Did one of your annoying nerdy friends hide some weird unicode in a message they sent to you? Copy/paste into this site to see exactly what dickery they’re up to:

https://babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html

I say this because I’m that annoying friend that likes to slip a unicode right-to-left character in just to see what happens.

You can download pictures of stamps and butterflies, but people keep collecting those for some reason. Unless you’ve got issues with hoarding or it otherwise affects you negatively, don’t worry about having a collecting-based hobby.

You could look at the Sansa mp3 player. It’s pretty small, and was still manufactured a few years ago when I bought it. It’s likely available used if they finally axed it.

Any old Android device should work. It’ll be easiest if the device supports MTP, but USB mass storage should also work. Programs like Rhythmbox will pick up on the device automatically and you can drag&drop music onto it.

Get 100% on your backlog of books and/or games.

The scary temperatures you see in news headlines are basically unaffected by the fires. Wikipedia has a good overview:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surface_temperature

The overall issue with global warming is not that one place gets super hot once and sets a record. Otherwise I could make news headlines by setting my house on fire and getting “hottest temperature ever! (at my house)”. Those local hotspots of fire will affect the average global temp only a tiny bit, because the earth is a big place and there’s lots of places not currently on fire. The thing to worry about is the reverse actually: because the earth is warming, fires are increasing everywhere, and then everybody will be next to a fire on that blessed record-setting day.

Almond milk has quite a long history of being called as such: https://historydollop.com/2016/11/09/almond-milk-the-medieval-way/

You forgot about soda water

Relevant XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/2423/

I realize now you’re probably talking about a community-wide chat, so my comment is kind of off-topic. Given that Lemmy already supports a “Send Secure Message” button on someone’s profile that sends them to Matrix, I’d say there’s a pretty good chance of the Lemmy devs integrating some feature like this.

As far as advantages for my original comment, I’m mostly thinking that integrating them that way would mean that each client wouldn’t have to code its own version of chat, they’d just see comments come in from Matrix like any other comment posted the regular way.

I wonder if you could transparently bridge the two. Make every Lemmy post into a Matrix chat, and every Lemmy comment into a matrix comment in that chat, and vice versa. Each Lemmy community could also be represented as a Space in Matrix.