It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?
  • Obi Obi 1d ago 100%

    That's right I guess, but at least in a beignet there's a bit of preparation involved, I was picturing just whole fried apples or maybe like french fries but made of apple, but you're right I guess beignet counts.

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  • It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?
  • Obi Obi 1d ago 85%

    Fried apples? Maybe that's a Texas thing, or Scottish, but it wouldn't be a source of confusion in France because they'd take your passport away if you tried frying an apple.

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  • A couple options to choose from
  • Obi Obi 2d ago 66%

    But it doesn't affect me (yet).

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  • What game has the best thunderstorm?
  • Obi Obi 2d ago 100%

    I had such a great, if brief, time in sea of thieves. It fell out because the main reason I enjoyed it was the team aspect and our friends stopped playing it, but damn if it didn't give that immersive vibe for a little while, kind of like when I first played WoW.

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  • Here we go again
  • Obi Obi 3d ago 100%

    For that you need a FWA3DP, a friend with a 3D printer. Mine prints me parts every few months when I randomly need something.

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  • New data reveals thousands of Australians who own 10 rentals or more
  • Obi Obi 4d ago 100%

    The differences are subtle but unmistakable.

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  • THE ANCIENT GUARDIANS
  • Obi Obi 5d ago 100%

    When they're making a movie and someone suggests this, they get shut down because it's not believable.

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  • Americans are more underwater on their car loans than ever before
  • Obi Obi 5d ago 100%

    I totally agree, and proudly own our vehicles outright! Don't care if they're a bit older.

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  • Americans are more underwater on their car loans than ever before
  • Obi Obi 5d ago 100%

    But in the case of (new) cars isn't this applicable to literally everyone the moment they drive off the lot? Like it's gonna take a while untill the loan payments catch up to the depreciation of a new car.

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  • Americans are more underwater on their car loans than ever before
  • Obi Obi 5d ago 85%

    Feels good to be completely debt free on the cars. Yes it meant when my work car started showing issues, I had to review my expectations when going electric and couldn't get the van/large car I thought I needed and we downsized to a hatch back instead, but truthfully I think that was a kick in the nuts I needed to realise I was getting pulled into a weird spiral of thinking I always need more, when really 99% of the time I'm fine in a small vehicle (and it's so much nicer to drive and get around in). For these few times stuff won't fit I'll use our older ICE which is a bit more spacious, and when that's not enough I'll rent a van and bill it to the client!

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  • Here you go, I guess.
  • Obi Obi 6d ago 100%

    I mean that sounds great and all but what are the chances some other explorers find it and the same shit goes down basically the same way?

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  • Living under capitalism be like
  • Obi Obi 6d ago 100%

    Carrot and stick. But mostly stick.

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  • Here you go, I guess.
  • Obi Obi 7d ago 100%

    Germany old AF no cap fr fr.

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  • I found this cat outside
  • Obi Obi 1w ago 100%

    Standard issue cat, mine looks so similar I thought it was her for a second. I always love to tell people about the M on their forehead which they all have.

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  • Injuries at different ages [Extra Fabulous Comics]
  • Obi Obi 2w ago 100%

    Yep I'm on a fairly serious routine but not overboard, basically got it down to about 45min sessions 3/4 times a week (every other day kind of), and I feel better than in my 20s!

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  • Damn that's quite the statement
  • Obi Obi 2w ago 66%

    I'm with you, just seems like they're trying to be edgy and forgot the real world isn't a 4chan board.

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  • Anon doesn't like the new meta
  • Obi Obi 2w ago 100%

    This particular one is the Mavic 3 pro, indeed around that price with the accessories. It's what I fly for work.

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  • How do I replicate this shader and animation style
  • Obi Obi 2w ago 100%

    Not sure how broad your question is, so I will answer the broadest possible... You want to look into Cel/Toon shading.

