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    Sarcastic Reddit title aside, what a bunch of fucking dickheads. This is why I left Reddit and it's worse now.

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  • So reddit is bad because you can't break a subreddit's rules without getting called out? Also, sarcasm with 0 context, especially in text form, should always be assumed that it will not be interpreted as sarcasm. That title alone in the subreddit could absolutely be considered clickbait.

  • Google Pixel 8 will get more OS updates with longer lifespan than Samsung

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  • Pixel 6 ushered in three years? I did some searching and it looks like every Pixel all the way back to Pixel 1 received three full years of updates. Is it just the additional two years of security updates that's new?

  • [AskMovies] What great movie did you watch this week?

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  • Three Minutes: A Lengthening - documentary about three minutes of recovered video footage from a small town in Poland in the late 1930's. The scope of it started small and it expanded continuously throughout the movie. It was really impactful. The only footage shown is the video footage itself, the narrator is Helena Bonham Carter. I highly recommend it if you like documentaries.

    Let The Right One In - 2008 low budget Swedish horror film. I'd always heard it was well regarded and it did not disappoint one bit. Delightfully tense, cathartic, and unsettling.

  • I'm a little bored of Lemmy. I'm going to go browse Lemmy.

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  • LOL I totally identify with this. I don't remember upvoting, but it looks like I already did. Just un-upvoted and re-upvoted for good measure.

    Commented from Voyager

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    bird @lemm.ee

    I'm a little bored of Lemmy. I'm going to go browse Lemmy.

  • Leaked Zoom all-hands: CEO says employees must return to offices because they can't be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom

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  • That may be true for some people individually, but I believe if no one at a company is able to build any connection (even on a professional level of base rapport ), that's much more an indicator of the company's failures to build a proper company culture that supports that.

    People have been making close friends over the Internet with zero in-person interactions for decades now. And that's even without video chat being the primary way of doing it. I work 100% remote at a company with ~2500 employees. I'm pretty introverted, but I've managed to make a few friends mostly over slack that I would ask if they wanted to grab a drink or something if I were traveling through their area. There's no pressure or expectation of that from the company, there's no "we're family" nonsense, they've just created a company culture where that can happen.

  • Does anyone know of an alternative to Readwise?

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  • This is a great solution! I was searching around a bit more and couldn't find any other apps doing this. I think I'm going to just create a Keep note for each book I read, then I can use Google lens to scan the text and copy what I want into the note and add the page number for reference.

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    bird @lemm.ee

    Does anyone know of an alternative to Readwise?

  • Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits

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  • Plex is truly great! I forgot to mention it streams music in addition to movies and tv. The Plex web app is not particularly fantastic for streaming music, but they have a separate app called Plexamp that is really great. So all in all you can use this setup to eliminate all your streaming subscriptions.

  • Small children are well known to be afraid of voids (closets, under the bed) in their sleeping area. Knowing this, why don't we design children's rooms to eliminate them?

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  • I think fear is an important part of our development, and sanitizing children's upbringings is rarely the best approach. I love when my child communicates that they're afraid of something because that gives me an opportunity to guide them through how to encounter and process that fear, and how to continue functioning in life when fear is present (which is always for a lot of people).

    Also, for kids who are scared of their closet or under their bed at night, if you remove those triggers I would be surprised if other triggers did not arise. It could easily turn into a never ending game of whack a mole.

  • Unable to upload photo for photo post

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  • This is a very handy tool, thanks so much!

  • Unable to upload photo for photo post

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  • Ah, this explains it. Thank you!

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    Unable to upload photo for photo post

  • Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits

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  • Pay for a seedbox and install Plex on it (something like whatbox.ca). You'll have your own streaming service that you can add anything you want to, and it only costs as much as the seedbox. It will give you insularity so you don't get ISP notices, you can access it from anywhere, it's great.

    From there it's just finding where you want to get your torrents from and getting used to adding them to the torrent client on your seedbox.

  • Google Chrome will summarize entire articles for you with built-in generative AI

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  • If it's summarizing articles, wouldn't that make it reductive AI, not generative?

  • [Discussion] What is your favorite original movie of 2022?

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  • Between Everything Everywhere, Banshees (probably my fave), Bodies3x, and Northman (and others I haven't seen), 2022 was a truly fantastic year for original movies.

    And while it was a franchise movie, Prey was also one of my favorites of the year.