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Finally ditching Apple’s “Music” player for MOC after watching Apple dismantle/bury basic features over the last decade.
Finally ditching Apple’s “Music” player for MOC after watching Apple dismantle/bury basic features over the last decade.
Merlin is amazing. I heard birds outside my new apartment and thought of them as nice background noise. Within days of installing Merlin, I could tell sparrows, cardinals and robins apart without seeing them. Whenever I heard a new bird, I’d grab my phone and open Merlin.
One day it sounded like a robin and a cardinal were having and argument while both simultaneously having a stroke. Merlin figured out it was a catbird, a relative of the mockingbird that learns the songs of other birds then strings pieces of them together in a disorganized song to impress the ladies. Basically, the male catbird who can sing the weirdest songs using the most species signals that he has “been around” for enough seasons to learn all those songs and therefore must have good genes the females want to pass on. It’s mind blowing to learn all this about things that are going on outside your window.
I somehow read this comment in the voice of the cleric performing the “mawwiage” ceremony in Princess Bride.
Cleric: “Sunwise…” long, uncomfortable pause. “And for the exact same weason.” Pause. “Clocks go clockwise because their pwedecessors did… and what were their pwedecessors?”
Humperdink: “Look, can we hurry this up?”
Cleric: “Sundials.”
Humperdink: “Just skip to the end!”
Cleric: “Countewclockwise… as said in another comment… would be… widdershins.”
The screaming could also mean:
“I have been up all night watching these babies and I am exhausted! Not one of them was hungry! I need some me time with my face in the catnip plant. Someone watch them while I’m passed out… and no more catnip for the babies! They all still smell like catnip from the last time you looked after them.”
Uno, dos, meow, meow, tres, cuatro!
Pretty little kitty chased a thing she saw.
Had a pouch of catnip and a feather boa
Furry purry, furry purry.
I think the Turkish Van version is “when you realize you’re the only cat who likes swimming.”
I’ve been to three state fairs, a Trump speech, and a rodeo and I can’t believe that’s the first debate I’ve heard about appropriate usage of butter.
I was walking around the Iowa State Fair for an hour last summer before I realized I was whistling the theme to the Millennial Fair.
The 2x4 will fall in with the food and the rat. After eating the food, the rat will climb out using the 2x4 and reposition it on the counter so the dad will put out more food.
They do look very similar.😀
As someone who worked at a major U.S. newspaper in the late 90s, I think the world needs more people who think the way you have just expressed… valuing local information, empathizing with people outside your circle, and considering how your words will be received. I hope you find Lemmy to be a place where you feel comfortable contributing.
I selfhost on a 2011 Mac Mini running Ubuntu with 16 gb ram:
I’m also setting these up on VPS
Thank you! That just made my day better!
I’m going to miss r/datasets, r/selfhosted and other subreddits that allowed me to tap into accessible niche knowledge. I’m sure there are subs I had not yet discovered, but a lot of the information they collected over the years may be gone. I hope those communities will find their way to Lemmy and rebuild.
FWIW, selfhosted does have a sort of “best of” list on GitHub at: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
France has ordered the empire to issue a software fix for elevated radiation levels detected from the dStar 12 or face a nationwide death star recall. The empire responded with a link to an article on its EmpireNews app that states the radiation levels are fine.
Members of the local Force Usergroup say they are hopeful this latest revelation will prompt citizens to migrate to the Pine Moon of Endor, but many people are not in a financial position to abandon the dStar 12.