As I go back there now after the protest, I find reddits' content less and less interesting. I used to be able to lose hours on there, now I get bored after 5 minutes and get back to lemmy. It'll keep on existing, but here's hoping many more mainstream and non-techy users like me found the fediverse and know there's valid alternatives now.
Optional extra point to add on to #5: if the community that needs to replace a subreddit isn't here yet, MAKE IT. And advertise it, so it can get popular. Be the change you want to see!
Maybe just search for better games then. There's plenty of mobile games that don't rely on gambling. Most are indie, but there are really some gems in there.
I don't speak Spanish at all, but I really wish more languages would adapt it. It's so much easier to interpret a sentence knowing it's meant to be a question or exclamation right from the start.
Not in the curriculum, though a sister of a classmate actually fell while running with scissors. Permanently blind in one eye, and a lozenge as pupil. Indeed not something you forget easily.
It's rather unhygienic if you can't retract it and wash under it. Dead skin and other stuff tends to build up and form crusts.
Good. Ship the thing off to a museum, slap a label on it and use it to educate people. Lest we forget.
Fuck cancel culture.
No. That's not how this works. You don't get to put every non-vegetarian at the same level as these fuckers.
I eat meat, but I want the animals up until the moment of slaughter to live a good, stressfree life. And the slaughter itself to be immediate and painless. Not to have their fingers chopped off or them being tortured with screwdrivers, hammers and pliers.
Oh we definitely have racism. It's just less "black lives matter" and more "only my skin colour matters". And yeah, this definitely extends to the police too. But given they're very, very scrutinised every time they dare pull their gun in public, at least we don't have the "police raids wrong unit and shoots owner" happenings.
What is happening is still far from OK, any instance of racism is one too many, but the problems here are a bit more nuanced than what is in general shared on a public, overly-Americanized forum.
And in case you are American/Canadian/Australian, can I please point back to whatever is still happening to your native population? Not a single country is free from blame from what they did to other or their own nations. Call me butthurt, but I'm getting quite a bit tired of getting called out on the Congo on every single thread mentioning Belgium while that was mostly, originally one man's doing. Again, nuance, I know more stuff happened afterwards, but it's not relevant to this thread.
Then edit that into your first comment. Now you're just telling them to off themselves.
Also really depends on the frequency and reason. Did something go horribly wrong once and does this one-time effort fix it or gives enough time for a decent solution down the road? Sure, I'll put in some extra work. Don't look for me though when it's resolved, I'm on holiday with all the overtime I should've gotten. If it's a structural problem because management wants to squeeze as much money out of their employees and refuses to hire enough people... Fuck that. And yeah, corporate uses the first thing as an excuse, luring you into staying longer "one more time, we really can't do it without you".
Wait, this is long? This looks like regular traffic to me...
So say I want a ".travel", who actually makes and sells these? Is it a private company? A country? An independent entity who's sole purpose it is to keep domains and the interwebs alive?
Definitely don't want it popular enough for bots. But more engagement in niche (or non-techy) subjects? Yup.
Finally. So tired of having to replace a phone simply because the battery no longer lasts a day, while the rest of it is still functional.
I consider myself only moderately tech-savvy and definitely not an IT person. I managed to make my way on here, and decided to create an account on a lesser-used instance after the second evening of looking around. Granted, it took some figuring out (didn't see any guides), but after about an hour I had most things set up to how I wanted it, and had Jerboa installed on my phone. If I can do it, 90% of the general population can. They just need the motivation.
I chose a small instance from the start and haven't gotten that much lag at all. The one thing that does annoy me is the refreshing on the mainpage (and then suddenly an entire communities' posts are all on top), but pressing refresh fixes that for me. Confusing? At first, but I don't consider myself knowledgeable about tech and I was able to get it up, running and personalised before even reading a single guide. I curently sort by "all" and "new", and just keep adding to my subscriptions.
