To be clear, the time probably needs to be expressed via UTC / GMT or other time zone labels.

I regularly post across ~half a dozen communities, the most frequent being to my own, where I post at 9AM (UTC-4 / EST zone) so as to hit early risers in the States and afternoon surfers in Europe. But with other posts, I get the sense that it would be better to post later in the day to hit more viewers. I'm just not sure when that would be.

TBC, I usually use the PieFed scheduler to post, so it's no problem for me posting at any time of the day.

Thanks for any insight!

I do not believe in the supernatural, magic, ghosts or anything like that. However, I can be very superstitious about tempting fate and won't make jokes or flippant remarks that could be interpretted as such.

For example, my partner made a dark joke about how she'd rather have cancer than such and such. I begged her not to say such things, not because the thought of her having cancer upset me (although it did), but because it feels as if saying stuff like that could make it happen.

Hey. I have a friend I want to play a practical joke on. What are some odd safe for work and pet items that will just make them question how it got there.

Edit: Gosh darn it. I love you all. These are great.

Growing up in Canada, I had to contend with learning two different spellings and pronunciations for words like "schedule", "colour", "omelette", "zed" vs "zee", "-ise" vs "-ize", and so on and so forth, so I had to come up with some little tricks to remember how to spell things. Sometimes I'd put on a mental Quebecois or English accent.

Other ones like diarrhea was "Die-err-HEE-uh", and now that I'm in Australia, it's most definitely "Die-err-HOE-uh". 😂

I also recite the ABCs more often than I should. I know a lot of you do, too.

What are some ways that you thought of to help you remember how to spell things? Any language counts.

Mine are as follows:

1. Getting chased by a Saint Mary statue that was made like a greek statue and 30 feet tall. She was stomping the hell out of the grounds.
2. Getting chased by a chuckie doll.
3. Watching a demon little girl eat a human bone like it was popeye's chicken fresh out the oil. She looked hungry. I was like just staring. O_O

Anyway what are yours?

I know it's been asked too much, but we've come a long way. Curious to see everything from the fullest trajectories/journeys to short wacky simples.

Why your instance, platform? What keeps you there? Are you a piefed PWA enjoyer? A traditional browser lemmy diehard? Do you refuse to use any front-end that isn't blorpblorp or has some invaluable feature like tesseract/alexandrite? I think there are even a few who only mobile voyager or ??(whatever that other popular one is...apollo maybe?) Curious to know what future options lie on the near future's horizon too

I admit I have trialed many but go back to plain browser more than not tho 😆

PS: I can't remember if these posts in anyway get federated out to other platforms like mastodon or what not, but would still be interested in their respective answers too

What happened after you left? Do you still have ties with your family? Did people bother you to try and make you come back?

I have 25GB-ish left on my steam deck. I like to save space for saves and stuff, so im looking for a game under 20.

Whats a fun small-med sized game youve been playing?

EDIT!!
Awesome suggestions so far everyone. I picked up the following games right now:

Farcry Primal
Mina the Hollower
Animal Well
Streets of Rogue
Deep Rock Galactic
Heart of the Machine
Inscryption
Moonrise Fall
Slay the Spire

I'm saving this post for future use

I was thinking about this. I went to university, and I worked in tech for decades. I met many assholes but I didn't meet anyone that would fit on the left half of the bell curve (less than 100 iq).

Since I've been living in that bubble my entire life, I'm curious of your stories. Have you met someone who was actually quite dumb (not just having opinions you don't agree with) and do you have an example situation you remember you can share?

Hopefully this becomes more funny than hateful since intelligence is not the value of a person, but it can be funny to read the stories.

Obviously you can kind of but its extremely difficult (for those pedantic commentators I foresee)

I'm referring to xkcd 2347, the case where a small and oftentimes hobbyist project end up being fundamental to an entire sector

This obviously happens a lot in FOSS, but I'm wondering if this happens to, say, your personal hobbies or things that matter to you?

Asking because this has just happened to one of my hobbies two days ago. The maintainer of a very important web server for the entire community suddenly announced on X that they would shut down the server on May 31 Japanese time. Since the web server was so important, the community has already organized and nearly completed an organized web scrape of the entire server, less than 36 hours from when the news was announced (and 1-2 days before it would have been shut down)

They say it can increase your productivity, and hot damn does that man need it. LLMs work best when manipulating input text along with contextual content. That sounds almost exactly like partially-edited manuscript and conceptual thought doodles plus several existing storyline books.

Admit it, if he dies before finishing, and someone publishes the result of such an AI output, you would read it. So he might as well get some AI help to finish it “himself”, sooner, right?

I’m talking about derogatory terms like “nerd,” “geek,” “wise-ass,” and so on, as well as sayings like “nobody likes a smart aleck.”

It seems to me that these terms and expressions are used much more frequently in the business world than derogatory terms like “show-off,” “charlatan,” “fraud,” and so on.

I can’t even think of a commonly used saying for the latter. Only: “Fake it till you make it,” which is really more of a reinforcement of the idea that knowledge isn’t very valuable.

Is it just my impression?

Ideally the answers aren't just political soapboxing.

I’ve noticed that lots of videos on social media and on YouTube, specifically the Shorts, have this strange filter on them that makes them look AI generated. Even videos that I’ve seen before without the filter and know are authentic because they were created before people could make realistic AI videos.

Do you think this is intentionally done by content creators and/or the companies themselves to make AI content more easily accepted?

[solved] https://patrickgpt.com/

Its with a star trek TNG character called something with g like gerry or geronimo (but not those two i think) and the website url was something like {g-name}gpt.{tld}
Main point: it answers to any question with "thats a stupid question"