When I was in Bangkok for a week, there was a little noodle stand at the corner from our hostel. They had 2-3 options, but the owner of the hostel recommended the chicken stir fry noodle, and instructed us on how to order it.
I have never tasted anything in the same class as this. We seriously ate there maybe like 10 times in 6 days and when we left I kept thinking about it for months. I’m vegan now and the thought of eating meat repulses me, plus it’s been almost ten years, but I still think of this place regularly. I want to find the family that runs/ran it and pay them a bunch of money to make me tofu stir fry noodles.
If you go into your match history or any counterstrike community you will see lots and lots of banned CS2 players. It seems the latest ban wave has some sort of mistake and lots of innocent players are involved. I am personally not banned but a few of my friends who were definitely not cheating were banned....
Yeah I’ve been excluded from work group chats on two separate occasions because they used iMessage and considering another platform was just entirely off the table.
Although to be honest, I consider being excluded from work group chats to be one of the best features of my phone!
I can kinda see how this might happen, I bet statements affirming “Australia doesn’t exist” are more common on the internet than ones stating “Australia exists”.
Frightening to think of the all the data fed to these LLMs, a lot of it has to be incoherent ramblings or straight-up trolling.
Hi everyone, I’m In the need of an offline calendar and gallery now that simplemobiletools got sold off. I’m wondering what you guys use? My bad if the formatting is weird on this post, I’m trying out a new lemmy client...
ZipoApps seems to be a company who buys mobile apps to monetize (or further monetize) them. As per their website, their mission is “to find, evaluate, purchase and grow mobile apps”. I suspect the only growth we’ll see with the Simple Mobile suite is the growth of ad-revenue lining this company’s pockets.
The FossifyX fork is by naveensingh, who was active in SimpleMobileTools’ development. From what I can tell poking through Github, they might not have as much time to dedicate to the project as the original maintainer.
I’ve replaced the calendar app with Etar, but I have pretty limited requirements for calendar apps. For a gallery app I use this (which is very poorly named): Gallery
That being said, if someone knows of any good FOSS clock apps (which lets you set more than one timer at a time) please let me know.
Why AOSP’s clock, and therefore most apps based on it, only lets you set one timer concurrently is such a frustrating mystery to me. Have these devs never cooked? Have they never steeped tea while doing laundry?? In what world do you code a clock app which can’t have multiple timers?
Yesterday there was a controversial movie torrent that was getting 1000s of downloads and was on the “popular this week” page, and today it’s just gone. I went to the uploader’s account page and it’s not there either. Just like it never existed....
This reminds me of years ago when I was trying to get my grandma off of Internet Explorer.
The only thing that worked in the end was adding a shortcut to the desktop and changing its icon to IE’s. For a lot of younger people, or older folk who resisted computers until the 2010s, Chrome is the internet, the same way my grandma thought IE was the internet.
With the House of The Dragon trailer release and a “next summer” timeframe … I don’t remember S1 at this point but don’t remember it being so good as to be worth a full rewatch. Which got me to searching for the title. There are a lot of shows at this point that air so infrequently, it would be nice to just get an RSS...
I use trakt.tv for all my shows (it’s synced to my streaming apps to track watched status). It has an “upcoming schedule” feature where it lists upcoming episodes in your watchlist/collection.
There is an RSS feed for it, but it’s locked behind a 30$/year VIP membership.
Is anyone here familiar with using DoubleDouble? It seems like you can download from a bunch of services, but you can only search from Spotify or Apple. Is that correct?...
“Car companies needs SUVs to survive financially!” is not a thoughtful response. It can easily be disproven by looking at the first 60 or so years of the automobile industry before SUVs were even a thing. The SUV takeover is a pretty recent phenomenon which has taken shape over the last twenty years.
Convenience, not needing a dedicated MP3 player, music discovery via algorithms, being able to play stuff you haven’t already downloaded (ex: playing music at a gathering with friends is a lot more fun when anyone can just request basically any song imaginable and load it within seconds). These are my personal “excuses” anyway.
I don’t and have never paid for Spotify with the idea I was supporting artists in doing so, but I still find it kinda funny that artists not getting paid well is your justification for not paying at all. Like I said I’m under no illusion that any artist I listen to is getting a significant payout from my streaming, and I’m very pro-piracy as well, but I do support artists I like through direct album/ticket/merch sales, or even via Patreon. Some of these artists I probably never would have discovered if it weren’t for my addiction to the Discover Weekly playlist Spotify spits out for me. I wish more people would do this though, especially for smaller acts.
