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  • DJDarrentoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlThinking of immigrating to Italy - am I insane?
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    8 days ago

    I have an Italian friend, so tried to learn Italian. I did French at school (30 years ago), so how hard can it be, right?

    Real fucking hard.

    WHY DO SO MANY THINGS HAVE GENDERS?! WHY IS AN APPLE TREE HE, BUT AN APPLE IS SHE?! (or is it the other way around?)

    I’m English, so I guess I’ll just carry on the grand tradition of talking louder and using hand gestures.












  • DJDarrentoTechnology@lemmy.worldEveryone knows your location
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    2 months ago

    Took delivery of a Pixel 9 last Thursday after 16 years of iPhones. Within an hour of delivery I had it on Graphene and after a few days of VEEEEERY steep learning curve I’m really enjoying using it.

    I have absolutely no idea how any of the sandboxing stuff works, and could stand to have fewer notifications warning me what the system is doing, but overall it’s pretty straightforward.




  • DJDarrentoTechnology@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 months ago

    I’ve lost a couple of podcasts to Spotify. Life goes on. I don’t begrudge anyone wanting to earn money, but I won’t support Spotify’s practices.

    There’s such a wonderfully low barrier to entry these days that there’ll soon be something else coming down the pipe.


  • DJDarrentoTechnology@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 months ago

    As someone who’s made a number of podcasts on and off over the years since 2007, much of this post resonates.

    However, I take solace in thinking that a podcast is just an extension of a broadcast; where a broadcast is, well, broad, a podcast is a self contained…cast. In a pod. Broadcasting covers audio and video, so it figures that podcasting would as well.

    With that in mind, my own style of podcasting, and my preferred format is personal stories. I love podcasts that are by people in their bedrooms talking about their lives, or by journalists who talk to regular folk. Regardless of what Spotify do, that style will always be out there, available on an RSS feed.

    I don’t use Spotify, I don’t use YouTube. If I can’t get it in my app then I don’t listen to it. And that’s OK.

    I really need to get back into it though. I used to love making them.



  • DJDarrentoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldI'll show them
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    2 months ago

    I ended up manually downloading my subscriptions using Freetube and yt-dlp and throwing them in my Plex server. I don’t watch a huge amount so I’m happy to spend 20 minutes a couple of times a week doing it. There are ways to automate the process but I’ve never been able to wrap my head around it.