The default UI makes it clunky, but I think you can go to you profile settings (https://lemmy.world/settings) and on the “Blocks” tab search for the community and add it to your blocks.

Bombadil was referred to as “The Hermit” before they revealed his identity when GrandElf (aka Gandalf née The Stranger) crosses paths with him.

Someone said if you forget it’s LOTR and just treat it as its own thing it’s not half bad.

Basically. I don’t forget it’s LOTR but I do keep in mind it’s not the Peter Jackson trilogy nor a 1:1 from the books.

I was really really hoping it was going to be about the fall of Numenor.

It is, but it’s slow burn and a something of an overall B-plot to the titular Rings of Power in the second season and the creation of Mordor in the first.

The main online gripe that I can agree with how the characters “fast travel” as plot demands. I just accept that as necessary to condense things down to a suitable runtime for a TV series.

He’s in Rings of Power which I guess counts as a derivative. I don’t want to start a flame war since a lot of people hate that adaptation, but I enjoy it for what it is.

Right timeline, wrong universe.

It’s probably an April Fool’s Day gag.

The image URL is: https://f004.backblazeb2.com/file/xylight-public/photon-april-fools/download.webp

Xylight is the photon dev

It’s just there and under the same domain. Otherwise, it’s a completely separate system that instance users can sign up and use. Maybe in the future they can both use the same OIDC login, but I don’t think Lemmy supports that yet.

The UI we use as our default has Peertube integration, so any videos shared from this Peertube instance (or any other) will show as inline embeds within the Lemmy client.

• Curated, “normie friendly” default experience
• Default UI is not Lemmy UI
• PeerTube instance (though not fully integrated and requires a separate account)

Quite reliably, yeah. The only limitation is I can’t root my current device, so the mapped keys can only work when the screen is on. But the volume keys will wake the screen up, so I just hit it once normally then hold to mute or change tracks or whatever.

You can do that with KeyMapper, and I have a lot of custom actions set up with it.

https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.sds100.keymapper/

I have double-press volume down set to toggle mute, though, since I’m already using long press of vol up and down to do next/prev track for my music player.

Regardless, I cannot recommend KeyMapper enough. It’s pretty fantastic.

You beat me to it lol. I just watched Skin of Evil the other day and meant to re-make the meme again but higher res. Here’s last year’s: https://dubvee.org/post/dubvee.org/2546762

Nope. I’ve had ^Reddit as one of my regex community filters for some time now.

Heh, thanks. My main view is that there are lots and lots and lots of views that exist between the extreme ends of the ideological spectrum, and apparently that’s a controversial opinion here. 🙄

I closed it up and made it a private development instance last year, but you basically just described Dubvee.

Far left crazies and far right crazies are removed with equal prejudice, though the far right is much rarer (and often just trolls). Regardless, it’s moderated here to a, well, moderate temperature. We also don’t federate with the Triad (Hexbear, Grad, and .ml) as well as a few other instances (one of them a big instance that throws an error on a calculator) that are centered around and encourage identity politics (another source of what you’re describing in your post).

Even though we’re “closed” I still keep the instance running in order to develop the Tesseract UI, and if you want to try out the kind of space that’s curated here, I would be willing to approve your application. I’ve toyed with the idea of re-launching and seeking out another admin or 3, but haven’t had the time to put much thought into it.

TL;DR is I’ve always tried to run Dubvee as “normie friendly” and cut out some of the more, uh, rabid parts of the fediverse, and if you want to try it out, I’d be willing to allow it.

https://dubvee.org/signup

It’s the thing that heals Reed’s leg in ENT 2x04 “Dead Stop” at that automated repair station. The prop they used for it is the same as the Exocomp from TNG 6x09 “Quality of Life” but turned on its side and painted grey.

I made this as a meme a while back at https://startrek.website/post/14769439

Lemmy-UI is also an “app”.

FWIW, many “apps” are just web apps

Technically speaking, I invented vaping.

In high school economics class, we had to invent a fake product, fill out patent applications, do focus groups, make a commercial and print ads, and do all the other stuff you’d normally do if you were a real company (except we submitted paperwork to the teacher, obviously, and not the USPTO).

My group’s product was a weight-loss product called “FlavorAir” (“Anorexia Fast” didn’t test well with our focus groups). It was a spray device that misted flavored air into your mouth to satiate cravings (our product prop was just breath spray). We advertised flavors like gravy, turkey dinner, mint chocolate ice cream, banana mint, and several others.

This was in the early 00’s and predates vaping by many years. I should be rich.

RamNode for all but one of them. They’re not the best, but they’ve been solid for years.