Also just an aside, but I feel like toning down the snark might get your point across better.
I think we just have two very different use cases. I’ve used MP3 players and SD cards on smartphones in the past and for me streaming is such an upgrade.
Dicovering new artists or albums would mean having to cull something else from my collection (or upgrade storage, which isn’t really always feasible/practical). Now, it’s as simple as right clicking and adding to a playlist. I can jump from Wu-Tang to The Mountain Goats to that one band that’s coming into town I might want to check out to fucking Crazy Frog if I feel so inclined. Sometimes I want Jack Johnson, sometimes I want Louis Armstrong, sometimes I want The Who.
I don’t think I’ve listened to any of these artists for any particular amount in the past year or so, so why would I have them downloaded? But after listing them I might just go make a somewhat eclectic Spotify playlist.
I truly wish the meat, dairy, and egg industries would just die already. Consuming animal products in *current year* is silly and completely unsustainable.
NewPipe is an open source YouTube client for Android. I personally prefer LibreTube but either one is a lot better than using the official YouTube app.
I’m a native French speaker, specifically from the Acadian parts of the province of New-Brunswick (Canada). We have a lot of vocabulary, grammar and syntax that people who speak a more standard French might frown upon (lots of borrowing from English but also a lot of old French words which disappeared in Europe but not here, as well as some Indigenous influences). Fuck anyone who judges our dialect and accents, I love the way we speak.
That being said, there are a few things that bother me:
The pleonasm “plus pire” (most worst, or most most bad). There are a few common pleonasm but this one is the only one that truly irks me for some reason.
“Si que” (if that) because of something that was drilled into me by my dad, “les si n’aiment pas les que” (“the ifs don’t like the thats”). Using “si que” is like saying “if that I say this” rather than “if I say this”.
The more I think about it the more I guess my stance on this is that deviating from standard French is fine and even cool when it adds meaning or nuance. I just dislike it when it’s purely redundant.
I’m not a linguist, and studies about the French in my region are few and far between, so I’m not comfortable stating anything as fact. However, as far as I can tell, it’s not context-dependant and never adds any meaning.
Based solely off this comment, I just wanna say you seem like such a cool person. Anyone who has a custom file on their OS to facilitate using IPA characters is good people in my book.
Like people mixing first person futur and imparfait.
Just to clarify, do you mean stuff like saying “je serais là demain” (“I would be there tomorrow”) rather than “je serai là demain”? (“I will be there tomorrow”)?
I haven’t, but I know that some stoner cultures are heavy on mixing it with tobacco, to the point of spliffs being the norm and joint with 100% weed being an oddity.
A coalition of 20 local, regional and national media outlets from across Canada Unrigged.ca is a news platform that provides up-to-the-hour news from across the country....
I know you said you don’t want Linux suggestions, but I’ll be that person and suggest a Linux distro anyway, in case you ever change your mind.
Ubermix is a Ubuntu-based distro (meaning there’s a ton of documentation and support) built with education in mind. They also have a nifty feature to easily recover your system from boot if you do manage to bork the system.
If your goal is to help your nephew get good at computer, fixing various broken systems over the years taught me probably most of what I know about how computers work. I wasn’t much older than your nephew the first time I made the family PC unbootable (I was trying to “downgrade” our “Vista-capable” PC to Windows XP, apologies if this anecdote makes anyone feel old). It took me a couple of days to get it running again after searching through YouTube and forum posts, but that rushing sense of accomplishment when it finally booted up to the bucolic green hills of the Bliss wallpaper got me hooked on troubleshooting and tinkering with technology for life.
Either way, best of luck to you and your nephew, it’s really cool that he has someone supporting him in his interests! You’re good people.
I’m looking for recently published research papers. I’m wondering what are the methods of obtaining recently published research papers apart from methods described in the megathread ?
If the author of a paper isn’t excited at the idea of sharing their work with an interested party, I’d honestly immediately question the value of their academic contributions anyway.
The easiest way is by using an add-on. Alternatively, you can change it manually under general.useragent.override in your about:config
Also I swear I’m not trying to be an ass, but entering “how to change user agent string firefox” in your preferred search engine would have gotten you an answer much quicker.
Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers "experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."
I haven’t had to deal with Google’s crap in a while. All of these have no ads and have Sponsorblock built-in. I do miss the algorithm’s suggestions but I do discover new content creators through Nebula (and FreeTube has decent related video suggestions in my experience).
