asklemmy Asklemmy Where else on the web does everyone hang out?
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  • sloonark sloonark 10 months ago 100%

    Since Boost for Reddit still works I'm usually over there.

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  • map_enthusiasts Map Enthusiasts Usage of daylight saving time across the world.
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  • sloonark sloonark 11 months ago 100%

    Conversely, in the heat of summer, I don't want to have to wait until 8:30pm for the sun to go down.

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy What is one fact that someone shared so confidently but turns out to be false?
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  • sloonark sloonark 11 months ago 100%

    That bumblebees shouldn't be able to fly.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What are some commonly known facts that are too bizarre for you to believe to be true?
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    Your comment has made me realise I don't understand how floating works.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What's with telling YEARLY salaries?
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    I thought pretty much everyone in Australia was paid fortnightly.

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  • mildlyinteresting Mildly Interesting Wild Pigs of Europe Are Highly Radioactive
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    Wild Pigs of Europe would make a good band name.

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  • brisbane Brisbane Daily Discussion Thread - Sun Sep 03 2023
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    Happy Fathers Day everyone.

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  • technology Technology Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 77%

    Notepad is the default text editor on Windows. I'd be surprised if most people even knew WordPad existed.

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  • keepwriting Keep Writing What do you guys use to write in?
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    I just use Word, but so many people swear by Scrivener that I think I'm going to check it out.

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  • damnthatsinteresting Damn, that's interesting! C-17 low pass over the river in Brisbane.
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    It's the annual Riverfire festival. Fireworks, etc.

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  • upliftingnews Uplifting News *Permanently Deleted*
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    At first I thought "fossil generation" meant the creation of fossils and I was confused.

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  • googlepixel Google Pixel What phone do you have, and what'll it take for you to upgrade to Pixel 8?
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    I have a P7. There are 2 things I don't like about it: it's too heavy, and the jerky scrolling.

    If they released an updated version of the P5 I would jump on that. The P5 was the perfect phone.

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  • spotify Spotify Die [@spotify](https://lemm.ee/c/spotify) App hat eine neue Funktion, die mir so richtig auf die Nerven geht: Wenn ich auf einem smart speaker etwas abspiele bekomme ich ständig eine notification, das
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    Ich spreche kein Deutsch

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Is anyone else having trouble giving up Reddit due to content?
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 88%

    Here's a little known secret: you can still enjoy Lemmy without giving up reddit. I use both. There are some sports subreddits that I am not prepared to walk away from.

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  • homeimprovement Home Improvement YKK AP vinyl single hung double pane windows road noise
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    I thought this post title was just random words strung together at first.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What are your hobbies, and are they real fun to you? If yes, why are they really fun to you?
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    Writing. I used to write short stories but recently I've begun work on a novel.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What are your hobbies, and are they real fun to you? If yes, why are they really fun to you?
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    The Elements of Eloquence is a fantastic read.

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  • history History The Early History of Counting | Keith Houston
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    What a cool article

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  • brisbane Brisbane Ray White Brisbane's 'No. 1' real estate agent mocks renters as 'nobodies' and boasts she pays 'twice their wages in tax': 'They are envious of me'
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    How do people like this even exist.

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  • worldnews World News See 1st photos of the moon's south pole by India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    Well, it sure does look like the moon. Nice work.

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  • general General Discussion This one-page calendar will change how you view the year
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    I know. The picture of the calendar is entirely self-explanatory yet they wrote a thousand words explaining it.

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy Pet owners, what do you love about your chosen pet?
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    Very little

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  • technology Technology *Permanently Deleted*
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    Putting the x in taxi

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  • upliftingnews Uplifting News *Permanently Deleted*
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    And they say threats don't work.

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  • worldnews World News Amazon nations fall short of agreed goal to end deforestation
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    Typical Jeff Bezos

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  • worldnews World News Australian Christian Lobby says plans to combat social media misinformation will ‘cancel Christian posts’
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    The Australian Christian Lobby is a cancer.

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  • whatcouldgowrong What Could Go Wrong Trying to jump over a bench and falling like an inflatable skydancer
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    I really wish I did not watch this.

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  • nostupidquestions No Stupid Questions The other day I heard a friend talking about how "the moon's gravity affects our internal organs." This sounds like bull, but is it? And if so, how would I correct their misinformation?
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 80%

    Why is this being upvoted when it is blatantly false?

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy Why did you choose your username?
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    You look like a mogwai

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy Why did you choose your username?
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    You know what? I agree.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What are some physics-based arguments against hard determinism?
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    Thanks for this recommendation. I'm going to have to watch it.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What are some physics-based arguments against hard determinism?
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    But unpredictability is not the same as free will. Doesn't free will imply a conscious decision being made?

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  • RedditMigration Reddit Migration The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    Really? Reddit retained about 98% of its users and gained full control of the app market. I'd call that a success for them. They got exactly what they wanted.

