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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Anyone remember that offline Wikipedia reader that had the whole text of English wiki on it? I always thought it was neat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can still download an archive of Wikipedia today, and it's smaller than you'd expect

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How big do I expect it to be?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

At least twelve megabytes. Probably even more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I downloaded one recently for when I was going to be offline for a whole week. It worked amazingly well!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Microsoft Encarta 98

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Nowadays there's Kiwix

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://m.piped.video/watch?v=1lRI35gKSPA

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.