For me it was Jeff Kinney. I was meeting a different author I love, but there wasn’t enough room downstairs and we had to go up. Turns out that’s exactly where Jeff Kinney works! He’s the author who got me into reading so I thought that was so cool
I was working at a small gaming studio and talked on the phone with German Garmendia because we wanted to make a game featuring him and his staff. He’s a youtuber, I think he was called “the pewdiepie of latin america” or something like that? He had way too many subscribers, I think about 50M
He was a nice individual from what I remember, very hard working and friendly. I think he was recently “cancelled” though but idk I don’t keep up with those things.
I didn’t meet him per se, we just talked on the phone, and he’s not like… A hollywood celebrity or amything but it’s the closest I get.
If I remember correctly, I think under File Sharing there is a limit of how many queued uploads and how many megabytes of queued uploads per user you can put.
You can reduce both amounts so people can only download a specific number of uploads or s specific number of megabytes at once so your computer doesn’t use so many resources.
The other option is to set your folder to private and let people send you a message and ask you if they could download from you. I know some people set it to 2-3 uploads per user and if your internet just struggles to download things they limit the MB.
That’s all I remember, sorry if what I’m saying is a bit confusing as my primary language is not English and I haven’t used Soulseek in a while!
Something bad happens, and instead of talking about it or taking action, they just brush it under the rug, causing tensions to rise until the person who wasn’t supposed to find out eventually does. Seriously, can’t anyone have a mature conversation?
My wife has been watching Good Morning Call on Netflix and asked me to watch it with her and this pisses me off so much, makes my blood boil every single time, they can’t have a single conversation about their situations.
I mean, to be honest, I feel like it’s the quality of the content in there. I used my old phone (the one I use for apps like threads) to get a threads account and people are using Threads as if they’re using instagram.
For example, you see a pocture of someone or a drawing, you get into the post to see the 45 comments people left and all of them are:
I’m not a US citizen so I’m not sure how this works, so if I say some stupid shit you can call me out on it, but, is it not a ban only in state devices/networks?
Why is that impeding researches/studies? What is stopping them from just using a personal device on a personal network, or at least a “work” (but still personal) device/network?
I once told someone they couldn’t park their Ferrari behind the restaurant I was working in because it was the place where the trucks would unload the food and he would get a fine.
He just replied with “it’s ok, the fine is just what the parking lot is charging me to park there then”. I said I would call the towing company and he said “ok, I’ll just Uber home and pay to get my car back”.
I then thought that I wasn’t paid enough on my job to deal with that shit so I gave up. Honestly, having a lot of money in this world is like cheating.
Backstory: I met my first girlfriend when I was around 17. Then I met her family, and during that time, O developed arthritis.
The pains were really bad, to the point that some days I couldn’t even stand up from my bed. One day, her parents called me and asked me if they could “help” me.
This is where the story starts, they said they were part of a “religious group” and were called Santeros (so they practiced Santeria).
The thing is, at the time I was so ignorant that I didn’t even know what that was and didn’t even make the effort to find out for some reason.
They told me they could take me to a guy that could pray for my health and whatnot. Since I didn’t want to sound rude, I agreed and we went to the place.
The man (priest? Idk) kept insisting he knew I had noghtmares and I was afraid of someone chasing me, to which I kept insisting that that was not the case. Yhe whole experience was weird.
But then he told my girlfriend’s parents that he wanted to see me again because he meeded to “perform” to be able to help me with his prayers.
For some reason, I didn’t even pay attention to this and just said sure.
A week goes by and I am going, again, to the same place with priest with my gf’s parents. The difference is that, this time, there is a giant box in the back of the car.
I get there and they take me to the second floor of thr place. The floor is completely messed up woth dirt all over the place and weird artifacts, cockroaches, spiders, and a hole on the rooftop.
They tell me to take my clothes off (except my underwear) and pray to a god (I think it was called Oshun? I don’t remember).
After chanting and praying, they tell me to lay down on the ground looking up. I do so and they proceed to take a small calf out of the box, decapitate and dismember it next to me, and afterwards putting the body in top of me in the form of a cross, all while chanting, singing, dancing, etc.
After that they told me to bathe in a specific river using oranges as a sponge.
The whole experience was fucking surreal, after that, I just reject almost everything that has to do with religion.
Venezuela, where I was born (although I don’t live there anymore). However, there were way more Santeria small sacrifices (chickens) in Miami, FL when I used to live there, walking by the streets and actually looking at the bushes next to the streets you realize it’s really common, every now and then you find a bloody plastic bag with a beheaded chicken/rooster and hanging chicken legs.
It certainly helped me stay away from the family after that! The family told me “your belief was not strong enough, that’s why it didn’t cure your arthritis”. Sure…
Read this article and thought it perfectly fits that subreddit. Of course based on the subs rules, I removed the company’s name 🤡. Wonder how long it will stay up....
So I went to reddit.com desktop site on my android phone and there was a ‘community’ with my r/user name listed as u/user?!? I am not logged in nor have I been able to since RIF said goodbye. Anyone see this too?
Did you search and looked at your profile on the website? It’s most likely just both a bug and showing your recent searches, I have the same thing but instead of “Recent communities” I just have “Recent”
I wonder if advertisers have been leaving Reddit and if so, how many? I’ve honestly never seen a social media website/company ask for advertisers like this tbh.
