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Nemo, in Do you use a desktop, phone, or both?

Both. There are things I do on a phone and things I do on my desktop; there are no things I do on both.

Zoop, in Do you use a desktop, phone, or both?

Situations like yours are definitely more common than this thread makes it seem! Most of my friends (and their families) don’t even have actual computers like desktops or laptops and just use their phones for everything.

I’m pretty much in the same boat. I technically have an old, broken-screened computer (my cat sat on the screen lol,) but since it’s broken and barely usable, I don’t use it unless I absolutely need a computer for some reason, which is increasingly rare. There’s no way in hell I can afford anything else, since I’m disabled and can’t work to make money to buy things. Otherwise I’d use a computer more.

amio, in Do you use a desktop, phone, or both?

Desktop for most things, laptop for travel, phone for the rest. Considering getting myself a cheapo tablet for easier reading, the phone isn't really ideal for that.

NaoPb, in Do you use a desktop, phone, or both?

I still use desktops. A lot.

daredevil, in Do you use a desktop, phone, or both?
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I could not imagine life without a desktop tbh.

Raffster, in I've blocked a domain, and yet it is still showing up in my feed

IT doesn't really work unfortunately. And whenever I try t block anything hexbear it throws an error. Time to start my own instance, chosing myself what I want to see and whatnot is the most critical part of the fediverse and why I'm here for in the first place...

peter, in Kbin loads faster than other links aggregator like Lemmy. Is there a technical reason for that?
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It’s probably not one specific thing, just architectural choices that lead to overall improved speed in that area

starbreaker, in Who is your favorite fictional hero or superhero?
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I don't think the Count of Monte Cristo need fear the gom jabbar.

GeekFTW, in Kbin loads faster than other links aggregator like Lemmy. Is there a technical reason for that?
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I can't tell the benefits of one code type for another as it's far from my forte, but kbin is coded from scratch using a different language than lemmy is, so that could have some sway over it in addition to just differences in infrastructure owned/accessible by the people who run the various instances.

guyrocket, in What nuggets can I get today that are closest to the old burger king chicken nuggets?
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I think these were called chicken tenders. Search for recipes, they're out there.

PebbleGamer, in Musicians of Kbin: if I want to play a melody in the key of A flat, what other keys are compatible when choosing a whistle that isn’t tunable?

According to Wikipedia, tin whistles are tuned to be able to play two major keys a perfect fourth apart. A perfect fourth above A-flat is D-flat, and a perfect fourth below A-flat is E-flat, so an A-flat whistle would be able to play A-flat major and D-flat major, and an E-flat whistle would be able to play E-flat major and A-flat major.

Every major key has a minor key that is “enharmonically equivalent,” which means that they have all the same notes. We call that the “relative minor” to that major key. Because they have all the same notes, an instrument that is capable of playing some major key is also capable of playing that major key’s relative minor.

E-flat major’s relative minor is C minor A-flat major’s relative minor is F minor D-flat major’s relative minor is B-flat minor

FarraigePlaisteach,

I never understood what the word "relative" meant in this context. Thank you so much.

Eggyhead, in Launching Kbin Migration website, with resources and guides to help new users migrate to Kbin and the Fediverse from Reddit.
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Well done! Thanks for putting in the effort. I can tell you really care about this and that’s appreciated.

TheArstaInventor,
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That really means a lot to me, thank you so much :)

FarraigePlaisteach, in Musicians of Kbin: if I want to play a melody in the key of A flat, what other keys are compatible when choosing a whistle that isn’t tunable?

Since posting this I’ve looked more into relative keys and it turns out that it’s becomes easy to understand when looking at a piano.

Thanks again to Hildegarde and PebbleGamer for opening up my mind to these ideas.

For anyone else, there’s a visual, five-minute video explanation here https://yewtu.be/watch?v=xbEer87lfdU

TheArstaInventor, in What is something that can be considered as bad as smoking, but people still do it anyways?
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I'm going to sadly have to go with Porn here, I think it has unfortunately become a very normal part of the upcoming generations young life as they grow up, it sucks kids of today are being exposed to these things earlier than older generations were.

CorrodedCranium,
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I think the bigger issue with porn addicts is how much time it can consume

TheArstaInventor,
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Absolutely, it can waste a lot of time

Fiivemacs,

Time is a social construct. You can’t lose, waste or gain time. It’s just a thing is humans invented to better manage our lives.

MxM111,
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Time is part of objective physical reality measured by instruments. Humans discovered time, not invented it.

AnonTwo,

Time is a social construct

And your entire life is inside that social construct. It's just raw denial to suggest otherwise.

Maeve,

Lol. Everyone dv the correct answer. Cycles existed, but humans did indeed decide to break smaller cycles into smaller cycles and measure them. Tbf, probably both perspectives are correct, in different contexts. I need to think about this longer- much longer.

snownyte,
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And how bastardized their perspective on social activities and being in public can get.

Masturbate and consume porn too much, next thing you know, you're gazing at people's asses, crotches and breasts imagining all sorts of fantasies you'd like to do involving them.

People expect sex within the first date. It could get worse from there.

Drusas,

As an adult woman, porn is very beneficial to my sex life. So maybe the problem isn't porn so much as it is children's access to it.

TheArstaInventor,
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That is surely good for sure, I am not against that in any way, but there are some young adults who are locked with porn which really is fictional and taped, and they can often be bad at real relationships, especially if they get extremely addicted to porn, using porn to help with you sex life is great, but it shouldn't get to a point where it's doing you no good with real relationships. Hope I am making some sense here lol

Drusas,

I understand and I don't disagree. But I don't think that the problem here is porn. It's how these boys are being raised.

FfaerieOxide, in What is something that can be considered as bad as smoking, but people still do it anyways?
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Voting tory.

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