it_depends_man

@it_depends_man@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and it seems like the only people that use Linux are HEAVILY experienced with those things I just listed… HOWEVER… I’m not.

  Nah. Or at least, it should just work if you boot from your USB.

  Just try it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Must EU banks provide basic service via internet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that there is an obligation with that kind of standard, no.

  Banking and security, accessibility yes.

  Specific choice of “user side software”, probably not. And it’s somewhat unlikely to happen too, because if you think about apps on phones, if suddenly a completely new phone OS were to show up and had 30% market share, it wouldn’t make sense to have a law that would legally require them to offer an app on that platform

  And Chrome isn’t “officially bad” in a legal sense.

  The internet standards themselves are a bit… imprecise too. Implementing them in browser is ultimately up to the companies, there is no legal body requiring a browser to have or not have features. They just usually sort of do the same things because going different paths would be stupid. Mostly. Sometimes they totally do that, though, e.g. calendars and contact info have a standard, but all implementations are a mess and transfer is a pain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is space 2 dimensional?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When things collide, they transfer their movement energy. If things collide like this >- They will continue in roughly the same direction. If they collide like this -> <- their movement will cancel out and they will fall into the sun.

  Satistically, at the “beginning of time”, in a random sphere around the sun, things will not be completely the same. So everything will either collide and fall. Or it will collide and continue in roughly the same direction. What we have now are the leftovers that were moving in roughly the same direction and colliding so little that they didn’t fall into the sun because of that.

  The same is true for the “disk”: If you start with a roughly evenly distributed sphere of gases or something, there is a middle somewhere where there is a little bit more mass than anywhere else. That’s where things will go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the timing is quite right.

  I don’t really have anything meaningful to contribute to the feeds and most of the discussions are a bit pointless. They’re not really changing anything. So, in part those other platforms are fueled by outrage culture. Which I know is bad, so not having it is good, but then we also don’t have the growth from it.

  The technology is there and that should help. Apparently people aren’t going to mass migrate from reddit quite yet, even though the push last year probably helped a lot.

  It is a network problem. I think the slow growth will / should happen eventually, because the fediverse is an objectively good place to start a community. It’s just not going to be fast and other platforms adding push factors would help obviously. We’ll see where reddit goes with their paid subs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Private voting has been added to PieFed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re a hero for making this happen in… 24 hours? 48?

  The issue won’t go away, we’ll see how well everyone else deals with it, but this is a super strong argument for your system / server.

  (Advertise it. Advertise it HARD. “piefed, we have private votes”.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like a © where my instances collects all the votes on the post, and then transmits an anonymized aggregate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose your fighter⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Glockness Monster *teleports behind you*

  “nothing personal, kid”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is broken in the sense that it’s absolutely insane that they can take 30% and nobody can build a competing product that only takes 20%.

  It is not broken in the sense that they keep doing what they are doing and developers and customers consistently choose their offer.

  It’s not a monopoly because they exploit their position.

  It’s a monopoly because nobody else is trying hard enough.