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What is the most unhelpful advice you have received?

I’ll go first: “You have to have children when you’re young,” told to me when I was in my late 20s, with no desire to ever have kids, and no means to support them, by someone divorced multiple times with at least one adult child who does not speak to them....

Is seeing Oppenheimer in 70mm film worth it?

I could make a 2 hour trip to see it in 70mm, or see it in IMAX in my neighborhood. Is the difference significant enough to warrant a special trip?

Am I the only one who enjoys reading the modlog?

I like seeing what other people have done to get reprimanded. It’s kind of funny to me, and I love the transparency....

Accidental Renaissance - AccidentalRenaissance is for photos that look like Renaissance paintings

lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/accidentalrenaissance...

I feel like /c/memes has taught us a valuable lesson today: Would it make sense to develop a feature to block a comm from our feed for a selectable unit of time (1 hour, 1 day, etc.)?

Even if we’re subscribed to them? Could a temp block exist in conjunction with a subscription? I love c/memes but holy shit no matter which sort I select by they’ve managed to overwhelm my feed.

Joey for reddit finally seems to have stopped working

Joey for reddit has been working fine up til today for me...

How are you cursed?

In which game did you spend the most hours?

I discovered today that my most played game on Steam is Astronner with about 500 hours, and my second most played is Surviving Mars with about 500 hours.

Onion Sites

Is there any lemmy site that’s hosted behind the tor. I am looking for lemmy sites with .onion extension. I want to test my lemmy client.

Sitecore - A place to discuss Sitecore, a global leader in digital experience management software that combines content management, commerce, and customer insights

lemmy.world/c/sitecore...

do you have multiple lemmy accounts in different instances. why?

i personally have ones for languages English is lemmy.blahaj.zone | and for estonian lemm.ee

What are some ways Lemmy could be destabilized?

If Lemmy were to become a serious major threat to giant cash-cows like Reddit, it would be in their best interest to de-stabilize the communities here. I think it’s best that we think of ways Lemmy could be taken advantage of, so we can best prepare ourselves for potentially what could come....

What's with the corporate obsession with customer feedback?

If you contact the customer support of your utility company, phone carrier, bank, or other service provider you’ll likely be flooded with requests to rate the experience and provide feedback. Likewise, corporate websites and email communications often solicit feedback via embedded buttons or links to online forms....

What do you think would happen if Reddit was purchased by Meta/Zuckerberg ?

Anyone else missing posts in smaller Lemmy communities because they are overshadowed by the popular ones?

I tend to miss posts in smaller communities, no matter what sorting options I use when I display the “Subscribed” feed on the frontpage....

What would you call a monarchist government where multiple families rules in turns?

I’m making a fantasy novel. In this one there is a monarchy system, where 4 families rule in turns. After the current monarch dies, the next family in the circle most present an heir from their family to ruse the nation until they die and then the next family takes the throne....

What are good sources of PS2 files?

My main interest is the preservation of media history. To that end, I am looking for a good source of PS2 files so that I can catalog and archive them into a dedicated USB HDD. Then I’ll store the drive in the random nuclear fallout shelter the house I bought came with until the day the world needs a copy of ‘Little Britain:...