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  • I recently started using Mastodon. Which people or accounts would you recommend to follow and why?

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  • Depends what you're interested in...

    Lacking that information, how I went about it:

    • advertise that you have Mastodon so people can follow you
    • I knew two persons so I followed them and see who they boost and @mention
    • I browsed the local and the federated timelines
    • for every particularly interesting post or mention (raise the bar as you follow more people), check out the profile that posted it and whether you're interested in following them
    • click on hashtags that sound interesting and repeat the previous step
    • look for some common (nick/short)names of your city/area/country as hashtag and check if anyone uses that already. Might be worth following (you can follow hashtags, not just people). I find that it's relatively low quality, but any high quality local posts are often quite useful, so...
    • don't be afraid to unfollow if a profile turns out to be less interesting than expected!

    Not a one-day process of course, but pretty quickly I got my timeline fuller than the amount of time I want to spend browsing microblogs. From there I've mostly been looking at profiles that show up via boosts, very rarely looking at the general pool (the server's timeline) anymore

    Once beyond that initial stage, I might recommend having a "list" (the Mastodon feature) where you add people of whom you want to see every post. For me, that's direct friends, a weekly comic I enjoy, and some people who don't post much but whose posts are nearly always worth seeing. Iirc the default behavior is that people in lists are hidden from your main timeline but you can disabled that

    Tusky is the client I use. The first tab is general timeline, second tab is my "see all posts" list, third is inbox, then a hashtag I follow, then bookmarks, and that's it. Works really well for me. Hope you find (some of) this setup useful as well!

  • Users who don't have a profile picture set, Why?

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  • Wait there's profile pictures? I just see usernames in the comment threads in Lemmy and that seems fine to me

  • 94.3° F

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  • I had the same issue/concern and so shared the price with someone else. We intended to timeshare but they were kinda done with it after a few days whereas I love it and use it at least weekly since like three years now

    The local library has one for loan. I'd recommend getting that before you buy it outright indeed

    I measure everything, like

    • "is everything in this microwaved meal heated through, no cold spots?" (after stirring)
    • "oh it's freezing out, I'm curious how cold food got that we transported in the trunk of the car while the cabin was warm" (so I go and point it at the trunk area to get an idea of the cold/hot spots, as well as the food of course)
    • new phone/laptop: I'm curious how hot it gets to the touch
    • The insulation checks that people mention
    • instantly see which pieces of laundry are not 100% dry yet. You can feel it individually, but the wife acceptance factor is in getting an instant answer for a whole rack
    • Pouring a cold liquid into a hot one (or vice versa) is beautiful to see. Like watching a fire, except it's at 320x480 (but it's a new kind of fire! Exciting nerdery!)
    • I've tried finding animals in the forest but it turns out that branches, leaves, ground, sky etc. all have very different temperatures and you can't easily make out an animal among all that. Was interesting to try though, I enjoyed myself for a few hours across different visits ("it's cold out, maybe now animals show up with better contrast? Are the plants keeping warm? Let's go see!")
    • cat buttholes =). I noticed randomly at some point that this is where they leak the most heat, and figured getting a few baselines while our cat walks by is good to have ahead of the time you want to know if their temperature is elevated
    • gimmick to show people who haven't seen it before. If they're interested, you get to talk about how it works and what things look interesting
    • edit: wait, I remember a legit use case: we used it to find where we can drill. One of these magnetometer devices was going wild and we couldn't otherwise locate the cable that runs to an outlet. Connected a 1500W space heater for iirc 20 minutes and it was crystal clear! /edit.

    Still not sure if this all justifies the price but I own it now and I'm making the fullest use of it and enjoy it :)

  • 94.3° F

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  • They have fur...

    Our cat doesn't come to rooms that are warmer until the one they're in is about 16°C, so I think they only get chilly at or below that temperature. They're short haired but the winter coat still looks comfy warm to me, like I'm also fine in bed once my blanket is warmed up

    Probably if you have a naked cat it's different, as well as individual preferences, but they don't need a warmer climate just because their inner temperature is higher. Our "european shorthair" lives in the same climate as we do

  • How do I get a app's APK? One that I downloaded at Play Store? I wanna put it on archive.org.

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  • Sorry, also at @MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world, I was mistaken indeed. The option I was thinking of is called "manual download" but, when opening that dialog, the only buttons are cancel and install.

