No. I tend to be quiet but I’ve learned this often makes people uncomfortable. I don’t need to talk around close family, but if I notice uncomfortable body language in a colleague after a long pause in conversation I’ll try to come up with something to say.

I never sing though. Anywhere.

Interesting, I’ll keep in mind

For items purchased online only, I try to. I tend to buy on AliExpress and the photos don’t always do justice to the product. It’s very helpful to see the experiences of others when making a purchase.

Interestingly I have had many experiences which resulted in products better than expected, and if I see this trend of comments on a product I’m undecided, I’ll probably be swayed to purchase. The opposite is true when the reviews denounce a product or seller as a scam.

Other than that I will give my opinion on other products if someone asks. Say for example someone on Lemmy asked about vacuum cleaner recommendations, or wondering about a specific phone model I once had, I would chime in with my personal experience.

TLDR yes whenever possible, because you can’t always trust the seller to be honest. You need an impartial opinion.

Depends on what you consider a cartoon.

I can’t pick a single decade either. I’m a fan of the 30’s-50’s cartoons, in spite of any content/stereotypes that hasn’t aged well.

Fast forward a little bit I think the 90’s have some of the best cartoons produced, with cartoon network and nickelodeon taking the lion’s share of it.

If you consider anime a cartoon too, I would say the 80’s is where it’s at.

Terry Pratchett

No

I’ll be curious.

It never worked properly on my android phone that doesn’t have Google services

Just properly or actually not at all? Currently, my android has Google services, but my WhatsApp isn’t linked to any Google Account. It runs as expected. I wonder what your experience was, as I’d like to own a google free phone sometime but I don’t think I’ll be able to remove WhatsApp from my life unfortunately.

It doesn’t spam your phone with photos, unless you decide to download them

It doesn’t backup your conversations to your already nearly full, Google owned Drive

Dark mode by default

Not owned by Meta

No frills, I couldn’t care less for “personal stories” or whatever bs Whatsapp has

Basically it is somewhat more respectful of your agency as a user.

…edit: yes you have a setting to toggle backup off. And to change background to whatever you want. And I’m sorry for you, because your deeply cynical friends (your words) probably won’t care about my points either. Because in essence, all my reasons rest on personal values. Which your friends already don’t care about, else they would be complaining about things such as no space on phone or being annoyed at having to change settings for things they don’t want or need.

I use signal but never managed to get rid of WhatsApp. It’s a default app nowadays and most people use it. I constantly deal with random customers and whatnot through it. Only family is on signal. Which is sort of nice, I see a signal notification and know it’s someone important.

I haven’t read this. Curious as to the combat. What makes it good? Is this one on one combat or are we talking about troops facing each other? Or both?

Ah, I love recommendation posts.

It depends on what you actually enjoyed reading and why. I see you already have a lot of great suggestions. The only author I haven’t yet seen mentioned is perhaps Asimov, although you said you prefer fantasy to sci fi. That’s also my preference, however I find his short stories are worth reading and also low commitment for this reason.

One thing I find useful in recommendations is to know what else people have read and what they think about that. It helps me get an idea of which books I’m more likely to enjoy best or not, especially if I can compare their thoughts to mine about the same books. With that in mind, my thoughts:

Discworld is amazing. Pratchett is a great author. I like that he can write a story that on the surface is just a simple comedy/adventure, but if you are the type that also analyzes what they read you will soon see his stories go much deeper than what they appear to be. He will keep things entertaining and witty but also throw at you a piece of his mind for you to mull over and reflect on various aspects of life. Small Gods is one of my favorites.

I also really enjoyed Dungeon Crawler Karl, and I mean really really really. Hilarious. But it doesn’t have the depth Pratchett has.

On a similar vein, The Witcher- loved the characters and the story is very entertaining, but t can’t say I was blown away as with Pratchett.

I absolutely loved Abercrombie’s First Law trilogy. Now that’s some solid writing. The characters are so well fleshed out, unique, original. Somehow the world and the plot feel realistic, crazy as it sounds for a fantasy book. It may feel a bit slower in pacing than any of the three I previously mentioned, but not slower than LOTR which you have already read.

Nothing is really necessary until you develop it enough to make it so. There is potential there. It could turn into something extremely useful, perhaps even life saving. I don’t think we are anywhere close yet, but sometimes you get revolutionary breakthroughs that flip the landscape in a really short time.

Well I haven’t been using Newpipe for ten years… Maybe Skyrim…no, I haven’t played that in years… Well it seems my list is gonna be short:

VLC
GIMP
7zip

Ah, another Sumatra user! I also used RawTherapee during my student years. I’ll keep in mind your other two suggestions, you sound like a reasonable person

I don’t understand why you are getting downvoted

A nice cheese

The mention of AI as an introduction suggests you may have a specific context in mind. If the question is so general, you don’t need to give irrelevant information. Asking “do you feel valued?” is enough, and the absence of context becomes obvious.

Thank you, it’s so beautiful

Professionally? No

As a family member or friend? Yes

As a member of society? Barely

What’s the context of your question?

Artist?

Bread. Cheese never makes it