Ask Lemmy

Example, I'll quote old memes but replace a word with my dog's name or otherwise make it about them.

How is pupper formed? How doggo get pragnant?

IMMA FIRIN MAH KITTEH!

MAH BOI! This woofer is what all true hoomans strive for!

I think like 98% of mobile games are pretty much trash, but there are some diamonds in the rough.

In the past I've enjoyed:

• Monument Valley
• 2048
• Fruit Merge
• Hashi
• Papers Please
• Baba is You
• Balatro

I'm getting bored of my usual picks lately. I'm looking for something that's quick to jump in and out to pass the time, not something heavy. But hard puzzles or strategy totally fit!

Is the FF Tactics port good? Better alternatives?

It’s a hot summer afternoon. I’m sitting down on a hot afternoon, with a burger, and a cold beer.

What I’m looking for is something to replace that cold beer with. I want it to be crisp and fresh, but also not sweet. I love tart and bitter flavours. Unfortunately, my options are either cold and sweet, cold and alcoholic or hot and non sweet.

So threadiverse, what alternatives am I missing?

Tereré is great, but it’s a bit of a pain to source in Australia. What else is there?

My favourite is the story that there was mass panic over a radio broadcast of War of the Worlds where everyone thought a real alien invasion was happening. I heard this story as a kid and really thought this was a cruel prank played by the radio station.

In reality, they made it clear at the beginning of the broadcast, and twice during, that it was fictional. Not that many people were listening and most of the people who were, were aware it wasn't real. A few idiots freaked out and it somehow turned into a story of mass panic. It was propaganda by newspapers to discredit radio.

I'm going to a cabaret show tonight and I wanted to get in costume. I tried to make some fake cigarettes but now I'm worried I'll these will make me look like a perverted vampire. What's the consensus team?

Yes I know about serotonin etc, but why does the stimulus of petting a fluffy critter evoke that response in the first place?

My personal uninformed armchair theory: We're apes, and apes pick bugs out of each other's fur to bond as a group. But when our ancestors forsook the trees for the plains, we shed our fur to gained sweat glands in order to become the ultimate persistence hunters. Yet the urge to groom remains. We have no fur and we must pet.

I need to find a new medical provider, because mine is not very good. They take forever to read labs, generally very dismissive of my concerns, and delayed addressing a now serious health issue that will require yearly monitoring and eventually surgical intervention.

So how did you find yours? Recommended by a friend, some sort of directory (what do you look for in that case?), did you just get lucky?

Looking for yourube channels that explain the history behind the construction of medieval buildings but also explain the parts that make up those buildings (for example explaining what an arch is and what it's function is) amd analyse the buildings from a structural engineering viewpoint in an easy to understand and digest format

I (23M) am a broke online college student living with my parents. I have an abusive brother (25M) who also lives under the same roof.

My brother is a narcissist. He believes that he is the most important person in the universe. Boundaries and respect do not matter to him. He will hijack every conversation into being either constant self-aggrandizing or personal attacks and force me to repeat it back to him. He is physically violent when provoked and he has killed multiple animals by beating them to death with his bare hands. Unfortunately, he seems to consider "no" to be a provocation. He searches through all my stuff without permission and I've had to start being careful about what things I leave lying around.

My parents do not care about this. My father doesn't because he's the OG narcissist who passed it down to my brother and actively cheers for my suffering, and my mother doesn't because she is the enabler who chose to stay married to my father and told me I had to suffer the abuse endlessly like she does.

I don't have any irl friends because I have medical conditions that make it difficult for me to be outside on my own for extended periods of time. I also can't drive because of that. It sucks. This isn't to say it's impossible for me to go out, but it's hard and kind of risky (my condition can cause me to faint).

I have constantly been told to give up on being treated like a human being, but I have begun to recognize that my family is feeding me false narratives of hopelessness to keep me complacent and submissive. I surely have power, but my internalization of their narratives is obscuring the ways to exercise it.

What would you do in such a situation, or if you have been in a similar situation, what did you do?

EDIT: I live in the U.S.

While re-listening to Bitches Brew tonight it occurred to me, there's never been anything that sounds quite like it since, and there never will be again.

What are your favorite unicorn albums?