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  • Home brand products are cheaper at the supermarket. But are they good value?
  • Obi Obi 2w ago 100%

    I'm guessing you're French based on your instance. I had a friend many moons ago that worked at a processing plant where they packaged the William Saurin stuff (cassoulet, etc). At some point during the batch process once they reached the quota for the branded batch, they literally just switched the label roll to the Lidl ones and kept going with the exact same food.

    Of course there's no way to really know which products are like this and which are made with nasty cheap ingredients.

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  • Hey there, I'm looking at producing my first documentary and one of the tools people use for that is called Studio Binder. It's an all-in-one for making your scripts, shotlists, moodboards, location scouting, storyboards, production planning, collaborators management etc etc. Any of you know of similar tools that are FOSS? I think some VFX/animation pipelines also have similar needs. I already found storyboarder for making panels which seems amazing but I'm getting a bit lost in the jungle of options for the project management/scripting side of things. I'm considering Airtable for example but might be overkill for my needs. Ideally it's something tailored for filmmaking specifically but open to hearing about general purpose planners that can be adapted.

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    I know that's the talk of the minute and the rest of Lemmy is bombarded with arguments about whether to defederate from threads or not. I'm not looking to start the debates here as well but I'm just curious on our beloved admin's stance about it, are we going to allow federation with threads?

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    Meta Obi 1y ago 100%
    Dead feed?

    Hey there, so I registered to Sopuli recently and I'm still getting through the transition out of Reddit, I'll admit right now I'm enjoying the shit show too much to step away but once RiF stops working, I'm probably gonna be around here a lot more. But right now my feed seems completely dead. I spent some time subscribing to some popular communities from different servers and I try browsing local, all and subscribed. Both hot and active serves me posts that are days, sometimes weeks old. What can I do to get more content in my feed? I was just browsing the kbin front page (without an account) and was seeing fresher posts from Lemmy servers than I'm getting in Jerboa so it must be something wrong on my end and not just that's there's too little content.

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    Hello! As a newly arrived Reddit refugee I thought I would try to contribute. I might start posting individual tracks if I sense interest but for now, let's start with a broader overview. There is a branch of hip hop very close to my heart, one that has a relaxed, elaborate ambience on boom bap beats with twists. I won't pretend I have historian level of knowledge but you can think of it as a continuation of artists like nightmares on wax, tricky, etc but also massive attack, portishead and that kind of more melodic trip hop. Some of it mixed with traditional rapping. This all mixes into the French melting pot and you get this back and forth between traditional hip hop with a rapper, and this abstract, melodic Trip-Hop scene. You'll also find influences from reggae, dub, punk, rock, jazz, Celtic, Arabic, oriental etc etc etc, since this is very much a world of samples, while some artists do compose everything themselves. Now of course all these things exist outside of France but I've explored a lot, I don't even live in France and I listen to many genres, and for me at least it's in the French artists from which I tend to find "that sound" that works for me. Now to get you started on the journey, some of the more mainstream artists to search for in your preferred streaming service. I keep it to things international people can listen to (e.g. no/limited French lyrics). - Chinese man (the masters, within this artist alone you can find many of the substyles I'm talking about I prefer the older albums by I hear youngsters enjoy the new stuff) - Degiheugi (more modern and his own unique twist, kinda tropical) - Chill Bump (these guys are more traditionally hip hop, the lyrics are in English, but you can still sense the influence) - Kognitif (this is very much the essence of what trip hop means to me) - Guts (here you'll find more ethnic influences, he also makes live musicians participate to his productions) - Scratch Bandit Crew (not a fan of the whole discography but the good tracks are really, really good) - Mounika (and finally, one of my all time favourites in his decidedly more chill and dark vibe, bordering on lo-fi at times). There are so many more great artists and if you did want to try one with French lyrics, then in the more traditionally hip hop category but embodying this branch, I suggest starting with "Dooz Kawa". I hope that I might make a few people curious with this and maybe even create a new passion or two for my beloved flavour of trip/hip hop. Share your own regional artists that you think upstage the usual international stars in their own way!

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