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  • liftoff Liftoff! Feed loops back on itself.
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    Yes, this has happened to me a few times

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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    I don't see anything wrong with it. It's clearly a picture of a baby outside of a bathroom that has a change station. What's the problem?

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  • android Android While Android as a whole continues to shrink in the US, Google Pixel keeps growing
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    The Nexus 6P was so good.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What discontinued feature do you miss from phones or other technologies?
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    I always put my phone face down so I have to pick it up anyway.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What discontinued feature do you miss from phones or other technologies?
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 66%

    You don't have to leave your finger on the sensor while you use the phone.

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy what's the status with Reddit?
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    Business as usual, it seems.

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  • youshouldknow You Should Know Lemmy Tell You Something!
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  • sloonark sloonark 1 year ago 100%

    Exactly. It doesn't even make sense as it is.

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  • liftoff
    Liftoff! sloonark 1 year ago 100%
    [bug report] The share menu available at the top of a community page shares the wrong address

    If I go to somecommunity@lemmy.world while I am logged in to my lemm.ee account and tap the share icon, it creates a link to somecommunity@lemm.ee when it should be @lemmy.world.

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    NRL sloonark 1 year ago 77%
    Do we want a daily NRL discussion thread?

    I've written a simple lemmy bot that can post on a daily basis. I know there's not much activity on this community, but I thought I could start scheduling Monday Footy Chat, Tuesday Footy Chat, etc. Thoughts?

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    Pythörhead sloonark 1 year ago 100%
    With pythorhead, can I post to a community in a different instance?

    If I use pythorhead to log in to one lemmy instance, can I still post to a community on a different instance? I tried using discover_community to search for the community (with @community@instance) but that didn't work. Is this possible, or can I only post to communities on the instance I am logged in on via the script?

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    Liftoff! sloonark 1 year ago 100%
    When posting a URL, the post title should be automatically taken from the link

    In reddit apps, whenever you create a new post based on a URL, the post title gets suggested from the link title. Can we get this feature in Liftoff?

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    Liftoff! sloonark 1 year ago 100%
    Are there plans to add mod tools to Liftoff?

    Currently I have to use lemmy in my browser to access mod tools. Will these be brought to Liftoff?

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    Support (lemm.ee) sloonark 1 year ago 100%
    [bug?] lemm.ee on desktop is showing random communities in my Subscribed feed

    If I go directly to lemm.ee in the browser (Chrome), log in, and change the view to Subscribed, I often see posts from communities I am not subscribed to.

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    Cricket sloonark 1 year ago 100%
    David Warner’s place in the Australian Test squad must come to an end https://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/david-warners-place-in-the-australian-test-squad-must-come-to-an-end/news-story/85c8cea626b894c0f4ea1c8406eed79f

    While I agree that Warner is no longer up to Test standard, does Australia have anyone to replace him with? Harris has already failed in his several chances and would probably be a downgrade. Renshaw was very poor in India. I'm not convinced about Bancroft. Who else is there?

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    Liftoff! sloonark 1 year ago 100%
    [bug] If I upvotes a comment and then leave the thread, when I return to that thread the comment no longer has the upvotes arrow marked in colour

    To reproduce: 1. Go into a post 2. Upvote a comment. Observe that the up arrow has changed colour 3. Exit the post back to the main page 4. Return to the same post and find the comment. The up arrow will no longer be coloured.

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    Liftoff! sloonark 1 year ago 100%
    [Feature req] Subscribed communities listed in profile view should show instance names

    When I go to my profile, on the About tab there is a list of my subscribed communities. But it only shows the community name, not the instance. If I have subscribed to multiple communities with the same name, there's no way to tell them apart. For example I can see three entries for "!android". Would be nice to know which is which.

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    Nature and Gardening sloonark 1 year ago 100%
    Moreton Bay Chestnut starting to sprout

    I love these guys. Grab a few seeds from a local park, take them home and watch them sprout. The Moreton Bay Chestnut (aka black bean tree, or three bean tree) is native to south east Queensland and grows into a large tree, unless kept in a pot.

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    Gardening Australia sloonark 1 year ago 100%
    Moreton Bay Chestnut starting to sprout

    I love these guys. Grab a few fallen seeds from a local park, take them home and watch them sprout.

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    Liftoff! sloonark 1 year ago 100%
    When I post a reply, the reply should be visible without the need to manually refresh

    When I post a comment reply, the reply isn't visible after I hit the post button. I need to manually refresh the page to make it appear. Seems that it would make more sense for it to appear immediately, otherwise users might think it didn't even post.

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    Liftoff! sloonark 1 year ago 100%
    Can't upload image

    If I try to upload an image in a comment reply, such as a screenshot from my phone, I get a Format Exception, complaining about unexpected HTML. Pixel 7 with v0.10.4

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