Daily random discussion - Jul 17, 2023
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Today’s Ask PHlemmy: What was very popular in 90’s but almost non-existent now?
Betamax/VCRs, CDs, cassettes, rewritable and recordable discs, floppy disks, video game cartridges.
I still see blank VHS tapes being sold at Landmark. I have no idea why, although it makes perfect sense why that stock isn't moving.
Setting and planning activities for the coming weeks with no instant messaging. Also just visiting your friends' house whenever.
Pupuntahan nyo yung bahay ng kalaro para sunduin, tas tatawagin mo yung pangalan, extended yung huling pantig. Sampol:
pangalan ng kalaro: Erning.
Sisigaw ka sa harap ng bahay: Erniiiiiiii~iing
Crank/prank calling back when landlines were still commonplace
Wallet-sized physical photos.
Di ko alam kung sa school or area lang namin, pero uso before yung studio pics ng barkada. Usually after exams maaga dini-dismiss yung students, so diretso sa mall after and isa yun sa mga madalas puntahan.
I used to store mine in casette tape cases and may mga ilan din akong napuno.
Photo studios nowadays are aiming towards occasions/parties na lang. Unlike before na kahit saang Kodak branch, may maglilinya mapa-bata o matanda.
And dang, may photo booth pa sila dati, eh.
Bwiset na admin fees. Ang mahal na nga movie tickets, padagdag ka pa. Oppenheimer better be worth it!
LieMAX ba? O regular lang?
Regular lang. Fake yung iMax print na ipapadala eh.
Damn, I was hoping if tickets are still available by the weekend screening but I couldn't be bothered signing up for their online services.
Map of literacy rates per municipality according to the 2020 census. If the vast majority (1508/1634) are above 90% literacy, is it worth it?
Edit: Is it also worth it to post such huge-ass, 1:1,000,000 maps on Lemmy?
Edit: Made it 1:2,000,000 , and added a legend and per-province map.
For a moment I thought it's representing low literacy rates because of all the red.
Yes, which is why it isn't recommended to use reds often to represent data as it has a negative connotation by default. Source: I do mapping, cartography, and gis work.
But would you recommend blue to red if you wanted to highlight, say, towns which are more Kapampangan speaking?
I don't recommend it. Generally, you would want to use one hue for low to high values of sequential data but you can use 2 hues to increase contrast (e.g., light blue to dark blue, light yellow to blue). Blue and red are opposing colors and is more used as diverging scales where there are neutral tones (and values) in the middle (e.g., negative values, zero, positive values; blue-pale yellow-red). Here's a nice resource on color schemes, https://colorbrewer2.org
One Sports just announced they will air the FIFA Women's World Cup, at least for the Philippines matches.
Good news for my dad who's into women's football more than the mens. For his sake, they should air the entire WC run regardless if it has the Malditas (or Filipinas as they are now called lol).
Yeah, would be good to see more matches than just the Filipinas matches for the FWWC
lemmy.world status updates didn't show any info on the prolonged downtime that happened earlier. Weird.
I wasn't even aware that .world has some serious downtime
Usually happens late at night (our time) when there's not much activity. On Saturday, it was caused by a DDoS attack. Not sure what was the reason for Sunday which was longer and went up to 1am.
Surprised you can post using this account. I can't even load .world right now.
baka tamad mag-update admin nila
i switched to world just now, mukang si ee naman ang may issue
Damn, looks like Lemmy is being targeted regardless of instance.
Ever feel like 2 days off is not enough?
4-day work week when
Nung nag-umpisa lumuwag yung lockdown, we started with a 9am-2pm schedule. It was a temporary measure and often it felt like there was not enough time to finish my tasks. But it gave me enough time to take a 1-2 hour nap while leaving me some hours more for a bit more work and leisure.
Yeah. It's really not enough... 😔
kahit siguro 3 or 4 days na off di pa rin sapat.. lalo na mababa sahod...
Not enough. Yung Saturday mo is to recuperate from your work from Mon - Friday (assuming a normal M-F, Weekends off schedule), Sunday is for leisure or for some faith, and then fun, kaso nga lang rushed lagi etong mga lakad ng Sunday because you need to get ready for Monday.
4 day work week may be a possible solution kasi may Rest Day, Gimik Day, and then prep day assuming ung hours for the 5th day of work are spread over to the other 4, or some other form of making up the 5th day through the other 4 days.
Pustahan dadami ang mga anti-basketball posts sa kabila kapag FIBA World Cup na
Haha, same old talking points na maliit daw tayo when the game is getting less reliant on size and more on all-around skill.
Did they not watch the 2015 WC when the entire lineup beyond Blatche was 6'4" and below?
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11:11✨ make a wish 🥺👇
What's the difference of teddit.net to tedd.it?
I saw this in lemmy.world frontpage. tedd.it is shutting down.
https://tedd.it/shutdown
TL;DR:
Teddit is an open source software intended as an alternative front-end to reddit. It doesn't use an API (hence why you can only view it), but it still connects to reddit in order to present content. That means reddit can still implement restrictions to the servers hosting teddit.
it's one of the instances ni teddit
https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit#instances
while si
teddit.netang main instanceMy main phone (One Plus 6T) would be 5 years old by December. And I still don't feel like replacing it yet. Problem though is that I can't find a good protective case for it now that the current case is slowly falling apart.
Kung gusto mo t h i c c
Kung gusto mo bRanDeeD hihi
Medyo wary ako dun sa cheap looking cases due to bad experience. But you reminded me that I actually still have that Spigen case on my cart. I was still holding on the possibility that I could find it locally but I might end up completing the purchase at Amazon.
Spigen's official Shopee store doesn't have it? That's usually where I get cases for phones that are more than 5 years old.
