Anecdotally I'll say I feel like I used to be in the habit of typing out responses to posts daily when I first started using the internet. It feels like that was slowly trained out of me as the content and the responses got worse and worse (especially with the advent of LLMs). Trying to change that on Lemmy.
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It is nice to sort Lemmy's posts by new comments sometimes. Turns everything into a much more forum-like experience.
Here's what women really want:
I dunno man, if you are a girl wouldn’t you want a dude that, yeah, he’s attractive but also that looks manly? That can physically protect you? And that does not has a doll face?..
I personally prefer cute boys, and I know a lot of other women feel the same. Boys that sometimes wear a little foundation and look really nicely put together are just not something that American pop acts ever do! Luckily at least some of the men in my country are realizing it's nice to look cute sometimes.
It was the early days of a new technology and way of listening that was completely different compared to the past 60+ years of recorded audio. I guess as a more modern analogy it's like those cheap 3D films at the height of the fad that felt the need to gratuitously shove objects directly in front of the camera to get the most out of the 3D effect.
Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, who produced Pet Sounds, was actually deaf in one ear. Despite that, he got along just fine in a monophonic world, but the switch to stereo completely left him behind. It was a huge change in how music was mixed.
You have to understand that mixing consoles from that era were supremely limited in channels (think four, eight, later sixteen), to the point where they would often have to mix one section (say, the drums) and then record that mix to tape so it would take up a single channel and then do the guitar, bass, and vocals on another channel. The idea of having two of the same thing going through two channels was an exorbitant luxury they couldn't afford!
I don't remember 9/11
As an audio engineer, I was very confused about what this had to do with Direct Injection for a second.
Genuinely the only way I want to use my phone. Everything I use daily is on the home screen, everything else I have to go searching for. White background, black icons, all notifications turned off. Simple and easy!
Hey, don't just blame the parents. In the back half of this article the author points out that social media harms youth no matter if their parents let them use it or not because of the social webs it creates. If you choose to keep your child off social media then they could just as easily end up isolated from their peers because everyone else IS using it.
The tech savvy will just buy a Raspberry Pi and install yunohost on it.