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Dik Piks in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Words were considered slurs even before there were social consequences for using them.

Dik Piks in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Damn, those noods are practically naked! Come to think of it, it's that they are not quite naked that makes them so hot.

Dik Piks in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
Dik Piks in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Always include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I wonder if making another browser spoof being Opera would work too.

Are there any wrap around sunglasses that don't make me look like a conservative dad? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

You are so right, I forgot about the mustache. But its got to be something like a horseshoe or a really big handlebar. Muttonchops might work too.

Are there any wrap around sunglasses that don't make me look like a conservative dad? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You're not allowed to wear those unless you shave your head and put on a jump suit.

It's just loss. in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Clearly Big Invertabrate was behind this.

What's a regional pronunciation of a word that seems normal to you but is weird to people from other parts of the country? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

In eastern MA, we have towns Berlin pronounced BERLin, Peabody pronounced PIBudee, Quincy pronounced QUINzee. I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting.

What's a regional pronunciation of a word that seems normal to you but is weird to people from other parts of the country? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

That's the opposite of Quincy where the naives call it Quinzy.

What's a regional pronunciation of a word that seems normal to you but is weird to people from other parts of the country? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

i doubt many people actually say it like the er in Terry. Deemphsized syllables like that tend to get the schwa.

What's a regional pronunciation of a word that seems normal to you but is weird to people from other parts of the country? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

Try switching to "how dost ye doeth?"

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URnetwork? (mander.xyz)
 

Searching F-droid today for 'vpn', something called URNetwork came up, touting itself as better then a VPN, and sounding frankly too good to be true. Duckduckgo searches are finding very little not either going to them (ur.io, or their github, etc) or some site called Product Hunt that I've never come across before. Nothing useful or that gives me confidence even that this isn't a scam.

Does anyone know anything about this product?

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First few seconds of videos dimmed (mander.xyz)
 

So is this Thunder itself or some app it is deferring to whose config I should look at?

Basically videos start out dim for a few seconds until the video controls fade out. This means the first few seconds of every video are basically unwatchable, and with short videos this is all or most of the video. For example https://lemmy.world/post/17884719

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why is the create comment button at the top? (mander.xyz)
 

Of the many Lemmy clients I've tried, Thunder is the one I like the best, but the one place I have nits is the creating a comment experience.

After typing the comment you have close you keyboard, to have any hope of the create button being visible (if your comment is really short) and then scroll all the way back up to the top. Isn't the bottom the obviously better place for this button?

Even worse, if in trying to scroll the screen, you accidentally hit the little horizontal bar at the top, you just lose your comment.

Finally, it seems to always lose my place in the thread and put me back at the top after entering a comment.

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