@otter@lemmy.ca

otter

@otter@lemmy.ca

I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.

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Note: I’m moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I’ll share more info :)

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otter,

Yea a friend really likes it. I think the big stores carry it too but for sure smaller independent ones do in the city

otter,

I open up chrome are when there isn’t an alternative

Some banking services and authentication for certain Google products that I need for school or work

What are your best air fryer/oven recipes?

My parents got me one of them fancy countertop air fryer/oven things and idk what to cook first when I get it set up. According to the box, it does everything a normal oven does as well as air fries. It can hold two whole chickens or 1 frozen pizza. It came with a rack for things like toast and a baking sheet. I also have a...

otter,

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_patty

There’s also this fun short documentary about Jamaican patties in Toronto www.cbc.ca/shortdocs/shorts/patty-vs-patty

Is "Error rate limit" a Lemmy or a Connect or an instance thing?

I’m trying to make posts. I’ve got an image hosted on catbox, so I’m posting only text and links. Most days I can make about 4 before I get that error. (I save my posts for when I have time.) Today, I got it after the first one. Is this a Lemmy thing, or Connect, or my instance or the instance I’m posting on?...

otter,

Possibly instance? I post a LOT of stuff in a short amount of time, usually I sit down and post a set of links / text posts and it’s fine.

Could you make an account on another instance and try to post the same way?

otter,

Interesting

I think my whole family uses few tabs. For me, once I can’t read the titles easily, I start splitting them into separate windows and virtual desktops. Once I finish a task associated with a window I close it

It’s so nice when I can restart the browser clean

otter,

Those sound very nice and personal

otter, (edited )

Ah yea I meant it for Lemmy. I was originally thinking of something like this

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/3cdc3226-f1e7-4d3c-a93e-10670bc4ca97.png

Some people use also Reddit when they don’t have a Lemmy community for a topic. Once a community pops up, this could be how they are reminded of it

Best place to buy replacement parts for a laptop?

I’ve got a Dell G3 3579 that’s in a dire need of a battery and a bottom panel replacement. I’ve thought of buying them off aliexpress, but I’m a bit skeptical of it… So ig my question is whether it’s OK to buy stuff like replacement laptop batteries off aliexpress....

otter,

Yea Dell machines can refuse third party batteries even if they’re physically identical

It’s worth checking for that

Low effort posts

Ask Lemmy is a place to ask thought provoking questions. The mods have been lenient with some of the recent posts on the basis that they must provoke thought for some people, but after seeing two posts essentially saying “what do you think of my stick?”, I believe we can raise the bar a bit on what kind of thoughts we want...

otter,

I usually use NoStupidQuestions as the catch all for when I don’t have something better. We have a few communities for that

otter,

Not wanting anything is fair, but the intent here was the best case scenario (even unrealistically so). So the device would not have anything you don’t want, ads and security issues included

Again, not wanting any device is cool too

otter,

That’s true, I already get annoyed with my watch sometimes

Having a mechanical arm would be pretty cool actually, and it already exists. It wouldn’t work for all cases, but maybe some times

otter,

A big positive for driving over transit is being able to bring extra stuff that you might need

A bag of holding would fix that. 100% prepared, all the time

otter,

Hopefully imgur doesn’t compress it: i.imgur.com/slxKa60.png

https://i.imgur.com/slxKa60.png

otter,

The internet is a messy place and I like my privacy

I think people will feel more comfortable voting if it wasn’t made public. Same reason we add privacy booths during elections, or put our heads down in class when voting on simple things

otter,

Appreciate the thoughts, it gives me more to think about. I’ve also been avoiding controversial subject matter and I think I’ll avoid it even more now.

I do think the Fediverse needs to improve privacy and ease of use for alts. I’ve seen a lot of stuff over the years on Reddit that an authoritarian government would love to get their hands on. I guess the fediverse, by design, can’t be private? I worry that someone who doesn’t know better will get hurt because they don’t understand the risks.

All the more reason to join trusted instances with solid admins, and to keep your Lemmy profile separate from your real identity.

A possible workflow right now might be to browse on one account, and post comments from another. Boost on Reddit made that easier, but I don’t think the Lemmy one does that yet

otter,

Chocolate chip cookies for me, and as long as I can before it starts to fall apart.

I like playing chicken with them

otter,

Ah yea I agree. I’ve been relying on the link that comes with the browser extension but miss it when that doesn’t happen. I appreciate you adding it and I’ll try to be better about it :)

otter,

thanks :)

posted it along to that one too

otter,

Oh I just assumed they were the newest communities, is that not the case?

otter,

Woah, good that he survived and it’s impressive he continued to work in the field afterwards

As a researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, Russian SSR, Anatoli Bugorski worked with the largest particle accelerator in the Soviet Union, the U-70 synchrotron. On 13 July 1978, Bugorski was checking a malfunctioning piece of equipment when the safety mechanisms failed. Bugorski was leaning over the equipment when he stuck his head in the path of the 76 GeV proton beam. Reportedly, he saw a flash “brighter than a thousand suns” but did not feel any pain. The beam passed through the back of his head, the occipital and temporal lobes of his brain, the left middle ear, and out through the left hand side of his nose. The exposed parts of his head received a local dose of 200,000 to 300,000 roentgens (2,000 to 3,000 Sieverts). Bugorski understood the severity of what had happened, but continued working on the malfunctioning equipment, and initially opted not to tell anyone what had happened.

otter,

Whoops, I was relying on the UI to find identical posts 😄

I’ll take a peek at recent posts next time

otter,

Yea I was a little unsure what was going on with that, assumed it was a more recent reprint of some kind.

It would be cool if the dates matched up, we could see the comics from exactly 30 years ago to the day

otter,

Didnt’ forget this time!

Hopefully I did that correctly

otter,

Welcome! I’d recommend subscribing to !communitypromo, to see recommendations over time.

We also have a guide for finding new communities here: lemmy.ca/post/5581032, which I’ve copied below for you.

A great way to find lesser known communities is to look at the /communities page on an instance. For example: lemmy.ca/communities

For a list of instances to look through:

  • pangora.social (NEW): Great way to find instances related to a particular topic. This is also great for picking an instance when first making an account/moving accounts.
  • awesome-lemmy-instances: not that organized, but it

🔎 Search pages

🔥 Apps and Browser Extensions

🙌 Communities for discovering new communities:

Here are some other communities, some of which are less active:

Remember, you can also post questions about finding new communities right here!

👽 Coming from Reddit?

otter,

Any thoughts on building this community on a different instance? It’s better for the system if communities are distributed, and you also get related communities close to each other.

Few good ones for this:

lemmy.film/communities

poptalk.scrubbles.tech/communities

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