Eiri
@Eiri@lemmy.ca
- Comment on A new study found adaptive traffic signals powered by big data reduced peak-hour travel times by 11% in China’s 100 most congested cities – saving 31.73 million tonnes of CO₂ annually. 1 day ago:
They will truly do anything not to admit the problem is cars
- Comment on Software engineering job openings hit five-year low? 1 week ago:
Is everyone using LinkedIn instead now?
- Comment on Job related: Am I being stupid? 1 week ago:
Have you looked into becoming a nurse practitioner? You sound like you might feel more fulfilled with more medical knowledge and a job in more of an expert role.
- Comment on My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red - HTMHell 2 weeks ago:
What the fuck, HTML. I kinda like it in a perverse way.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
They’re not communist fight communities explicitly though. I haven’t joined any communist-themed communities. It’s just content that kinda bubbles up left and right.
I COULD start avoiding everything “.ml”, but that sounds counter-productive.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Well, it’s not because something has the potential to be addictive that it’s necessarily bad. After all, a video game that isn’t addictive at all could also be called boring.
I think the line between an enjoyable experience and unhealthy addictive features is drawn in user choice and the absence of malicious intent.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
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The apps are kinda meh. I haven’t found one that doesn’t come with significant disadvantages yet, and I’ve tried FIVE.
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There’s no recommendations feed. You see what you’re subscribed to, or everything. No in-between. You can’t see what you’ve subscribed to, and a few posts that the algorithm thinks you might like. People like to complain about the algorithm, but one reason it’s so addictive is that it’s useful.
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Notifications don’t work in every app
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Just having a feed that behaves normally seems to be really hard to do for apps. Stop slowing me posts I’ve already scrolled past, and when I click home/pull down to refresh, I want new posts, not the same thing again that I’ve already scrolled past and ignored. Some apps have settings (that are somehow not on by default) to hide read posts and mark posts read on scroll, but I haven’t tried an app where that works every time.
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There’s no “main” app. Think about Reddit before the API fees. There used to be a default app. It had its issues, but most features worked out of the box, and most things were intuitive and normie-friendly. You could use that to get comfortable with the social network itself, and then eventually try other apps when something got too annoying.
Compare that with Lemmy. You want to try it, and you already have to deal with choice paralysis. A ton of apps on the website, with utterly unhelpful descriptions (“an open-source Lemmy client developed by so-and-so”; wow, exactly zero of those words help me pick) and a random order that doesn’t even let me default to one most popular one.
Quite a few apps focus on niche UI features like swipe-based navigation while still not having the basics down right. I’m several months into having joined Lemmy and I still haven’t found an app that feels somewhat right. That is a challenge not one of the other social networks has managed. Congrats, Lemmy. Impressive.
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Picking a server and signing up in general is complicated. And it’s an impactful decision that you have NO tools to make so early, unless you start researching like it’s school homework.
.world? That’s popular but you’ll be judged for having joined it, plus you lose access to the piracy community. .ml? Hope you like communists and DRAMA. And if you get it wrong, there’s no intuitive and easy way to migrate. You clunkily export your settings and re-import them; the servers will NOT talk to each other. And even then you lose some stuff.
This UX issue is tough. I don’t have an easy solution. But I’m sure a UX expert could find one.
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Manual validation of your sign-up by a human. What is this, a Facebook group? If you introduce a 24-hour delay so early in the process, of course people are going to fall off.
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The mouse logo is kinda ugly, won’t lie. I’m sure it’s a more potent people repellent than you think.
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There is a LOT of tribalism. On Reddit, there’s r/Canada, that’s full of convinced conservatives that won’t hesitate to artificially skew the discourse. And there’s r/OnGuardForThee, basically the same but with progressives angry at the conservatives.
On Lemmy, that feels like the rule, not the exception. I just joined communities based on my interests, and my feed is full of communist vs communist vs non-communist drama. Can we frickin’ chill?
If I need to start filtering out whole fields of interest that were taken over, joining less popular community clones or literally defederating instances to get a good experience, we’ve got it wrong. Normal people don’t wanna do that when they literally just got here. They’ll just leave.
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Somehow even more US-centric than Reddit. So… Much… American politics.
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- Comment on eggs in japan 2 weeks ago:
Probably not. They contained a lot of air at that point. But yeah … If it doesn’t look, taste or smell rotten, I’m usually not worried by food.
