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- imbecile8
- in soviet russia, mushrooms are on you!sarahfailin
- He looks like a fun guy!sab
- I hate it when that happens.wagshaft
- forbidden pancakesimbecile
- SimonFFM1
blog
Met a great artist (her name is Davina) at the Art Fair in Frankfurt today. We have the same gallerist and I actually love her painting with Alf:
It's really inspiring to exchange thoughts with other artists.
- Is that a painting of an NFT below?Nairn
- No, it’s by Käpten NobbiSimonFFM
- I look at this and think 'Does Alf not need oxygen too?'webazoot
- Her chin already broke her visor.Nairn
- Imagine going to someone’s home for the first time and I they have this painting on their wallnb
- She should stick with her onlyfans page.utopian
- Are you jealous? Why such comments?SimonFFM
- Are all her paintings titled,
“ich, ich und ich”futurefood - Look at Alf’s nose - that’s why women love him so muchGnash
- Who is this painting for?nb
- Not jealous at all, she is just a piss poor pseudo artist. She's more like the Kim Kardashian of fine art.utopian
- @utopian Simon is happy and inspired, and you're pissing on his bonfire :-/jagara
- monospaced3
Apple
My new laptop came today. I picked up a refurbished 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M3 Pro chip, 12 CPU / 18 GPU core, 36GB of memory. Got a great deal after trading in a couple of old work phones.
- Nice @monospaced!
Apple certified OR other?
Lookin' at similar spec myself; deciding between Macbook Air / Pro...ideaist - Yeah from apple.monospaced
- I knew I could save a ton with a Mac minii, but opted for portability.monospaced
- AND the M3 Pro chip is VERY capable opposed to a brand new M4, eh?
Niiice.ideaist - Will outpace the base model by a huge margin.monospaced
- M4 is just bettergrafician
- I doubt the base M4 would outperform an M3 Pro with double the memorymonospaced
- Plus, the M4 isn’t even available and certainly not at the reduced price.monospaced
- The M4 equivalent would have cost nearly $900 more, and I wouldn’t even notice the difference.monospaced
- 36GB of memory is going to be insane on any M chip. Should easily last you ten yearsnb
- That was my goal. And of course will help a ton with my 3D. I only went with a 512GB HD.monospaced
- Nice @monospaced!
- microkorg1
- *prepares walletprophetone
- *hides walletautoflavour
- where was this showing? I cant see it anywheremantrakid
- scroll right to the bottomautoflavour
- Ah! I wonder if it's a "dark" OP-1 Field?microkorg
- we will find out tomorrow......microkorg
- BusterBoy4
Punches For:
Self proclaimed "digital marketing experts" holding these stupid fucken microphones on all their videos now.
You look like a tool.
- Half-ass-ness, so hot right nowYakuZoku
- https://m.media-amaz…MrT
- All the punches for thread has become is a way for members to yell at cloudsimbecile
- Isn't a "tip" inherently something to act on? Asking for an expert.canoe
- it enforces the chicken mc nuggetness of it all... she just swooped in urgently to share a hot tip she couldn't wait to talk about so no time for that, it worksprophetone
- I get tonnes of these in my feed now but it's usually hot takes re leveraging A.I. tools to achieve superpowers, but if you pay attention the tool(s) are paidprophetone
- these kids now ain't got no time for mic prep are you deluluprophetone
- they got real problems like dealing with the new Mac mini power button placementprophetone
- fuck - now i need to find a way to mix in a delulu with my kids. thanksBonSeff
- @canoe Right? I'm telling you, I hate it when someone gives me an unactionable tip.Continuity
- Why do they flip the footage/image???
Wtfff makes me want to punch a sleeping baby!!!futurefood
- Continuity7
Food
All right folks, I need your input in them-there notes >
When using a recipe website, do you prefer:
• Method write-up with photos for each step, or;
• Just the method write up is fine, thanks.Your input will be helpful, and I thank you kindly for your lovely answers.