That's where I got my current case back in 2020 but all they have now is just the tempered glass.
Mga manufacturers kasi hindi na gumagawa ng mga case para sa specific model nasa tatlong taon pataas. Kaya ako, kapag may bagong phone ako, bibili ako ng tatlong case at tempered glass bago dumating ang mismong unit
Yeah. In hindsight I should have gotten an extra case when I bought the current one back in 2020. But honestly, I didn't even think I'd still keep using the phone until now.
Try not to worry 'bout a thing
Enjoy the good times life can bring
Keep it all inside you
Gotta let the feeling show
Redid the literacy map with @mr_m00 's recommendations. Personally, I don't like using gradients for this; there is not much differentiation between the 90s and the 80s except the kind of green. I would still prefer the rainbow scheme more; at least there is so much color differentiation. I would just reverse the palette like so (although I do admit the blue is too dark to show borders):
(On second thought, the red-blue scheme can be applied here, as this is just percentages)
Nagbalik ang mga daga after so many years. I'm not a fan of poison because they just end up dying somewhere and stinking up the place. I also don't like glue bait since I'm not "man" enough to execute them once trapped.
So, I'm trying a new approach. Just placed an order for an electronic bait after reading up on it and watching videos. Sana effective.
Meow?
Why not this?
Nakapin pa din ba yung thread yesterday at hindi yung for today? Or may bug tong app na gamit ko?
It's supposed to be unpinned since early this morning, so might just be your instance not reflecting the changes just yet.
may gumagamit ng YT Music sa phone niyo, hindi ko gets bakit hindi available yung background play kapag napapatugtog ako.
Gamitin mo Brave Browser. Pwede background play dun sa YT. Wala pang ad.
Subscribe to YouTube Premium.
Switching from Spotify Premium to YouTube Premium has been one of the best decisions I've made regarding subscription services.
I have essentially the same music library in YT Music and no more annoying YouTube ads.
I don't like YT Music’s library management. They're mixing with M/Vs and "proper" songs. Some of their songs are badly compressed, compared to Spotify.
And don't forget, wala pang dedicated curated playlists for PH si YT Music na ironically ang lakas ng YT sa Pinas. Haha
You can watch YouTube with no ads by installing uBlock Origin on your desktop browser, or install NewPipe on Android. No Google account needed. Huwag papakain sa sistema ni Gugel.
For our use case, it isn't really a big deal. Most of my family is listen to music via the phone speakers or budget earphones. I'm the pickiest one and I don't mind it for casual listening.
This one would have been great, but it isn't a deal breaker.
I can do all of this (I have both uBlock, NewPipe, DNS-based and VPN-based adblocking, etc.), but I got the family plan for, well, the family.
As the designated tech guy in the family, I didn't think managing all of it for 5 other family members at different locations is worth it for me.
I recently setting up my family's smartphones and their home PC with Firefox Browser and uBlock Origin and NewPipe (Android). Plus, we've been on Spotify since 2015, and that time hindi pa namin alam na may Family plan. We have similar DNS settings, except mine allows pornographic websites lol.
I did this because I don't want my family "hooked" on their YT algorithm with their personalized content. NewPipe is a bliss, and doesn't track nor exploit users, unlike proprietary YouTube app.
Yeah, I used to try to setup everything for my family. To the point where I setup a flavor of Linux as the primary OS in the family desktop with all the non-proprietary alternative applications.
There came a point where I figured I was taking on too much responsibility. And in a way I think I just liked learning to do this stuff before.
Now, aside from security-related things like recommending password managers, MFA, and the occasional anti-scam PSA, I just let them be.
In the end, I just found not having to manage this small thing of music streaming and ad-free YT pretty worth it at the cost of 40PHP per month per person.
You don't need to be too personal. It's up to user/s how they change their online habits. We are only giving them tools.
Same, same, brada.
Ironically, I've subscribed to Google Drive's 100 GB and I'm not using it personally. Instead, I'm sharing it to my family. lol
Best value talaga yung YT premium sa YouTube at Music, kaso yung first impression ko sa service na yan "ay walang background play, balik sa Spotify" mentality. hindi ko gusto May music vid sa may song album, gusto ko lang kanta lang at yung lang.
I'm confused. YT Music has background play without video.
Ndi ko lang gusto yung algo ng YT sa pagsuggest ng music. Kung tapos na yung custom playlist ko, sobra layo sa vibe yung isasuggest. May playlist pa naman ako for sleeping, tapos bigla dance music 🥴
Possible ba talagang umabot ng 3M ang paggawa ng logo? Magkano usually budget ng mga companies sa ganun or sa rebranding?
Yes, it's possible... and for PAGCOR's purposes, 3M is exactly the money you need for a rebrand given the scale and reach of the corporation. Yun nga lang, that usually applies to a big reputable design firm with a wealth of experience and clientele in their belt. Not some mom-and-pop operating out of a Las Pinas bungalow and without a website.
Yes. We don't really know their contracts, though, but hindi lang naman limited sa PAGCOR logo ang budget na yan. It can be either sa internal design, re-branding or whatnot.
https://lemmy.world/post/1604919
ina-atake pala mga ibang instances, not just lemmy.
Ouch. I notice that it almost always takes place around 10pm-12am our time.
Also, why the hell attack a small community? Ano ito, mga Reddit loyalists??
Inulam talaga ang munggo
Kay-iksi nga ng palugit, bago pa magsimula nang tuluyan ang mga klase sa kolehiyo sa susunod na buwan...
Any of you guys getting cut-off counters?
Oo nga no! Parang mas pabor sa privacy mo yung hindi makikita posts mo kung hindi nakalog in yung ibang user. Kasi kung...please subscribe to read the rest of this comment.