MeatsOfRage @ MeatsOfRage @lemmy.world

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I'm just looking forward to watching movies on my phone during a long commute.

Phone wouldn't work for me, I've got a strict no phone around the TV rule for myself because I'm way too tempted to just use it instead of enjoying the thing I'm watching. Also wouldn't really want to put an Xbox controller onto my wife or step mother.

I wish there was some kind of application you could run that would abstract all the mouse and keyboard interactions into a remote control friendly interface.

Anyway to do this without a keyboard. I used to have a PC connected to my TV for this but eventually just bought an apple tv for simplicity.

I've made this dish a few times, that's the exact recipe I use. It's always a big winner with everyone.

The Venn diagram overlap of senior+ programmers and farmers is oddly large

I just realized I've seen the meme thousands of times but this is the first time watching the source. It's like watching behind the scenes of your favorite movie.

He follows it with low volume but high pitched "oh mommy oh mommy"

Love his videos (Nick Crowley, not the subject of this video lol). Not sure why Nexpo made this with Nick Crowley when Nick made released basically the same thing a few days ago. https://youtu.be/V0folj9X9nQ

All that aside this story really gets under your skin.

I'm out of the loop here

I'm interested

Yup, this is where these projects usually fail. The creators get too excited not to share the work in progress and it gets killed before a proper release. A release is available forever.

My teacher in junior high threw on Jerry Maguire briefly because we all remember it as a cute romcom with fun catch phrases. We all forget it starts with Tom Cruise going to pound town.

My single piece of favorite car tech is the cruise control that follows the cars ahead of you and brakes when necessary. I barely use my feet for driving anymore.

Testimony has always existed in the court room, it hasn't gone away. The relative difficulty of believable photo manipulation to add in new subjects, has up until now been out of reach for the average person so generally speaking it's been a nice enhancement of authenticity to testimony.

This feature already exists, it's called Magic Eraser and it's on most Pixel phones. I feel this is something different and needs to be considered differently.

That all comes up in the article. The core idea the author is getting at is the general ease of fabricated situations is coming in a new way that previously hasn't been a couple clicks for the average user. Think less about political turmoil (propaganda has existed as long as there as been politics) and more about how your Karen aunt can add a worm to their Google review for spaghetti. Most people won't learn Photoshop, most people can click a few buttons.

I think it's still important to consider the tomorrow we're being thrust into even if we could do this on a smaller scale yesterday.

Definitely. Luckily the fediverse by its nature is somewhat insulated from becoming a company with a CEO like Reddit.

I mean, it kind of did. When Digg imploded Reddit received a massive influx of users over night. At the time and with Digg out of the picture there just wasn't a good alternative to Reddit (slashdot and fark to lesser degrees) so they had the whole market to themselves. Similarly a lot of us came to Lemmy overnight when Reddit turned off their apps. The difference is, Reddit for many many users is still good enough and fundamentally the same as it's always been.

The fact is though, without search traffic the only way to end up on Lemmy is knowing it already exists and that's going to hinder growth.

Lemmy could absolutely benefit from a bit more traffic. Lemmy is a good Reddit replacement for the largest subs. Like if you're into self hosting, Linux and general tech there's a lot to offer. But if I need to engage with a smaller community or ask a niche question I know there just isn't enough people here to fulfill that. Either that or a lot of smaller Lemmy communities are just bots reposting from their equivalent subreddit.

I'm pulling a number out of my ass but it seems like for every 50 people to subscribe to a community, you'll get 1 really active poster and 49 lurkers. My hometown on Reddit has 23k subscribers it's safe to say it's got about 400 active users. On Lemmy it's 86 and as the assumption math goes, there's only 1 person posting there.

Even if our traffic doubled we'd still be tiny in comparison but at least the small communities would start to come alive

Basically you have to bond over a game, be it physical, like sports or board like regular board games or as many people mentioned here D&D. For sports, regardless of your skill level, there's a group. Beer leagues and such. Solo sports like mountain biking can work too but you have to be super consistent and really get into the sport where you have common ground.

If physical stuff is out of the question, then you have your board games. Even small towns have meetups.

The important thing is actually doing these. Friends don't just come to you and you have to be consistent. Most people don't just become friends in one or two sessions, it takes time and rapport building. And you can't always wait for others to initiate the friends part. You might have to be the one that goes "hey wanna grab some wings after this."