- I like photos even just to break up text.mort_
- But nice food prep photos can inspire action too.mort_
- Good to know, thanks mort!Continuity
- If I don’t read a whimsical tale of how your grandma smuggled this recipe in her cooch, I’m disappointedimbecile
- I'll see what I can dig up, promise.Continuity
- one long sentence, no photosFax_Benson
- ^ lolmort_
- Slightly OT but if you make instruction video recipes, make them the shortest they can be to get the instructions over.mort_
- Interesting. Not a fan of long content?
YT would be a second phase, depending on a bunch of stuff.Continuity - The length of the content should match the search intent. “How to make a burger” shouldn’t be a 20min burger making video that includes the history of burgers.mort_
- one nice photo, all ingredients listed immediately after the photo, simplified summary of directions immediately following ingredients. Long form after thatmonNom
- This would be a revolution as most recipe websites are designed to maximize scrolling and ad impressions, and effectively hide the important stuff at the bottommonNom
- probably also shitty for SEO to not have 7 paragraphs about how you tried this recipe and its the last you'll ever need because fall in new england with familymonNom
- Unless you already have a name, the 7 paragraphs are an unfortunate evil for your pagerank.garbage
- Yeah, SEO kills good content.mort_
- It’s also way less effective at driving traffic than it used to be since Google organic results are so hidden now.mort_
- Hm-hm. All good points. Thanks, folks!Continuity
- Usually I try to find the “jump to recipe” linkdmay
- +1 dmay. I’m a fan of the print version of the recipe! But if I’m in new territory, pictures help a lot. Cover all bases?MrT
- Are you cooking something?
As in project? if yes, then overview pic with ingredients, then recipe, then final pic with result would be amazinggrafician - Just don’t make me hunt and scroll for it.monospaced
- Pics after.monospaced
- One or two pics at the top of the finished tucker but happy with written text steps. No need for photos too.sab
- Me personally I like recipes with text and video, like the tasty appVeganWarrior
- Photos on each step. actually is recommended on the schema.org for recipes.Salarrue
- If there are any challenging steps, I like to know what it is supposed to look like. Also nice pictures are inspiration to make the thing so you can eat it.skinny_puppy
- i use https://www.recime.a…_me_
- Wasn't SimonFFM going to do a naked models cooking YT channel or something? Hook up with him for visual content for the recipes ;)microkorg
- Interesting range of opinions, here, thanks for that. Is it fair to suggest that those of you who don't need photos per step are confident in your skills or ...Continuity
- ... have a video from the blogger you've watched or are referring to?Continuity
- Pictures for every step is too much. Should be used to highlight something like a challenging step.nb
- So like, “mix the spices together in a bowl” does not require a picture of a bowl of spices.nb
- ^ Ha, true!Continuity
- I think what I'll end up doing — since I _know_ I'll have more questions for all of you like this — is set up a Google questionnaire for all of you on this.Continuity
- Just give me the fucking recipe... A nice cover/hero photo will draw me in, but I don't need to know the history behind the recipe. I understand it is for SEO..duckseason
- ...purposes, but I ALWAYS click the "jump to recipe" button.duckseason
- I say video format of continuity in nothing but an apron and maybe a chef's hat! My wife needs new cooking inspiration!_niko
- ^ lol oh, I think Simon called dibs on that idea!
*phew*Continuity - @continuity. I’m reasonably confident, but really, I just find that ingredients, quantities and a sketched out plan of action is really difficult on mobile.monNom
- When I am cooking. I want to know what ingredients, what quantities and what pots and pans and prep to know if the recipe works for me in the moment.monNom
- I’m rarely planning before a shop. Usually I’m looking at 3 recipes and getting a gist of how it goes together and the ratios of ingredients. Shopping my fridgemonNom
- Per step photos might be helpful 10% of the time to understand the description better, but a video would be 100x better in that circumstance.monNom
- if you want to do a write up before the recipe card, make sure you have a link at the top directly to the recipe.ephix
- Okay, I'm definitely coming away from this with more questions in mind.
