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pearsaltchocolatebar, in Texans (or neighbours), how was the cold spell?

Not too bad. We had a tiny bit of snow and some ice, but didn’t lose power which was nice since we have reptiles and I was not looking forward to trying to keep them alive.

I also got to stress test my Freeze Meisters (exterior faucet attachment that drips water), and thankfully they worked.

Lifecoach5000, in Texans (or neighbours), how was the cold spell?

Not a fan. My house isn’t built for when the temp starts dipping into the teens. Glad we’re finally getting a break today with some slightly above freezing temps and some sunshine.

Could’ve been A LOT WORSE so I am still thankful.

crypticthree, in Texans (or neighbours), how was the cold spell?

Had a bit of snow and gusty cold wind. No power outages but I’m on the same grid as a couple of hospitals and a massive data center so they never cut me off by choice

someguy3,

Hospitals usually have their own backup, so not sure the grid cares.

crypticthree,

I don’t really know how it all works but I live on the edge of an entire medical district. I’ve never had a black out last more than 15 minutes

BunnyKnuckles, in Texans (or neighbours), how was the cold spell?
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No precipitation to speak of so it wasn’t that bad. Nothing really closed down and the roads were good. Supposed to be 72 degrees (22c) tomorrow, thank fuck.

someguy3, in Are there any apps with kind of an educational feed for mindless scrolling?

Podcasts for longer boredom sessions.

dingus182, in Are there any apps with kind of an educational feed for mindless scrolling?
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I always enjoy reading Popular Mechanics magazines. They have a digital subscription available.

jennwiththesea, in Are there any apps with kind of an educational feed for mindless scrolling?
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Maybe not quite what you’re looking for, but the press releases section of a research university often contains brief articles about current research projects, as well as other topical info regarding that university.

University of Washington: www.washington.edu/news/category/news-releases/

cascadingsymmetry, (edited ) in Are there any apps with kind of an educational feed for mindless scrolling?

Seriously important to make your subscriptions very carefully in apps like lemmey, reddit (if you have access to a third party app) and newpipe (youtube where you can set your startup tab).

It makes all the difference in the world never to land on /r/all, suggested for you or any sort of trending pages.

Read books like the others have said and only subscribe to channels and communities that forward your productive aims.

ElJefe, in Are there any apps with kind of an educational feed for mindless scrolling?

Octal for hackernews. Lots of peer reviewed papers, reports, and good articles. And lots of smart people in the comments. No memes, no bs.

acetanilide, in Are there any apps with kind of an educational feed for mindless scrolling?

Maybe AnyQuestion?

Cowbee, in Do you feel a UBI is more left- or right-wing (or other) and why?

It’s neither. Leftism is collective ownership of the Means of Production, rightism is invidvidual ownership of the Means of Production. The left or the right can use it alongside either system.

cm0002, (edited ) in Are there any apps with kind of an educational feed for mindless scrolling?

Well TikTok actually has a pretty good algo (At least awhile ago, it might have become enshittified since) once you use it enough to train it beyond the default new profile feed.

When I was on it, I had gotten the algo to spit out mostly cool educational stuff. Like chemical fun, space stuff, Hank Green stuff, technical things (Like programming tips, cybersecurity, homelab etc) and other nerdy things (Like Star Trek stuffs) with a bit of memes sprinkled in

I don’t agree with the other commenters about books, I see what you’re asking for at least, books are more for when you want to dive more in depth in a specific topic

ad_on_is,
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Nope to TikTok since I don’t want an algo deciding what I get to see and what not, and this sounds identical to Instagram, more or less

LazaroFilm,
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If you don’t want an algorithm to decide for you then you’re not looking for a scroll. Even Lemmy has an algorithm. You’re looking for a library card.

cm0002,

You’re looking for an algo of some kind, that’s what enables the “endless scrolling”. Instagram stories or whatever their TT clone is called is definitely much worse than TT itself, yea it’s an algo but I can tell you that it’s algo is really good at sticking to things that are of interest to you (Provided you are at least a bit mindful of what you’re watching during it’s training phase)

If you really don’t want an algo of any kind, then I’ll have to agree with others, what you want is a book.

Blaze,

Well TikTok actually has a pretty good algo

It’s still pretty good, especially with the Revanced version that cuts the ads and trackers

HootinNHollerin, (edited ) in Are there any apps with kind of an educational feed for mindless scrolling?

Make another account on Lemmy and only subscribe to communities you wanna learn about

AnalogyAddict, in Are there any apps with kind of an educational feed for mindless scrolling?

“Educational” and “mindless” are fairly mutually exclusive.

But I agree, what you want is a book.

LazaroFilm,
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I absolutely disagree with you. Watching Our Universe on Netflix while high is definitely 100% educational and mindless.

xkforce,

Learning random trivia is kind of both tbh

MedicPigBabySaver, in Are there any apps with kind of an educational feed for mindless scrolling?

Why not just visit a couple communities that have info that you can learn from, like “TIL”?

Could also look into Kahn Academy website, don’t know if they have a free app. That’s loaded with educational stuff.

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