footnote 3: And by extension: any feature that speeds up the audio or video we consume

I disagree that speeding up something is the same thing at all. Playing something at a constant rate (faster or slower) still maintains the editorial choices that the author was talking about.

I speed up plenty of things I listen to, and it’s not (primarily) to get through them quicker.

Across the world it’s the case that city folk tend to speak quicker than their rural countrymen. American speak slower, on average, than Brits. And that’s fine! However, I find it hard to maintain focus when the speech is too slow - so speeding it up allows me to enjoy it like intended.

I definitely agree that the trim silence feature sound awful.

In Deep Space 9, Jake Sisko (the station commander’s son) is a journalist for the Federation News Service. There’s a good episode where he ends up in a war zone and the story covers cowardice and PTSD.

This a great answer in a sea of slightly odd food choices. It’s healthy for kids to do this, apparently.

I think part of the problem is that even when you’re subscribed to the small communities, it’s easy to miss the posts. Sorting by Scaled helps a little, but I still often find a post from days ago that I missed.

I’d like an option where you could “super subscribe” or something which makes those posts show up first, or even in the inbox.

No, it’ll be fine 99% of the time.

Nowadays, feature detection is done within browsers, and the differences between browsers are small enough that servers generally will serve the same version of a page to all.

The fact that it’s Nintendo’s IP seems the key thing here.

So did Nintendo get Valve to do this, or is Valve just covering its back from the notoriously-litigious Nintendo?

Ah, ok, that makes more sense. That also solves any ordering problem if you, say, you’re running local and elsewhere commands and a sync means pressing up gives you an unexpected item.

Sync seems like it’s going to be more pain than its worth unless you have all your machines configured the same. I’m not even running the same distros between machines…

Agreed - it’s 25 minutes without filler or repetition. Good stuff.

I’m not sure what you’re asking. Do you mean Lemmy communities, Lemmy instances, or something else?

If you’re on Windows, you can use Win + .

If you’re on Linux, try ctrl + shift + e

I’m surprised you say you don’t know what the 😭 face means, since it’s just exaggerated crying. Is it because they’re too small, or that you suspect there’s some implied agreement/subtext you’re not party to?

I can see why people wouldn’t know what something like 🍆 is used to represent, since it’s not for the intended (I assume…) use.

False dichotomy (or is your logical fallacy the slippery slope? Anyway…) Someone saying that what’s happening to Palestinians is wrong does not mean they’re saying they want all Israelis killed.

I was going to suggest War for the Overworld but at eight years old perhaps that doesn’t qualify.

Ah, I just posted about this in !books@lemmy.ml (I forgot what this community was called). My Halloween history:

• 2023: Perfectly Preventable Deaths by Deirdre Sullivan
• 2022: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• 2021: Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
• 2020: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• 2019: Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
• 2018: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders & Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• 2017: Carrie by Stephen King
• 2016: Jekyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 2015: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
• 2014: The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft
• 2012: The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft
• 2009: Dracula by Bram Stoker
• 2008: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

I’d agree that you can’t binge on them - best to just read one in between longer books.

I’m another Kagi fan - after customising it a little it’s just so good, and I haven’t even played with features like lenses.

I really like the custom bang searches (e.g. I could make !ks gravity search on simple Wikipedia), especially on mobile since Firefox Android doesn’t support the normal browser quicksearches (where you set a keyword for each search).

That’s interesting. The flaw with that logic seems to that there’ll always be new users, and they’ll be playing on hard mode since those vital clues have been removed.

Online it’s even more annoying (to me, anyway), because we have the time element specifically for this kind of thing and no-one bothers to use it.

After a glance at others’ answers, it’s the same thing: the trend away from skeuomorphism.

I always think about the time I discovered an Android area was horizontally scrollable - with no scrollbars to clue me in, it was only the fact that the icon I wanted wasn’t there that prompted me to discover the secret. I’m a software dev, if it’s unintuitive even to me, how do non-technical people stand a chance?