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What life hack is so simple yet so effective, you're shocked more people don't know about it?
  • That feels wrong! Also what’s the scale of the banana in your picture? 2 bananas?

  • Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you?
  • If you worry that you may be a psychopath, you’re not one!

    You’d have framed this question differently. You’d be putting the blame on the other person

    “Why is he/she stupid enough to think I’m gaslighting? Can’t they grow up?”

  • What music to do you listen to while working?
  • Recently started listening to Classical on Apple Music. If not, just Pink Floyd

  • Is RCS an open standard?
  • This seems to imply that you need a fork of Android, if you’re to build a messaging app that uses RCS.

    But my understanding is what you really need is essentially an RCS server.

  • How did you quit your addiction?
  • What I’ve often found is that even seemingly harmless addictive behaviours leave lasting impressions on my personality. My two addictions I’m trying to quit are porn and nicotine gums.

    Porn was just taking up too much of my time and energy. Especially since I was working from home. I’d be in meetings with my camera and mic off browsing some weird nsfw on reddit. Stopped cold turkey and it feels amazing tbh

    Nicotine gums stay on for now. This is one addiction which has actually provided me an unintended benefit. My jawline improved drastically over a year! But I hope one day I can be comfortable sitting with myself idle not wanting to compulsively do anything!

  • Android users switched less frequently to iPhones in 2023, report shows
  • My experience is directly the opposite. Bought an iPhone 12 Mini after Pixel 3XL died. Granted, I was already using a Macbook for a long time. Lotta things I’d been trying to get working, using things like KDE Connect instantly became automatic.

    I’ve seen people actually get job done on phones, but that’s never been the case to me. To me the phone should ideally be an extension of my desktop. I’d been doing that with Chrome+Pixel for a while. But iPhone unlocked much more of macOS for me

  • What's the dumbest nickname you've ever given one of your pets?
  • I live in Bangalore, India. The local language here is Kannada but I don’t speak it nor do I have many friends who speak it. I named my cat Bacardi and would call him Bacoo. Turns out the word for cat in the local language is also “Bacoo”. So for any local who saw me interact with my cat, it looked like I was calling my cat “cat”! I found out around a year later!

  • Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024
  • You joke. That’s not what I meant and if Apple did make an app it wouldn’t be Open Source.

    But Apple does contribute to Open Source. They collaborated with KDE back when Microsoft was making fun of Linux

  • Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024
  • One amazing RSS app I recommend to all Apple users is NetNewsWire. It’s Open Source and works very well. If Apple ever built an RSS reader, it’d be like this. It uses iCloud to sync between devices.

    Lets you use a reader mode where it fetches readable content from the URL instead of just reading from the xml file.

    And is very simple. If you use something like Feedly, it also works very well as a client for such services. I started using it like that, later just started using iCloud instead of Feedly

  • What are some cool things you can do with Shortcuts on iOS?
  • After trying multiple apps to sort my budgeting situation. I finally decided to create a solution that involves default Numbers + a shortcut to add row to the end of sheet. Now that shortcut lives on my homescreen. This is by far the best personal budgeting solution I’ve used. And I put it all together in 20 minutes!

  • Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.
  • it's part of their anti-adblock code. without going into too much details, they can instantly find out whether ad-block is trying to do anything on chrome, but on firefox they need a 5 sec delay

  • WhatsApp head confirms ads in the messaging app are still in the works
  • I use iMessage to text my close friends. But I live in a country where WhatsApp is a verb.

    So I do end up using WhatsApp and in my experience, it’s already riddled with ads

    I don’t see how it can be any worse tbh. Instagram ads are way better imo.

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  • I do. Especially compared to a company like Amazon. Google’s alternatives to Amazon’s are almost always better and has better UI/UX.

    But Amazon knows the market and whatever bs they stitch together ends up being the more popular option.

    What I have in mind are GCP vs AWS, Kindle vs. Play Books, etc

  • Android 14 will turn your phone into a webcam for your PC
  • I don’t know if Android users in here understand how flawless this works on iOS+mac. All I need to activate this is have my phone nearby and turn my locked phone to landscape mode. No need to even unlock my phone or connect it to my laptop.

    I was blown away by how “automatic” it felt!

  • Non Americans, what province is the "Alabama" of your country?
  • It used to be very common in Tamil Nadu for an uncle to marry his niece. So common that the word for uncle (mama) can be used interchangeably with groom

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  • I’ve been on Internet too long that I still don’t know which side you stand on. And that’s exactly the issue.

    This is a very complicated problem. Not as straightforward as either side thinks.

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  • Heavily politicised issue though. Imo, the whole trans issue should’ve never been politicised.

  • France orders Apple to halt iPhone 12 sales due to high radiation levels
  • what do you mean? mini was released alongside all other iPhone 12s

  • How can i know whether a website is a part of the fediverse?
  • it's up to them tbh. Things like Lemmy are ultimately ways to build your own forums. Whether they want to be part of the federation or keep it hidden is their choice. But I guess there'd be some way to build a browser extension to figure out if the website is using any popular fediverse platforms (mastodon, lemmy, etc.)

  • How exactly does Lemmy Universal Link Switcher work on Lemmy Post Links?

    A post with id 1 in lemmy.world has a different id in lemmy.ml (or any instance). How do I get the post id in lemmy.ml?

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