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Of course, it all depends on the context. A tutorial for a specific knitting stitch can be done in under 5 minutes, other stuff not so much! There was also an interesting thread somewhere yesterday asking why don't people use their subscription feed on YT and the answers were a good representation of the user base here, ie: most do use it and avoid the algo at all costs! So I think we're all on the same page here, we search and use YT in a way that is most efficient but not the most common :)

on Pourquoi on permet ça · c/quebec · 9 pts · 3y

En plus ça n'a aucune utilité. Genre, je réutilise mes contenants de take out, de crème glacée (Coaticook font la meilleure crème glacée et ont les meilleurs plats!), les sacs de certains produits congelés, etc. Ça c'est zéro utile.

In the csv from Reddit it shows I had over 5100 comments. I ran PowerDeleteSuite and it completely erased all my comments. I kept my account and I go back on Reddit once in a while to check and only once I had to delete a stray comment that popped back up. Otherwise my comment and post history (12 y.o. acct) is gone.

on Who killed Google Reader? · c/tech · 3 pts · 3y

GReader was awesome. I met people from all around the world on there, some that I still keep in touch with to this day. Yes, there are alternatives and I've used some of them, old reader and Inoreader in particular I think offer the best experience relative to GReader (without the social aspect). You can't recapture the past, Reader is dead and gone but I think killing it was Google's biggest blunder. An incredible lack of foresight on their partas stated in the article.

Getting your feeds the way you want them is great. But interacting with people that are actually reading the content you share and discussing it with you is a whole different experience. I'm not talking news articles necessarily but blog posts, scientific papers, essays, etc. Anyways, yeah, I loved the damn thing and still miss what it was to this day.

I was thinking about exactly this last night. I feel like the apps we used (12 years on Reddit, with RIF for as long as I remember) were Reddit. The apps and the way we customized them created our own little Reddit universe. I'm sad for all the devs that worked on their applications and put so much work into them also. But I've been off Reddit for a couple of weeks and I absolutely do not miss it.

I've had two kids, both ending in emergency c-sections after many hours of painful labour.

A few months after my second was born I got kidney stones. And that pain completely erased any conception of pain I had up to that point. Paralyzing, terrifying, unrelenting. It fucking sucks.

on Reddit is a Dying Mall · c/tech · 3 pts · 3y

It's not a long article and the topic is interesting enough to spend the 10 minutes it takes to read it IMO

Knitting can be quite fun and somewhat low cost if you don't get influenced too much. But ask any knitter about their stash and you'll discover we're all hoarders who will not hesitate to pay ridiculous amounts of money for a single skein of hand died yarn (in the ugliest colours) that most likely will end up in the stash and never get knitted. Tools are the same. Why settle for a very basic and fully functional set of needles when you can get the most expensive one?

If you know a knitter, just know they are most likely sitting on a small fortune worth of yarn and tools.