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scottmeme, in If we're no longer called redditors, what are we? Lemons? Lemmings? Lemurs?

Whatever you honestly feel like, us on sh.itjust.works go by sh.itheads

majestictechie, in What is the most unhelpful advice you have received?

When I used to make notes because I don’t retain information instantly my boss said “Just don’t forget” I exclaimed: “Thanks, I’m cured!” The office got a laugh but it still bothers me that he thought it was a choice

Zeth0s,

For me it’s the opposite, at school I was forced to take notes. Teacher would give me bad grades if they saw me not talking notes. But notes are completely useless for me, and if I take notes I don’t understand the lecture. So I started the habit to sketch on notebooks pretending to take notes. Schools can be pretty stupid

JackbyDev,

I was similar. If I was taking notes I couldn’t pay attention to what the teacher was saying. I was better off just watching and listening.

lntl, in If we're no longer called redditors, what are we? Lemons? Lemmings? Lemurs?
@lntl@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I’ve been using lemons

DrQuint, in If we're no longer called redditors, what are we? Lemons? Lemmings? Lemurs?

Users.

Mautobu, in If we're no longer called redditors, what are we? Lemons? Lemmings? Lemurs?

Lemmings.

PerogiBoi, in Strong Men
@PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca avatar

Gr8 b8 m8 I r8 8/8

atlasraven31, in Do you prefer PC or laptop?

PC. I love a beefy rig for gaming. I build myself so it is cheaper than laptop. My Smart TV is like a tablet with a big screen and has taken over some things that my PC used to do.

overzeetop, in If you could have one small thing as a superpower. What would it be and why?
@overzeetop@lemmy.world avatar

Is breathing underwater too exceptional? I’d settle for charging batteries by holding them, or the ability to revive/kill plants that I touch (my choice, not some random thing or King Midas curse)

ProvokedGamer,
@ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ml avatar

I’d pick charging batteries while holding them as well except only if it doesn’t affect the battery health of the battery. I’d never have to charge my phone again.

overzeetop,
@overzeetop@lemmy.world avatar

Phone, flashlight, gaming system, headphones, laptop, jump start cars, watch (though the Apple Watch wouldn’t be compatible with my super power…same as in real life with all normal chargers).

The real question is if it would transfer energy magically, or would I experience a calorie deficit. That could go both ways in my book.

HUMAN_TRASH,

I’d be down for the calorie deficit, it’s like 2 powers in one

thrawn21,
@thrawn21@lemmy.world avatar

As someone trying to diet, 100% the calorie deficit 😖

Pok,

Your purpose in life is now to supply power to the grid. At first it’ll be great, you’re celebrated as a neat way to keep the baseline juice coming as fossil fuels phase out. Then you’re asked to stay back a few hours as there’s a shortfall predicted, you oblige out of duty. Then one day you wake up in a drugged daze, strapped to a giant battery, your nutritional needs piped directly to your bloodstream as scientists ever so carefully cut you open to try and figure out how this works, because despite their best efforts to keep your wrecked body alive, one day you will die, and the utter reliance of the grid on your free energy will die with it, and with that kick off the downfall of humanity.

mockingben,

Have you published anything?

Treatyoself, in If you could have one small thing as a superpower. What would it be and why?

Exactly once a month, I find a 20 on the ground. It can be anytime of the month and it can only be once a month. How great a feeling to find a 20 on the ground and no one is around?

The 20s are coming from scumbag people like jerks who don’t pick up their dogs poop or are mean to customer service people.

DrQuint,

Why not once a day? You’d still not be making much out of it and I think there’s enough assholes that you’re not making much of a dent to the asshole flux.

200ok, in If you could have one small thing as a superpower. What would it be and why?

Every morning when I wake up my clothes and dishes from yesterday are cleaned and put away

DreamerOfImprobableDreams,

And every Saturday morning, all the clothes vanish from my hamper and re-appear clean and hung up in my closet / folded in my drawers!

djmarcone, in What is the best type of pet to have as a buddy?

Rats are actually very good pets. You’ll need 2 because they are super social. They are very clean and smart, and it’s possible to train them. We had some when my kids were small and one would ride around on my shoulder. Super cute.

Also, they’re cheap. But they don’t live very long. They aren’t hypo allergenic but they’re so small it isn’t a problem, my wife is allergic to cats and regular dogs and she didn’t have an issue.

Or, get a non-allergy dog. There’s lots of doodles and shitzu mixes out there now.

DrQuint, in If you could have one small thing as a superpower. What would it be and why?

An infinite money credit card would be pretty small, I think.

