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I find it very weird that Lemmy support gifs but does not support svg format, is there is a specific reason for that?

I'm not asking about the worst job. I'm asking about the grimmest one. For me it was when in my teenage years I was making candles you would put on a grave. Most of the time is was just filling the form, burn the right shape and passing it forward. But sometimes I had to fill in for a person who was selling these things, and that is where it gets grim. It was decades ago but I still remember one lady who asked what would be the best candle to memorialize her late husband. And she gave me the whole life story of her and her husband. I shit you not, it was the most touching love story I have ever heard. I quit the next day.

Often, its asked what the fediverse or lemmy needs more of in terms of content, but are there any specific features or functionality you really feel are lacking?

Hello fellow lemmings,

I was a wiz at google in the early 2000s. I would find obscure forums for every interest and usually get some pretty good info. My research skills haven't aged well, and I'd like to get a bit more with it.

I use:

• Rtings, for TVs and monitors
• Consumer reports, for <500
• Sites like scamreport where people rant about shitty companies not living up to their promises
• glassdoor, to see what a company's employees think and how they are treated

How do you research your purchases when there is so much AI slop out there and google doesn't really work right anymore. Duck duck go and bing are marginally better. Are there trusted impartial review sites?

At least in this post, I'm not advocating for any particular political position; I mean for this to be a more generalized discussion.

I have never understood what prompts people to attend political rallies. None of the current US political candidates 100% align with my views, but I am very confident that I made the right choice in who I voted for. That is to say, I'd consider myself a strong supporter of [name here].

To me, it feels like attending a political rally is like attending a college lecture. You have a person giving you information, but you don't gain anything by hearing it in-person as opposed to reading it or watching a recording. If I want to learn something, it's much more comfortable for me to read and article or watch a video in the comfort of my own home. If I want to understand what a political candidate stands for, I'd much rather watch a recording of a town-hall meeting or read something she (oops) wrote rather than taking the time to drive to a rally, get packed in with a bunch of other people, and simply stand and listen.

I understand concerts. Hearing live music sounds vastly different than listening to a recording. Same with movies; most of us don't have an IMAX theater at home. When you're trying to gather information, though, what's the draw in standing outside in a crowd at listening to it in person?

Bonus question: How many troll accounts do you thing will stop posting too?

I found it quite impressive that people are capable of this. For me, I have neither energy, nor ability, nor comprehensive knowledge to do so. So, it is always fascinating (and a bit intimidating) to see people writing these all the time. I want to ask how you guys achieve this feat.

Maybe, is it that I am nonverbal so I cannit write coherently?

E.g. Tartarus instead of Tartaros, Daedalus instead of Daidalos, Cerberus instead of Kerberos, Cassandra instead of Kassandra... There are a lot of these names that are more widely used in their Romanized forms. Yet if we talk about mythological names instead the Greek names are more widely used (althrough this was different over 200 years ago)

If you never lived where it snows and were moving North to where it does snow, what would you have liked to have known? What would you do to prepare?

I've self hosted Mastodon twice in the past and both times, it took some real effort to keep the instance afloat.

The first time, the instance kept using up data until the hard drive filled up. Just for at most 4 users. I didn't know it kept the files on the local server and it filled up everything quick.

The second time, the cloud instance worked itself in a routine update.

Is there any fedi software that works best as a single user instance? Something low power but can still communicate and subscribe to mastodon accounts?

If so, how'd you hear about lemmy?

It feels like everyone here came from reddit but I'm curious if anyone found lemmy organically

Aye, question for the wise counsel

1. I cut my own hair
2. I wont pay a professional to cut my hair
3. My hair tends to be too "poofy"
4. Im kinda lookin for a kurt cobain type long to the chin, even length all around style
5. Hair is mostly straight just a tiny bit wavy The question; Is there a product to get my hair to lay down flattish without a "wet" look rather than poof up like a down comforter.

Aaannnd spin the wheel. Thanks peeps.

By old-timey names, I mean ones that you don't typically associate with anyone alive or younger than like 70.

Examples being:

• Burl
• Mildred
• Herbert
• Agnes
• Evelyn (not as rare at the others, but getting there)

I've always liked the name "Opal" but I've only ever known two in my life. I was like 10-12 at the time, and they were both pushing 90.

From purely practical point of view, what is the selling point of Lemmy for the average user who does not care about the theoretical benefits of software or the open source software movement?

Assumptions:

• The average user will never host a instance.
• The average user is not interested in volunteering or moderation.
• The average user is not looking for NSFW communities or any controversial communities.

Bonus points if they deal in lab grown gemstones.

I'm looking for a pair of sapphire studs and would prefer something lab grown if possible. There are a few local jewelers but the options are limited.

I know this would basically be a useless feature, except for scientific curiousity. I think it could be interesting to some people to see first hand what sort of errors that old faulty CPUs would produce.

Emulators for other faulty platforms might be interesting too. Not like I'd expect any programmers out there to deliberately write faulty instructions though, except as stated, something of a scientific exercise.

Just curious honestly.

This was an online cartoon I grew up on when I was a kid from the UK. Edd Gould was my biggest inspiration in making art at the time.

Favorite episodes are the Zombeh Attack trilogy, Hammer and Fail, WTFuture, Fun Dead, and recently Surf and Turf in the Matt era.

Inspired by something I said last night when complaining about an achievement at work and the only way I could think to describe it was "pure frippery."