I’m not a lot on social media to begin with, so I’m not sure.
I’m wondering if Reddit will just be a place for AI/bots to create/replicate content, and the people (read: “normies”/people who don’t care what social media website they use as long as they can consume content) there will be interacting with said bots. All that just to drive traffic and appease shareholders.
Not sure if I’m just paranoid or if this is the case. I know that there are cases like this, but I wonder how deep it goes, or if it has been like that for a long time.
Wellp, long gone are the days of me typing a question and ending it with “Reddit”, now it’s 100% Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon.
No, you can see and interact with kbin.social content and users with your Mastodon account.
But to have an account in kbin.social you need to open an account there, you can’t really login to a website with another website’s credentials, just check and interact with its content.
The S21 FE doesn't have an LTPO display, so you can run it at either fixed 60 Hz or fixed 120 Hz; there's no dyanmic scaling. For those of you who own one, what difference in battery usage do you notice from running the display at 60 Hz vs 120 Hz?...
Honestly I just put several apps into sleep or deepsleep and when I really need battery I turn on DND.
I don’t know why the changes are so drastic but in my device battery went up from 3-4hrs SOT to 6-7hrs SOT and from 12-16hrs stand by to 24-30hrs stand by.
Also just to clarify, I live in Brazil so there is no 5G here, only 4G. I also deactivate RAM Plus.
I do have to admit though, the default S21 FE experience leaves much to be desired because the battery is not enough.
Yep, I discovered it because I’m not someone who likes to be receiving anotifications every 5 minutes (which are mostly spam) and I wanted what iPhone users have that it throws you a summary of all notifications you have received every now and then.
So since there was no way of getting that summary on Android what I did is actuvate my DND and schedule it to get deactivated every 6 hours for 10 minutes so I can receive all the notifications within that time.
The side effect was an increase of battery that I didn’t know was going to happen.
I check the option “hide notificatins from notification panel”
You will still “receive” notifications but they will appear on the notification panel when DND is inactive and not when it’s active. Sorry, I expressed myself poorly in the previous comment, it’s not that it will straight up block notifications from coming, it’s more like putting you phone in silence for some time.
The reason I think this works is because the phone keeps vibrating/ringing whenever you receive a notification and that also consumes more battery.
Other than that, yes, as I said in the first comment I put some apps to sleep/deep sleep as well, depending on my use of those apps (idk if that’s what you mean by background refresh).
Who is the most famous person you've ever met?
For me it was Jeff Kinney. I was meeting a different author I love, but there wasn’t enough room downstairs and we had to go up. Turns out that’s exactly where Jeff Kinney works! He’s the author who got me into reading so I thought that was so cool
Reddit’s only free iOS app icons are ugly now (www.theverge.com)
How do y'all upload such large collections to services like Soulseek?
For context, I have around 14k albums that I’d love to share and keep the stream flowing, but I have a couple of problems....
I am sick and tired of characters not communicating for the sake of drama
Something bad happens, and instead of talking about it or taking action, they just brush it under the rug, causing tensions to rise until the person who wasn’t supposed to find out eventually does. Seriously, can’t anyone have a mature conversation?
What movie did you rewatch most often?
For me, it’s either the Matrix or Pulp Fiction. I have seen both a lot of times but certainly not more often than say a dozen times.
Meta Threads engagement has dropped 50% in a week (www.nbcnews.com)
Don't know if this content belongs here, but I just think this is awful in so many levels. (www.theverge.com)
University professors in Texas are suing the state over ‘unconstitutional’ TikTok ban (www.engadget.com)
From the long long ago in the before times (lemmy.world)
What is the craziest thing that's ever happened in your life?
Curious to know what people have encountered in their lives.
I made something, it seemed to fit like a glove. (lemmy.world)
Read this article and thought it perfectly fits that subreddit. Of course based on the subs rules, I removed the company’s name 🤡. Wonder how long it will stay up....
What is this? (lemmy.world)
So I went to reddit.com desktop site on my android phone and there was a ‘community’ with my r/user name listed as u/user?!? I am not logged in nor have I been able to since RIF said goodbye. Anyone see this too?
The official Reddit app on the Google play store has 3.3 stars. If you've used Reddit and don't agree with that rating, be sure give it your two cents! (lemmy.world)
Don’t want anyone browsing the Play Store to be misled!...
Seen on reddit: Ran out of advertisers. Why? Yes. (i.imgur.com)
Twitter announces read limits
edition.cnn.com/2023/07/01/tech/…/index.html
the API changes occur tomorrow, gentlemen, it's been an honor (inb4 Lemmy completely crashes) (lemmy.world)
r/ZeroWaste mod talks about ongoing "plague of bots" spamming comments at an extremely high rate
A Delaware city is set to give corporations the right to vote in elections (www.cbsnews.com)
S21 FE battery usage from 5G and 120 Hz
The S21 FE doesn't have an LTPO display, so you can run it at either fixed 60 Hz or fixed 120 Hz; there's no dyanmic scaling. For those of you who own one, what difference in battery usage do you notice from running the display at 60 Hz vs 120 Hz?...
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