corvuscache

joined 1 month ago
[–] corvuscache@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I always mute and go off to do something else (meaning, I'm not watching, either). One of my worst hells was when I had to take care of my MIL for 2 months last year and while she watches YouTube non-stop, she does it with all the ads. I hadn't realized how bad the ads there actually are these days. I almost didn't make it.

[–] corvuscache@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I never went to the emergency room (was traveling where there weren't doctors of any kind), but I was bitten by a black widow spider and was sick as a dog for days afterwards. Not sure if this counts for the question?

[–] corvuscache@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

This makes me more likely to actually visit here. I'm sick of reading propaganda and people spouting propaganda from all sides, and I come to spaces like this for funnies, interesting topics, and so on. My political interests go elsewhere. I appreciate not having to wade through them here.

[–] corvuscache@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Agreed. Yes, it's important to know what's going on in the "big" world - but I wish all of us more interested in Lemmy, the small web, and so on spent more time and energy on creating, maintaining, and enjoying what we can build/use and less lamenting, bashing, or wishing for what we want to leave behind.

[–] corvuscache@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I had no idea how much I enjoyed LibreVox (which - at least for the things I am interested in - goes to archive.org for downloads) and OpenLibrary until I couldn't access them. This morning, still no go on either.

[–] corvuscache@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

When I was a kid my family put up the tree the Saturday after Thanksgiving (US), and took it down January 1, all as a family fun thing. I still do that.

[–] corvuscache@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

These are also just fun:

I also use Mojeek when I want a (serious) different set of results that I'm not getting from those pulling from google, bing, etc. It's not the best but it's getting better over time.

[–] corvuscache@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

See if the command line utility “detox” removes it. I use it in a bash file that tidies everything up for me before I do my daily backup.

Go to the directory you want to clean up and type:

detox *

If you don't want to clean up everything, you can limit it. For example, if I only want to clean up PDF files, I'd do:

detox *.pdf

Detox replaces all the ugly characters with underscores. I personally hate underscores for most everything and use dashes instead. So after detox runs I also run:

rename ‘y/_/-/’ *

Then, because I want every file named only with lowercase letters, I also run:

rename ‘y/A-Z/a-z/’ *

(edit to remove duplicate info)