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At least that can be turned off in updates.

All these hardware additions, the AI buttons, even Windows taking away the right CTRL key for Copilot, are ugly appendages that, in 20 years, when were clearing out the equipment closest, we’ll see some of these and go “oh yeah remember when that bullshit was as a thing for a few years?”

Don’t forget the part where Logitech now requires you to use a web app (that only works on Chromium) to adjust settings or pair dongles now.

Just find a new peripheral manufacturer.

This is just Lemmy.World. You don’t have to be an admin here to help out Lemmy as a whole.

Oh, so /r/drama shitposting is here now? Wonderful.

Give Summit a try. It’s got all those search options, and it seems to work well enough any time I use it.

If you liked RIF on Reddit, it’s far and away the closest I’ve found.

Can it be set up so you never have to worry about account switching? Unified feed from all accounts, then if I load up a Lemmy.world post, it defaults to the Lemmy.world account, but if I want to post to Dbzer0, can I set it to shift to that account automatically?

I’d argue the front ends should also provide users ways to see a more complete, instance-agnostic version of Lemmy. Like the first thing a user should see when they show up is just…Lemmy. not a page that suggests instances and all kinds of other things that they’re not going to understand.

Part of what made Reddit work is that it was a shared site, a shared hub, and every user saw the same thing depending on what they were subscribed to. I get that certain instance admins have problems with other instances, and I get that they might defederate from some for legal or security reasons. I know they also might police their servers for content and comments they don’t feel “fit”, and that’s their right.

But ultimately I don’t believe the user’s experience should suffer for that. If admins don’t want to host certain content on their servers, fine. I think that’s where the front ends and apps should come in.

Provide ways of unifying the experience of different user accounts on different instances into something more…well, unified. I don’t believe I should have to care about what instance I’m looking at Lemmy “from”, I should just be able to see the whole thing based on what I’ve subscribed to.

I know that’s a very complicated suggestion, and it might involve a lot of redundancies and crossed wires, and how the moderation would look is definitely a discussion (maybe a drop down list “see this community as moderated by ______”?)

But genuinely I think if an app can achieve something like this, it would go a long way towards making the experience more universal and attractive for an audience looking to come from elsewhere. They do not care about decentralization or instances, and we can’t make them care by lecturing them. So we do the next best thing and create a sort of facsimile of centralization.

I understand your feeling, but I think massive advertising is needed.

Why is it “needed”?

This is high level marketing, basically telling the general public there is another way other than big tech

Why do they care about attracting all these people?

Every one of them increases their operating costs, and doesn’t provide revenue if they stay in the free tier. Why do they want to increase their numbers so badly?

Why isn’t it enough to just make a good product and let that be what brings people in?

The only reason for this kind of aggressive advertising is because they’re making a push for growth. They want to become one of those “big tech” companies.

Let me be clear, I’m not shaming them for advertising their services. But I’m uncomfortable with the scale and aggression with which they do it. They are putting money into this, and a lot of it. It’s not like they’re a non-profit, the end goal is pretty obvious here.

We’ve been through this before with so many other tech companies, Proton will be no different. It’s just entering the honeymoon phase, is all.

This is honestly what puts me off using Proton. They advertise way too much and way too aggressively. It’s just a bad vibe for a company that’s trying to set itself up as an alternative to Google.

I use Tutanota but I’m looking to find something else because I’m sick of platforms that lock you into their ecosystem, and the fact they don’t provide any means of using other mail clients like Thunderbird has become a deal breaker.

Problem is there doesn’t seem to be consensus on third place.

My Jellyfin is also running media from recycled HDDs from work. No where near this impressive haul, but it was nice to be able to get a solid 10 TBs for free to get my server going.

The antenna doesn’t need power to receive the signal, unless it’s boosted, but something tells me that’s not the case here.

What might consume more power would be any kind of decoding that’s going on.

Other problems include newpipe having an old material interface

That’s a selling point for me.

Should probably also be acknowledged that the sample size is not going to be the same.

You’re going to get a bunch of people piling in to highly rate the early episodes that they remember watching when they were kids, but a significantly lower number are going to be voting on the episodes that came later.

Really the whole premise of trying to compare and contrast the seasons for such a long running show that existed before IMDb even started is flawed on many levels.

Why are you assuming that there’s some uniform rating standard that every person is committing to?

Thank you for actually acknowledging this.

The way the Internet talks about the Simpsons is so damn annoying. The vast, vast majority of them haven’t actually watched an episode and formed their own opinion on it in over a decade, they just keep repeating the same tired meme over and over again.

Long running shows have different writers coming and going, therefore quality fluctuates up and down over time. That’s one of the nice things about a long running show: it gets to experiment and let new blood invigorate new life into it. There is no singular “death”, there’s just hills and valleys.

Since when are IMDB ratings a serious metric of quality?

How do you know they suck ass if you haven’t watched them?

Legitimately, what is it about the Internet and this show specifically where people feel compelled to sound off on something they are not actually watching, and haven’t watched in years?

Why did you take a screenshot of your entire desktop?

Why do you have Edge, Chrome, and Firefox? And all three pinned to the taskbar?

And if you’re going to use Reddit on a browser, why on earth would you use anything but old.reddit?

Recently discovered it myself. Absolutely excellent.

Will there be a user survey too?