I’m a heavy emoji user, texting is such a poor medium for communication, many times people get the wrong message, but with an emoji you’ll get an idea of the face I’m making, so less chance of misunderstanding...
I wonder if there are any studies about the relationship between emoji use and mental health. Because you just read me to filth via my emoji preferences.
I do also like the angel smiley, but I never really use it because I associate it very closely with this one ex 🙃
You clearly didn’t go to school in a small town, lol. There’s at most one teacher per subject per grade. You can’t just not let the math teacher’s kids take math.
Where do you live? If I ever have kids I want to move there! This level of investment in education borders on fantasy from my local perspective. Our government can’t even be bothered to hire enough teachers to respect the maximum legal class size, let alone hiring a new teacher for a single student just to avoid having a parent teach their child.
Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
What's the best food you have ever tasted?
The current ban wave has issues
If you go into your match history or any counterstrike community you will see lots and lots of banned CS2 players. It seems the latest ban wave has some sort of mistake and lots of innocent players are involved. I am personally not banned but a few of my friends who were definitely not cheating were banned....
Another app for Android to implement iMessage. (blog.beeper.com)
All messages are end to end encrypted. Also you don’t need an Apple account and it connects directly to Apple servers.
Canada's grocery sector among the most competitive on Earth, claims Sobeys CEO (www.cbc.ca)
"Bing's Bizarre Blunder: Search Engine Claims Australia Doesn't Exist" (samrome58.substack.com)
Alternatives for simplemobiletool gallery and calendar?
Hi everyone, I’m In the need of an offline calendar and gallery now that simplemobiletools got sold off. I’m wondering what you guys use? My bad if the formatting is weird on this post, I’m trying out a new lemmy client...
When a Torrent disappears from 1337x, how do you find out what happened?
Yesterday there was a controversial movie torrent that was getting 1000s of downloads and was on the “popular this week” page, and today it’s just gone. I went to the uploader’s account page and it’s not there either. Just like it never existed....
Soon, Google has even more leverage against adblockers (www.ghacks.net)
RSS feed for series finales?
With the House of The Dragon trailer release and a “next summer” timeframe … I don’t remember S1 at this point but don’t remember it being so good as to be worth a full rewatch. Which got me to searching for the title. There are a lot of shows at this point that air so infrequently, it would be nice to just get an RSS...
Share your favorite christmas albums
Here’s mine:...
Is it possible to find an album on DoubleDouble if it's on Amazon Music but not Spotify or iTunes?
Is anyone here familiar with using DoubleDouble? It seems like you can download from a bunch of services, but you can only search from Spotify or Apple. Is that correct?...
Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says (arstechnica.com)
What's a seemingly harmless habit of yours that you struggle to break?
Did Your Spotify Wrapped Place You In Burlington, Berkeley, or Cambridge? You May Be Gay (www.them.us)
Plans to present meat as ‘sustainable nutrition’ at Cop28 revealed (www.theguardian.com)
You find yourself in a room with people. Everyone else is someone you have had sex with in your life.
What happens next?
YouTube is now getting into games (www.theverge.com)
Speakers of non-English languages, what common mistakes do native speakers make that drive you crazy?
For example, English speakers commonly mix up your/you’re or there/their/they’re. I’m curious about similar mistakes in other languages.
P'tit Belliveau Tour Dates just dropped (lemmy.ca)
L’nouvel album va sortir le 26 avril! J’suis déjà ben hyped pis j’ai mes tickets pour le premier soir à Moncton!
Has anyone else noticed the amount of posts on social media tying the negatives of using tobacco to cannabis consumption ?
Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (www.spacebar.news)
Unrigged.ca (www.unrigged.ca)
A coalition of 20 local, regional and national media outlets from across Canada Unrigged.ca is a news platform that provides up-to-the-hour news from across the country....
Where can I download Switch ROMs?
Advice for setting up my nephew’s first laptop.
Hey All,...
Recent Research Papers Piracy
I’m looking for recently published research papers. I’m wondering what are the methods of obtaining recently published research papers apart from methods described in the megathread ?
Firefox 120 ships today with massive privacy improvements - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users (www.404media.co)
Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers "experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."
why do lemmy users hate the use of emojis ?
I’m a heavy emoji user, texting is such a poor medium for communication, many times people get the wrong message, but with an emoji you’ll get an idea of the face I’m making, so less chance of misunderstanding...
Lemmings, how does it feel to have your father/mother as your teacher in school?