Your phone does the same thing just without communicating it. Samsung phones let you change the percentage of the battery is "100%" charged.
A reasonable comment in this community? Get out!
When Firefox announced that a ton of their add-ons/extensions were coming to the mobile app, it got me to switch from chrome after almost 15 years.
You can still be hyper critical of a product you use. I rely on tons of Google services and also use a pixel, but that doesn't stop me from being disappointed in their behavior at large when it seems like the leadership is allergic to making the easy winning decisions.
The realistic alternative is Apple and frankly fuck that.
Extra Punctuation was the slower, slightly longer format videos that were more musing about broad industry trends and gaming history. It was great.
That's incorrect. The administration worked with that union to meet their demands after the initial pause of the strike. That part didn't get nearly as much news traffic as the first part though.
That may be their plan, but for the first time in my life it feels like nobody is buying that bullshit right now. We have news presenters and reporters actively laughing at Republican representatives when they try to swing the blame, and I feel the public at large understands exactly what's happening.
This is really fascinating to me. It would be interesting to see each country set up their own Mastodon/Lemmy/Kbin/other federated systems and have those instances constantly talk to each other. Like others have commented, It seems like a great way to keep the communication style and interaction of twitter/facebook, while also protecting the validity of the information through private instances. Really smart decision.
For me its a definitely the excitement of messing with a new toy while also making me think "how the hell does this work" and "the general population has no chance with this".
I've only been trying out Lemmy/Mastodon for the past few days, slowly building up the communities I subscribe to. I was mostly a lurker on reddit and rarely made my own posts, so the smaller userbase is both good and bad. Good because I spend less time scrolling and I feel like I can contribute more. Bad because there is just less traffic.
Smaller communities tend to be more polite overall and are more welcoming to longer form writing and discussion which I am very down with. I am both intrigued and slightly bewildered how up front the platform is about blocking out content you don't want to see. Again, good and bad.
Anyway, those are my thoughts on being a new user this week.
I have had multiple college freshmen taking an intro C# class that had no idea what a zip file was. How can you want to be a computer science student but be so disconnected from your own computer skills.
As someone who is currently tutoring computer science courses for college, I think you greatly over estimate the average computer users ability to navigate a place like Reddit, let alone Lemmy. Most people I tutor for intro classes struggle to understand a file browser. Even for me Lemmy was slightly intimidating with how it jumps to the whole open source/ chose an instance thing before I could make an account.
Lemmy will need a basic app before it really jumps to the main stream.
Anything not tech/Linux related. It's 90% of my feed.