[-] sem 1 points 51 minutes ago

Is really your heart though or your mind? Asking for a friend.

[-] sem 1 points 53 minutes ago

It's the kind of humor that's funny because there's a shared understanding. You can't explain why 6-7 is/was funny to gen alpha, it just is funny to a certain group of people that all grew up at the same time in the same zeitgeist.

Recognizing something as funny or not helps solidify your identity in a peer group and the identity of others outside of the peer group. At least that's how it seems to my lay person understanding.

Same with Aqua Teen Hunger Force, you can't really explain what makes it funny, because it is so subtle. But to the right age group who grew up with the right background, it just hits in a certain way.

[-] sem 1 points 56 minutes ago

Be this end butt head was weird, but it made way too much sense to be called brainrot.

[-] sem 2 points 57 minutes ago

Thanks to OP for making the connection though. When I watched Adult Swim specifically Aqua Teen Hunger Force, I had no words to describe how strange and nonsensical but also weird and funny it was. But Brainrot in the modern sense describes it perfectly.

[-] sem 1 points 58 minutes ago

Developed mentally, could this be related to wanting to read the same book over and over? Because that's normal. But I don't know how it changes with watching videos except intuitively it doesn't seem as healthy.

[-] sem 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

In my interpretation, the lady in the phone says something so Orwellian that the guy looking in the calendar is surprised, but it makes sense because in the next calendar month, we're going back to the year 1984.

I have no idea what this has to do with sticks, big or otherwise. Maybe someone else can add on to the explanation.

[-] sem 1 points 1 hour ago

AI is a bubble, corporations will exploit taxpayers for bailouts, hopefully we're not all doomed.

[-] sem 1 points 1 hour ago

Not many people use the definition of AI you seem to want to use.

[-] sem 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Wasn't his art inspired by a psychedelic trip of some kind?

Can't find him saying it outright but this is interesting:

SECONDS: What is the relationship of your art to psychedelia?

GIGER: I think there’s a relationship. Not so in the colors but I have some older works that look very psychedelic.

SECONDS: What have drugs done for the art world?

GIGER: You know, drugs are forbidden in Switzerland. Even psychedelic drugs that open you up are forbidden. LSD was invented by Albert Hoffman, who is Swiss. He had his first psychedelic experience on a bicycle, after accidentally getting some LSD on his fingers. He didn’t know what he had discovered. He was looking for something that would help women in labor. He changed the world. Many artists symbolize the psychedelic experience with a bicycle. This man is now 88 years old. I met him about six months ago. He’s very healthy and intelligent. Each day, he hangs upside down with his wife for half an hour, like a bat, in gravity boots.

SECONDS: You know Timothy Leary too, right?

GIGER: Yes, but not too well. When he was in Switzerland, he was looking for a place to hide because they wanted to put him in jail. My father was a pharmacist and knew Leary was in trouble. He was not very excited about Leary being in Switzerland, so I didn’t tell him I was trying to get help for him. He wouldn’t have been pleased.
[-] sem 1 points 1 hour ago

Thanks for this great answer! I was thinking about swiss-style (like with the holes) and didn't even consider that some cheese might be imported from actual Switzerland!

[-] sem 5 points 10 hours ago
[-] sem 1 points 10 hours ago

Isn't it fancy Swiss cheese?

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I went to reply to a thread on this post and it is completely gone? Is this an error with federation or some thing? I haven't seen this happen before.

Example broken link: https://lemmy.world/comment/20219960

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Godot (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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submitted 2 months ago by sem to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

Looking for places to have realtime chats.

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submitted 2 months ago by sem to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

Awhile ago I saw a developer posting about their new project to recreate the home movie experience with modern smartphone -taken video clips. It might have been posted in this community.

Does anyone know how to find this?

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submitted 3 months ago by sem to c/onehundredninetysix

OK so a year or so back, I was putting a stack of tshirts temporarily on my bookshelf, and I liked it so much I started moving more of my clothes out of the drawers and onto the shelf. So now I have 3 shelves for books, two and a half for clothes, one for rocks, seashells, and other pretty things, and 1/2 for random items.

I really like being able to see all my clothes at a glance, and it is way easier to get dressed in the morning and put away laundry. I just make sure to put newly cleaned clothes at the bottom of the stacks whenever I do laundry. Is there a computer science term for a type of stack where you read off the top and write to the bottom?

Anyway my real question for this community is, "Am I missing out by not using drawer technology?" Some part of me thinks that there must be some advantage to using drawers for clothes that I just. don't. get. (Besides the fact that it might not be normal lol - or is it? Are your clothes on the shelf? What do you think? Byeeeee!)

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Is rule illegal? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 3 months ago by sem to c/onehundredninetysix

This is perfectly fine, right?

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How does Lemmy Work? (self.asklemmy)
submitted 4 months ago by sem to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

So like, how does Lemmy work?

When I click on a post, let's say Lemmy.World, that server sends me the page over the Internet. I get that part. But how does it do comments? Does it tell my phone to go ask lemm.ee and blahaj servers, etc, and fetch the comments?

And why does a post on lemmy.world have have a blahaj URL when I look at it? Is my server making a copy?

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submitted 4 months ago by sem to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

I'm ready to graduate from my Raspberry Pi era of selfhosting and buy hardware specifically for use as a server.

I've been recommended in the past to look for used Lenovo Thinkstations and/or Dell Optiplex, but it has been so many years since I've shopped for a computer, I don't know what kind of specs to look for. What are the types of specs I should look for to get the best value for money?

I'm hoping to spend around $300-400, get something that can be upgraded in the future to last 10+ years, and do the following things:

  • YUNoHost / reverse proxy
  • Nextcloud with a custom domain for email addresses, cloud drive, photos
  • Music Streaming with something like Navidrome
  • Serve static websites
  • pi-Hole
  • Maybe pi-VPN

And someday maybe:

  • Host game servers like minecraft
  • Jellyfin for videos
  • Kodi and output to TV?

So far based on my selfhosted journey, I expect to want the following:

  • Room for 3+ Hard Drives
  • External UPS (probably will go with the cheap APC at Microcenter that's always on sale).
  • Solid Power Supply / Cooling
  • probably 1000 gigabit Networking (?)

The types of questions I have for Thinkstations / Optiplex:

  • How is the Power Supply / Cooling?
  • Processor? Do I need i5? i7? Generations? AMD? Clock Speed? I'm completely lost here.
  • How much RAM do I need?
  • Do I need a discrete graphics card? Can Thinkstations / Optiplex have a graphics card added to them later?
  • Anything else I'm missing?

Thanks!

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