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Do normal people mute the ads or just let the television keep going?

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  • I always mute and go off to do something else (meaning, I'm not watching, either). One of my worst hells was when I had to take care of my MIL for 2 months last year and while she watches YouTube non-stop, she does it with all the ads. I hadn't realized how bad the ads there actually are these days. I almost didn't make it.

    • If you have been bitten by an animal badly enough to have to go to the emergency room, what bit you?

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  • I never went to the emergency room (was traveling where there weren't doctors of any kind), but I was bitten by a black widow spider and was sick as a dog for days afterwards. Not sure if this counts for the question?

    • What food did you hate in the past, but enjoy now?

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  • True, true. I also roast mine now, usually with just salt and olive oil. This is true for broccoli, as well. In this case, not boiling frozen garbage broccoli and instead steaming it just until bright green made a huge difference. The only thing that just changed for me was cilantro. Even as an adult I used to hate it but now love it. That one I have no explanation for.

    • Temporary rule added: no US politics

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  • This makes me more likely to actually visit here. I'm sick of reading propaganda and people spouting propaganda from all sides, and I come to spaces like this for funnies, interesting topics, and so on. My political interests go elsewhere. I appreciate not having to wade through them here.

    • Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands

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  • Agreed. Yes, it's important to know what's going on in the "big" world - but I wish all of us more interested in Lemmy, the small web, and so on spent more time and energy on creating, maintaining, and enjoying what we can build/use and less lamenting, bashing, or wishing for what we want to leave behind.

    • Permanently Deleted

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  • I had no idea how much I enjoyed LibreVox (which - at least for the things I am interested in - goes to archive.org for downloads) and OpenLibrary until I couldn't access them. This morning, still no go on either.

    • Google now requires JavaScript

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  • These are also just fun:

    I also use Mojeek when I want a (serious) different set of results that I'm not getting from those pulling from google, bing, etc. It's not the best but it's getting better over time.

    • How best / easiest to do this?

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  • See if the command line utility “detox” removes it. I use it in a bash file that tidies everything up for me before I do my daily backup.

    Go to the directory you want to clean up and type:

    detox *

    If you don't want to clean up everything, you can limit it. For example, if I only want to clean up PDF files, I'd do:

    detox *.pdf

    Detox replaces all the ugly characters with underscores. I personally hate underscores for most everything and use dashes instead. So after detox runs I also run:

    rename ‘y/_/-/’ *

    Then, because I want every file named only with lowercase letters, I also run:

    rename ‘y/A-Z/a-z/’ *

    (edit to remove duplicate info)