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Link69, in What should I look for when I’m choosing an instance?
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If you just want the most popular and wide range of profiles, go with Lemmy.world

ArtieShaw, in Which one are you?
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Top two picks from each row:

  • McDonalds is a standard, but I prefer Arby's seasoned curly fries
  • Wendy's recently changed their fries and they're good enough, but prefer Smash fries.
  • (Special mention goes to Canadian KCF, which offers fries and gravy instead of mashed potatoes and gravy. I don't know if their US fries are different because I don't mess with that if mashed 'taters are an option.)
  • Five guys and Checkers
  • Steak 'n Shake and Popeyes

Overall, if I were choosing a place based solely on the fries: Smash > Five Guys > Popeyes > Arby's

The top two spots were tricky. I like the 5 guys fresh cut style, but Smash mixes a traditional thin cut fast food fry with rosemary. And they don't make things weird by giving you more than you can or should eat.

The only one I actively dislike is Chick-fil-A, but some of the other offerings are 'meh' enough that they need ketchup.

Missing entries: Penn Station and Skyline. They're both regional, but I like both of them over most of the other offerings. Penn Station has fresh-cut style and Skyline's fries are thin and crispy.

unce, in I'm being harassed by mosquitoes, how do i kill them all?

Window screens, fly ribbons, and a Bug-A-Salt gun lol. The bug-a-salt shoots salt very fast to kill bugs.

adorablepeanut, in Does anyone actually enjoy working out?

I prefer the dentist tbh. She is cute though 😏

Solemn, in What's the point of buying new phones every years?

There was a couple years where I could trade in last year’s Samsung for like $100 below the cost of the new phone, and they’d give me $250 in accessories with that. It was honestly just the cheapest option for a bit.

bfr0,

Absolutely this. I’m cheap AF and continued to do this, but Samsung has stopped these incentives so now I’m “stuck” on my s21 ultra.

I use quotes because it’s an awesome phone and 2 years later it’s still crushing everything I throw at it so I have no qualms with hanging onto it.

Solemn,

Yeah, after they stopped I decided to try a Pixel for the fun of it. So far I hate it. Debating between trying Apple now that they’re being forced to use USB C, or just going back to Samsung next year…

chtk, in Hey Lemmy, what are your favorite ear worms?
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Incomplete, and in no particular order:

dgrabla, in What password manager do you recommend?

Hummm am I the only one using ‘pass’ ?

lntl,
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You’re not alone

Schnaftator,

What I don’t like about pass is that every entry is visible in the file system. An attacker needs just a directory listing to know where I have accounts.

zakobjoa, in What are your favorite leftist podcasts?
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Not necessarily political in content, but clearly lefty:

  • The Dollop/The Past Times
  • Behind The Bastards
_haha_oh_wow_, in What's a good way to prank your coworker?
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Put some tape over the optical sensor on their mouse. Bonus points if you print out a little dickbutt picture or something.

kersploosh,
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We would use a picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger with the words “You’ve Been Terminated.”

_haha_oh_wow_,
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Bonus points if the light from the sensor lights up his robot eye.

niva, (edited ) in I'm being harassed by mosquitoes, how do i kill them all?
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A lot of good suggestions already here. Try to eliminate the mosquitoes in your house as much as possible. I installed mosquito nets on my windows a few years ago. This helped a lot. I am now asking myself why I haven’t done this before.

But I do still get bites like one or two a day, because I also like to be outside in my garden and sometimes a mosquito still finds a way into the house.

So there is no way you can prevent all bites. But the good thing is, you can treat them really well really easy with heat! I do this when I have a cup of tea. I just press the hot tea cup on the bite for a short while. But there are also special devices called electronic insect bite healer or something similar. They work as well and are probably safer and easier to handle.

Heat does disintegrate the anticoagulant that mosquitos inject and that makes the bites so itchy. The bites I get itch only ones. Then I treat them with heat and they are basically gone. Try to not scratch because you might spread the anticoagulant more. Just treat them right away!

MR_GABARISE, in Does anyone actually enjoy working out?
ezmack, in Why is youtube recommending conservative "talking points" to me?

Hi, I am a guy in early thirties with a wife and two kids and whenever I go on youtube it always suggests conservative things like guys dunking on women

Yeah it really wants me to watch Tim pool. Its like cmon guys I’m too old for that guys tastes. Tiktok will atleast take the hint

hsl, in Is there an instance to request the creation of new instances?
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This is more of a support question and should be asked in one of the support communities - please see the sidebar for tips.

mp3, in Is there an instance to request the creation of new instances?
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You can create one, and as soon as the ball starts to roll you can ask if someone wants to take over and become the mod.

FrankTheHealer, in What's the point of buying new phones every years?

Vanity, marketing and buying shit unnecessarily.

I have a Fairphone 3 that I got in January 2020. Its a great device. I want to using it daily for between 5 to 10 years. And I have no doubt it will do that.

Meanwhile my brother has bought 3 Samsung devices in that time. And each one still works fine. He doesn’t need a new phone each time but he will still insist on it.

cyberpunk007,

How’s the camera on this phone? Really the only thing I care about, next to battery life

FrankTheHealer,

The camera on the Fairphone 3 is only okay. But there is an upgraded camera module you can buy from Fairphone.

I’m not much of a photographer so it doesn’t bother me. But if you take a lot of pictures, it’s something to keep in mind.

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