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Mine hit me with the “We're spending all this money on you now so you can’t grow up and say we didn’t spend money on you when your were a kid.”

Mine was the Apple II Europlus. Bought it in 1979. Loved that thing.

Normally, I use YouTube very little (watch a couple videos a month). However, I've been in bed with an injury for some time now, which has led me to watch quite a bit of YouTube. The thing is, I subscribe to a small handfull of channels that I enjoy content from, but after a relatively short time I had watched pretty much all the new content from those channels.

Now, I would expect that the YouTube algorithm, which is supposedly designed by competent people to get me to stick around, would be able to suggest some decent content to me based on my subscriptions. However, the past week, I've opened YouTube only to find the same old videos being suggested over and over. Even worse: Whenever there's something interesting-looking from a channel I don't recognise, it always turns out to be some shitty AI voice over some generic animations or footage.

I know for a fact that thousands of hours of content are created on YouTube daily, but it genuinely feels like there are maybe five creators out there that are making anything worth watching. It's either that, or the YouTube algorithm is just complete crap at suggesting creators that are in any way similar to what I'm already subscribing to.

What's going on here? Why does it seem like there's no real content out there?

As a "funny" side note: What's with the "aggressively American" AI narrator-voice? I've heard it before, but thought it was some dude until I realised it's the same voice in a bunch of unrelated videos. It reminds me of the Discovery-channel "action-narrator"-voice from back in the day, but now it's showing up in all kinds of crap videos.

By vehicle I mean like anything. Bus, Train, Boat, Submarine (like the Titan lol), Plane, anything you would plausibly travel on in your lifetime.

So, Ive recently gotten back into writing and been thinking about how much more fun it would be to write Outside. Problem is, the sun hates screens. I have an Alphawrite Neo, of course, but I've always been insecure about lugging a weird educational device around with me in public. So I started looking into Eink tablets that could be used with a keyboard and

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Jesus H. Christ, that price tag!

I just want something to type on something. Apparently thats strange, so maybe there will be something cheaper as just a word processor. It seems that the only reasonable offering here is the Freewrite Traveler, though, so I look it up and

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WHY‽ It's the same price!

Okay, maybe I could just get a Raspberry Pi 400 and attach an eInk monitor to it. Apparently, this is not the usual use-case for E-ink, but there are in fact e-ink monitors out there! Most were around a thousand dollars for some reason, but here is the cheapest one I could find:

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That's around the price point of a Boox Go, for reference, which has a really slow screen refresh rate.

Why is there no affordable e-paper products that arent a pain to use? I am aware of cheaper ones, but the ones ive seen reviews if aren't able to keep up with typing in a way that seems responsive. And I'm aware that you can find eink displays (as in the component) for as low as $30, so they should be able to be cheaper than this!

Apologies if the photo quality is insufficient. In a particular bit of forest, I found an area with a large birch population that all seemed to be suffering from the same issue. Something is causing the leaves to first stripe green and yellow, then turn brown/black, and while there are new leaf buds forming, trees are seemingly losing the leaves faster than they can replace them. There are other areas with birch trees on the same forest that don't have this issue at all. In the affected area, some trees have only one or two leaves left with any green in them at all.

This is in New England, USA

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Even though there used to be adequate sites, I haven't looked for art for ages now. Its may still be possible to find non ai/ low effort stuff but honestly i don't need more doomscrolling in my life.

Do any of you know some artists who do any of this

• 2d or 3d art / illustration / etc
• publish art/ portfolio on a personal site or similar
• may even sell some nice prints or so
• no need for mass i seek class

I obviously know that the main internet presence for many resides on bigtech platforms, however i'd appreciate having some more deliberate means to seek out stuff i might enjoy.

I may as well link to some randoms on the internet

https://www.chatonlaser.net/ https://www.nemupan.com/gallery https://ilustrata.com.br/

Don't limit yourself to similar artists, feel free to link whomever you know, no matter the plaform they are on, the art they produce, etc. I'd appreciate it

My desk is cluttered and I just found this thing on it. I'm worried it's some egg from a insect. It's extremely hard tho I try as hard as I can, but I can't squish it with my fingers. It's mostly see through which doesn't seem bug like. Looks more like a pill or a maybe a stone from some jewelry. But don't take any pills like this or have any jewelry with that color stone that anyone in the house wears really

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/bca2520a-0010-44ac-8401-d4ac3238a083.webp

The reason why I prefer to date traditional Latina women is because as a Latino myself I want my future wife to have the same cultural background as me, the same language as me because I in my experience my mother tends to get along alot better with my latina girlfriends than my non latina girlfriends that I have date in the past. And I genuinely just want to have a housewife who is taking care of the kids and cleaning the house when I'm working 60 hours a week to provide for my family. and is able to get along with my mother. Does this make me misogynistic?

Curious what kind of alarm/ringtone people are rocking. Gentle and subtle tunes or straight up horrible loud alarms?

Original question by: @RavenofDespair@lemmy.ml

I don't often have dreams or remember my dreams, when I do they're usually either me somehow being back in school despite graduating over 20 years ago, or I'm living some better version of my life that I end up feeling bad about after I wake up. But I've had a couple recently that were a bit out of the ordinary for me and are making me wonder if it's possible to have a dream that, albeit a fictional scenario, seems otherwise plausible and logical.

For instance, the dream I just had involved me arriving at work (which I always drive to because USA), but in my dream I didn't drive. When I got there I put a blanket down in a parking space, then pretended to pull a car into the space over the blanket, and pretended to also lock up the car afterward. I acknowledged a fellow "coworker" (I put this in quotes because it wasn't someone I recognize from real life but in the context of the dream I knew them as a coworker) passing by as I "parked" my "car" and they treated it as perfectly normal. As an aside while I type this, I don't know that I've ever driven in a dream I had.

As I approached the store I work at (which was in the location of an old job I had ~20 years ago rather than my current job's location), there was a sticker on the door saying that the store had changed locations, but didn't say where or have any other details. Given I had just worked there yesterday this came as a surprise to me and my other "coworkers" outside (quotes again because none of them were actual people I work with).

Among said coworkers was one person dressed in a suit (I work in food service) who was actually like 3 different colored versions of the same person (think of a multiplayer game like Gauntlet where you have like a red wizard, yellow wizard, etc.). He was arguing with someone else that he was a warlock lawyer, the other person was insisting he's a wizard. As I looked around the crowd of my coworkers gathered outside I saw the only person I recognize from my actual life, my boss's boss, our district manager, who also was unaware of the store moving location, and was trying to find out more information.

Anyway, that's where the dream ended, thanks for reading this far if you have. What weird dreams have you had lately? Do you remember having any dreams that just made you go "yeah, that seemed normal, I could see that happening hypothetically?"