asklemmy Asklemmy People who pirated in the late 90s and early 00s what is the most dramatic change from then till now? And if you had the power what would you bring back?
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    usualsuspect191
    6 days ago 100%

    I already do. I also want to pay my way.

    The problem is what I'd like doesn't exist (I'm not going to subscribe you a million different websites and still not even be ad free) and probably can't. How much do all the ads I'm blocking cost? It'd be ripe for abuse but I'd essentially like a taxi meter, but it would charge me for website use from just one central account that I top up or is part of my internet bill or whatever.

    I want the whole business model of using ads and tracking to pay for the internet to not exist.

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  • mildlyinfuriating Mildly Infuriating Some rows of videos have different padding
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    asklemmy Asklemmy People who pirated in the late 90s and early 00s what is the most dramatic change from then till now? And if you had the power what would you bring back?
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    usualsuspect191
    6 days ago 100%

    Yes I'm also the same way with ads. I'd happily spend more for internet if there was somehow an "ad surcharge" that would mean I'd never see ads or be tracked. Let me pay whatever the advertisers pay.

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy What's your least favourite thing about your smartphone
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    usualsuspect191
    1 week ago 100%

    It's too big. I couldn't get a phone the same size as my old one without sacrificing the micro sd slot so I ended up with something bigger than ideal

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  • lemmybewholesome Lemmy Be Wholesome A precious possession
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    usualsuspect191
    1 week ago 100%

    Eh, maybe improbable without help, but I was hand-sewing clothing for my stuffed animals around 7 years old with no assistance so it's not crazy to think a kid ahead of the curve could do it at 5

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    usualsuspect191
    2 weeks ago 100%

    Well I'll have to look it up now, but I see it as a substance produced by the body that isn't made of cells itself. Like any of the other excretions and things the body makes.

    Edit: apparently both your nails and hair are mostly made of keratin, but keratin isn't produced and excreted to produce the nail and hair structures like a playdough factory like I imagined. Special cells are produced that are primarily keratin and they are added to like a chain and die/harden as they are pushed out from the body.

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  • memes memes Remember when games had manuals too?
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    usualsuspect191
    2 weeks ago 100%

    That box art and the art in the booklet included in the case (and the art behind the discs) for FFVII is so good

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  • politicalmemes Political Memes The best argument for altruism
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    usualsuspect191
    3 weeks ago 92%

    The individual person is being forced to pay taxes because they were born in a certain region of the world?

    I'm actually not seeing what's weird about it. They are using and benefiting from the infrastructure that is paid for by those taxes, and pooling the resources this way allows the whole community you benefit in ways that can't be done otherwise. The extension of this is that if you are able to pitch in but don't then you're essentially "stealing" from the rest of the population.

    I'm not well versed in the subtleties of a libertarian system; in a libertarian community, what's done with people who try to benefit from what others are doing without pitching in?

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  • politicalmemes Political Memes "The Newspaper of Record"
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    usualsuspect191
    3 weeks ago 87%

    That's a pretty controversial take. I don't think anyone would call 5am "night" if they woke up at that time, but just really early morning. Same with 11pm being evening is more to do if weather you're still awake or not. These are fuzzy definitions that are more about vibes than precisely what the clock says.

    Same with the seasons really. There's the definition you've given, and then there's the one that's more about the seasonal differences in the region. Winter where I live for example starts in November (probably around Remembrance day if I were to pin it down). It's silly too wait until the solstice to consider it winter when there's been over a month of snow on the ground and freezing temps.

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  • science science Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean
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    usualsuspect191
    3 weeks ago 100%

    Pretty sure they're just making a Land Before Time reference, not a serious claim (did those species even live during the same time periods in real life?)

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  • skeptic Skeptic Milo "Miniminuteman" Rossi debunks the "Earth is growing" conspiracy theory
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    antilandlords Anti Landlords Landlord telling people to enter the residence while I'm at work UPDATED
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    usualsuspect191
    4 weeks ago 100%

    Where I am it's 24 hrs without permission, but with permission there's no minimum. So if they knock on your door and say "hey, mind if I come in and grab something from the shed?" and you say "sure" then that's fine. With 24 hrs notice though you legally can't prevent access

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
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    usualsuspect191
    4 weeks ago 100%

    It's learning over time, with proficiency being the area under the line. It's describing having to learn a lot to achieve the same proficiency compared to something with a shallow learning curve.

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
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    usualsuspect191
    4 weeks ago 100%

    I've noticed this effect on business signs so I don't think that's the cause. Blue specifically seems affected, and you can notice a parallax difference too even when they're the same distance. I assumed it had to do with my glasses bending the light differently or something.

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  • noncredibledefense NonCredibleDefense Ukrainian Biolab Catgirls have infiltrated Sudzha, Russia
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    politicalmemes Political Memes Possible strategy to make apartments affordable again...
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    usualsuspect191
    4 weeks ago 100%

    I've often wondered how that ever came to be. My best guess is otherwise people would just use it as an excuse? "No officer, I wasn't in the bushes pleasuring myself I was just going pee"

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  • technology Technology YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers
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    usualsuspect191
    4 weeks ago 60%

    I'd argue they risk losing users who post links to their videos online. It's likely the same group who tend to use ad blockers are also the ones more likely to link a video online, so YouTube would miss out on all the non-adblock users clicking links and watching the videos that way.

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  • thefarside The Far Side 14 August 2024
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    usualsuspect191
    1 month ago 100%

    Make sure things are good and cold first, then just send into an orbit around the sun that's at a Lagrange point far enough out to stay cool.

    The dark side of the moon still gets just as much light as the other side so not sure why you mentioned that one, but you're right it can be hard to get rid of heat in space if you're producing it.

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    usualsuspect191
    1 month ago 100%

    Well one of them has both eyes open and a large brain to process all they see.

    The other just has a big belly button on their head, because they are naval gazing/pondering everything.

    It's pretty obvious

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    The Lyrics Game usualsuspect191 6 months ago 92%
    Spoiler tags in post titles?

    ::: spoiler Test Works in the body though! Maybe that's a solution? ::: Edit: I tried and couldn't get it to work in the title. But as shown above it works in the post body. Original body text: I don't know if it's a limitation or not, but adding the song title behind a spoiler tag would allow people late to the game to still try and guess before seeing the answer.

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    Shrinkflation usualsuspect191 7 months ago 97%
    Soap getting slimmer

    They're careful to make sure the bottle still looks the same from the front, but from the side you can see the difference. ![](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/32d443d7-4c13-45d6-915b-dba7b555a1be.jpeg) ![](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/ddde6244-cfb6-42db-827e-1bd5fa6632f8.jpeg)

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    Jerboa usualsuspect191 9 months ago 95%
    Change what tapping on a comment does?

    I keep missing the vote buttons and accidentally tap on comments which then collapses them. I've accidentally collapsed/expanded some comments several times trying to vote. Is there a setting somewhere I'm not seeing that changes this? Maybe to a long press or force needing to use the three dot menu to collapse instead.

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    Forbidden Snacks usualsuspect191 1 year ago 91%
    Forbidden Raisin Bran
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    funny signs usualsuspect191 1 year ago 100%
    No child, no ride

    If you forgot your small child at home, one will be assigned to you so you may use the elevator

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