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- Comment on Instance admins, how much does it cost you to run your instance? How much does that represent per active user? 2 months ago:
Yea that seems pretty high. I have a solo pixelfed server that runs around $5 / month. It doesn’t get a lot of use though
- Comment on Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel 2 months ago:
Yeah if the settings panel had feature parity with but with a better user experience nobody would mind but it’s less features AND a worse experience.
I remember trying to change some mouse settings on windows 10 but they removed the ability to get to the old mouse options from the desktop. I drilled down through the settings app and eventually buried deep I found where it would let me open up that same old mouse settings model to get to what I wanted to change. More clicks, more searching, and less features = poor user experience
- Comment on If you’ve got an EV, Google Maps is about to become much more valuable | New updates address one of Americans’ top concerns about owning an electric car: finding a place to charge 6 months ago:
I’m still waiting for offline bicycle, transit and WALKING directions. Why can’t it tell me which way to walk without internet but it can tell me how to drive a car??
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 8 months ago:
Hexbear is mostly just trolls in my experience. They like to brigade any discussion involving Russia, China, Ukraine, etc.
Lemmy.ml is full of tankies that will also go out of their way to defend Russia and China but they aren’t just blatant trolls which is the difference.
Having controversial opinions isn’t the problem, trolling and brigading are
- Comment on Roku disables TVs and streaming devices until users consent to new terms 8 months ago:
I honestly think a lot of these terms of service agreements are legally unenforceable, but they don’t get contested in court very often.
Like if they say “you consented to the arbitration agreement” I could just argue I never physically signed anything and it was actually my 5 year old who agreed so he could watch TV.
- Comment on Lemmy Active Users looking good 8 months ago:
Guess it just depends but I see a lot of people interacting on certain topics and a lot of posts I make get a good amount of activity. I get way more interaction on my posts than I had on Twitter for instance.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 9 months ago:
My retired mother was trying to look for a new Nintendo Switch dock for my niece. She asked me if she was looking at the right one on Amazon and showed me one with a picture of a real looking Nintendo Switch dock except the logo was blurred out.
I scrolled through the Amazon results and was having trouble figuring which was the real one. instead I went to the official Nintendo store and sent her the link to the switch dock from there.
Amazon is really a horrible user experience for buying anything that isn’t cheap junk.
- Comment on Get to work, crackheads 9 months ago:
Hard to find exactly that with a Google search but here’s an example of roughly what I was talking about
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Not hard to imagine doing the same but with bike lanes and sidewalks
- Comment on Get to work, crackheads 10 months ago:
Yup, if a school bus is coming then everyone going the other way better slow down and watch out!
It’s about not making it fit “comfortably”, not that it can’t fit at all. Drivers who feel uncomfortable naturally slow down and pay more attention.
- Comment on Get to work, crackheads 10 months ago:
The road can have unnecessary curves that the sidewalks and bike lanes do not.
There are other ways to slow vehicles as well such as chicanes that narrow the street at certain points such that only 1 vehicle can pass fit through it at once, raised crosswalks, etc. There are a lot of ways to design the street to force drivers to slow down and pay attention.
Unfortunately, if drivers have room to speed then it comes at the expense of the well being and safety of everyone else (even other drivers).
I agree that winding culdesacs suck btw, but a street grid doesn’t solve the problem if safety in front of a school. If designed poorly it can make it worse since long straight streets can easily be turned into drag strips of speeding vehicles. Street grids are fine and good, but they should not allow drivers to go faster than is compatible with a pleasant and safe environment for people outside of the vehicles.
- Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying 10 months ago:
They can just run ads without all the tracking bullshit and data collection like they do on every other medium with free ad supported content like radio and television. Somehow I can watch TV and listen to the radio for free and they manage to stay running without monitoring my every move.
Might be less profitable for them but so be it. Just because tracking helps their business doesn’t mean it is justified.
- Comment on It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox 11 months ago:
The mobile experience of Firefox with ad block is so much better than Chrome. Using chrome on mobile makes the Internet feel broken to me. I can’t go back.
- Comment on Gonna be a great day! 1 year ago:
This is a satire account
- Comment on Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to go mobile • The Register 1 year ago:
Chrome on mobile is practically unusable for me. Without ad block the experience is horrible on mobile.
- Comment on Friday Facts #381 - Space Platforms 1 year ago:
I still haven’t launched a rocket in this game. Every time I end up starting a new save before I make it that far.
To be fair this is how I play a lot of games so not just this one
- Comment on The FCC is Expected to Propose the Return of Net Neutrality Protections Oct 19th 1 year ago:
Yes, it’s a lot of subtle things like this that are anti competitive in their nature. These things may not seem all doom and gloom but the point is that without regulation there is no stopping them from doing worse.
Xfinity could start throttling streaming services like Netflix in favor of their own streaming service Peacock and there would be nothing to stop them except that it might piss off their customers.
- Comment on The FCC is Expected to Propose the Return of Net Neutrality Protections Oct 19th 1 year ago:
Hell yes. Glad to see some sense returning to government if a bit slowly at times
- Comment on T-Mobile switches users to pricier plans and tells them it’s not a price hike 1 year ago:
In my city 90% of the time it’s perfectly fine. Then there are a few dead spots in the t mobile network that are really frustrating and I’m usually in those spots once a week.
Then I visited some family in Colorado and it was awful and my phone was essentially useless without Wi-Fi. T mobiles network is very hit or miss but no way am I paying $70 / month or whether the going rate for Verizon, etc.
- Comment on The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet 1 year ago:
I’m guessing this isn’t on mobile yet?
The number of languages available is pretty small but I do appreciate them trying to respect users privacy with this feature
- Comment on Make Thunderbird Yours: How To Get The Thunderbird 115 "Supernova" Look 1 year ago:
This looks really nice actually. I haven’t used Thunderbird in a while so maybe I’ll give it another go soon.
- Comment on Here we go again 1 year ago:
Not just me? I might put in an official bug report for it if it happens to you too
- Comment on Here we go again 1 year ago:
Not the person you’re replying to but I sometimes have issues with PWAs not loading when I open them and then I have to close it the all and re-open.
That’s the only major issue I have and I find the ability to add ad blockers as well as the nice reading mode to make my overall mobile browsing experience leagues better than with Chrome
