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thedarkfly, in Do you use adblock? Why? Why not?

Of course. And I’ll continue to do so as long as advertisement is detrimental to my online experience. If it wastes my time by forcing me to watch an ad before a video, if it distracts me from reading a text because of animations, if it tries to scam or shock me, I’m better off blocking it. I’m not against advertisement as communication that a useful product or service exists, I’m against advertisement abuse and greed.

I’ll happily pay for, donate to, or otherwise support services important to me that need and deserve it.

Woozy, in Which communities you feel lemmy is lacking?

OP, please don’t go making empty ghost communities based on the feedback here. That would be worse than no community at all. Communities should be created by topic enthusiasts.

skiba, in People around the world, do you drink tap water without boiling?

In the United States, it is a little bit different.

There are “standards” that water quality has to live up to. Do these standards actually meet the criteria for safe drinkable tap water? Not always. This is evident in places like Flint, Michigan and other poorer urban areas.

Some of the tap water can be so bad that people wouldn’t dare to drink it even after boiling.

In some areas, the tap water quality is wonderful.

Here is a relatively decent source about the topic as it pertains to the USA. wisevoter.com/…/best-tap-water-in-the-us/#:~:text….

The long story short here, is certain places like Hawaii have extremely clean tap. Other places, like Texas, are notorious for having numerous water quality violations.

It falls down to each individual State and City for maintaining the standards that were set. In my opinion, it it just an easy way for them to waive liability at the end of the day.

X.

downtide, in Do you use adblock? Why? Why not?

yes, because no ads basically means my antivirus software has nothing to do. Creators have no choice over what ads are served up with the content and 99% of ads are loaded with malware whether you click on them or not.

Creators need to come up with better ways to monetise their content instead of relying on them.

PerogiBoi, in Is anybody else more active here then they were on Reddit?
@PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca avatar

Every comment I would make on Reddit seemed to get challenged by someone looking to start a long-winded argument as they were, in fact, the main character of the universe.

I like it here because so far, people are nice. It’s like the first day of high school and everyone just wants to be friends and meet people.

Scooter411,
@Scooter411@lemmy.ml avatar

I feel like your characterization of Reddit users as long-winded and contrarian is inaccurate and frankly offensive. Let me write you several paragraphs about why you’re wrong, sprinkled with thinly veiled personal insults and outright harsh commentary about you as a person.

Sorry, just trying to make it feel like our old home :)

meliache, in What open source keyboard alternative you suggest instead of gBoard on Android?
@meliache@feddit.de avatar

Thumb-Key is aiming to be a FOSS replacement to the now unmaintained MessageEase. Like MessageEase, it offers a 3x3 touch-and-swipe layout. It takes time to learn, but allows to type fast and accurately, thus getting rid of the dependence on prediction/auto-correction, without which QWERTY on small touchscreens would be unusable. Many people report typing more than 50 WPM on MessageEase and the same should be possible with Thumb-Key. It’s a young project and is still missing many features and gestures of MessageEase, but it is active and has a community here at thumbkey@lemmy.ml.

I only recently switched from GBoard to MessageEase and ThumbKey, and I still around 25 WPM, but I found that I stopped making mistakes when typing out the long master password for my password manage on my phone, because this is one of the areas where auto-correct couldn’t help.

But I am still far away from reaching the speeds of swiping on a QWERTY-keyboard without word prediction. So if you don’t mind that and don’t want to spend your free time learning alternative layouts, stick to QWERTY layouts, but if you want a keyboard layout to type exactly what you want, try one of these 3x3 boards. To be honest, if you want to give it a shot, out of the two I would probably still recommend MessageEase, as Thumb-Key is very alpha, but that might change. I have both with the same layout and switch back and forth.

Swiggles, in Is anybody else more active here then they were on Reddit?

It feels like you can join in later. There are not thousands of replies in the first few hours. So commenting or participating was a waste of time before in many bigger subs. Noone would ever see your answer anyway or interact with you, so there was really no point.

Here it feels like you are actually participating in some way. I really like it.

evader_fateful, in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?

It’s been 6 days since the original post. OP was 3 days out from the poopless leg of his trip. OP, I hope everything went according to plan!

Please update when back!

codyofficial,

Sort comments by new to see his latest update.

n00b001, in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?

Remember to bring the poo knife

ki77erb, in speaking of alternatives, what brand do people hate that actually has a decent alternative?

iPhones. Love my Pixel and I don’t care how much my co-workers bitch about bubble colors.

Strae, in speaking of alternatives, what brand do people hate that actually has a decent alternative?

Amazon, sort of. It absolutely cannot be beat for convenience. Ordering something in 15 seconds, then having it shipped within 48 hours is unmatchable.

But if you plan ahead, and aren’t an impulse buyer, you can find alternatives with better products and similar prices. Most stuff on Amazon is absolute junk with clickfarm reviews.

Ironically Reddit was really good for finding niche websites for whichever product you were looking for. Hopefully Lemmy will reach that point eventually.

