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  • Never felt the need for microblogging when Reddit existed, and chats are a mess and I will never understand the appeal unless I spent 24 hours there. So now it's Lemmy all the way... except for YouTube, of course, because that one is simply too hard to avoid, although I do mostly use Piped mirrors.

  • I've been doing my research and I feel that opus should be the way to go? Can have chapters and compression is the best there is. I read that m4b keeps track of where you left... but I feel that that should not be the task of an audio file?

  • I am a big big big Linux fan, but I feel that after 30 years, it is time for a non-monolithic kernel. I know Linus hates the idea of microkernels but the era of Rust is finally here and it shows that safe microkernels are fully possible now, and I believe the advantages and modularity can be amazing for a new era of open source computing.

  • How sure are you that your view through NewPipe is getting counted on YouTube statistics so that the channel is getting a proper measure of reach?

    Because I am not so sure the view is being counted, and much less the (not)viewing of the sponsorblock segment.

  • New thunderbird app please be good... FairEmail is the best there is, but every few months we hit one of these critical points where the dev is about to shut everything down... and I am afraid the end is coming.

  • If you have an ereader with an eink screen... it's a no-brainer. Digital books are soooo good.

    • virtually no weight
    • virtually no space
    • waaaaay cheaper
    • your local library has probably a way bigger and more accessible catalogue of ebooks than physical ones
    • tap and hold a word and get an automatic definition/translation
    • adjust text size or font
    • dark mode, if you into that (in some models)
    • Text-to-speech (in some models)
    • highlight text and write notes without f-ing up pages
    • literally translate entire phrases or look particular information from Wikipedia or similar with a simple gesture.
    • backup all of those and do crazy stuff like an automatic daily email to yourself with cool notes you took months/years ago.

    Physical books nowadays are like vynil music... it's for the artwork and having a physical "certificate" of something you love. Like... if I discover a book I really enjoy, I'll probably buy a physical version so I can, you know, have it there on the shelf, like you have family pics or something.

  • I read somewhere that those deja vu and precognition dreams are actually mostly your mind having a glitch, believing this present moment is also past. No dream or past event exists, you just think it does because it feels like it. Weird stuff.

  • There are plenty of studies suggesting that people are actually brushing too much. Kinda like with shampoo... we strip our surfaces from healthy bacteria and oils and it creates a vicious cycle.

    On the other side, many foods we eat today are not healthy for our mouth environment, so I still believe there has to be a certain degree of brushing, of course. So, simply put... you should adjust to your use case. Learn when you feel your mouth needs some brushing or not, and move on.