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  • It kind of does work though, Jodel is already a thing and its all location based and getting users close to each other to interact.

  • This community got removed from lemmy.world (again)
  • Well I guess that shows why I main kbin and not lemmy.world. Absolute dogshit decision from them.

  • A powerful argument
  • Always remember when contemplating arguing with some guy on the internet, that you may be arguing about what cheese goes with what wine and then you check their post history and realize they drink their own piss. And then you're like "Wow, I actually tried to argue culinary choices with a guy who drinks his own piss."

    Just saves time when you accept that lots of people reject reality and substitute facts with alternative lies.

  • Which carbonated soft drink is the best?
  • Store brand cola (Rainbow) is fine for me. Also Pepsi Max out of a can, just something about it.

    A special shoutout to Canada Dry Ginger Ale, I miss it. I haven't seen it in the store for over a month now.

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  • I use ffmpeg batch AV converter, you can convert multiple files automatically, its great for that.

  • Pirate Site Blocking Demands Intensify in the US
  • Oh my God, thanks for the heads up! As a European, I would most definitely want to avoid visiting these sites, as I obviously respect copyright law to its full extent! Now I can add them to my (block) list!

  • Adam Mosseri spells out Threads’ plans for the fediverse | The head of Instagram says a full integration with the fediverse could take ‘the better part of a year’
  • Well they can plan it if they want to, but I'm sure many instances will just end up blocking them and there isn't anything they can do about it. But on the other hand, having such a large backing is making things much easier for Threads.

  • Nordic piracy stats
  • Ok maybe its just me being out of touch with the Finnish scene, but I seriously and I mean SERIOUSLY doubt that 40% of the content pirated here is Finnish content. Could, again, be me just not giving a damn about Finnish shows/movies personally, but I don't even know where I'd go looking for those downloads. But just looking at the sheer amount of content that's available in English and other languages vs Finnish content, they are in essence saying that almost all Finnish shows are pirated then, because otherwise you're not getting anywhere close to 40% of that content being pirated. Unless they think that without piracy ALL of those people would be watching it legally, then maybe you'd get somewhere north of 20%. But even with just Finnish content, the fact is that you'd have to subscribe, I think to at least two (MTV Katsomo+ that is 13€ per month so you don't get ads (which yes, means that there is 7€ paid tier WITH ADS....) and Ruutu+ (that is also 13€ per month, 8€ per month WITH ADS....) and that's on top of, say Netflix. I just don't think that without piracy those 40% would actually pay for those services, just don't see it happening. I think they are way off with their numbers and are delusional in thinking that Finnish content would have such a big draw. I doubt it does.

  • Landlord torches New York home after tenants stop paying rent, become squatters
  • And they had not paid rent since January? I will never understand the notion that some people, regular people, not billionaires, deserve to lose income while some people deserve free housing because of "family". While he obviously went a bit overboard, I can't imagine there wasn't some desperation in his actions because he had not been paid rent for months on end.

  • Paid for MS Excel out of the goodness of my heart so now I get this popup every 2 hours...
  • Shit like this is why I switched to OpenOffice and then LibreOffice all those years ago. LibreOffice is just as good for my personal purposes and I'm never going back to MS Office. Unless your work specifically requires something only Microsoft's product can do, I highly recommend LibreOffice, I use it every single day.

  • Amazon is raising free-shipping minimums for customers without a Prime membership
  • Just make sure anything you order is either "fulfilled by Amazon" or "Ships from Amazon" and you should avoid that. I personally don't order anything that isn't shipped by Amazon (either through fulfillment or otherwise).

  • It would appear lemmy.world has blocked this community
  • Yeah man, started on kbin and its been my favorite so far.

  • It's why it's called the North Pole
  • I'm too stupid to figure out the scale between that pole and the earth, so I did this instead:

    • Let us say that we have a standard globe and it has been attached to its stand from the south and north poles, so that you can spin it around on the stand

    • Let us assume that the "pole" attached to the globe is 2cm in diameter and that the scale of the globe is 1:42M

    • With this, it would mean that a 2cm "pole" on a globe would in real life correspond to a pole that is 840 kilometers in diameter.

    Needless to say, that pole would be fucking massive either way.

  • Good software for batch audio file conversion.
  • I'm using FFmpeg Batch AV converter for converting several files at once. Its simple and free.

  • What movie did you rewatch most often?
  • In no particular order besides alphabetical (all movies rewatched over a dozen times):

    • Atomic Blonde
    • Bad Boys 1 and 2
    • Bourne Trilogy
    • Back To The Future trilogy
    • Deja Vu
    • Eraser
    • LOTR trilogy
    • Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of Black Pearl
    • Swat
    • Terminator trilogy
    • True Lies
    • Transformers (the original ones with Shia LaBeouf)

    There are many more, but I'm not gonna sit here and try to remember them all.

  • Official reddit app is #1 news app in the Danish iOS app store
  • #4 in Social and 3.4 stars in Finland and the first reviews you see without tapping on anything are negative ones and they're actual reviews that list legitimate complaints.

  • Mastodon has hit 2M active monthly users!
  • I swear it hit 2M last year as well, people just stopped using it.

  • Zuckerberg’s ‘Twitter killer’ Threads hits 70m sign-ups in two days
  • Over 300 million I think, which Threads is not yet even close to.

  • WEB 4.69
  • Isn't the file limit 25MB these days? And yeah, I remember Skype having no limit on that but I also remember it taking an eternity and a half to transfer some of those files.

  • Kevnyon Kevnyon @kbin.social

    I can't sleep in the shadow of the light

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