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aredditimmigrant

@ aredditimmigrant @endlesstalk.org

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  • What generation are you?

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  • Elder millennial here

  • What's an idea you have that should be an actual thing?

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  • Yeah. But she wanted to carry a really small purse that wouldn't be able to hold the foldable :(

  • What's an idea you have that should be an actual thing?

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  • After an impromptu upscale bar/lounge crawl with the wifey the other day.....

    A shoe that can easily go back and forth from high heel/wedge to comfortable flats w/o much, if any, tooling or carrying around extra parts. She also brought a clutch purse

    Wifey was dead the next day from foot pain of walking between places.

  • ADHD @lemmy.world
    aredditimmigrant @endlesstalk.org

    USA ADHDers. Anybody have luck getting their stimulants abroad?

  • If we can ban trans medical procedures, why haven't we banned circumcision?

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  • It is a religious practice for Jews ... I completely agree with your point of it being a "health fad" for non-jews though.

  • My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

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  • Ask any Dr who fan. The BBC did this as well back in the day......

  • Which album was a band's creative zenith/magnum opus before falling off?

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  • More popular, more commercially successful, and more accessible to casual fans. Agreed.

    But for magnum opus, I gotta agree with the wall for a few reasons

    1. They made a movie out of it
    2. The ode to the intense para social relationships that revolve around stardom and how a truly crazy creative can take advantage of it in scary ways was not only true back then, but predictive of how much worse it would get in current time.
    3. DSotM always seemed like a lot of good ideas in an unordered list. I felt like they could be scrambled and the album would be similar, except for the first and last songs.. Meanwhile the wall tells a story of pain, alienation, search for meaning, lashing out, and then a quest for self-forgiveness.

  • I'm really getting over the enshitification of the internet.

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  • Regardless, I switched off brave because I was tired of getting ads in the browser. Been using ff for a while now

  • if there's any of you that listening to music while smoking marijuana?

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  • This is going to sound stereotypical, and I don't smoke often. But last time I had a good high going, the Grateful Dead album, "American Beauty", came on my music album shuffle and just instantly got me in the right mood.

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    aredditimmigrant @endlesstalk.org

    How To Unmap/remap an album/tracks in Lidarr?

  • What DID Apple innovate?

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  • Yeah .... I wasn't sure when I wrote it and didn't think it'd matter tbh

  • What DID Apple innovate?

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  • Not only for iPhone, but for Mac as well. It's easy to install bsd on a machine when you have access to the best hw engineers and documenters on the planet.

  • What DID Apple innovate?

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  • Thank you, exactly

  • What DID Apple innovate?

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  • Seamless integration has been around since the first real-time chatrooms though. Again, just making a better UI

    For phone calls that's just VoIP which was around waaaaayyy before the iPhone, Skype was doing something similar in the consumer geek market in 2004/5. They just brought it to the big consumer market, and again, made it 1000x easier to do.

  • What DID Apple innovate?

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  • There's an old saying in computing. "you improve usability by taking away options and features" apple didn't necessarily invent this mindset. But they perfected it.

    They took BSD, a security focused, but not very user friendly, offshoot of Linux/unix and made it "popular" by adding several layers of polish and doing a lot of the configuration work for you and made it osx. This was a time when Linux usability/management on the personal/newbie scale was garbage. If you wanted to install a certain distro of *nix, you better make sure you have supporting hardware and the right up to date tutorial, which is managed by an unknown volunteer, which was usually some person bored on the weekend a few months ago and never updated, they've made *nix installation and management a lot better though recently.

    They also did this with music. People used to have large collections of unorganized mp3s in the early 00s, unless you were really anal and had a lot of time in your hands, because you were likely downloading them from several different illegal places, and legally buying mp3s were all over the place. You could buy the album off this weird obscure website that you didn't want to trust with your CC information, because there were a lot of mom and pop music stores online. Then apple brought out iTunes and allowed both buying and managing (and eventually upgrading, traveling around with) music to be dead simple.

    For smartphones, they stole a LOT from BlackBerry, but they took it to the next level. Blackberry had email, a private messaging network, and mobile web scrolling waayyyy before anyone. And so many people loved it so much that even Obama famously didn't want to give his up when he took office. Then apple came out with the iPhone, and blew it away with a bigger screen and again, a lot more polish.

    Innovation happens in small steps over years. Apple didn't invent mobile phones, smart phones, tablets, or computing, they didn't invent security, encrypted audio/video calls, or music management. They've done a lot of crappy stuff, and they charge super high amounts of money for less than state of the art hardware. Their innovation could be summed up by this profound statement I remember a friend said to me once around 2003/4.

    "Osx, because making Linux pretty was easier than fixing Windows"

  • What are some "no brainer" inventions or features that just haven't made it to the consumer yet?

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  • Mine also allows you to see each voicemail in your acct inbox and play/delete/call back each one like a song on a media player.

    There's still the cell providers limit on how many voicemails are allowed though. Better to use Google voice and have unlimited voice mail

  • Your mix tape isn't fire, it's smouldering at best

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  • I've tried this. Guy next to me was playing a video game on full blast that I can hear over my noise cancelling headphones. I asked him if he could turn the sound down.

    He said "F you! This is my console. I do what I want! You're the only one complaining so shut the f up".....

  • What Film Are You Surprised Didn't Get A Sequel?

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  • Beeper Mini is the iMessage for Android app we’ve been waiting for - Mishaal Rahman

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  • It basically copies the best of every other messaging platform. I was at my in-laws where everyone on my wife's side has an iPhone and we're talking about a LOT of the features.

    • can tell if notifications are turned off on phone
    • read receipts
    • higher quality limit on video/pictures sent
    • messaging that can be done in wifi-only areas (imagine having a few group threads/people you CANT talk to while at home because you live in a dead zone)

    Any other big feature of any other messaging app I was able to think of (Signal/Whatsapp, discord, slack) is all there (except public chatrooms and private servers obvs), WITH OS integration

    I still like my pixel, but I get it now.

    Still holding out hope that Google allows for RCS features to come to Google voice.

  • Night owls of lemmy, how do you cope with modern society?

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  • This and caffeine

    Wife thinks I'm being lazy bc I crash and don't help with baby on weekend mornings .. I call her lazy when she falls asleep after I put the toddler to bed on weekdays.

    We have a happy marriage.

  • How did money work on deep space 9?

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  • Why a restaurant for the service.

    Between my wife and I we can make a lot of good staples (roasted chicken, beef and potatoes, etc.) but we're not masters of the kitchen by any stretch.

    You go to a restaurant to have someone else make the dinner and hopefully they are better than you are to make something tastier. As a side you don't have to deal with cleaning dishes.

    That and hopefully they have a good wait staff to liven up things

  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
    aredditimmigrant @endlesstalk.org

    How did money work on deep space 9?

  • Ask Android @lemdro.id
    aredditimmigrant @endlesstalk.org

    Case reccomendation for the P7P?