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[-] Baku@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Likewise.

It's also only just now dawning on me /bin is short for /binaries. I always thought it was like... A bin. like a junk drawer hidden in a cupboard

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

One helpful thing I found is that it can skip "non music sections", ie those cringey silent scenes they put in YouTube videos. If that'd existed a couple of years ago, I probably wouldn't have switched to Spotify. I mainly switched because I was sick of random 10 second pauses for dramatic effect in the middle of songs, often right before the chorus

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Did you post this twice?

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Just out of spite, I reckon I'm gonna start archiving your page :D

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

If I may ask, how many subs/total views did you amass after a decade?

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

20 bucks is more than reasonable for a 10 dollar shirt imo. But where I am, often these shirts will go for the equivalent US$50 plus the same or more in shipping. I think that's a scam. 20 bucks is nothing

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

At this time of day in this part of the country???

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 2 points 4 weeks ago

I take it this is a reference to... Something, but I can't figure it out. What?

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 2 points 4 weeks ago

I don't know if they meet your criteria for a franchise, but any forum based website (including Reddit, Lemmy, etc) always ends up with at least 1 office, friends, or IT crowd reference somewhere in the thread. They're definitely essential pop culture pillars, even if they don't qualify as franchises

I've still never seen any of them though

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 1 points 4 weeks ago

I'm 17, and either dislike or don't know most of them. Here's my thoughts on most of them, if anybody's curious:

Star wars - don't like it

James Bond - never seen it

Lord of the rings - never seen ir

Sherlock Holmes - don't like it

Batman - hate it

Superman - never seen it

Spiderman - don't like it

Mission Impossible -never seen of it

Mario - played and enjoyed Mario kart, that's about it

Zelda - never seen it

Pokemon - never seen it

Indiana Jones - don't like it

Back to the Future - I saw it but don't really remember anything from it, mostly forgettable

The Karate Kid - I watched it when I was too young to care, but I think I'd like it if I watched it now

A Nightmare on Elm Street - liked it

Friday the 13th - I know it, but can't remember if I've seen it

Child's Play - watched one of them, got bored halfway through

It - liked it

Rambo - liked it

Rocky - never seen it

Jurassic Park - seen it, no strong feelings

The Matrix - got bored by the 30 minute mark and turned it off

The Terminator - never seen it

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - don't like it

Transformers - never seen (or played?) it

The Simpsons - seen most of it, love some of it

Barbie - heard the song, nothing more

GI Joe - not a clue who/what that is

He-Man/Masters of the universe - as above

Mickey Mouse - I sometimes watched Mickey mouse club house before school, but wasn't a huge fan

Toy Story - I watched (and liked) the first two

Looney Tunes - liked it

King Kong - I've heard of it but don't know if it's a toy or a tv show or what

Godzilla - I saw one of the sequels and enjoyed it

Planet of the Apes - never seen it

Mad Max - never seen it, but I live in Australia and like the outback, so this gets quoted at me at least monthly

The Muppets - I think the Muppets had a cameo in toy story or something, but I don't really know much about it

The Godfather - I really really tried to watch and enjoy this earlier this year. I turned my phone off so I wouldn't get distracted, I sat down, I ordered a pizza, I did my very best to watch and enjoy it, but I was so mind numbingly bored by the hour and a half mark that I gave up

Ghostbusters - I think I've seen bits and pieces

Alien - no, but I have seen ET

Star Trek - I don't know or care what the difference is between this and star war

Robocop - I watched one of them on late night tv a few years ago, when I was around half the age it was classified for. Barely remember it

Frankenstein - never seen (or read?) it

Dracula - never seen

Tarzan - never seen

Conan the Barbarian - never even heard of it

Jaws - I saw one

Harry Potter - hate it

The Incredible Hulk - hate ir

The Dollars Trilogy - not a clue who or what this is

Sesame Street - don't like it

The Hannibal Lecter series - don't know who or what this is

MASH - I'm pretty sure this was always on after the Simpsons finished at 7, and everybody loves Raymond was on before. I didn't like either of them. But then again, I was 5 or 6 and only interested in the Simpsons and nothing else, so I probably wasn't the target audience

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

I pretty much only browse Lemmy on either /local new/top day, or /all new. But to be fair, I mainly only care about local communities (and I'm on a local instance), and memes. I think if I used a general purpose instance, particularly one without its own communities, I would probably used subscribed mostly

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Baku@aussie.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world

auDA manage the .au TLD in Australia, for anybody unaware

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I'm not here to claim that Tiktok is completely harmless, or that it's even a good site. I'm sure they absolutely do collect as much personal information as they can, and I'm sure they give it to the Chinese government whenever they ask. But I don't understand how Meta and Facebook are meant to be any better? There's always a lot of hoo-haa going on with politicians promising to ban tiktok, and (at least back on Reddit) everybody's vowing they will never use tiktok because it's such a privacy invasive site. Yet I never see anybody going up against Facebook, at least the average person, but they collect just as much personal info and I'm sure hand it over whenever any government agency in the US asks them to

It kind of feels to me like this is some sort of country thing. China is bad, so they shouldn't have your personal info. But the US is the last bastion of free speech and privacy, so their companies would NEVER dare to invade your privacy, and their government would never abuse their power to get people's personal info

I'm aware Lemmy probably isn't the best place to ask since most people here seem to be deep into open source software and often privacy focused (so I suppose wouldn't use either) but this also feels like the only place on the internet I might actually get an answer that isn't just "TIKTOK BAD". If you refuse to use tiktok but are ok with Facebook - why?

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I saw this comment on c/whitepeopletwitter, and it made me wonder if Reddit was like Lemmy in its early days as well? A lot of the communities here are more or less just Reddit but with (sometimes) different rules and mod teams. Most of the memes here are just yoinked off of Reddit (which to be fair, really is just how the internet works)

But yeah, in Reddit's early days, were the communities there basically just clones of whatever form of communities Digg/other popular sites had at the time? Was most of the content just reposts of stuff from other sites?

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