Hello Lemmy. I have completed my bachelor’s degree and will start a master’s program in April. This means that I am lucky to have a lot of free time in the next few months. I want to take this opportunity to spend time with my grandma, because she is very old and I probably won’t have that chance again. My question is, how would you spend time with your grandma if she was still alive or you had the necessary time?

Verification Codes.

One-Time my ass, more like, repeated times. I'm so tired of verification codes up the ass these days. Just today, I had to reset my PayPal password. So that meant there was a code sent to an e-mail address after the reset process was set, to begin with. Then I had to go through the obstacle of verifying the information of the account. And then even after the password was reset, I'm sent ANOTHER freaking code right after!

And it's even more frustrating to deal with, with my bank. I've gotten random verification checks for making internal transfers within my account. Things I've done without any issue. But just one day, I got THREE verification checks to do what I needed to do!

This verification shit has gotten out of hand! I want it to just die, just like captcha. Whatever purpose they originally were intended to do, is lost in translation, because now they're just obstacles that wastes our time every minute we have to bother with them.

Any Idea what type of charging port this is, I thought it was ye old Mini B, but its too thick. We're having a clearout and found our old Camcorder, the model is a Luminox LXDV750 12.0 MEGA MAX, can anyone help me find this port?

i think its peertube

because 1: video hosting is expensive

2: it wasn't easy for server admins to get money

3: there probably won't be a youtube exodus for a long time or probably ever

(ignore my opinion)

cross-posted from: https://retrofed.com/c/ask@piefed.social/p/2414142/if-you-could-visit-any-celestial-body-outside-of-earth-which-would-it-be

Assuming you are properly equipped to handle the extreme conditions of space, of course. Does not have to be a planet, or even in the Solar System. Any planet, moon, asteroid, star, or other celestial body is available in this hypothetical!

What other devices can serve the same purpose? I only really need to be able to run Playlet, Netflix, and Plex.

Link : https://vger.to/lemmy.world/c/rape

I'm a french feminist guy. I created a safe space for all Survivors and their loved ones, exactly like r/rape on Reddit. BUT, btw, not EXACLTY. r/rape is pretty wild and had bad moderation. r/SexualAsssault is ALSO weird and sometimes wild. r/MenGetRapedToo is too little to become one day a first-class resource on Reddit.

So, I want make my Lemmy community useful for all users. What are the things you want to see in it ? I've already decided to add links and ressources redirecting to RAINN.org, hotlines, and other useful helps. What can I do After this ?

So I made a Pixelfed account, and there seems to be a lot of slop/bot accounts. The posts in languages other than English don't bother me, just have been muting them as they come up as I'm a dirty monolingual. There are so few accounts where people post photos of themselves which sketches me out a little, lots of photography accounts with a SHIT TON of posts but 0 engagement. What has been yalls experience with the wider Fediverse, and do you have any recommendations for how to go about curating my algorithm? From what I've seen the Fediverse as a whole supposedly has 20 million users, Lemmy has been my main form of social media since the Reddit API debacle, though I haven't touched the rest of the Fediverse. There seems to be a lot more engagement here with quality posts/discussions, and we only have 50,000 active users. Is it worth going through the slog on the global feed on Pixelfed to find users I'm interested in, if so what's the best way to go about that?

For me, it must have been 20 years ago in 2005. I got Kingston's 512MB flash drive for a Christmas present and oh my how great it felt to hold so much of memory in my pocket. After that it was clear to me that there is no use for floppies to me anymore.

Hi everyone, I’m new to Lemmy and looking to get involved. I am curious about what major differences you have experienced here vs Reddit as I am hoping this is a nice alternative.

I've personally experienced aggressive overreach and biased moderation on Reddit, and I was wondering if you have experienced a different environment here. If so, are there ways to get the word out about sites like this that might be viable alternatives?

More granularly/specifically, are there any topics that you might have discussed on both platforms and had a different experience? What have you seen here that has been a vast upgrade over Reddit? Thanks for any guidance!

I live alone and my neighbor found some drunk and/or high folks trespassing on my property while I wasn't home the other day. I want to put up cameras as a safety thing, but I hate Ring.

I'm a broke botch rn too, so the subs for the cameras or whatever can't be crazy.

like would it have been better if we did that?

I don't want anyone to feel offended but I'm gonna have questions about fitting, sizing and style.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/54977812

say you want to buy a house, career change, overseas trip, etc.

That's something I noticed a while ago: all podcasters have those huge microphones in front of them - sometimes with a gigantic boom - that wouldn't look out of place on 1950s TV. But unlike in the 1950s, they're not trying to hide them, no no: the more visible, the bigger, the better.

I can't figure out the point of that prop. If I did a podcast, I'd try to unclutter the shot myself.

Driving off someone from being online, as a troll, because it gives you a thrill.

This is an awfully specific flex, but it is a flex nonetheless, that people do feel to boast about. Because it's just another form of a power-trip. Congratulations, you've driven away someone who could've been a contributory member of a community to make yourself feel better by orchestrating lies, performing witch hunts and huddling with your troll buddies in ways to figure out how to process this.

There's nothing prideful about this to flex over.

like for example: react, C# WebM, WebP, av1, and many more

some parts that big tech made, are really hard to replace, due to them, being complex or fundamental to a speific system

how would we replace them (i hope there are existing replacements for the examples i talked about)?

Guess it's a depression remnant, whenever winter comes, I just kinda do nothing but stare into the glowing rectangle all day. How can I change that? Any ideas?

Edit: Thanks for all the advice people, really nice of you.

I'm interested in hearing what Lemmings think about hunting. I started hunting deer years ago because I wanted to be a part of the process, like if I couldn't handle killing and gutting an animal I shouldn't be eating meat. IMO, it's much more humane than what factory farmed animals endure. Less suffering overall than most natural deaths. Overpopulation causes disease and starvation and we killed off their predators, so we kind of owe it to nature to fill the ecological gap.

Also, I fucking love it. I watch the sun rise, think, record birds I've seen, think, watch squirrels play, think a bit more, and sometimes, I get some food.

Idk. I'm not looking for approval or trying to change your mind, just wondering what people think.