For me it was Jeff Kinney. I was meeting a different author I love, but there wasn't enough room downstairs and we had to go up. Turns out that's exactly where Jeff Kinney works! He's the author who got me into reading so I thought that was so cool

Every time a song goes on, I can't focus on anything else because I feel the lyrics going into my brain and replacing my thoughts with other words. Especially if I'm trying to do homework or coding. So because of this, I only listen to classical music or the instrumental tracks of modern songs I do like. My sister thinks it's weird. I only listen to lyrical songs if I want to sing them (theatre kid)

Does anyone else relate?

Why YSK: I've seen several commenters asking if there were specific bots such as RemindMe

However, there are so many bots already on mastodon that will federate with us! Check out botsin.space, a masto-instance specifically made for hosting bots

Just tag @[email protected] and say the time after (I recommend you not do it on this post unless you have an actual reason though as it could spam their servers)

This is Lemmy's second inside joke after the migration! Hopefully there will be more to come 👀

If you're hard of hearing, deaf, have an audio processing disorder or just like how subtitles look, this guide is for you.

Pre-written Subtitles For Streaming Sites

Sometimes, streaming sites don't have subtitles readily available, but the media itself already does in other formats. This is where directories come in.

• OpenSubtitles is a crowdsourced directory of official subtitles for movies and TV shows. You can use a browser extension like this one (available on Firefox and Chrome) to add the information from OpenSubtitles to your streaming websites.

Live Captions

Other times, you're on a phone call and don't know what that one guy with the barking dog in the background is saying (we all know it's you, John, we can see the microphone icon right there), luckily there are live subtitles! These are generated using speech-to-text machine learning, so they aren't always on the money but they can still give a general idea of what's being said.

iOS/Mac

• Go to Accessibility settings and enable Live Captions. [NOTE: This only works for ARM macs— not Intel]

Select Android devices

• Press the second volume button, open controls, and enable "live captions."

Linux

• Install the Live Captions app from Flathub.

Windows

• Navigate to Start, All apps, Accessibility, and then Live captions.

This should help you still enjoy the show while knowing what the hell everyone is saying (an issue I struggle with personally, which is why I made this guide). Happy watching!

(Basically a situation where you were set up for failure but against all odds you got lucky)