But I get it. I would honestly just pick an ability like being able to match other people’s problems with the ideal solution if one already exists closeby. So, say, someone comes to me looking for a job, and I just magically happen to know exactly of a phone number for a company that needs them. Someone looking for love, and I just happen to know that if we walk down a certain street and make a certain joke, someone else will overhear and love it. I would eventually have a reputation.

tuto193, in What's the benefit of using Kbin over Lemmy?

Apart from what has already been said (politics, basic UI) there are a couple more things worth mentioning:

  • Kbin’s interface is muuuch more customizable than lemmy’s: browsing form a web browser (desktop or mobile) let’s you modify your viewing experience as much as any mobile app for lemmy (but lemmly itself doesn’t). From infinite scrolling vs pages to font sizes and such.
  • kbin allows for (mastodon-like) boosting of posts, which is like a super-upvote that lemmy just doesn’t have.
  • on kbin you can subscribe to mastodon users aka federate with mastodon. Something that lemmy also can’t.

Other than that only personal taste matters in the end, and both federate with eachother, so enjoy it from wherever you are.

AnonymousLlama,
@AnonymousLlama@kbin.social avatar

There's also several contributors who are actively working on improving the settings and adding in new features. I've been proposing a few changes for the mobile UI, letting you change up the mobile layout but all of that things take time (and add complexity) so it's slow moving

elkaki,

Also the ability for users to block instances and domain like mastodon has, which is pretty cool.

Naminreb,

This is a big one. There were some contributions from either instances or bots on my feed I didn’t like that I just blocked, and my feed is fine now. No need to ask for defederation of the whole community when you can do it yourself.

bug,

You can block users/bots on Lemmy too

godless,
@godless@latte.isnot.coffee avatar

But not instances or servers, that's a much needed feature to de-porn my feed.

bug,
elkaki,

Yep, although it’s almost been a year since the request so I don’t know how high it’s priority wise.

Since the question was why people use Kbin that is a big one for now, at least for me although I have an account there I just prefer lemmy since Kbin seems to be too much on its infancy and also the fact that because it doesn’t have an open API as of now, there are (almost) no apps developed.

bug,

Given the massive uptake in the last month I’m hoping a lot of old issues are now being looked at!

BadWolf,

I’m still searching everywhere for the ability to block entire instances in kbin (on mobile). Can you please elaborate on how it is done? I only see magazine pages with the block option.

Naminreb,

If you click on the menu next to the Kbin logo, at the top there’s a clog and a triangle. The triangle is the federation one.

Kissaki,

I was confused what boosting is. Docs said it’s basically a repost/share.

So I think super like is misleading. Even if your super liking is the reason you share it, they’re two different things.

(I may not necessarily want to share/share-promote hat I super-like. What I share is curation too.)

harmonea,
@harmonea@kbin.social avatar

So I think super like is misleading

It's literally not. Over here, on top of the "repost to your profile under your boosts section" functionality it's intended to have, it also counts as 2x rep for the poster. It really, truly is also a "super-like."

Kissaki,

Key word also

harmonea,
@harmonea@kbin.social avatar

The presence or absence of that single word doesn't change the fact that nothing OP said was wrong eh ;P

Kissaki,

Nobody claimed what they said was wrong. The thesis is that it may be misleading (through omission of the second half of what it does).

harmonea,
@harmonea@kbin.social avatar

See, the problem here is that you're treating an off-the-cuff casual explanation as a "thesis." Please don't bring this absurd habit over here, where people have to feel compelled to cover absolutely every interpretation and hedge every outlier for fear of getting nitpicked to hell and back. Literally no one enjoyed that environment.

CthuluVoIP,

I think it’s reasonable to argue, “a super like that also shares the post is functionally different from just a super like.” It doesn’t seem nit-picky when discussing the reasons why someone might choose one service over another to want to be precise about the mechanics of one of those services, no?

TheGiantKorean, in If you could have one small thing as a superpower. What would it be and why?
@TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world avatar

The ability to know exactly the right thing to say at any given time. Because I often do the opposite right now.

rclkrtrzckr,

Sounds like ADHD familiar. Maybe just think a second before saying something, then say the opposite (or anything appropriate) . Problem solved.

snooggums,
@snooggums@kbin.social avatar

Nope, over thinking it has the same result. Still wrong.

rclkrtrzckr,

‘Baby think twice’

legion, in What's the benefit of using Kbin over Lemmy?
@legion@kbin.social avatar

The UI! It's so much better than the other Lemmy instances. Also I can curse without getting banned lmao

CthuluVoIP,

Uhhhhh. Not sure which fucking Lemmy instance banned you, but sounds like a real bum out.

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