DubiousInterests,

AliExpress is the alternate for Amazon if you can wait a month to get your crap. All the products are exactly the same except £2 instead of £20.

I wouldn’t buy any electronics from AliExpress though.

erogenouswarzone,
@erogenouswarzone@lemmy.ml avatar

Every order I’ve ever made on Ali:

  1. Me: Place order
  2. Ali: it will be there in a month
  3. A few weeks later, Ali: Your order was cancelled.
  4. Back to Amazon

But if someone makes a version of Ali that works in the states, Amazon’s online store is already a dinosaur and can easily be dominated.

Smokeless7048,

really?

Ive ordered probobly 100 things from Ali. Takes a while to arrive, but only had a couple items disappear in shipping, and never had them not at least ship.

Alpagu, in speaking of alternatives, what brand do people hate that actually has a decent alternative?
@Alpagu@lemmy.world avatar

WhatsApp for me. I hate it but in my country all people use it.

WheelcharArtist,

then just don’t use it…

applejacks,
@applejacks@lemmy.world avatar

“just don’t talk to your friends, bro”

Mortalsub, in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?

This is God-tier Meme master content, well done OP

TimewornTraveler, in Does anyone else feel like advertising has little to no effect in them?

it’s most dangerous to think you’re immune. it’s subtle enough to sway anyone in ways you don’t realize.

WhoRoger,
@WhoRoger@lemmy.world avatar

People keep saying that but never give examples.

Btw the topic is ads. There are other forms of sneaky marketing like altering search results or placement of goods on shelves in a store, but it’s not that hard to be wary of those too.

joelthelion,
@joelthelion@lemmy.world avatar

A very simple example: advertising makes you aware of brands. Just knowing that a brand exists might be enough to influence your decision in the future. Think about it: are you more likely to choose the brand you heard about, or the brand you don’t even know exists?

WhoRoger,
@WhoRoger@lemmy.world avatar

The only times I choose a brand is based on reviews or personal experience. And I may still go against that based on price or other need.

This week I bought a

spoilerSandisk

SD card and a

spoilerKingston

card reader. That’s because all cards except this one have always failed me in some way at some point. I might have been swayed by

spoiler"extreme pro"

branding to a degree, but again that’s just based on my experience with the brand, and the reviews. Also the price difference was negligible. As for the reader, well it was the cheapest one.

As for the store where I got it, also based on experience and convenience. It’s a major retailer now, but I used to buy from them when they were a tiny back alley store. And I still looked in 2 brick and mortar stores first.

On the same day I also went in the mall (the closest one) to look for a few things like swimming trunks and a belt pack. I was aware of brands but why would I care about them? Mostly they just make things too expensive.

As for other stuff like food or medicine, I mostly buy store brands, or look at ingredients, or occasionally randomly try new stuff. There’s usually no difference between a detergent from a big brand or the store brand.

I also teach other people that.

As such the only kind of marketing that may affect me are sales, and then I have to actively be in a store and need the thing anyway. So that’s not much of an ad, that’s just shopping with common sense.

victron,
@victron@lemmy.world avatar

I feel you and share your mindset. But most people don’t think about that stuff that way. And ads are not targeted at people like you to begin with, their goal is to reach amd influence the most people possible, but not all of them. Whatever works on the majority is a success.

BeaPep,

I always buy the cheapest option on the shelf (in terms of food). Usually that’s the store brand for the store I am in. For electronics I usually just do a lot of research (Reddit, looking into age of the company, picture reviews and 1 star complaints) and ask friends. I’m sure that the “ads” shown in my research sway me sometimes though when I’m truly clueless about something and just have to take people’s word for it.

Sometimes, though, the people you’re trusting to be objective have been swayed by ads themselves! It’s honestly impossible IMO to be completely unaffected by ads because of that. Even if you never see an ad in your life – the people around you have.

joelthelion,
@joelthelion@lemmy.world avatar

I always buy the cheapest option on the shelf (in terms of food).

The question is not necessarily which option you pick, but that you feel the need for a particular product at all. Without advertising, for example, people would buy far fewer sodas. I’m pretty sure the same goes for tech gadgets.

WhoRoger,
@WhoRoger@lemmy.world avatar

That’s a question of consumerism in general, not necessarily of ads.

Why is it different? Because if we shrug and say that well, we buy unnecessarily shit anyway, then we are even more likely to buy based on ads and other marketing ploys.

Being aware and skeptical of actual advertisements, on the other hand, can make you more wary about buying too much.

I mean, if you watch TV ads, don’t use adblock etc, you’re just used to the whole ecosystem and are just going with the flow. But if you block ads everywhere and then suddenly get hit by one, you definitely realize how stupid and evil they are. Plus you have more time to look for other sneaky marketing tactics.

The_Mike_Drop, in Does anyone else feel like advertising has little to no effect in them?

I’m pretty confident I would not be on Lemmy right now had someone not advertised it.

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