  • Is your city building a ton of banks and gas stations?

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  • Where I live there's this crazy new obsession with car washes. Like, 3 brand new ones being built on the same street. I get that they became way more profitable when they figured out the subscription model thing, but I feel like so many is unsustainable.

  • What's up with "Plex Servers"?

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  • Me and a relative jointly host and manage a server. Over the years we've slowly allowed in a handful of trusted friends and family. By now we probably have 20ish connected. Most use it as a supplement to their main streaming services, primarily used for exclusive content like the star wars shows. Some, like those of us hosting, have cancelled every streaming service and use it exclusively.

  • What are some subscription services done right?

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  • Mullvad VPN. $5 a month for 5 concurrent high speed connections. No fake sales, no BS.

    Music streaming services are close. As I understand it the artists don't get a great deal, but as a consumer ~$12/m is on the high end of reasonable for unlimited access to high quality music. And unlike with television streaming services there's very little exclusivity bullshit. You can listen to most anything most anywhere.

  • What are some subscription services done right?

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  • Not universally. I live in Alabama and the privately owned power company is very corrupt. We have some of the highest power bills in the US, with the biggest difference being not cost but profit margins. Water in my county is fairly priced IMO, but I've heard other counties aren't so lucky.

  • There is showerthoughts, but is there a "snowstorm thoughts" for when you have random nostalgia moments about the past? Particularly about a past snow storm in your childhood, like the SNOW DAYS

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  • I live in the south. We don't get much snow at all. I think I was thirteen when I saw my first (and so far last) white Christmas. It was only the second my parents had seen in their life. That was pretty cool.

  • 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced

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  • +1 for audiobookshelf, after using tools like Plex for a long time I was honestly shocked by how much more user friendly it felt. And it's a one man team! The only significant demerit is that the IOS app is stuck in test flight limbo, so you have to find another player. Though most do that already I think.

  • How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering?

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  • Headphones vs speakers is way less significant than listening volume. The big thing to be careful of is listening with just one earbud in. When we do this we almost always end up turning the volume in that one too high, because you need on average 6db more volume to compensate for the audio input of the other ear.

  • Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever

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  • I have a 3090. As long as you have the correct drivers and a quality emulator (I think I use glorious eggroll's experimental proton branch) quality is quite comparable.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Thoven @lemdro.id

    Introducing Ultimate Audiobooks, the one stop shop for file cleaning

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
    Thoven @lemdro.id

    Introducing Ultimate Audiobooks, the one stop shop for file cleaning

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Favorite manhwa scanlators?

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    Shoutout to the lemdroid team!

  • Cooking @lemmy.world
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    DISCUSSION

    Favorite/highest quality sandwich ingredients?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Help fixing invalid origin with memos

  • Cooking @lemmy.world
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    QUESTION

    Where are we getting the best value steaks in the US?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Day One alternative? (FOSS preferred)

  • Lemdroid @lemdro.id
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    Bug report and federation question

  • Do It Yourself @beehaw.org
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    Is it worth trying to fix a home printer?

  • KDE @lemmy.kde.social
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    How to grant KDE connect access to videos on samsung?

  • KDE @lemmy.kde.social
    Thoven @lemdro.id

    How to expand the information dolphin shows in properties?

  • Tea @lemmy.zip
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    Suggestions for the best southern sweet tea?

  • Joplin @sopuli.xyz
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    Notebooks don't sync to Linux (KDE Neon)?

  • BuyItForLife @sh.itjust.works
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    My new-ish rain jacket just started disentegrating in my hair. BIFL rain jackets?

  • Joplin @sopuli.xyz
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    Bulleted list keyboard shortcut not working?

  • Plex @lemmy.ml
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    Best android audiobook app to connect to my media server?

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Android audiobook player for Plex?

  • Lemdroid @lemdro.id
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    Inaccessible instances

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    lemmy.studio not populating?