justlookingfordragon

justlookingfordragon, 8 months ago

As someone with a youtube channel and regular uploads … fuck ads. Use uBlock Origin, Adblock Plus or whatever else works to wipe that garbage off the screen.

I’m extra sour about their suuuuuper useful new-ish option for content creators to turn off personalized ads in their channels - something I immediatly agreed to, because I thought it would, … y’now … get rid of the fucking ads.

Nope. All it does is swap “personalized” ads for “unpersonalized” ones, so my followers get the same type of garbage shoved into their faces, just more random. Thanks Youtube, this is exactly what I wanted to achieve. dripping sarcasm, in case it wasn’t obvious

justlookingfordragon, 8 months ago

Even better would have been an option to turn them off entirely =P but that’s what UBlock Origin is for.

justlookingfordragon, 8 months ago

I have 20k followers and no option to turn off ads except the thing mentioned above, which only swaps ad types. But it might be different for people who have monetized their channels, which I don’t have and never will.

justlookingfordragon, 8 months ago

Bewerbungsformularfürakzeptablenhumor

That would be “Scherzereibewerbungsformular” nowadays. The old Bewerbungsformularfürakzeptablenhumor was abolished in August 2020, along with the Clownpolizei.

If a Sherzereibewerbungsformular is approved, you get a Scherzereigenehmigung for the next 30 days, starting at the next non-holiday calendar day, good for 1x (one) Scherz per day. If you exceed that quota, you have to pay a fine to the Humorüberwachungsamt (HUA) or face jail time. Professional Scherzemacher and Sprücheklopfer are exempt from this and may get a Witzelei-Lizenz for up to one year at a time, but you need an official Dummfugdiplom for that.

German humor is no laughing matter.

justlookingfordragon, 8 months ago

Do videogames count as well? If so, then Hyrule - specifically the one from Breath of the Wild. There is something incredibly tranquil and peaceful about that world … I could get lost in there for days.

Otherwise, I am Team Discworld. GNU Terry Pratchett.

justlookingfordragon, 8 months ago

Easy solution: don’t own any pots =P

Or raise some chickens. No green-clothed, sword-swinging little weirdo would dare mess with chickens. (at least not more than once)

justlookingfordragon, 8 months ago

Just break up already. Creating a tiny extra human is not going to magically fix all of your issues.

… of course that would create a paradox in which I was never born, hence not able to give her that advice … but seriously, the only reason I exist is because my mother didn’t want my dad to leave her, which is simply a shitty reason to become pregnant.

justlookingfordragon, 8 months ago

Nice ^^ I’m looking forward to it.

justlookingfordragon, 8 months ago

Star Wreck: Deep Space Nein.

justlookingfordragon, 8 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

It’s a double-edged sword IMHO. On one hand, it means that people on Lemmy don’t need to give reddit any clicks / traffic in order to read the same stuff, but on the other hand, the sheer amount of reddit reposted content can easy drown out actually original content on Lemmy that might have been equally or more interesting. And if it looks like Lemmy content is 99% cloned stuff from reddit anyway, there’s no real incentive to prefer Lemmy content over reddit. Not many people actually take the time and dig deep for OC inbetween reposts.

What the Fediverse needs, is lots of original content not found anywhere else, but as long as the total userbase isn’t big enough to offer that on a consistent schedule, then copypasted content is still better than NO content at all …

Personally I dislike bots tho. If an actual human decides to repost interesting things from reddit and actively participates in discussions, that’s something I can get behind. A soulless bot just copypasting random stuff… no thanks.

justlookingfordragon, 9 months ago

Exactly this worked best for me back in the day ;) I’m German and while we have some mandatory English classes, they’re …well … not good. Blunt, boring, 1:1 translations of German sentences, and at least the teacher I had first also had a VERY thick German accent, pronouncing stuff WAY too harsh (“Zis is nott how yoo shoold zound when zpeeking inglish for forks zake!”) so other than learning a few basics, the lessons weren’t at all useful to me.

…but I’ve been an avid fan of the Zelda franchise even back then so I decided to play Ocarina of Time in English after a first German playthrough. Barely understood the dialogue at first, started to recognize certain keywords after a few days, and once I was halfway through the game my brain kinda switched to “English mode” and I actually learned words and grammar in a natural way instead of trying to force myself to understand what the hell a “singular past tense adverb” is.

Long story short, school tried to teach me how to translate German thoughts into English sentences before speaking them out loud. Games, movies, books and music taught me to THINK in English so I wouldn’t need to translate my thoughts first.

The same way I’m currently trying to learn Spanish by the way, which already works way better than any classes ever did.

justlookingfordragon, 9 months ago

You can add emojis and special characters to your regular username, like the wolf icon in my displayed name. If that’s what you meant, then those don’t need to have a meaning.

If you still mean something else, a screenshot would be nice. You can blur the username of the screenshotted person if you’re feeling more comfortable that way. ;)

justlookingfordragon, 9 months ago

If you hover the mouse pointer above such an icon (don’t click it), it usually displays what it stands for. For example, when you hover aove the [OP] next to your username here, a little indicator saying “creator” will pop up.

justlookingfordragon, 9 months ago

Your wolf is located to the right of your username, so the icon I’m referring to is on the left of the username

You can add emojis anywhere, so it doesn’t really matter where exactly it is. Just to demonstrate it; I temporarily added a checkmark and an exclamation mark to my username ;)

The symbol you posted however… i’ve not seen that on the site so far. Does Jerboa have custom icons maybe?

justlookingfordragon, 9 months ago

Yeah… I’m a total caveman when it comes to modern technology, lol ^^° that’s probably not an option in an app.

justlookingfordragon, 9 months ago

It might be a temporary ban - those do not retroactively remove comments of the person in question IIRC.

justlookingfordragon, 9 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f40a40fb-6e00-4405-978c-25426c65cc14.png

That’s what it looks like in the Firefox browser on desktop. If it’s different for you, then it is very likely the app, yes.

justlookingfordragon, 9 months ago

Oh, that’s the account name, not the display name ^^° but interesting to see how extremely different it all looks between apps.

justlookingfordragon, 9 months ago

My personal pet peeve is pre-installed, un-removable software and apps. My current mobile phone for example has apps that link to twitter, facebook, amazon etc. none of which I will ever use, but you can somehow not delete them. Why do I need to have that virtual junk in my phone?

justlookingfordragon, 9 months ago

How old is that data?! France and Ireland should absolutely be red as of now. And don’t get me started on Germany. Can someone please update this horribly outdated map to 2024?

justlookingfordragon, 9 months ago

… he sleeps all night and he works all day … ♪

(Thanks, now I have that dumb lumberjack song stuck in my head, lol)

justlookingfordragon, 9 months ago

Minor addition: Slapping an [OC] into the title can also come across as pretentious so some people don’t want to use that “tag”, especially if it were something super extra special like a badge. For everyone else, just putting those two letters into the title shouldn’t be hard.

justlookingfordragon, 9 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I just think that Lemmy can’t survive if there is no way to make people aware that a particular post is OC to a fediverse-Plattform.

I have seriously no idea what you even mean by that. Care to elaborate why a site that managed to exist without an OC tag for nearly half a decade is suddenly doomed if there’s no extra OC tag now? Or why good content can not be appreciated if it doesn’t have the right tags?