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- Comment on I am the one who's aware of my own identity 4 days ago:
Mmmh, that’s some good boomer humor.
- Comment on One-handed games? 4 days ago:
All I’m hearing is excuses over excuses!
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 6 days ago:
Daaang, I forgot about the 4 (!!!) front cameras. Super creepy. Like, one is already bad and accepted but four…
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 6 days ago:
If you restrict the crap out of the phones so there is not much interesting to do for kids, it will have similar effects. E.g. they complain about YouTube on their kids phones, block it. Complain about games, don’t let them install them.
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 6 days ago:
Children’s smartwatches are a stripped-down version of a typical smartwatch, and they allow parents to restrict app downloads, usage and calls from an approved list of contacts.
All of that you can do with a phone too. I do admit thought the argument of not losing it as easily since its on your arm makes sense.
- Comment on You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use. 1 week ago:
It’s actually on their page, so I didn’t try to call out OP on that (and not saying you implied that, just to be sure) but am actually curious if that means something specific.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 1 week ago:
You wonder? What else is going to happen, it now stays the same forever? Just a question of when.
- Comment on You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use. 1 week ago:
This is probably a stupid question. If it is free for personal and all commercial use… which case isn’t covered by that? Could just say it is free to use.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Bluesky. 1 week ago:
Yeah, that is me too. I tried Mastodon for a bit and it just didn’t work for me. Posting something just drowns you out until you actually have a decent amount of followers, however many that may need to be.
If I post with a new account, 99% of it goes into the void. I had a few people like and boost my posts but they were still gone into oblivion within an hour or less. Not sure how that is appealing? It is like a popularity contest. Like those cliques in schools of the popular kids.
- Comment on “They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know the situation in all of the countries, but the ones I know that allow you to make a copy of what you purchased also require that in making a copy you are not allowed to break any DRM. I don’t think there are many media being sold that do not include some kind of DRM these days.
- Comment on “They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
There are so many high quality rips out there. Bothering to tip these yourself makes not much sense, unless its very obscure stuff.
- Comment on Google Photos will no longer sync with third-party digital photo frames 2 weeks ago:
I got it running on a raspberry pi and have disabled the machine learning parts in the docker compose file. Works great.
- Comment on Brother denies using firmware updates to brick printers with third-party ink 3 weeks ago:
Brother was the last decent printer company, wasn’t it?
- Comment on What was your favorite shareware game? 3 weeks ago:
it’s like that Indiana Jones Adventure game.
- Comment on What was your favorite shareware game? 3 weeks ago:
I loved Whacky Wheels so much but recently put it on my Steamdeck and eh, it did not age well. Very choppy gameplay. But it still has a place in my heart.
- Comment on What exactly are they teaching in our schools? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 3 weeks ago:
True, can’t argue with that. I am maybe a bit too pragmatic when I say, I don’t care about the difference because the outcome for me as a user is the same.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 3 weeks ago:
See my other comment. That is not really the solution since you will simply get banned again after a while, depending on how much you interact there. Unless admin/moderation changes, making a new account just gives you a bit of extra time using those communities.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 3 weeks ago:
A little, sure, but from my point of view (which you are happy to disagree with), very little.
Personally I am a big Star Trek fan. I was stoked to see there is an actual dedicated Lemmy server for it, with many communities focused around everything Star Trek. But I disagree with their admin/moderation so much I had to change my account to another server. At some point ended up blocking the whole instance because I just cannot keep myself to just reading what others are posting.
So even if I can use another server, I cannot use those communities. Similar if I were a vegan and would not agree with what some of the more extreme users are posting.
There are not many active alternatives for these communities on Lemmy.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 3 weeks ago:
Well, exactly the same can and is happening on specific Lemmy servers too.
One of the vegan instances bans you if you downvote anything that speaks in favour of veganism. Not that I just do this out of spite, but there was this time where a thread about vegan cat food gained traction and I downvoted some comments that were really borderline. Ban within an hour.
Same on that notorious star trek instance. Go ahead and put some downvotes on Discovery related posts, it will also earn you a temporary ban.
So let’s not pretend that it’s only big bad reddit doing this.
- Comment on Hate crimes 3 weeks ago:
Eh, I’m all for equality. Women can be racist too!
- Comment on Your eyes will moisture up seeing it 3 weeks ago:
How would you know it thinks its another hippo? How about that it just needed a friend and found one?
- Comment on Yes I would like to see it 3 weeks ago:
The amount of boomer humor posts in this community is just baffling.
- Comment on Better watch what you say 3 weeks ago:
He certainly got the lobes for business.
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 4 weeks ago:
That is not the point of making another browser.
- Comment on Big Spooon 4 weeks ago:
The Genos plush! (I hope it is a plush?)
- Comment on I wish 4 weeks ago:
Woah, thanks!
- Comment on I wish 4 weeks ago:
Is that from some series or movie? So damn relatable.
- Comment on Common Ground 4 weeks ago:
Geez. The being lied to wasn’t really very secretive, it was out in the open for a very long time.
This is a very weird apology for just being stupid.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I was unprepared for this answer.
