If anyone wants to know why this user was banned.

I hate selfies, so whenever I'm on vacation I just take pictures of my surroundings but never with me in it. Once, my cousin wanted to see my vacation pics, so I showed them to him. He then asked why I'm not in any of them. When I said I didn't think it was necessary, his genuine confused reply was, "But how do people know you were really there, then?"

It's really insane out there.

Indonesian does; kiri (left) and kanan (right). "Ki" and "Ka" are usually used in texts (e.g., for captions in newspaper/magazine articles), but for headphones, contact lenses, etc it's normally just L/R.

The way I actually believed this for a second before I saw the community name...

As someone who's had a single-user Mastodon instance for two years now: I love it. It's definitely not for everyone, for reasons mainly stated in the article. However, if you like a more personal, highly-curated federated timeline, a single-user instance is great.

I 90% use Mastodon to keep up with my friends' posts and see art and animal pictures (and I hate interacting with strangers LOL), so I curate my instance to only subscribe to them. For the remaining 10%, I have a secondary account on a larger instance for when I want to read the news etc. It's worked well for me, but again, it's surely not for everyone!

Japanese Misskey/Mastodon servers have also been spammed by the exact same thing since about 15 hours ago, and it's still going. I guess they're targeting Lemmy as well now, damn...

Personally I find both sides a bit grating, but moreso the anti-Sync crowd lol.

I used Sync for Reddit and paid for lifetime, but after a while I found that I liked Infinity better, so I switched. I'm now using Infinity for Lemmy and probably won't use Sync for Lemmy, but people who are using Sync (and paid for it)? Good for them. No need to tell them, "Haha you're a sucker for paying for something when there are free alternatives!!", you lose absolutely nothing by other people using Sync or other proprietary apps.

Let people use what they want, jfc.

It's not a cop, it's Captain Pikachu from the anime.

Watson also voted for Donald Trump, believing the businessman would bring change. She dismissed his campaign pledges to scrap the Affordable Care Act as bluster.

[...]

“I’ll give it a little more time,” she said. “But I’m not really sure about Trump anymore.”

I opened Google for the first time in three months just to try this lmao

Hi preston! I really love hanging out in this lil corner of the internet, and I have nothing but gratitude to you -- for maintaining the patio, and for the chill vibe you're bringing to the threadiverse. Thank you!

I have no words that can describe whatever is happening right now. I'm sorry that you have to do what you have to do.

If the instance ever pops up again in the future, I'd definitely come running back! But your safety and peace of mind are far more important and I hope you stay safe.

Thank you once again, and take care!

Seconding Stremio! Just had to install the Torrentio add-on and even my tech-challenged mom can use it on her Android TV with no problems. I also got her a RealDebrid account (9 EUR/6 months iirc, completely optional) so she doesn't have to deal with torrent seeds etc.

Yep. My parents offered to buy my gen Z brother a car, and he asked for an e-bike instead. I (a millenial) also choose to not have a car for both environmental reasons and just... not wanting to drive and deal with traffic and car maintenance and whatnot. Thankfully we live in a city whose public transportation's getting better by day.

Our research has several limitations and should be interpreted with appropriate caution. Firstly, our evaluation technique likely underestimates the real-world value of human conversations, as the clinicians in our study were limited to an unfamiliar text-chat interface, which permits large-scale LLM–patient interactions but is not representative of usual clinical practice.

I use Omnivore!

Ooh this is exciting, can't wait! I wonder if it'll have the recipes for strange bun and seafoam pudding haha.

It's a weird translation, the original text is something like, "It is with great regret that I have to inform you of our parent-child relationship in this way."

Oh, this chonky boy is gorgeous ! I especially love the QAZ placement.

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I absolutely love this. Thank you for sharing!