Is there room for improvement? Absolutely. But I wouldn't call lemmy unusable at all. I actually spend a lot more time on here than at the aforementioned place. And one absolutely major bonus point: we can integrate images in our reply here. And I can copy/paste in the reply without it suddenly completely bugging out and not being able to type at all. It just works as its' supposed to.
I renovated a house from the '70s last year. We now have triple glazing instead of single panes, the roof and side of the house are inslutated, we got solar panels, water-saving showers, a greener water heater (would've loved to move away from gas, but my budget only stretches so far and the asbestos roof will have to be replaced in a couple of years), and soon the driveway will have its' non-porous gravel replaced with pavers designed to let water through.
Global warming won't be fixed by that, but if we all start making greener choices when we can I have hopes we can avert the worst.
I still make about one post a day on reddit in communities I like, in a reply that says "there's nowhere else to turn to" and make sure to mention the fediverse every time. Which is far less than I post on here, where it's about 50/50 circlejerk about reddit, and the other half is actually engaging with (or even creating) content.
This is my new home. It's small, but I like it that way. I mean, you can actually find out all communities on an instance, so I actually find a lot more relevant communities here than on reddit. They still gotta grow though.
That is quite insane. You got sources?
I'm more seeing it as tiny villages in the same country. Sometimes there's a duplicate Starbucks over in the other village, but they might have a different daily special. And some villages have beef with eachother, and then you gotta sneak out if you still want to secretly visit your beloved in the other village. Or move over to your summer house in village #3, where you can both meet up without issues.
The minimum specs for that though...
Would be hilarious if Google charged them for the use of their translating services.
So does Walloon French.
Dutch, not Belgian.
They also seem to lack vision straight above them if they're sitting on a light surface. So if they land on your computerscreen or window when it gets darker, you can flick them and they won't see you coming. This will only stun the things for a second, so be quick to actually kill them/pick them up and dispose of them.
Silicon reusable sheet for almost similar cleaning, but eco-friendlier flex.
They're absolutely amazing. And pretty common nowadays. If a store has baking tuns and a baked-goods section, they probably have silicon baking sheets. Just make sure you get the thin, non-stretchy kind.
Shout out to Camelworks for deep, deep deep dives into tiny details on Skyrim too.
Not OP, not from the US and never been in Japan but I travel a lot in general: always assume local currency, at the very least it's going to be cheaper and quite probably only very touristy places or airport only might accept $$. Here you can pre-order cash at your local bank and return any excess notes after. Exchange booths are usually a rip-off, and withdrawal abroad might cost extra, check with your bank.
Also don't assume people speak English. They might, but treat that as a bonus.
I think so, never used huitante before, but then I'm Flemish, not Walloon.
Also, since when is Belgium two hours ahead of the UK? Are they drifting off towards the US?
At the end of the day, they're still carbohydrates and theoretically could be broken down into Co2/methane/alcohol or other short carbon components.
No, that's another source of income.
No, but shooting them is an extreme reaction. I'm a woman alone. If this would have happened to me, I'd have barricaded the door, fled to another part of the house (there's more than one door in), put more barricades in between us and made absolutely sure I screamed the neighbourhood awake. Once there's more people to subdue him, the main problem is solved. Damages are to be covered by insurance. Now if he carried a gun, that's an entirely different matter. Still, I don't own a gun, never will, don't think I'll ever need one. Once a culture sees "shooting someone" as a first solution, things are down the drain imho.
It's not in effect yet, starting september. Now I know absolutely nothing about US law, but can't OSHA itself fight this?
They were already on the phone with cops. I'm just buying time until they arrive. And he's a drunk, as far as we know not a murderer. My first instinct is not to kill anybody who has a slightly bad day.
I don't get it, are those exponentials? But why the +0 then, they could've just put 1...
Preventive maintenance? As in, where you take your car in every year for an oil change so it doesn't end up as one gigantic blob that gums up your entire engine or having your brake pads completely disintegrate, cleaning the lint out of a sewing machine, greasing your bike gears, ...