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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by stemy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 
 

For me, they are people from an online community. We know eachother since 1-2 decades and they know some things about me that even my own mother doesn't know. They even unknowingly saved my life when i was on the nearly suicidal during COVID, simply by responding to my cry for help. Sometimes, we get at each other's nerves, but we still close friends nevertheless.

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I wanted to do an school essay on her, but I can't find any trustable fonts on her. Wikipedia doesn't has much fonts being citated, and Hamtaro Wiki too.

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I have been to an international school in egypt (british) North coast, and I live in a gated community.

Basically you would I guess see me as that privileged person in egypt which yea you are not wrong Well I would I think be privileged compared to the average egyptian living in egypt which would be like where you go to a national school and that you live in a normal area (Basically no gated communities) so yeah

And yes I’m 17 years old right now so yeah that too also I know this doesn’t fully fit here sorry but still

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 
 

On my previous router, I had it all setup so I go into iPhone > Files app > Connect to Server > and I had a 192 type smb address thingie setup so I could view certain Users' directories (Windows elven11 laptop) and exchange files between the two devices and even make actual changes like deleting shit and creating new folders or renaming or moving stuff around.

SOLVED I figured out the problem and the ipconfig tip was very helpful to getting the actual address (ipv4 address)

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I hope folks read more than just the title. So im watching a show with a gun exchange and the person has to reload and you can see they are nervous to get the new magazine in so they can fire again and it made me think. Do any guns have two magazine where you can either manually switch to the other magazine or maybe automatically do it when the first one is empty. With the idea that if you need to fire while in the middle of changing out the empty magazine you could. I feel like this seem obvious enough that someone must have tried it. I mean considering the crazy gun things I have seen. Since im not aware of anything I figure if it has been done it had an issue or was just not useful enough to make worth it. So for the folks that are really into guns, especially wierd protoype ones. Has there every been anything like this?

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Try to keep it practical (like something that would be fairly doable, you just havent gotten around to it...yet)

There are apps that you can input text into and they can replace the characters in each word incrementally to help learn them. Wanna get into that

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I am American. I am trying to learn Lao for a planned trip in a few years. Knowing nothing about learning languages, I jumped on the first thing I could find, which was Duolingo.

Aside from the deserved hate of Duolingo, I also noticed that they don't offer a Lao program. After exploring further, I've come to notice that almost no western sources offer any Lao teaching.

Would anyone be able to share their tips and successes in learning foreign languages that aren't really accepted in the west?

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Meg doesnt want to babysit Stewie

Meg: I could be out having a life.

Lois: Meg, if you don't want to babysit, that's fine, but don't you stand there and lie to me

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Bonus question: What is an invention that was really important and there is no telling how long we would have to wait for it to appear had it not been discovered by the one credited with it?

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It seemed really surreal to me so I asked about it, apparently they have hours for people on the spectrum to make it more comfortable for them. As far as I know, I'm not on the spectrum but this environment was soooooo calming. It was like being at a spa. Is this not something everyone enjoys or should I consider getting checked out for autism??

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~~(To clarify I mean the original movie, not the sequel)~~

~~Isn't Knight the guy who does the cameo sarcastically saying to Happy, "Well? We're waiting..." He's not listed in the cast on IMDB (not even in the uncredited section), it's not listed on Knight's wiki (which stops at 1980's Caddyshack), and he's not listed on the Happy Gilmore wiki. I searched "Ted Knight" and "Happy Gilmore" (both in quotes) on DuckDuckGo and got nothing good. And finally Claude and Gemini both are convinced he's not in it.~~

~~I get that cameos are sometimes not listed, especially back in the 90s. But in our current age of completism I can't tell if I'm just dead wrong and it's a lookalike, or if he's just one tier more uncredited than the other uncredited actors. Someone help me out here. If there's no credible online source then at least let me know what you think. This conspiracy goes all the way to the top!!~~

~~(The image is also what I'm saying out loud as I wait for a response.)~~

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I’m talking about a meme that’s been saved on your phone for ages

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Had seen a question like this in another sub, thought about asking it in lemmy too.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/46161145

I've been using Thunderbird to sort out my junk email for a while, ever since I walked away from my Gmail account. Thunderbird does a great job, but it does mean it has to stay running somewhere.

However I'm currently in the process of moving and as a result I've had to shut down the system that that I had been running Thunderbird on. The result of which, obviously, is that my inbox is now being flooded with spam.

Since it's been a while since I last looked at the problem, I figured I ask. How do you deal with spam email?

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I used to use archive.today to archive news stories. However, between recently experiencing issues accessing the site and now that FBI trying to shut it down, I need to find a new way to archive.

I came across ArchiveBox, but it seems like you have to self-host and I don't have the tech skills yet to self-host an application. I also know the Internet Archive has the WayBack Machine, but never have good luck using the site.

I am hoping that I can find a site that is similar to archive.today and is not on the FBI's watchlist.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by go_birds@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 
 

What would a FOSS dating app look like?

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The latest massive youtube sponsor seems to be data broker removal services. As a rule of thumb is if I see the same sponsor more than 3 times it's just a scam.

But as I've recently become assaulted with scam calls due to trying to find a different job the prospect of services like these seem to be more and more enticing.

What do you all think? Is actually a service?

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