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Just FYI, Tildes is run by one (1) dude with a full time job and a family. From what I read, the guy refers to himself as the God of Tildes or something to that effect which I think tells you everything you need to know about how it's managed.

Don't expect it to ever reach the popularity or capacity of Lemmy or Reddit.

I'm getting pretty tired of the obvious "Big tech company bad, Twitter dead, Linux good" bias that Lemmy seems to have. It's definitely decreased my usage over the last week or two. I guess it kind of comes with the territory given Lemmy is a more complicated platform that will naturally attract more tech-oriented users, but it's still getting super old seeing the same flavor posts every single day.

Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas are usually at the bottom of the rankings when it comes to the metrics you mentioned, especially education. Other southern states aren't much better.

Seeing as how modern conservatism has become nothing more than a culture war against the things that improve the general well-being of a population, yes it will continue to be that way.

What if we just, like... don't talk about it at all?

A portable battery should be considered to be removable by the end-user when it can be removed with the use of commercially available tools and without requiring the use of specialised tools, unless they are provided free of charge, or proprietary tools, thermal energy or solvents to disassemble it. Commercially available tools are considered to be tools available on the market to all end users without the need for them to provide evidence of any proprietary rights and that can be used with no restriction, except health and safety-related restrictions.

I'm glad they got specific. I wonder where Apple's self-service battery replacement program falls under this? AFAIK it's not free. They charge a fee to rent the specialized tools, which are also proprietary.

This gives Apple a few choices:

1. Make the tools commercially available, but at an astronomical price in typical Apple fashion
2. Make the tools commercially available at a normal consumer price (unlikely)
3. Make the self-service battery replacement program free (most likely, but will require a significant revision to the tools used since they are industrial-grade)

That's kinda what happens when you say "we're gonna protest for 2 whole days then go back to normal" lol. All Reddit execs and admins had to do was sit on their hands for 2 days and not say anything.

It's hilarious that whoever came up with the 2 day blackout thing thought that would make any bit of difference.

Comments and Posts both seem to be on the rise

I think this trend will continue for a bit as more mobile apps get created and become more popular.

How about we don't talk about it at all?

Gaben will die at some point

I won't allow it.

Brother, the general population in Arkansas is not even smart enough to change their Wi-Fi password, let alone use a VPN.

I've always referred to Reddit and other forum type sites as "anti-social media".

Nobody's here to gain clout. Nobody's here to get more followers. Nobody's here to try and be famous.

We're here because it's anonymous (if you want it to be), and because it's fundamentally different from mainstream social networking sites.

This is my problem. I want to use Lemmy over Reddit, but there's just not a diverse enough population to find the content I want about niche topics. Bundle that with the same 3-4 "tech company bad", "CEO bad", or "USA bad" topics on the top of my feed every day and it's pushing me away from Lemmy tbh. I signed back into my Reddit account for the first time in months yesterday.

I look forward to reading many posts here.

Not really. Baldur's Gate is a Dungeons and Dragons based isometric game (camera like Diablo) from the late 90s-early 00s. You control multiple characters at a time and issue orders to attack, use magic, use items, etc. It's much more RPG oriented than Skyrim or other fast-paced ARPGs of today.

I'm a noobie sysadmin so I don't have enough experience yet. Hope you guys find some people to help out!

It was an event where one user can change the color of a single pixel at a time, choosing from a predefined color palette. There was a cooldown on how often you were allowed to color a pixel, 5 minutes or something, I don't remember.

It was a fun way for communities to band together and draw pixel art over the course of a week or so. It was fun the first time because it was spontaneous and there weren't very many bots, if any. After that, it was just a competition of who paid for the most bot accounts so they could camp a space to keep a clear picture. Completely lost its draw IMO (no pun intended).

I'm not sure if English is your first language, but that's not the exact wording from the document.

Emphasis mine:

To ensure the safety of end-users, this Regulation should provide for a limited derogation for portable batteries from the removability and replaceability requirements set for portable batteries concerning appliances that incorporate portable batteries and that are specifically designed to be used, for the majority of the active service of the appliance, in an environment that is regularly subject to splashing water, water streams or water immersion and that are intended to be washable or rinseable.

To me this would be things meant to be used in and around water (underwater cameras, water sensors, etc.), not water-resistant devices like smartphones that aren't specifically designed to be used in that kind of environment.

I was with you on the software compatibility point, but then you completely lost me with "failed desktop OS"...