• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    I need desktop / homescreen wallpaper that is minimalist enough to not be distracting and yet is more complex than a flat color or gradient. And a single one in place will bug me after a time, so I borrowed a bunch of powerpoint tech backdrops.

  • Cows Look Like Maps@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    This week? AdGuard Home to block ads network-wide. Optimizing it so I can compare it to my Pi-Hole to see which I prefer. We’ll see what obsession next week holds.

    Where my ADHD homies at?

  • athos77@kbin.social
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    Why do those little pieces of skin keep sticking up next to my fingernails. (Not cuticles / hangnails, the skin next to the nails)

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      7 months ago

      I tend to bite them and tear them off hoping they don’t act like a zipper and all of me will pour out

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    7 months ago

    tiny sounds.

    there is something so mesmerizing by hearing some small, almost universally ignored sounds. when stillness is interrupted by the soft rustle of paper, or I can hear some innocuous bug doing it’s thing. I also love the sound of animals chewing, but hate how humans sound when they do it. I once sat in detention at school, the room was so quiet. a fly landed on my desk, and I could hear it clean itself. it was so surreal. How many others have heard that sound?

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      It’s some people’s jobs to create/recreate and record those sounds for TV, games, and other media. I believe they’re called foley artists.

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        yeah! and the job was named after it’s most prolific artist, Jack Foley! I tell ya, if I could be a fly on the wall of a Foley Artist… Man… that’d be cool

  • CarniMoss@lemmings.world
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    7 months ago

    I would watch Over the Garden Wall over and over and over which reminds me…

    Well now it’s Infinity Train

  • Extras@lemmy.today
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    7 months ago

    EBay deals and thrifting. I can spend hours just looking at different things, seeing how much of a deal it is and not buying it

  • StickyDango@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’ll never be able to hold a candle to my grandma, but planting seeds and seeing the little seedlings poke out of the soil. It’s really satisfying to know that I’ve done something right to be able to create life.

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    Trains. Specifically Japanese trains. I lived there about a decade ago and often uses the trains to get to Tokyo or malls on weekend, and have grown to be obsessed with it. From regular passenger trains to Shinkansens (bullet train).

    My biggest wish is to be able to live there again. I really miss those times!

  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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    Boxes. I love boxes. Like old metal ones or decorative stash boxes. Crazy about boxes. Nice ones though. no cardboard.

  • thorbot@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Painting miniatures and then playing long swooping campaign games with them. Here’s Deep Rock Galactic: the board game painted up, mid mission:

  • TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    A lot of things. But specifically this week it’s the Lemmy v0.19 upgrade. I’m going through the github release, the various posts on the various instances, gathering every info I can find.

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    Trains, idk what it is, I don’t even like travelling by train, I’m just oddly obsessed with them…