I'm not OP and no, TikTok is absolutely a no-go for me. I couldn't care less about trends tbh.

I don't think giving up completely is the goal, it's just a temporary measure. When you're used to spending two hours a day on YouTube, you can't just watch a video because then you'll just watch another and another and another for two hours

I'm trying to use this whole reddit madness to quit using the internet for anything that isn't intentional. The fact that I'm here writing a comment shows that it's not going perfectly, but so far reducing the time I spend scrolling or watching YouTube has definitely improved my headspace.

The simple act of not using my phone or any other screen until I get out of home in the morning makes me so much more energetic and my mind more clear.

It's a fucking addiction and most of us have it without realizing. The horrible part is that quitting cuts you out of so much stuff, but it really is worth it.

I'm Italian and I don't hate ska nor pineapple

I don't quite get how a "collective art piece" could get "hijacked". If it can be hijacked than it's only collective and collaborative for the ones that Reddit likes.

Of course this is the only way they could present it, but as far as I'm concerned the cool thing about r/place, in principle, is that you can see the chaos of the world, with opposite views, opinions, goals, tastes, interests sharing the same space, the same place, and interacting with each other.

I'd much rather see swastikas alongside sickles and hammers, stickmen being murdered alongside unicorns, dirty jokes alongside the Mona Lisa, than this corporate PR stunt.

I think it also shows that the protests have been somehow successful. Sure, Reddit won't fail, but if they decided to do another r/Place it's only because they know how loved it is by the community and hope to make people forget about the disaster.

Damn I didn't know about it and now I want it!

May I ask how old you are?

Yup! If I'm driving and want to change station or volume I need to be able to know what I'm doing without watching, and it already feels distracting and dangerous enough to me. With a touch screen I can't feel the buttons or knobs and I must look at the screen to do anything.

I never had a car with a touchscreen (my current car doesn't even have an AUX or USB port) so I don't know if it's already like this, but probably an hybrid between the two would be ideal. You get a touchscreen to thinker with it and create presets or whatever when you're not moving, and buttons to change song/station/preset/volume/whatever when driving

AI powered brain-chips is a concept that terrifies me but also fascinates me because it would avoid this kind of useless bullshit.

Imagine having a very advanced AI in your brain that knows you really well (because well, it's in your brain). You could have concepts and information explained in the most effective way for you, or (and this really is scary) directly written in your brain so that you suddenly just know something. Your colleagues would just have to think the information that you need to receive, and then their chip and your chip would communicate so that the message gets "translated" to your own "thought language".

I think that's the future we will face if we don't wipe ourselves out of existence first. The "cool" thing is it would be an actual evolutionary leap that would make us something we can't really grasp at the moment.

The scary thing is it would of course be a shit sold by corporations to transmit ads directly to your brain or some shit

AI powered brain-chips is a concept that terrifies me but also fascinates me because it would avoid this kind of useless bullshit.

Imagine having a very advanced AI in your brain that knows you really well (because well, it's in your brain). You could have concepts and information explained in the most effective way for you, or (and this really is scary) directly written in your brain so that you suddenly just know something. Your colleagues would just have to think the information that you need to receive, and then their chip and your chip would communicate so that the message gets "translated" to your own "thought language".

I think that's the future we will face if we don't wipe ourselves out of existence first. The "cool" thing is it would be an actual evolutionary leap that would make us something we can't really grasp at the moment.

The scary thing is it would of course be a shit sold by corporations to transmit ads directly to your brain or some shit

AI powered brain-chips is a concept that terrifies me but also fascinates me because it would avoid this kind of useless bullshit.

Imagine having a very advanced AI in your brain that knows you really well (because well, it's in your brain). You could have concepts and information explained in the most effective way for you, or (and this really is scary) directly written in your brain so that you suddenly just know something. Your colleagues would just have to think the information that you need to receive, and then their chip and your chip would communicate so that the message gets "translated" to your own "thought language".

I think that's the future we will face if we don't wipe ourselves out of existence first. The "cool" thing is it would be an actual evolutionary leap that would make us something we can't really grasp at the moment.

The scary thing is it would of course be a shit sold by corporations to transmit ads directly to your brain or some shit

I didn't know soulseek and downloaded music for the first time in ages, tried listening to some FLACs of songs I only ever streamed and damn now I think I understand audiophiles

It's an old (early-internet?) joke iirc. And yes, I think that's the answer

I read a lot of people claiming that waterproofing technology has come to a point where this isn't too much of an issue, but that's as far as my knowledge goes

I think I only saw a trailer when it was announced. It looked kina horrible to be honest, but after reading this I'm imagining it like one of those games that are kind of bad by usual standards and that you can't really recommend to anyone like you would recommend any other game, but that is just so unique and special in its own way that it sticks with you. Something like Pathologic maybe, but without the depression

I'm lazy, so I was hoping to find some comics-specific tool that searches the web for the right filenames.

I remember there being something like that for games on the Wii homebrew channel when I was a kid. You would select it from the menu and it would look online for the right name and cover

I live in Italy and don't really give much attention to latin poo songs, but it sure feels like it.

I have to say though that those are probably the ones that get here. I don't think that in Latin America there's no poo music for the rest of the year.

EDIT: obviously pop, not poo. I'm leaving the typo because it's funny. EDIT 2: GODDAMMIT I wrote poo TWO TIMES? What's wrong with my fingers?

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, and I hated it.

It takes a very cool premise, then fills it with incongruences and predictable twists that you understand chapters ahead of the protagonist. Then it all ends up being (SPOILERS AHEAD) a "humans used to literally talk to nature, modern society bad" mumbojumbo with some kind of unexplained multiverse in it.

What's the best thing that can happen to a singer?

Having a name that sounds good

Thanks for the suggestion!

Since you look much more knowledgeable than me, could you help me understand how to navigate the overwhelming amount of different versions for every piece of music? For now I'm completely ignoring who's playing and conducting and sometimes I timidly try to listen to another version, usually just to come back to the comfort of the first version I listened

I recently started listening to classical and boy does it require a completely different listening approach! I'm listening almost exclusively to Mahler's No.5 since my attention fades away after the first movement and I need lots of listening to know what's actually going on