To be fair, YouTube doesn’t have an algorithm that promotes the best videos, either. For quite some time now, it just promotes garbage.

Actually, in Hungary (at least when I was a kid) they thought us, pedestrians, to use the left side, although this was more important when there was no sidewalk. The reason is, drivers might not see pedestrians very well, especially at night, but pedestrians do have a higher chance to see cars, as cars are usually illuminated. The pedestrian is facing forward, so it’s easy to see and react when a car is coming. But from behind? They’ll pass on the right side of the road, so there should be plenty of clearance.

And I was legit surprised when I moved to Germany, pedestrians here are using the right side.

There are no bugs, just happy little features.

I know someone who has the same name as her mother, and her grandmother. They all lived in the same household. Imagine, you call her name and all three of them listen.

I never understood this practice in general, regardless of gender. There are so many possibilities, sure it takes some creativity, but it’s not that hard, come on.

“You could almost make it look like what happened with Berlin after world war two, when you had a Russian zone, a French zone and a British zone,”

Except that during those times the aggressor was split into zones.

Nothing. I picked a distro that works for me out of the box. On top of that I only installed stuff, instead of replacing stuff.

That’s a great resource for when you know what you’re looking for, but I wouldn’t use it for learning new stuff. It’s like if you were trying to learn a language from a dictionary.

That’s basically how I learned programming. I’ve bought a book I was interested in, an as I was progressing, always typed the sample codes by hand and tried them.

Even today I buy a bunch of programming books.

Hell yes. I’m a person who always valued my own privacy, but I didn’t have much, especially during university plus almost ten years afterwards.

I lived with my brother in his tiny apartment, and my mom was most of the time living there too. My mom is a very nosy person, and it happened sometimes that I got home to seeing my personal belongings being re-arranged, some missing.

Sometimes she would just open my cabinet right in front of me and search for something in there like it’s second nature, without even asking.

It was extremely infuriating and humiliating to me. And I feel so lucky and so peaceful now that I have my own apartment.

I find Gnome smoother than macOS.

This wasn’t the case many years ago, but now I find Gnome pretty good, the amount of bugs are surprisingly low.

On the other hand, I experience glitches on macOS regularly on the UI, especially on a multi-monitor setup (I use both Gnome and macOS with multiple monitors).

And generally feature-wise I find Gnome a lot more convenient to use in terms of window or workspace management.

Whatever is more convenient.

Generally speaking I try to look for the app first, because that’s the most optimized experience for mobile, while the browser version is often not very smooth. But apps lately are getting so awful that the browser version is better.

E.g. YouTube is in the browser for me, because Firefox + uBlock combo is the only way to avoid ads.

As ads today are to be avoided due to privacy and security reasons, I got rid of all apps that are flagged as “contains ads” in Google Play store.

Just a funny story from a few months ago: one day when I opened LinkedIn, an unusual screen welcomed me, that I couldn’t jump over: I had to pick where I wanted ads to appear without the LinkedIn app, with two choices: either above private messages or in-between posts. I deleted the app instead. Then I wanted to use it in the browser, but it didn’t work in Firefox, the website just froze after login. So yeah. No more LinkedIn for me. Sometimes I log in on desktop to see if there’s anything, but it’s getting so rare, basically there’s nothing to see there.

So if neither is convenient to use, then I use neither.

Don’t use their services.

I’ve been using Deezer for almost a year now.

Things I like:

• Duo subscription is suitable for long distance couples (this was the main reason I subscribed to Deezer and not Spotify).
• Wide range of songs, even some pretty rare gems are available there.

Things I (we) don’t like:

• As others mentioned, discovering unknown songs is not really a thing on Deezer. Spotify was so good at giving me other songs than what I used to listen, and it aced it. Deezer cannot do that. It only has predefined lists with songs that everyone knows (“hits” in other word).
• My girlfriend sometimes experiences lags, so probably in Asia they don’t have servers.

What do you mean? This is organized! And I have such a drawer too. This is the collection of slightly large kitchen tools that are not large enough to place them in the cupboard.

Whether every family has this drawer or not, I wouldn’t know, so I’m not very helpful with settling your argument. I’d bet, every family has this drawer though. Because everyone must have those kinds of utensils, and there’s no other logical place to store them. Some people hang some of them on the wall, but even then, there are some that cannot be hung on the wall. Those go into this drawer.

No. Just no. Enough internet for today.

This is my way of doing it too, but at the end always a lot of milk remains in the bowl and I have to refill it with cereal multiple times.

If I add less milk in the first place, then for the major part of the cereal it’ll feel like I haven’t added any milk at all. Weird stuff.

Some publishers do that. Manning, for example.

I don’t know, there are a couple of books that have Adobe DRM on them at every bookstore where I found the book.

Are you saying, it’s possible to get Amazon books onto a non-Kindle device? That’s actually pretty much the only bookstore where I never looked at before.

In my use case it doesn’t have any relevance, as my device lasts for months with one charge. During that timespan I have plenty of opportunities to charge.

I prefer ePub. Much more convenient for me than a paper book.

• I simply don’t have the space to physically store a lot of paper books
• It’s much easier to bring my Kobo with me when commuting or traveling
• Much easier for me to buy eBooks than physical books
• Even though I’ve been having my device for like 8 years, I’m still fascinated by how cool the e-ink display is

On the other hand, paper books have only one thing to offer that sometimes holds:

• They’re all DRM-free, while some eBooks I’ve been wanting to buy are DRM-enshittified. Still hasitating about those, as I’m not willing to spend money on such books.