This is for self-defense. Not that I live in a country where they (officially) ship, but just in case...

Regarding "how to tell them apart from regular glasses", this question is mainly about Ray-Ban Blayzer Optics:

Ray-Ban Scriber Optics:

And Ray-Ban Display:

Because these are by far the hardest to identify. Other glasses either have a clearly visible "RayBan" text in the top left corner (which for the pictured ones isn't clearly visible) or can be identified just by their style.

Before there were good ways to record and play back bass sounds, did anybody bother to train their voice to sing low bass? I imagine the uses for the skill would be rather limited before good microphones, recording equipment and widely available hi-fi stereos to play back bass sounds.

Seinfeld- Jerry and Elaine are exes and breify get back together at the end of season one

Friends- lots of romantic entaglements but mainly Chandler/Monica, Ross/Rachel, and Joey/Rachel

How I Met Your Mother - two of the main characters are a steady couple, the other three are a love triangle

Big Bang Theory- by the end, it's three couples and one single guy

Any shows like these where the main characters never date each other or hook up with each other?

Basically the title. I've looked around, but, well, discovery around here remains challenging even after two years.

If you were never at the told place, r/askculinary had relatively high standards for both posts and replies. It was almost as well moderated as r/askhistorians.

What that means practically is that the sub took the culinary arts seriously and expected serious answers to specific questions. Thanks!

We have access to incredible forms of technology, including near instant access to computers across the planet from devices that fit in our pockets. We seem to have organized much of the internet in a way that doesn’t benefit us and often is straight up antithetical to our wants and needs.

How would you change the ways we use software, hardware, sensors, robotics, and all the other amazing tech that’s available today to make the world a better place instead of a place where people scream at each other and get spoon fed ads and information they never asked for?

What does your tech utopia look like?

Anime with subtitles are that when the audio has not been altered meaning the spoken language remains in Japanese while dubbed anime overhauls the dialog, but lip sync can suck if that detail is overlooked since the source material for the lip sync animations regarding mouth movements as they are originally in Japanese. The thing is, when a character's name begins or ends with ryu / ryo , they often struggle to correctly pronounce that in the English dub.

A comment on this earlier AskLemmy post inspired me to ask this question. I think there's lots of delicious British food/it really depends on how you cook it, as with any cuisine.

also, should it be chunky and easy to click?

personally, i don't like gnome and kde's design of scrollbars.

Hubs sent me this YouTube video and tells me that things like Brazilian pizza also exist. So anyone more traveled than me, have you ever had anything particularly interesting?

Edit: It's also interesting to me how English adjective order affects this. The video is, for instance, describing Indian Chinese food, not Chinese Indian food. I'm sure other languages have something similar.

I want go studying to Norwegian university, but afraid what they think about Russian people. I'm not interested in politics, only want know what I must expect. Help me please 🙏

I adore Lemmy, but one frustration that I keep running into is the quantity of shit expelled by Reddit mirror/repost bots.

No one comments on them, they’re always at a low score, and yet it seems like they account for half the “all” feed.

What does everyone do about this? Just block the shitty communities that these bots infest and move on? Block the bots themselves? Block the instances that host them? Is there any solution that would limit their damage to the default user experience?

Specific culprits, for context:

• !osrs_redditrssfeed@lemmy.durstig.online
• !ask_reddit@lemmy.durstig.online
• !ai_reddit@lemmy.durstig.online
• !swiss_stuff@lemmy.durstig.online

Now that I post this, I think I spot the common problem amongst these…

I woke up this afternoon feeling so strange. It’s not my room, it's not my bed, and nothing feels familiar. My family isn't here, and suddenly there’s a man, my husband, sharing my personal space for the first time. I don’t even know how to explain it, but I feel like an impostor just walking around and doing things in this place.

"the internet is bad and emotions prevail there" maam do you have any idea how big the internet is? youre seeing a singular port and saying its the entire ocean

and dont get me on the cybersecurity and electronics ones

"use a strong password" whats that gonna do if the database gets pwned, sandra? or if you get pwned by a 0click 0day

"blue light is bad for you" LOL

Besides just notifications, what tips or advice can you give to using the watch to the full potential?

I work in web development and over the past five years or so I've seen these "infinite canvas" or "whiteboard" applications proliferate over the years. A short concentrated list of these things would include miro, freeform, and obsidian. A longer list would include things like Confluence whiteboards and even things like Figma.

These applications always seem like they're the preferred tool of people who love to navel gaze and go on long monologues about software development frameworks and "user experiences".

I find navigating these tools to be frustrating and trying to "work collaboratively" in them to be even worse.

I understand some of them for some domains. (Figma I've grown to tolerate specifically because it seems to have a reasonable use case.)

