I just noticed a pattern of personality types that I didn’t mesh well with. So it’s best I don’t see their opinions, nor give them mine.
Like blocking all hexbear users. I’m sure I’m probably missing something worthwhile here and there, but overall my life is better without it.
I subscribe to ones I’m interested in. But sometimes I browse all to stumble across new interesting communities. I block the ones I see repeatedly and aren’t interested in. I block mass posters, I block bots, I block tankies, I block mods/admins of larger communities. It just makes my all browsing time more efficient.
I use it to curate my lemmy experiance. 99% of the users/communities I block aren’t for anything personal, they’re just clogging up my ALL feed with things I dont care about (for example, sports ball or foreign language comms).
I just donate them when I’m done. Often you can buy the physical CD cheaper from places like discogs than you can a digital version. So I don’t feel bad giving them away afterwards. Someone might even discover the bands I love.
But the version by Cradle of Filth
Drunk? That’s a meth pipe my friend.
black ink to make it look ‘manly’
cries in goth girl
Did you get a knockoff? www.baofengradio.com is the legit url that I’ve bought baofeng radios from, and I just checked the boxes; no flags or bible verses.
I sort by all and curate that down to what I want to see. So, lots.
Also applies to virtue signalers with fragile masculinity.
Arthur knew what he signed up for; and I had come to accept what I could see coming at that point… But his horse’s death hit me fucking hard.
What happened there? I must have wandered off before the drama happened.
the Gen Z stare
That’s just an effective tactic. I’m way older than gen z and figured out a long time ago that unless a reply is absolutely necessary, just staying quiet and staring will get a transactional conversation to it’s point and over much quicker.
Also, the burden of initiating conversation should be on the active caller side, not on the passice receiver
As an active caller, unless there is a ton of background noise, I may or may not get any indication that the person I’m calling has actually picked up. So I’m just going to sit there until they say something or hang up.
Stumbleupon was kind of like that. Along with being an early type of link aggregator, any website would have its own comment section that was only visible to other stumbleupon users.
I used to enjoy it, and it looks like it may still be alive in some form. But I’m not brave enough to see how shitty it’s become. I’ll keep my rose tinted glasses on.
Meanwhile 99% of the people I want to talk to are contacts in my phone or businesses with caller id.
And that’s why I don’t feel too bad moving on to the next. If I’m calling someone, they had to have called me at least once already. If they’re too lazy to save the number and want to play silly games, I have better uses of my time. I was just curious of the thought process.
It’s when they detect a voice that the auto dialer connects you with the scammer.
I just hang up as soon as I hear that little “bloop” sound and that cuts out 90% of them.
You purposely pick up and sit in silence? Not even a “Yo”, “Sup”, or “Aye”?
I wondered why people have been doing that when I call them at work. Sucks to be them, they’ve been waiting 2 weeks to 2 months for an appointment. I just hang up and move on to the next. If they didn’t want to talk they should have let it go to voicemail.
https://notebooklm.google.com/ is really handy for various things, you can throw a bunch of documents into it and then ask questions and chat interactively about their contents.
Nice, thanks! I’ve been looking for something I can stuff a bunch of technical manuals into and ask it to recite specifications or procedures. It even gave me the document and pages it got the information from so I could verify. That’s really all I ever wanted from “AI”.
Filter to block posts by keyword in lemmyUI
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)Change lemmy.world to whatever your instance is and the words to whatever topics you don’t want to see.