Expect a survey soon, folks.Continuity
- Krassy7
- jesus this got 3 upvotes?sarahfailin
- Wouldhydro74
- https://i.imgur.com/…Akagiyama
- ^ LOLKrassy
- fooler9
- Show me your goatseRamanisky2
- please tell me this is realsarahfailin
- This camera is the GOAT! See?imbecile
- Location of thumbs makes this Mickey's ass. The yellow pant buttons would be charry on top XDjagara
- It even comes with anal beads on a string, I seejagara
- *cherryjagara
- ok_not_ok5
- Bob Marleymonospaced
- Jamin'YakuZoku
- Isn't that Jimi?jagara
- hans_glib0
Punches For:
"spooky season"
it's all hallows eve (or halloween if you mus), ffs
24 hours do not a season make. so fuck right off with this tawdry excuse to flog more cheap plastic chinese tat to pollute the sea/landfill.
- thans_glib
- I'd take it over the months-long exercise in bad taste we call Christmas.CyBrainX
- signs your getting oldimbecile
- don't get me started on christmashans_glib
- I love horror movies, but... This is horrific. I'm with you in this hans!OBBTKN
- Turnip-shagger.Nairn
- It's Hallowe'en. Put some respect on that apostrophe, kid.i_monk
- My kids love it, I would never deprive them of it.mort_
- Agreed on all points, hans.Continuity
- https://i.imgur.com/…mort_
- negative energy zonecanoe
- Anyway, it's over. Now we can get on about how no one does bonfires any more... .Nairn
- Was at the dollar store this morning (Nov 1st). There was a manic rush by the staff to get all the Christmas stuff on display.colab
- i_monk0
Google
It looks like AI Overview can't be disabled. I guess it was rolled out months ago, but I've only just started getting it today.
- Are there any search engine alternatives that aren't just Google or Bing APIs?i_monk
- Duck duck go, Brave is decent too...OBBTKN
- DDG is Bing and Yahoo in a wrapper.i_monk
- Been on DDG for years. Much better.nb
- I started using duck a few weeks ago. Set it as default search on your phone. SimpleHAYZ1LLLA
- I wonder what you still search for?
I ended up just asking chatgpt or perplexity via search.brave.com and get an answer, summary, sources or what I need.uan - I just got a new phone and 8+ years of WhatsApp history didn't transfer over so I was trying to figure that out.i_monk
- All the AI comes up with is summaries of the wrong solutions.i_monk
- https://i.imgur.com/…
I got that...you need a backup on your old phone, stop backups. restore backup on new phone....good luck.uan - Too late for that.i_monk
- dmay-1
- Wait til you find out where they put the power button on the Studio Display!nb
- I think it’s because Apple puts the power button on the keyboard too?monospaced
- No power button on Mac keyboard. You can wake it from sleep, but not turn it on from off.nb
- Maybe it will power on with keyboard input? Like a laptop?monospaced
- In all honesty, I don’t see many situations where anyone actually uses the power button on this. Usually it’ll just sleep until next use.monospaced
- lololol cognitive dissonance reduction runs deep with you fanboysimbecile
- Who’s the fanboy?monospaced
- When was the last time you had to truly power off your laptop? An occasional reboot I suppose but macOS works fine with long runtimes.monospaced
- I've turned my laptop off twice in 3yrsHAYZ1LLLA
- I turn my iMac off everyday. Company policy.dmay
- being so accepting of stupid design decisions is so transparently fanboyimbecile
- and yes, i'm speaking directly to you, ben wexlarimbecile
- I turn my mini off. Why leave it on?nb
- silly Apple shit. just put the button on the back. or make the whole case the button and whack it like you're on a fucking gameshow.face_melter
- You can always schedule power on/off cycles within macOS too. Used to to do that with company machines all-the-time.evilpeacock
- I turn my MBP off every day.
Why would I not?Continuity - I turn off all my machines always after finished working with them, PC or Mac. This is shit, period.OBBTKN
- You don’t need to. And I’m NOT a fanboydoublespaced
- Why you gotta be such a dick?monospaced
- The drama is from PC users used to turning off their machines lol
I never turned off my MBPro or iMac unless power down from gridgrafician - OH LOL monospaced posting from 2 accounts at once! :))))))grafician
- time from last reset
uptime
2:36 up 46 days, 6:20, 2 users, load averages: 4.44 4.53 5.78grafician - Different machine. Also not news neckbesrdmonospaced
- more than one machine means you're a bot :)))grafician
- Where’s the fan, boy?nb
- Even if you NEVER shut off, it doesn’t have a battery like a laptop. You Will occasionally need to turn it on.nb
- considering how much apple has ripped off dieter dams, one would think they'd know better, but "alway$ innovating"imbecile
- I'll just put it upside down on the table. problem solved.uan
- bainbridge0
blog
Why do I keep thinking so many women are into me but I can't even find one to date.