Basically, I sat my high ass down to watch OTA TV. I get only two main channels (ABC and NBC) and their affiliates, which share their respective main channel. Turned the TV on at like 10:45 pm CST, zoned out on my phone, looked up around 11:20 (when I started recording) and there was still seemingly not a feed, just a darkish gray picture. Changed channels, sister stations came in fine, showed normal programming. Went back to ABC and then NBC, both the same level of flat gray picture. Not fully black like there was no signal, but a maybe 75-80% dark gray.

If there were weather or atmospheric interference, it's my understanding that all of the channels would drop out or at the very least, struggle to produce a picture simultaneously. This was night and day. A complete (not black) blackout on 13.1 ABC, and perfectly fine on 13.4 True Crime Network and the other handful. Same with 46.1 NBC; it was "out" but all the affiliates work.

Wtf right? This doesn't seem incidental, or accidental.

I genuinely think the networks or some interloper blocked viewers from seeing the late night shows. Why? Maybe the ongoing latenight feud is just a convenient scapegoat and it's particularly because of the absolute slam-dunk job Mamdani did at making Trump docile to him today. The powers that be are strangling each other not to let casual socialism breach the mainstream with Trump's hearty support and don't want those utterly dumbfounding, amazing moments to be lauded by late night hosts and further spread than they already hopefully have been.

Yes, I did record this for 5 minutes and it contains some interesting commentary because, yes, I'm high. I also recorded shortly after the picture returned in a perfect feed of the very last songs of whatever band was playing on Kimmel. This was around 11:34 pm CST.

Did anyone else witness this? And can I send this video to anyone who would care about checking into how limited or widespread it could be? I could attach a short clip if needed, just hesitant about identifying data.

Again, high. But with video evidence.

It seems to me that this could be equally profitable compared to street drugs if you take the inflated price for common prescription medicine and health care in the US into account. If you source prescription medicine from let's say Canada or Mexico to undercut the official street prices in the US your risk of getting cought or run into trouble with law enforcement or rival gangs seems much lower. Also neighbors would not call the police on a guy that sources cheap insulin for the old guy living next door, or what am I missing?

If software worked and was good in 2005 on pcs with 2gb RAM and with CPUs/GPUs vastly worse than modern ones, then why not write modern software like how that was written? Why not leverage powerful hardware when needed, but leave resource demands low at other times?

What are the reasons for which it might not work? What problems are there with this idea/approach? What architectural (and other) downgrades would this entail?

Note: I was not around at that time.

They've got a bunch of folding chairs and tables, telecomm equipment, and no company name. Found them using our guest Wifi to access a bunch of scam sites and banks in other countries.

So, considering this is Lemmy I'll clarify. I'm not talking about your neighbor who voted for Trump or your uncle who's always been a dick. I'm talking about coming in contact with a deep down evil scary human. I've only met one that I can think of. When I was 12 or 13 I spent a ton of time at my best friends house. He lived on a big beautiful rural property with his dad, a few brothers and always one or two random dudes. His dad was a good electrician and a biker. So, he always had friends/associates hanging around. So one day I was staying over for a long weekend and we met a new guy his dad was housing for a week or two. Dude was a real full fledged nazi. Had a swastika under his eye and tats all over most of his body. He was from California I guess. He was "working" with my buddies dad for awhile. Anyway, the main interaction I had with him was when he pulled my friend and I in for a sermon. We were going to go hunt squirrels and do rural kid shit. He stopped us outside and had us sit on the porch. Spent about 20 minutes explaining all the things youd imagine a nazi explains. Moslty about catholics, jews and blacks. My friends dad came out after awhile and told him we didn't need to hear that shit. He sent us away, but, I never forgot the look this dude had in his eyes. It was like the look of complete bordem mixed with extreme anger all the time.

My age says I'm an adult but sometimes I think other people know more about being an adult than me.

So I was just renewing a contract with a VPN provider, and paid out for a couple years it works out to somewhere under $2/month.

ISPs around me can run from about $50-$150/month

If I'm putting the major bulk of my traffic over a tunnel that could eat up a sizable chunk of a given connection point for the provider that I'm sure costs more than $2/month to maintain. I would have to assume it would take the combined subscriptions of several users to pay for a given node.

So how does that work as a business model? Unless these VPN providers are getting a steal on their connections it's hard to envision how they can manage to pay their costs without these nodes being absolutely bottlenecked when a few people start streaming some shows.