alex [they/them]
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alex [they/them]@beehaw.orgto Piracy@lemmy.ml•Z Library down again - gone for good?English1·2 years agoThey have a much bigger catalogue outside of English, I believe
alex [they/them]@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•[@asklemmy](https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy) How do you listen to music / podcasts? At what places?English1·2 years agoMusic: I have a few CDs that are in need of a CD player and also have Jellyfin (no server, only local) to listen to my downloaded music on my TV (which mostly comes from Bandcamp). For my phone, I have the Bandcamp app, it’s basic but it does what I need from it.
Podcasts: via Podcast Addict on my phone (unfortunately no browser version, but that’s gotten less important with the years as I spend less time on my computer and the time I do spend requires enough focus that I don’t listen to podcasts), during sports sessions (podcast for warmup & cooldown, audiobook for the session itself), commutes, walking, cleaning & cooking.
You should post here: !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
This is not a technical support community.
(but also i’ve had the same issue since the last lemmy update, i suppose a bug made its way in there.)
Sounds like an issue with Jerboa more than with Lemmy tbh if you can’t properly block a community. Log in to the website and block the community there.
My suggestion would be to back it up on the Internet archive manually once in a while.
alex [they/them]@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•(Men of fediverse) If you could change one thing about women, what would it be?English6·2 years agoThe men around them.
alex [they/them]@beehaw.orgto Food and Cooking@beehaw.org•[Discussion] What are you eating/cooking this week? July 10, 2023English0·2 years agoIt’s so hot outside, I’m almost only making salads. Yesterday was:
- 1 cucumber, diced
- 150g cherry tomatoes, halved
- 100g feta cheese, crumbled
- 1 peach, diced
- Balsamic vinegar
Most of my days are a variation around that until things get fresher (peach can be replaced with a yellow or red pepper depending on what my veggie dealer has in stock).
alex [they/them]@beehaw.orgto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Are we committed to Lemmy? or would we move if something better comes along?English33·2 years agoI’m committed to open source (or at the very least indie dev) more than to a single platform.
alex [they/them]@beehaw.orgto Mastodon@lemmy.ml•Why do Mastodon posts don't get many likes?English51·2 years agoAs said above, likes are virtually useless. They’re more like “noticeable bookmarks”. Mastodon etiquette is to boost rather than like, if you enjoy a toot, and that’s also how it was when the Twitter timeline was chronological and didn’t include likes, a very long time ago.
alex [they/them]@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•How do you use RSS?English1·2 years ago- For my Mastodon feed, so I don’t have to open yet another app
- For my Youtube and Nebula subscriptions, same
- For a few FB pages & others that post events, same
- For my Lemmy feed, same
- For all my news feeds (curated, usually) for a quick look at everything
- For my friends’ posts so I know I won’t miss a single one
I currently use the premium plan for Inoreader. I like tinyRSS, just didn’t do it for me; I’ve been using RSS since Google Reader.
For RSS feed recommendations you can also take inspiration from this post: https://beehaw.org/post/618286
alex [they/them]@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•A script to find subreddits you subscribed to on reddit, in the lemmyverse.English1·2 years agothat’s really cool, thanks!
For tech zeroes like me, this is what I did:
- Install Python
- Download ZIP (top-right corner of the linked Github file)
- Extract the .py file from the ZIP
- Double-click the .py file
alex [they/them]@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What wasn't actually better in the good old days?English1·2 years agoBeing LGBTQ+, or not white, or not a man, or disabled.
alex [they/them]@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Users from before the current wave of Reddit refugees, how do you feel about the incoming monsoon of refugees?English0·2 years agoWell:
- I’m annoyed at calling people who dislike an app and choose another website “refugees”
- I’m happy that we’re going to have more activity
- I hope more instances will be built and maintained, because I don’t think the large number of new members can be moderated effectively if they keep flocking to the same handful of instances
- When in doubt, I hope moderators will be too strict rather than not enough, especially in the beginning to make sure the behavioural expectations are very clear
alex [they/them]@beehaw.orgto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is your favourite Lemmy community, which is not on lemmy.ml?English1·2 years agoDo you federate with Beehaw? I have a 404 every time I look for a blahaj.zone community from Beehaw :(
alex [they/them]@beehaw.orgto Technology@lemmy.ml•What is your favourite 3rd party Lemmy client?English5·2 years agoI like the website as is.
alex [they/them]@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•What are your favorite browser extensions?English5·2 years agoFirefox user here.
- Bitwarden password manager
- Bypass Paywalls Clean
- Clear URLs remove URL trackers
- Highlight or Hide Search Engine Results to hide some unwanted websites from search results
- Open in VLC™ media player, useful for some weird streams
- Push to Kindle sends any text article to PDF or to your ereader (not only Kindle)
- Recipe Filter filters recipe pages on blogs and just gets the actual ingredients & instructions
- Redirector for a few paywalls where I use a specific proxy
- RSS Reader Extension (by Inoreader) - as I use Inoreader for following RSS feeds
- Sci Hub Injector adds sci-hub links to many science publishing websites for easy access
- Shinigami Eyes highlights trans-friendly and transphobic social media users or websites
- uBlock Origin
- ViolentMonkey for userscripts
Extensions to be helpful to other people:
- Picket Line Notifier tells you if the website you are visiting has workers on strike - useful especially for ecommerce & news publishers
- Snowflake is not noticeable for me, but allows other people to use my network as a Tor node or something idk
- Wayback Machine archives every page I visit on the Internet Archive.
Fediverse extensions:
- FediAct allows me to boost, reply to, follow, etc. on any Mastodon instance without having to open the right link in my own instance. I wish there was something like this for Lemmy and Peertube.
- Fedishare allows for one-click sharing to several Fediverse platforms, including Lemmy and Mastodon
- PeerTubeify tries to check if a YouTube video you’re watching is also on PeerTube
Youtube extensions:
- Auto HD / 4k / 8k pour YouTube™ - I use it for the environment, so default quality is 480px (because usually I watch the videos on a small side window so it doesn’t change the visible quality)
- Clickbait Remover for YouTube - replaces thumbnails with a frame from the video and makes all titles normally named, no all caps
- DF YouTube (Distraction Free) - removes the homepage & sidebar on videos to avoid rabbit holes
- SponsorBlock auto-skips sponsored segments, intros, credit rolls, etc. on YouTube videos
alex [they/them]@beehaw.orgto Technology@lemmy.ml•✨What are some news feeds that you read on a daily basis?📰English1·2 years agoYeah! Here are a few options: https://alt.framasoft.org/en/framanews
alex [they/them]@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Twitter users are BEGGING for invite-only code to Jack Dorsey's rival platform Bluesky - which now has 100,000 usersEnglish5·2 years agoLemmy doesn’t have that feature.
Signal >>>>>>>> WhatsApp > texting > Telegram >>>>>>> Messenger.