It's confusing.
My coworker who is married, comes over and taps me playfully on the shoulder and wants to talk pretty frequently.
My friend at a bar I go to weekly is always hugging me and staring at me but we've hung out and the spark is not there.
Met a cool girl at a party who wanted to talk, asked me lots of questions and gave me her number. We went out for drinks a few days later and she wanted to pay, and then she tells me about her boyfriend and how it's not a good relationship, but she's trying to make it work.
My barista makes small talk.
- Women work like this ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯OBBTKN
- Maybe you should try women who are not married or do not have boyfriends ;)OBBTKN
- friendzone ≠ into youpango
- yeah 100% women :)
a. looks like you aren't used to these things.
b. gay?sted - Go out and meet people.monospaced
- Go hang out with catpower.Continuity
- Maybe they think you're gay.i_monk
- You are the backup option. Each of these women are uncertain about their relationships and are testing the waters in case things fall apart.monNom
- it’s a pretty common strategy among animals. Domestic cats often have a backup family they go visit. I’d take it as a good sign you have so much interest.monNom
- ^ women love that shit. Comparing them to domestic cats... ;-pmort_
- lol continuity!_niko
- I can confirm the cat part. And then it all suddenly makes sense.SimonFFM
- I have a friend who was always like this. He is immediately marked as a safe confidant. He thinks they're into him sometimes but nothing happens.CyBrainX
- I am totally some women's confidantbainbridge
- Small talk, shoulder taps = "Finally someone who wants to sleep with me"jagara
- OBBTKN3
- well she must be an idiot becuase i can get a ticket for £41. which is still not great ...hans_glib
- Not bad, considering that from Paris to Berlin there is 4 times more distance ;)OBBTKN
- It's only about £80 from London to Paris and that goes under the fucking sea!HAYZ1LLLA
- considering how much apple has ripped off dieter dams, one would think they'd know better, but "alway$ innovating"imbecile
- uh, what?imbecile
- Another total failure of privatisation.MrT
- Cost of rail travel across the UK is crazy. Everywhere else in the world, rail is the cheap option. Think the exception is maybe Japan if travelling by...microkorg
- ...bullet train, but that thing gets you where you want to go before you even left!microkorg
- Is this true? Outrageouscanoe
- when your sugardaddy started to find outsted
- Nairn1
Apple
I gotta say - I'm more than slightly tempted by the new MacMini. I've just had a look and even the most basic version would more than likely suffice for what I'd use it for - and if I understand right, the M-series chips utilise RAM much more efficiently than standard PCs, right?
Heck I'm not even put off by the power button the bottom, haha.
- Signed,
A PC.Nairn - Skinny fingers only.colab
- It's true that ARM instructions use much less memory bandwidth than Intel; Still should get more than you need if you plan to have it 5+ years.evilpeacock
- I've read that the low-end M4 chip outperforms the M2 Pro chip (which I have -- an M2 Pro Mini).Josev
- Signed,
- grafician7
- mic dropnb
- The QBN Elon fanboys are going to lose their shit.utopian
- boom!renderedred
- and then gave everyone else access to the same megaphone, including Mr. LeCun. It's not like he bought a newspaper or news network (cough bezos, cough gates)monNom
- He's just an attention seeker. Early childhood trauma + Asbergers with lack of cognitive empathy, emotional detachment and emotional regulation issuesBeeswax
- it's funny how these people do the job for Russia and China.sted
- Biased press, biased scientists, biased research organizations.
Pushing the war agenda, letting the US rott from the inside....