But then again, I’m vegetarian, so I avoid most non-obvious risks by that alone.
- Comment on eggs in japan 2 weeks ago:
Btw I took a look at your comment and if it helps, washed eggs are good basically forever too. I never throw them away. I’ve eaten eggs that had been expired for 6 months, and while they were a little dried up (kinda dense; the white had shrunk), they were otherwise totally fine.
You know how they say you know there’s a methane or propane leak because of the smell of rotten eggs… I’ve never smelled rotten eggs. Only propane. Eggs refuse to rot.
- Comment on eggs in japan 3 weeks ago:
I’m not American, but in a lot of American cooking videos I watch, the host will go like “NEVER eat raw egg” or “I’m tasting a small amount here but it’s a calculated risk I’m taking and you may not want to”.
- Comment on eggs in japan 3 weeks ago:
You’re missing something!
- Comment on eggs in japan 3 weeks ago:
I was convinced Japan also washed their eggs. I’m confused.
Also I’m curious about why Americans are really squeamish about people eating any egg products that haven’t been fully sterilized by cooking, while others generally aren’t scared of it, even if they’re in a country that washes eggs just like the US.
In the US, people don’t even taste their cake batter to check the amount of sugar before cooking it; in Canada, a summer isn’t whole until you’ve made strawberry mousse (ingredients: strawberry, egg whites, sugar; eaten raw). Perplexing. Is it riskier in the US, or is the risk equally low everywhere but Americans are really paranoid?
- Comment on A "section" without an accessible name is nothing but a "div". 3 weeks ago:
That’s good and all but man is that person a big fan of aria properties.
To be clear, they’re not bad, but they’re a little brute-forcey. There’s often a way to achieve the same purpose without them.
For instance, instead of
aria-pressedwith buttons, you can just use radio buttons and labels. And your can just put heading elements in your sections instead of naming them with aria properties. - Comment on FARMAGIA - Episode 1 discussion 1 month ago:
The character designs aren’t bad.
But the rest? Man, I’m really not sure I’m going to make it to episode 2.
- Comment on flouride 3 months ago:
That’s good. My first instinct would’ve been that what’s in toothpaste is plenty.
- Comment on flouride 3 months ago:
Before even wondering about the health effects, we should ask ourselves whether it actually achieves the desired goal. I doubt that.
If it doesn’t, we don’t even need to wonder about safety; we’ll just stop burning money.
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 3 months ago:
I think I may have always mispronounced one or both of these then.
Man, English pronunciation, I swear.
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 3 months ago:
Hmm, it is similar to a J, and may become the same depending on the speaker, but not necessarily exactly the same
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 3 months ago:
Ooh wow you’re right.
Close to me is “closs”
Close the door is “cloz”
I never noticed
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 3 months ago:
Close isn’t always pronounced the same?!
- Comment on gen z gorillas 3 months ago:
Both are young. I think that’s about it.
- Comment on Half as Hot 4 months ago:
Wait, does it? Are joules in thermal energy per kelvin a purely linear relationship?
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 4 months ago:
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 4 months ago:
Didn’t the US use to invade countries for much, much less of a reason than that? Sheesh.
These days I’m finding myself agreeing with the Iranian government more and more often because of Israel’s crap. I don’t like agreeing with the Iranian government.
- Comment on T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users 4 months ago:
What year is it? Locked devices have been illegal in Quebec for, like, ever.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 months ago:
How is that unclear?
- Comment on Drink it, I dare ya 4 months ago:
Dicarbon monoxide. Wikipedia is shockingly poor in information about it, but “stable” is certainly not the first word I’d use to describe it.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 months ago:
What kills me is when people will mix the two in a single context.
“Between eight and 13 percent”
NO. If you’re writing one number in digits, you need to write them all the same way.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 months ago:
Oh yeah, definitely very old stuff, huh.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 months ago:
I regularly say “from the 20th century” when I want to emphasize the age, the irrelevance, of my lack of knowledge of something.
I don’t know crap about cars, so sometimes, someone would ask me about an old one or something and I’d say “not sure, mid-20th century I think”.
It’s a funny way to talk about it and it almost masks the fact I just tried to get away with a 25-year window.
Although in a more rude manner I’ll also say I don’t care about some 20th century movie or something.