    I'm pretty sure I've done this though, but probably by pressing install (either there or in the main UI) and looking for the apk in Aurora's cache folder

  • Hoe is het om in Nederland te wonen?

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  • Relatief duur, veilig, modern (veel digitalisering; gaat voor privacy), en individualistisch

    Nog altijd veel autocultuur en OV wordt afgebouwd; desondanks is het OV betrouwbaar en kun je op de meeste plekken de auto achterwege laten, zeker als je de laatste minuten fietst of loopt

    Toen ik tijdelijk naar het kustgebied verhuisde, is een van de dingen die me opviel dat het vrijwel altijd vervelend hard waait. In het binnenland is dat niet. De meeste mensen wonen in de grote steden in het westelijke kustgebied en dat weerspiegelt soms in de media. In het zuiden en westen (en wellicht elders) kun je niet meer dan enkele minuten lopen van veelbegane paden verwijderd zijn; er is vrijwel altijd iemand in je buurt

    Supermarkten hebben over het algemeen een goed aanbod aan moderne producten zoals vleesvervangers of kant-en-klaarproducten. Nog meer dan in Duitsland denk ik en al zeker globaal gezien. Fastfood komt uit de frituur (behalve internationale burger-/broodjesketens)

    Mensen bedoelen vaak "bericht" als ze "app" zeggen, maar sometimes also app. WiFi rijmt op bifi. Engels zul je vaak terughoren als je niet vloeiend Nederlands spreekt, ook al spreekt de persoon zelf slecht Engels. Ouderen kennen eerder Duits als tweede taal vanwege de TV, en wat Frans van school

    De taal heeft geen ingeburgerde manier van geslachtsneutraal schrijven. Waar Engels dat van nature doet en Duits verschillende breedgebruikte aanpakken kent, hebben wij enkel het male-default-model als enige algemeen gebruikte systeem

    Gelijkheid en directheid worden wel algemeen als groot goed gezien

    Ik wist heel lang niet dat coffeeshops in andere landen wél koffie verkopen. In Nederland heb ik geen idee of ze óók koffie verkopen. Drugscultuur is niet iets waar je per se mee in aanraking komt als je het niet opzoekt. Dat iedereen z'n eigen weg kan kiezen vind ik wel fijn aan Nederland

    "Vertalen is interpreteren". Menselijke vertaling:

    Relatively expensive, safe, modern (high degree of digitisation; prioritised over privacy), and individualistic

    Still a strong car culture and public transport keeps being cut back; despite that, it is reliable and in most places you could do away with having a car if you walk or cycle the last couple minutes

    When temporarily moving to the coastal area, one of things I noticed is that it's almost always annoyingly windy. Inland areas don't have that. Most people live in big cities in the coastal area in the west, and this is sometimes reflected in the media. In the zuiden and west (and perhaps elsewhere), you can't be more than a few minutes' walk away from well-trodden paths; there is almost always someone near to you

    Supermarkts generally have a good offering of modern products such as meat replacements and convenience products. I think more than in Germany and definitely globally. Fast food is prepared in a frying pan (besides international burger/sandwich chains)

    People often mean "message" when they say "app", except for sometimes. WiFi sounds like whiff-eww [pardon my terrible attempt at that :D]. You'll often be replied to in English if your Dutch isn't fluent, even if the person doesn't speak English that well. Older people would more often know German as second language due to TV, and some French from school

    The language has no established way of writing gender neutrally. Whereas English has it naturally and German has several widely used approaches, we have the male default model as only commonly used system

    Equality and directness are nevertheless generally seen as virtuous

    I didn't know for a long time that coffee shops in other countries do sell coffee. In the Netherlands, I have no idea if they also sell coffee. Addictive substance culture is not something you necessarily interact with if you don't seek it out. That everyone can go his [their] own way, I like about the Netherlands

  • How do I get a app's APK? One that I downloaded at Play Store? I wanna put it on archive.org.

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  • "Aurora store" is a client for the Google Play servers that lets you download the apk to a directory

    Edit: I seem to be wrong, it gets into a cache directory for installation but you can't seem to choose where that is

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  • Fwiw I remember trying to get an audio file onto someone else's tablet that I had borrowed and couldn't figure out what protocol the thing understands/shares with Linux. Even after putting it on a webserver and downloading with Safari I didn't find a way of playing it with the iOS music player (iTunes probably? I don't remember). OP could very well have an Apple device if they can't figure out how to do a simple file transfer from another machine, I couldn't figure it out either

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  • idk what beaming is but I made https://dro.pm/ for sending files between any OS combination

    Supports command line also in case you'd like to beam from there as well (of course wget to download, but if you curl|head the domain you also get instructions for uploading)

  • Is there any unedited conversation podcast you actually recommend?