Though choice for US citizens.ApeRobot - monNom, thanks for the laugh. reading stupid af comments in the morning is funimbecile
- No need to mention that the NYT is also owned by an 'oligarch' activist billionaire as are all the other 'huge megaphone' media outlets.everyangle
- salting because they can't push their propaganda after Elon's purchase as easily.hotroddy
- discredit the press that told you hunter's laptop was russian misinformation?hotroddy
- discredit the scientists that told you the vaccination would prevent you from getting the virus and spreading the virus?hotroddy
- discredit the research organizations that told you the virus didn't come from a lab in china?hotroddy
- your account would get banned on twitter if you pushed any of above, btwhotroddy
- @Ape Not a "though" choice for any American who is media literate in the slightest. Or if they read Mandate for Leadership when it came out. If Trump wins..garbage
- ..we are absolutely toast. Also FOH with thinking that NYT is some holy grail for liberals. They normalized sanewashing of Trump AND Musk.garbage
- Not even going to touch on "biased scientists", ffs.garbage
- hotroddy half of that is made up...who got banned for saying vaccination might not prevent you from getting the virus?yuekit
- LeCun is right that billionaires with megaphones have outsized voices. It’s just peculiar he ignores all the other billionaires, as though Elon is singularmonNom
- for what it’s worth, you can at least see when it is Elon expressing his views. With MSNBC or WaPo, you get a proxy obscuring the source of the ideas.monNom
- monNom, just fyi. elon doesn't care about you. :Dimbecile
- That feels like a greater wrong. At least if it was a billionaire speaking, you might have a hint of the inherent bias. You probably wouldn’t trust it.monNom
- And I don’t care about him. I’m just awake enough to recognize that something he did kicked a hornet’s nest. Nobody cared about him pre-twitter.monNom
- That he should suddenly become universally revealed gives some intuition about how things really work. Who’s collaborating. What’s important to them.monNom
- When something unusual happens on a large scale, it’s worth paying attention to, and not necessarily accepting the first explanation that is offered.monNom
- Or maybe people don't like him because he became an insane right-winger with Nazi views, just throwing that possibility out there.yuekit
- Bezos didn't impose his views on the Washington Post for the most part...Elon has turned Twitter into a propaganda channel for the far right.yuekit
- is it more likely he changed into a Nazi overnight? or that a group of somebodies got butthurt so they assassinate his character?monNom
- I recall he was pretty chummy with the Obama whitehouse, and not particularly close to Trump during his first term...monNom
- monNom you have creative explanations for everything...sometim... if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's just a duck...a Nazi duck in this case.yuekit
- https://i.imgur.com/…yuekit
- "Bezos didn't impose his views on the Washington Post for the most part" hahahahahaha, what a fucking retardMilan
- Bezos saw the writing on the wall, and changed his tune right before the election, so he wouldn't lose too much money during Trump's administrationMilan
- unlike you fucking morons living in a fascist bubble packed full with lies and bsMilan
- ahha like you know what those words mean.sted
- Milan we were talking about anti-Trump billionaires imposing their views on the media..I know it's hard but if you read the words a few times the light will goyuekit
- off eventually, maybe...yuekit
- PonyBoy3
- https://x.com/NBCLA/…********
- https://www.youtube.…********
- finally!Beeswax
- Home of the bodybagutopian
- Lakers next ring this yeargrafician
- Dude, not weird at all that you hate America but chime in anywayscanoe
- lol @ Lakers... plbbtth... go Celts <3PonyBoy
- https://x.com/NBCLA/…
- mg337
Apple
Order for the M4 / 1TB / 24GB placed, with $365 in trade-in for my Mac Mini M1.
Mac Mini has worked perfectly fine but sometimes Logic Pro is a bit sluggish. Hoping the 24GB of memory and the overall speed jump is a nice upgrade. Little treat to myself... 8 months unemployed and just accepted an offer for a 12 month contract UX Strategy role in fintech. I was going to upgrade my Fuji camera but I'll get so much more out of a computer upgrade as I work on the album I've been recording.
- M4 Pro? hard to say no .. am so fucking amped to have a computer from this Decade finallyautoflavour
- like my 2018 macbook was no slouch at the time.. and still does a lot.. but after 6 years i feel i deserve a new toyautoflavour
