Avatar is a lemming in bed because this account wasn’t intended to be used except for creating communities… and then my instance announced it was closing.
In fact it was compulsory in Britain until the 1980s/90s. I’m not sure exactly when it changed, but the reason was due to different electricity companies having different sockets (and therefore plugs). It was standardised way before then, but I guess if that’s the way it has always been done nobody thinks of changing it.
I had a cheapo Chinese charger explode in the socket. It was indeed quite exciting.
That’s to guarantee you have to try plugging the USB cable in in all four available orientations before it fits.
Reading in my head certainly takes the same amount of time as reading out loud (occasionally with different voices for characters, as somebody else said).
If I read without doing that it’s a lot quicker but it doesn’t go in and I have to re-read it. My mind starts chatting away about something else rather than concentrating on the book.
I have prosopagnosia (facial blindness) too. Unless it’s somebody I know really well, I will struggle to recognise them - especially if they are not where I’d expect them to be, or they’ve done something with their hair. I’m better with voices - if they speak I’ll usually work out who they are straight away.
There was a bit of discussion about this on a podcast I listen to (Adrift) earlier in the year.
My mind is basically me taking to myself. As I write this I’m speaking all the words in my head. As I read it back I’m reading all the words in my head.
I believe there’s a school of thought that you shouldn’t read the words to yourself when you are reading, bit I have to do that otherwise it doesn’t go in. I can read a page without the words being spoken in my head but I will then have no idea what any of the page said, v and have to re-read it. Same if my mind wanders while reading - anything I read whilst my internal voice is talking about something else will not go in.
I can’t shut it up. If I think about nothing, my internal voice will literally be saying “I need to think about nothing. I should empty my mind. How do you think about nothing?”.
I’m in England and my language is set to English, yet for some reason when I was browsing AliExpress a few weeks ago it was stuck in German and I couldn’t see how to change it. Go to the homepage - German. Click on a result from a search engine - German.
I don’t know where it got that from, it wasn’t the IP either as from a computer on the same address it was fine.
I’m not aware of anything, maybe there’s something in the Lemmy config? Is federation generally working?
Yucata - online boardgames, take your turn when you can, no pressure.
Yeah, little words aren’t supposed to be capitalised, but I’m never quite sure which ones to leave off so usually I just capitalise everything.
I used to enjoy a Twitter account which was mirrors for sale! Subscribed. (Glad you mentioned it actually, as I missed it when I scanned through the list)
Maybe Stract?
It’s open source and has its own search index.
I got a tree from my local library, but that wasn’t to borrow and neither was it a regular service.
I have one running in [email protected] as otherwise there would be nothing in it other than the odd article I’d post manually. The idea is that I will remove it if the community grows enough that the bot is just adding noise. At the moment there’s minimal engagement, but I find it useful as I see the local news rather than looking for it elsewhere and having to post it.
I don’t think there’s space - there’s IQ above where the E would go.
This picture isn’t very clear, but I saw this similar coffee machine:
(if you can’t read it, the display says “poo”)