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  • Idk if you're expecting me to background check your profile now but for English I have no recommendations

  • Is there any unedited conversation podcast you actually recommend?

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  • What languages do you speak?

  • Do you have strong opinions about universal basic income?

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  • I coincidentally heard something about that today. Sadly in German but according to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGE8jzGZ7To

    80% of people said they would continue working

    80% of people thought others would not

    We seem to expect worse of others than of ourselves. Even if it turns out to be that 40% ends up stopping to do anything remotely useful, it's at least worth trying and finding out what works and what doesn't imo. Having the right to choose how to live your life freely seems like an enormous benefit that a minority needn't ruin

  • Do you have strong opinions about universal basic income?

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  • We have a realistic minimum wage, but not everything that needs doing generates enough income to pay it. Taking care of your elderly mother as the simplest example but also firefighting apparently. It regularly blows my mind how much is done by volunteers. We could do so much more if you knew life's basics were going to be covered regardless of how you help society

  • Do you have strong opinions about universal basic income?

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  • no

    I would vote for it, because it seems nice and I don't see myself sitting still regardless, just that I'd choose more fulfilling / societally beneficial work if there weren't this idea of needing to provide and work with market forces. But then it came up with my cousin and she said she'd do fuck all, travel, spend time horse riding or whatnot, anything but work because why bother. Less anecdotal studies show cautiously positive results (or exceedingly positive in misleading headlines until you open the study and find two sides to the coin), but afaik have so far been very limited in both scale and duration. So idk but it seems at least worth a real try. Do we always need to have strong opinions?

  • What is something you can see, hear, smell, etc., that others can't?

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  • Do you mean like a bass sound? Any idea what frequency?

  • What is something you can see, hear, smell, etc., that others can't?

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  • As someone who can't hear high pitches at all, I do recognise this funky bouncing of frequencies at the edge of my hearing range (probably around 15 kHz, I haven't precisely measured it). It's surprisingly hard to locate sound sources when you only hear them when you're facing a certain angle in a certain spot in the room! These are always too quiet for my phone to pick up, so that's no help sadly

    I wonder if there'd be a market for a variant of a phone model that is just all-round decent, but has a better microphone and other sensor upgrades. I run into the sensor limits a lot (probably weekly) but also don't want to permanently run around with a bulky sensor board in my pocket :<

  • What is something you can see, hear, smell, etc., that others can't?

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  • Probably related: apparently (some?) people can learn to use echolocation. Particularly useful for blind people of course, but I've read it's too much effort and too limited compared to the alternative solutions so that it's generally not considered worth pursuing. Naturally I had to try it myself: distinguishing the distance to one wall isn't hard at all, at least coarsely; the difficulty seems to be in rapidly (while walking) finding smaller objects (especially ones that dampen sound), figuring out angles if you're not facing or precisely perpendicular to a wall, and dealing with background noise

    With your superhuman hearing, maybe you'd enjoy casually learning to do this at some level and getting some use out of the hearing sensitivity :)

  • What is something you can see, hear, smell, etc., that others can't?

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  • All lights? Also battery-fed DC lights somehow?! I'm no expert but that seems strange

    I've caught a lot of lights and light-emitting displays flickering with the 980fps camera that's built into my phone (best thing since sliced bread for a nerd like me), but also quite many lights appear solid. I'd imagine few have such high-frequency electronics that it pulses well beyond 1 kHz. Otherwise the sensor should sometimes capture a frame during a low or a peak

    As an example, I was recently looking at car lights in Germany, expecting to see duty cycling in most modern ones, but the majority (2/3rds or so) were actually solid so far as I could tell. A few cars had a mixture of flickering and solid lights in seemingly the same fixture. All flickering ones were high frequency though, not like 50 Hz as grid-fed lights do but much more. I didn't bother with ffmpeg and counting frames but I estimated on the order of 250 Hz for one of them

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  • You're saying I can learn to see with my buttocks if one puts the right kind of lens in front of it and the light is sufficiently intense?