smoothbrain coldtakes

You also don’t have to worry about it fucking disappearing on you unless you have a drive failure.

They’re both planning on the same thing, it sounds like.

It doesn’t sound like Disney is licensing their content to Netflix, they’re both just essentially replicating cable TV based on their catalogues with ads interspersed.

You guys realize that the server rules regionally only apply regionally, and not globally right? If you don’t like the rules of your nation state it’s very easy to move your hosting elsewhere where the rules you are trying to avoid are not going to apply.

Just because India has some massive breaking sweeping law doesn’t really change anything about our other servers if they are just not in that jurisdiction. Lemmy.ca is not going down for Indian rules, because we’re hosted in Canada. Lemmy.ml I would imagine is also not hosted in India.

The fediverse is not even big enough (we’re about the size cumulatively of like a medium subreddit) to really want to actively police.

It’s like saying Iran or anywhere else in the Middle East has powerful internet control, as if that’s going to change literally anything hosted outside of those incredibly repressive nations. Unless India has some agreement with other states long-term to remove content they disagree with, literally nothing is going to change. I know North American sentiment towards India is not strong these days because of the recent assassinations (and/or attempts) within our borders of Sikh “extremists”.

Fediverser looks like a project that’s supposed to ease the onboarding process from reddit, looks like you can sign up with a reddit account to have access to Lemmy, but I am not entirely sure.

I don’t really mind the size of the community these days; I feel like if we start getting more and more people from reddit we’re going to get the people we wanted to avoid by leaving the place. Right now it feels like there’s not a ton of content, but there’s a decent amount of discussion, and it’s of high quality. I feel like an easier entrance to the platform is going to degrade the experience, as shitty as that sounds.

I had the same problem with lemmit.online, and with lemmit.online the owner said “yeah this is a bot, this whole instance is for reddit reposts, if you don’t like it defederate from me” - which .ca did.

I can’t stand bot instances or bots in general that are reposting from reddit, because it’s not valuable content for the fediverse - the OP doesn’t see what we’re saying and if we’re troubleshooting something that’s been crossposted it’s literally just on deaf ears.

The only bot I actually like is the ITNBot which is for ImproveTheNews - it posts neutral, pro-, and anti-stance information relevant to the article being posted, showing you all sides of the issue.

I like talking here more than reddit, because it doesn’t feel like being a drop in the ocean.

I’m sure people recognize me across instances for being a garbage shitposter. A smoothbrain, with cold takes.

The Nespresso machines are kinda neat, because they brew with centrifugal force to achieve the 10 bars required for espresso, as compared to doing it with steam pressure.

The knockoff refillable plastic pods are great and cheap and I’ve never actually bought any Nespresso pods besides the samples that came with the machine. I mostly brew Lavazza.

I have my share of issues with Dells, but the last HP machine I had killed itself through fan failure and overheating.

My Dells tend to break to wear and tear from me being not so gentle with them - I think I’ve had two Dells that had hinge issues, but that’s not as major as an overheating problem.

They have awful support. They build machines that are prone to overheating, their servers are second to Dell (who have considerably better support), there’s a lot about HP not to appreciate.

As a friend of sysadmins I hear horror stories of HP server racks and I hear most shops running with Dell enterprise plans both for laptops and servers.

Funny implication that .ml users are not dramatic.

Votes are unimportant, and the sooner you stop caring about them the easier it is to interact on the site without feeling attacked.

Is it satisfying to see a big number next to your comment? Sure, but the more you think of it as just talking with people even if you ultimately disagree it’s a healthier environment.

I found Alexandrite to be my favorite front-end on the browser.

It’s still kind of a mixed bag. I’m getting tired of talking about Linux all the time.

I find comment threads to be more engaging than reddit but the hivemind mentality has definitely started to take hold here.

In terms of stability, sure, the platform has gone down way less. In terms of content? Feels more or less the same that it did when I joined - all we really talk about is tech news with a leftist slant.

I haven’t gone back to reddit to browse since I left when the API changes happened, but it’s still a way more conducive source of information on a myriad of topics that you get forwarded to through searches.

Just because people are tired of a leftist slant doesn’t make them automatically right leaning. Right wingers who are right wing because they’re annoyed by leftists are weak. Leftists get annoyed by leftists every day, and that’s the essence of Lemmy.

The Ballmer Peak

I’ve seen this in a number of threads but I’ve never seen direct proof?

Apparently he’s been integral in the whole growth process, I had heard that he personally interviewed most folks that are currently part of the team.

They pushed it back. They’ve done so several times with Manifest V3.

He was literally schizophrenic.

Car manufacturers are not tech companies.

Let the tech companies handle the tech and let the manufacturers handle building a solid vehicle.

I’ve never seen an OEM interface solution that was nearly as good as CarPlay or AndroidAuto.

I like my Mazda, and I like the knob and physical buttons. I don’t like the interface over AA though.