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  • On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.

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  • The Constitution is pretty much TP in itself at this point, though, at least as far as the cronies running everything are concerned.

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    Which social media platform has done the most damage to people's mindset?

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  • Tiktok easily.

  • What are some physical items that should be available at libraries for people to borrow?

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  • Art and craft supplies, which I guess technically falls under 'tools' the the first post on here suggests.

    Although obviously paper, plaster, cement (for tile mosaics and the like) and air-dry clay or Model Magic are single-use items and things like markers, pencils, crayons, oil pastels, chalk, paints, glue, etc. are all consumable items and will be used up over time and need to be replenished, but still.

    Also, some way to mitigate any inevitable messes from using this type of thing on-premises will need to be hatched out as art and crafts are varying levels of a messy endeavor to get into, especially once the glitter or chalk/charcoal or plaster comes out or once you get into things like paper mache and such, or even when the clay comes out especially once pottery wheels are involved, or when you get into things like making slime.

    Ooh, maybe even host a community sidewalk art or tile mosaic stepping stone day, that would be awesome.

  • "Pretend" there are no required qualifications or legal and ethical restrictions to becoming the president of the US, who would you like to see in office?

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  • Given Trump's second term kinda proves there are no legal or ethical restrictions to becoming President, assuming that precedent sticks, then I'd like to see anyone who's not a wannabe dictator come back and oust Trump.

    Shit, Louis Rossmann as President would be kinda awesome.

  • What's an uplifting fact that might counter the doom of our current reality?

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  • What Anime have good Openings/Endings?

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  • The opener for the first season of Pokemon is on most top-ten best lists and for good reason; that song slaps.

    Clown on 4Kids all you want, they messed up more than enough Western localizations to justify it, but they killed it for the soundtrack for the early Pokemon seasons.

  • The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily rejects Google's attempt to block changes to the Play Store.

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  • They're probably going to pass some money under the table to get this overturned just like they did to get to keep Chrome and Android.

  • how did you make the switch from reddit to lemmy.. i'm trying to myself but struggling to ngl

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  • The moment they announced increasing censorship was what did it for me, basically it was the 'It's only a matter of time before I get banned on here so I might as well nuke my account while I'm still ahead' realization when that went down.

    Even just reading Reddit without an account sucks because Redlib is always getting blocked.

  • Anyone else think Reddit mods are using shadow bans to limit dissenting opinions?

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  • At least you can move to another instance if you ever get banned on any given instance on Lemmy, or roll your own instance if you really want to own your presence on this platform and you have the local hardware to dedicate to that, or even the rest of the Fediverse for that matter, to also include Mastodon, Pixelfed, Loops, Matrix, and PeerTube.

  • Anyone else think Reddit mods are using shadow bans to limit dissenting opinions?

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  • I don't doubt that they are, I'm going to keep recommending this, but if you haven't been banned from Reddit yet, kill your account on there while you're still ahead like I did, because it's a matter of when you get banned on that site at this point, rather than if.

  • What show or movie did you come to understand as a meditation on suffering and loss?

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  • Could The Iron Giant count given a big part of its message came from the director's sister succumbing to domestic gun violence?

  • What's with all the people on here asking, 'Can I do this with AI, can I do that with AI' lately?

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  • Recommendations for one of those new (to my experience) vacuum/mop hybrids for faux wood flooring?

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  • Hoover is basically in the same position as the ThinkPad name now, although Lenovo isn't treating the ThinkPad name quite as badly as TTI is treating Hoover yet, but the quality and even repairability/upgradability of ThinkPads has been going on a decline lately.

  • Recommendations for one of those new (to my experience) vacuum/mop hybrids for faux wood flooring?

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  • Don't get anything made under the TTI banner if you can help it. Rossmann has a whole video going over why with one of their vac-mops sold under the Hoover brand.

    (which, the Hoover name, which used to be a mark of quality, getting dragged through the sewers by TTI is tragic enough in itself)

    The video in question that goes over why you shouldn't get anything made by TTI if you can help it: https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/this-floor-cleaner-is-designed-to-kill:7

  • Do you use physical media?

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  • At least they won't go away if the downloads for them are delisted, they'll still be there for you to re-rip from.

  • Do you use physical media?

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  • If you lose those files and don't have them backed up for whatever reason, and they're delisted from downloading, they're gone, or if they get corrupted for some reason and they're delisted, you can't just re-download them anymore.

  • Do you use physical media?

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  • That's fine, I'm just nerding out.

  • Youtube seems to be blocking access to a seriously large amount of publicly listed videos

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  • You can always roll your own instance if you have the hardware to spare. I don't recommend hosting on a VPS as that defeats the purpose of self-hosting as you're hosting on someone else's computer at the end of the day and that's no different than signing up for an existing public instance and posting there, other than you're paying for that VPS.

  • Do you use physical media?

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  • When or ifever I end up buying music, it's going to be physical where possible because legal download sites are going on delisting sprees now, eg. like 7Digital's been doing for a while now.

    At least with physical CDs, I can do my own FLAC rips and not worry about losing the physical copy unlike with legal download sites where if it's delisted, it's completely gone even for downloads you already bought.

    Vinyl also technically can be ripped to FLAC, but since you're digitizing an analog format, it's a real-time process so you gotta sit through an entire side of an LP unlike with CDs which can be ripped quickly, plus you'd need to manually split the raw waveform up into individual tracks, and manually input metadata, digitizing analog formats like vinyl, open-reel, or cassette is a very long, drawn-out, and manual process vs. ripping CDs, but it's something I'd still recommend doing especially as vinyl physically wears down every time it's played back as is its nature being a mechanical format read by a stylus, so digitizing an album to FLAC for future playback and then putting the physical album back on the shelf can prolong its life, especially for any particularly valuable albums.

    This goes for tape formats too although since they're read by a magnet, they don't wear down every time they're played back in the same way vinyl does, but they still degrade.

    Another perk to all this especially for digitizing vinyl in particular, is you'd have a FLAC 'master file' you could then transcode to Opus or some other lossy codec for listening on space-limited devices like a lot of lower-end mobile devices, but that also applies to FLAC rips of CDs or even digitized tape albums too; keep the FLACs at home while putting the Opus rips on your phone if your phone is space-limited (even 510kbit/s Opus rips are smaller than the FLAC input file while having no audible degradation).