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I just noticed how disgustingly sticky mine is. #blech

I don’t know if this is true, but I’ve heard Visa and other card compabies can sometimes be expensive and difficult to small businesses. Is there something else one could use that’s not cash that would be better?

Probably two or three times a week, minimum, here.

I’m trying to find an app for lemmy that can translate foreign languages for free. Can any one suggest me one?

I have been a member of my current Mastodon instance for a few years now, and I absolutely love the community there. But recently, I found a Firefish instance that I am thinking of maybe switching over to, because I like Firefish so far, and the community there is also really awesome. I figure with migrating followers, I can...

This question is addressed to people who are familiar with video processing/editing....

Since the lockdown, many companies allowed their employees to stay at home. Many of them even working while traveling. Are you one of them? And would it be something for you?

I have installed librawolf and I see that canvas access is disabled by default in all webpages so I started activating them when they bother me (whatsapp, youtube, element.io etc.). But then I figure that it is disabled for a reason. What should I pay attention to?

All versions of the TTS I see on the web are hosted on sites that connect to their own external API (I think?) to generate the voice lines, i.e. this site hosted on tetyys.com...

What social media platforms do you use and want to recommend to others? Front ends could also be a suggestion, along with lists of great communities....

Regardless of the kind of news. I’m working on a TLDR bot and I’d like it to support the most used sites on Lemmy.

Is this really true?...

In this case, I’m referring to the notion that we all make minor sacrifices in our daily interactions in service of a “greater good” for everyone....

Did Reddit get massive because of Digg users making a beeline towards them or were they already big before that?

This is an open-ended question. I occasionally have facetime dates with my partner. What are some good activities we can do? They don’t have to be fancy or romantic,...

I’m considering writing the merfolk in my story as a sort of metaphor for indigenous peoples, as well as other sea-dwelling or otherwise aquatic humans. Is this inherently problematic in and of itself, or is there a way to write this that works and is respectful to actual indigenous folks? If it’s inherently disrespectful, I...

The 3 that come to mind for me are Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The Princess Bride. All three are poking fun at their respective genres but also are great examples of the genre. I’m curious if Lemmy has other such examples.

I’m not very familiar with how Wikipedia vets the sources in the references/external links. I was wondering whether there are manual or automated checks for cyclic sources, for example a Wikipedia page cites a source for something, but such source after a few rounds of citing would go back to the same Wikipedia page....

SEO has made it incredibly hard to find answers without getting spammed by news and blog sites. Places like ask Lemmy help democratize answers through upvotes and downvotes so the quality is higher....

Can someone please tell about ISP spying in India?...

I like science fiction movies and series of all kinds, as long as the story is good. In the past I watched one or two Japanese science fiction movies and remember that I liked them very much (I don’t remember the titles, though)....

For a start, floating might be really fun, but what else might you get up to?

What would be the best thing to do to help keep lemmy.world up? Donate? Servers? What is the best way to help?

Now that Twitter has been renamed to X, what will you call Tweets?