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  • On Lemmy, do you take note of the upvote/downvote ratio before clicking on a link, commenting, or voting yourself?

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  • Pretty much the same. I'll look at the post or headline or whatever and make my assessment of if I want to see more like that. If I see downvotes already there tho, I try to figure out why. Sometimes the post does turn out to be spammier or more controversial or more factually wrong than it first appeared.

  • Loops vs. PeerTube for video host

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  • Actually now that you mention it, I just checked and it seems like links in profile aren't even clickable or selectable from the Loops Android app, so that's annoying.

    I usually make an acct for each distinct fedi service, so not sure. I see a bunch of videos pop up from Mastodon users, but I just browse it from a Loops account (and never post videos).

  • Loops vs. PeerTube for video host

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  • Both is the answer. Most people will flip past a 10 minute short-form video. Just like the TikTok/Youtube sitution, edit some things to be vertical and short, and post those to Loops. Include a link in your profile to your Peertube, and let the short videos direct people who like your stuff to your longer horizontal videos.

  • WDYT about GNU

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  • Oh, that's good to hear! Always had the impression that the blob-free distros caused compatibility headaches, but glad to be wrong I suppose.

    Edit: And I should say I didn't mean to pick on Trisquel in particular, it was just the one GNU recommended distro I remembered by name.

  • What are some words that you have or had troubles spelling and made up funny ways to help remember them?

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  • O-U-L-D

    Took me a sec too

  • WDYT about GNU

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  • I generally think of GNU as being foundational (or, old) and principled.

    I really appreciate the contributions they've made to both core utilities and especially philosophy.

    But I don't see them as lighting up the world or adding anything new lately. I think of vaporware like Hurd with 1000 year dev cycles. I think of them recommending Linux distributions like Trisquel that let perfect be the enemy of pretty good.

  • Which game do I get that's under 20GB?

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  • I haven't tried it yet, but Mina the Hollower just released and seems really cool. Should be way less than 20 GB.

  • Have you ever camped out or queued up for the launch of a game, console, or other media?

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  • One of my first memories of being disillusioned with media, having my hopes up and being let down was TPM. I went and saw it, kinda convinced myself it was cool...

    Then a couple days later, someone was asking me about, and they asked what happened. I took a moment to think and finally had to come back and say 'idk, I guess nothing really'.

  • Have you ever camped out or queued up for the launch of a game, console, or other media?

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  • The two longest and most memorable waits I've done were for the Wii and Wii U.

    The Wii was great. Was a very social, collaborative experience.

    Got to the store probably at 6 or 7 am. Two people were in front of me in line. The first would show up in my circle of friends years later, and I didn't even realize until going back and looking at the pictures. The other was an older gentleman getting in line for his son, and when his son did show up later it turned out to be a friend of mine. I just hadn't met his dad before.

    At first we were in the lobby, then moved to the garden center, eventually to outside the front entrance before noon. Employees didn't really know to expect us or what to do with us.

    Everyone had their DSes and we spent most of the day playing something or other. Toward the end of the night, when the crowd got bigger, I remember doing 8-person Bomberman battles.

    It was a cold November day. By the evening, I was freezing and hungry. My parents and some friends swung by at different times to bring blankets, snacks, etc, and those felt like such exciting moments.

    Fast forward to the Wii U. I got a preorder, but they said there weren't enough preorders to do a midnight launch. Stubbornly wanting to relive the great time I had waiting for the Wii, that was enough to make me drive over to the next big town and wait at a different store.

    For a long time, I think I'm the only one in line? Or maybe someone was before me. Idk. But the line didn't build up until like, an hour before midnight. I talked to people, but didn't really connect with anyone strongly.

    The cold was bitter this time. I was layered up way more, but felt as tho I was barely hanging in by the end of it. Folks in line kept asking if I was alright, offering to hold my place in line if I wanted to go take a break and warm up in the car.

    I don't know that we did any multiplayer sessions, but it was cool at least to get 3DS streetpass hits all day.

    After all of it, I could just as easily have walked into a store the next weeks and bought one.

    So yeah, the Wii was a moment for me, the U was a failed attempt to revisit that moment (a lot like the systems themsleves, kinda). Then there's the difference between being in high school, hanging out with friends in your home town, and being in college keeping to yourself.

  • Can't pictures be viewed in lemmy comments ??🤔🤔🤔

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  • For what it's worth, I see this image fine from Lemmy/Voyager.

  • Where do you discover new music?

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  • Mostly digging through past albums of bands I already like. My music taste has largely fossilized. And I realize that the artists I claim to enjoy, I've rarely explored their whole discography. So I try to do that. And when I feel like I've exhausted favorites, there are plenty of not-quite-favorites to give a deeper look at.

    So I'm not looking for new groups too often. But when I am, these resources are useful:

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    Why doesn't Hacker News change to a more modern layout?

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  • So glad they don't. A lot of modern layouts would do well to change to something simpler.

  • Why don't I care about the Artemis mission/program?

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  • There's a certain strain of thought that runs through my mind sometimes, that space is just too big and too empty to really be worth going into. Like the moon and Mars, maybe a couple other in-system planets, are the only things close enough for realistic human trips in lifetimes. And the trips so far have shown us that yes, those are just big balls of monotonous dirt. You ever kinda landed in that state of mind?

    In spite of all that, I do still get excited about it, and really enjoyed following Artemis. Excited to see us (maybe, hopefully) land on the moon again soon. It's remarkable that humans are able to rise to that challenge, and I hope we don't ever entirely stop.

  • Anthropic says its latest AI model is too powerful for public release and that it broke containment during testing

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  • They didn't entirely miss the mark there. They publicly released the version after that and the world became worse. That certainly fits for some definition of 'dangerous', even tho it's probably not how they were thinking.

  • How many browser bookmarks do you have? Do you use most of them?

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  • For sure! Something about making it more organized little by little is super satisfying, theraputic even.

  • How do you respond to "hey, how are you" when you feel like garbage?

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  • It's so ingrained in conversational habits. I find myself really struggling for a greeting when I visit someone who I know is struggling or in pain. Like, I don't want to force them to think about how they're doing. But then I also don't know what else goes after that initial "Hey". v_v

  • How many browser bookmarks do you have? Do you use most of them?

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  • I think there's definitely something to this. Kinda like a cache, it's nice to have some pages that you know are interesting or useful in someway that you can find that little bit easier.

    But the in-browser search for bookmarks is pretty limited. It just checks the title and url and maybe some tags. I know (or think?) there are some programs out there that index and/or archive your bookmarks and let you do full text search through them like a proper search engine.

  • How many browser bookmarks do you have? Do you use most of them?

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  • Apparently 4614. Several hundred are probably duplicates tho. I'll bookmark interesting pages that I see at work (since I usually don't have time to read them) and occasionally import them to my main browser. Like others have said, that's built up over many years. And in general I've tried to be more of a 'bookmark it and close the tab already' kind of person lately.

    It's all various levels of hoarding and to-dos I know I'll never get to, but pretty often I do find myself enjoying browsing through my bookmarks and remembering neat stuff I saw in passing or articles I wanted to read. It's also fun sorting them out to folders, even tho I know they'll never be properly organized nor especially useful if they were.

    I do very regularly use a few that I keep on my bookmarks toolbar. I make better use of that feature at work too, where I have the most important few pages and environments right at hand.

  • Is Jules Vernes overlooked in the Anglosphere

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  • The premise doesn't feel true for me. I'm in the US - Verne and Wells both seem well known generally. But that's highly anecdotal of course.