But:

What is with these things, and why are there so many of them now?

Do they help anyone work better?

Do people actually like them, or are they just forced to use them?

I am so fatigued with so much negativity that happens in the world and in my personal life as well. I have become numb to the topics I used to care such as politics, equal rights, environment and so on: I just want my day to end and that's it. I don't think I'm depressed tho (I used to and I know what it is like).

I don't know what to do. What would you suggest doing? Thank you.

I guess it's obvious why I am asking.

I am just too dumb for it. Like, genuinely. I only passed through HS because on final exam from literature the teacher gave me a full answer. Actually, I didn't even get that, she had to tell me "Write that down!" because I was just thinking "Why are you telling me that?"

In 1st semester I didn't pass 2 subjects. Now in 2nd one I only got to final exam of 1, which I'll have to retake and I don't feel like I'll pass it either. The only subject I was really interested in passing I didn't manage to get through due to me being late with assignments.
I am still planning to finish the last one just because I want to get rid of my Firefox tabs and I already spent 32 hours on it. The previous one took me 50 hours only for partially completing it. I estimate full completion at 65 hours, if I did that one, which I may do as well later.

Which isn't much time, actually. When I do the math based on credits, main part (time until exams) of first semester being 12 weeks, second 13 weeks, it averages out at 61h/week of work (combined lectures + seminars + expected study time and assignments).
2nd semester at 52h/week
1st semester at 71h/week.

Regardless of how I manage the exam, I won't pass to the second year.

Oh, it gets worse. I found out I was supposed to select my subjects for next year. They only sent us the email about that the day prior (2pm).
I skimmed it, OK, selection starts June 4th, went to check the UI, nothing there. Turns out, the selection deadline was on that same day, at 9pm, so I missed it by 3 hours.
Worse yet, though not applicable to me, the school also "thinks" of foreign students. In this case by notifying them only 12 hours before the deadline as well as informing them that the information in English is outdated (and that's all they did about it).

Not worst as in completely uncharismatically sadistic. Not worst as in an absolute hate sink. WORST as in horribly written, uninteresting, annoying, one note, has a annoying voice, completely moronic motives, or straight agonizing to sit through!

(For instances that allow downvotes, obviously.)

I ask because if I see a post with more than a handful of downvotes assigned to what otherwise seems like decent content, I consider it a yellow flag, and I'll often go to the comments section to try and discover why the post is controversial.

Sometimes I'll find it's truly a matter of personal disagreement (such as on a hot-button topic like veganism), however I'll often discover the downvotes are there for a more objective reason, such as misleading or outdated info in the post. On many occasions this additional digging has led me to change what would have been an upvote from me to no vote or even a downvote. On the flip side, if I see a post that I like but that looks a bit fishy, if it has hardly any downvotes relative to the upvotes, I'll assume that it has passed Lemmy approval (a kind of Cunningham's Law I guess) and is therefore probably okay (e.g. I see a reference in a ScienceMemes or HistoryMemes post that seems too bonkers to be true).

So what about you all? Do you use the upvote: downvote ratio to guide how you interact with posts?

I was considering getting lasik... but now I'm not sure. I have astigmatism (I think high), but my glasses prescription is relatively low. (I don't know the exact number, I've just been told I don't need a whole lot of correction.)

After talking to a doc (salesman?) about lasik (and researching online), I learned lasik mainly improves your distance vision. The doc said, I'll probably still need glasses for up-close work.

But. Don't we constantly do up close work? Read a message on my phone -> close up work. Read a menu -> close up work. Read a price tag -> close up work. Type on my computer -> close up work. Having to constantly put on and take off my glasses based on the task seems like a huge step backwards compared to today where I just have my glasses on all the time and don't think about them. (Or lose them.) I heard I could get some glasses that let me see far and close... and I could wear them all day...

So... what's the point of lasik in that case?

I've heard after lasik, my overall un-assisted vision would improve. I would only need minor corrective lenses. But. Why does major vs minor correction matter?

If I still need glasses (with minor correction), what's the point of lasik?

Am I missing something here?

Why do tons of people online seem extremely happy with their lasik experience?

If I had an extra hour or a few hours a day when I had free time, I wanted to help people online, something like support or something like that.

Why do I want this? The answer is: It brings me pleasure when I manage to help someone at least a little. And also when I listened to people on the Internet, just random people, they didn't even ask for help, I somehow instinctively felt that they had some kind of problems by the tone of their messages, and in the end I managed to cheer them up at least a little.

This is a discussion about music NOT politics. Your reply can talk about the artists political views but don't just start soapboxing yourself and break rule 6. They can/should be from any country talking about any government/political ideal. I think my favorite is either immortal technique or flobots.

Cottage cheese and garlic salt for me, what's yours?