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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Did you drink alcohol when you were younger than me?
21·4 days agoWhen I was very young my mom was making bread with beer and I begged her to let me try it. Finally she relented that I could have a sip. I took one smell of the can and never had really had interest in trying again.
Thought when it became legal for me, but figured I would either waste 5 bucks if I hate it or become an alchoholic if I don’t. Don’t trust myself enough to assume I’d always stay moderate with stuff like that.
Now that I’m older, I’ve seen plenty of friends get deep into it then struggle through getting sober. Feel like I made good decisions.
It’s gotta be The Cool S.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockableEnglish
184·9 days agoHopefully this initiative sticks, sounds like my next phone (eventually) might just be Motorola/Graphene.
And thanks for being on Lemmy! Try to keep in mind that all the less-active-than-you’d-hope communities need your help. Engage where you can to support the community building effort, it makes a difference here.
This thread (and community) is kinda the starter pack: https://threadiverse.link/lemmy.ca/post/40160493
Other than that, search for your interests and sift through /all a little, you should be able to build up your subs pretty quick.
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•What are some good FOSS video editing softwares for computer? Preferably works on Linux
17·10 days agoKdenlive - Worked the best for me, but has the worst name.
Shotcut - Seems feature rich and reasonably good
Openshot - Seemed more approachable, a little less performant.
Blender - I’ve heard it includes a good video editor in there somewhere, tho I’ve never used that.
Olive - I think was another Foss video editor? But it might be discontinued. Never tried it either.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some online courses or tutorials that you found helpful and practical?
2·12 days agoNot a course, but consider joining the community over at !languagelearning@sopuli.xyz, always nice to see more folks learning.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some online courses or tutorials that you found helpful and practical?
2·12 days agoNice. Yeah, it’s a fun topic, thanks for starting it!
JustinGuitar is great for sure. It’s a little frustrating that he doesn’t put tabs in the videos - sometimes that would save a lot of time. But you can get those too if you sub I guess. The song lesson library there is also super helpful.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some online courses or tutorials that you found helpful and practical?
2·13 days agoThe question was a fun excuse to think about some old tutorials I’ve seen, and dig through the bookmarks. Any subject is a pretty broad ask tho. Out of curiosity, why do you ask? Are you just thinking about learning something new for the fun ot it?
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some online courses or tutorials that you found helpful and practical?
91·13 days agoLinux - LinuxJourney
Linux/system administration - Sad Severs
Programming - LearnXinYminutes
Programming - Lazy Foo’s SDL/C++ tutorials (Not sure how practical it would be to learn either of these anymore, but I enjoyed it when I went through)
Vim -
vimtutorbuilt in tutorialVim - Vim Adventures game to learn Vim’s keys
Godot - Heartbeast’s tutorials
CSS - Grid Garden
Web Design - Web Design in 4 minutes tutorial
Web Design - Visual design rules you can follow almost every time
SQL - SQLBolt
Guitar - JustinGuitar’s Beginner’s course (and beyond)
Music theory/guitar - courses from Signals music (many are pay what you want, he also has plenty of good info in his freely available Youtube videos)
Chess - ChessNetwork’s beginner to master playlist
Blender - The Donut Tutorial
Pixel Art - Gas 13’s tutorial
Pixel Art - Derek Yu’s tutorial
2D Art - Drawabox
Japanese - Sakubi’s grammar guide
Japanese - Bunpro’s grammar references
Japanese - Tae Kim’s guide
Smash Melee - melee.cookbook.gg
Melee - Advanced How to Play parts 1, 2, and 3 (outdated, but decent foundational stuff)
Melee - SSBM Tutorials channel
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What song/band did you not expect to like - but ended up loving?
2·14 days agoFunny to see this, I was just going through some old playlists today and listened to some Extol. Not one I think about often, but a fun band!
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum.English
1·15 days agoYeah, there are some I still follow. Love to see that they’re still kicking, here and there.
emb@lemmy.worldto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum.English
13·15 days agoNodeBB seems like a really cool thing. Forums never should have been abandoned!
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some Ship of Theseus bands, where all original members have been replaced by someone new?
41·19 days agoThe Ink Spots are an interesting case. They’re a vocal group from the 30s. Not only did that group Theseus itself and then dissolve by the 50s, but afterward there were legal disputes. A bunch of the past members claimed rights to the name. Courts ultimately said ‘nobody owns the name, you can all use it’. So anybody with any connection was going around performing as The Ink Spots, and those groups were also changing members. Over the decades there were probably multiple fully Theseus’d versions of the group going at the same time.
Andrew Hickey has a good podcast episode on it that you can listen to/read. https://500songs.com/podcast/the-ink-spots-thats-when-your-heartaches-begin/
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your favorite place for royalty free music?
8·19 days agoHere’s a couple I’ve seen around, tho I haven’t dived too deep:
- OpenGameArt (Usually kind of a mixed bag on quality, but the site has good concept and intentions)
- https://musopen.org/ (public domain, classical stuff, also a bunch of sheet music if you want to do things the hard way)
- https://degitx.com/ (an individual that produces rock/metal/chiptune kinda stuff and puts it out under CC licenses)
- https://gravitysound.studio/ (Had it bookmarked, but it seems the free page is gone or at least moved. Looks pricey, and terms don’t seem clear)
I also sometimes consciously dislike things because of annoying ads.
But it doesn’t matter. The overall result is that now you’re aware of that brand, you have a place for it in memory. After time passes it will be The One I’ve Heard Of unless you’re dedicated to remembering to avoid it. There’s something called the Mere Exposure Effect - it mostly works and they know it. :(
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Fediverse@lemmy.ml•Random Idea: a Fediverse platform similar to Upscrolled?
0·22 days agoI haven’t tried it. What aspects make it different from what Loops or Pixelfed are already doing?
Sad to me a lot of times means stuff about time passing and getting older or things changing, so most of these are along that line. Some of the ones I think of first:
Time, Fat Old Sun, and High Hopes by Pink Floyd
In My Life by The Beatles (also Ozzy)
Hurt by Johnny Cash (orginally NiN)
Preaching the End of the World by Chris Cornell
There Was a Light Here by Demon Hunter


Think I used this for a little while. It was pretty much a slightly better Postman, back when Postman itself was less annoying.
Frustratingly, at some point I opened Insomnia and it randomly lost all my requests/history. That soured me on it. Then when I tried it again a couple years later, it had that bad ‘freemium’ feel, even if it is still FOSS.