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  • halcyontoAsklemmyDeleted
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    1 year ago

    Sitting on the Samsung note9. It has an aux jack, insane battery life, a great display, and plenty of power in the camera for the kind of “here is the issue” or “here I am in hawaii” photos I take. It is regular Samsung Android although disabled baxiby or whatever that button used to do.


  • I rrwatched for like the 10th time Star Wars in order, got to a New Hope so far. It just reminded me of how good the core story writing for Lucas was even if the dialog can be clunky at times. Luke really reminded me of padma’s strong believes in goodness and anakin’s raw power potential. It made me appreciate the prequels more and I am so excited for the empire strikes back and then capping star wars with return of the jedi.


  • halcyontoMemesfirefox
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    1 year ago

    Can you show me data showing that Firefox with dark theme, does a first load on a website just as fast as Chrome or edge? Same data point for with video buffer in frame? Pretty sure its noticeably slower in both scenarios with a dark theme.





  • I think you are wrong about the effectiveness of protesting on someone’s platform. The reason is that the “platform” has little intrinsic value, instead good subs are good because well curated content with good moderation. The type protest that is being done here: private, John Oliver meme, nsfw all reduce the quality of content on reddit full stop. This reduces engagement from everyone, even people not aware of the issues or who don’t care, which reduces AD income (fewer clicks, fewer click throughs). The platform can boot moderators who are orchestrating private, John Memes, NSFW tagging but when this is a shared protest held by entire mod teams, you then need to fully replace moderation, unmoderated subs or even undermoderated subs will produce poorly curated content especially compared to prior. Plus, the next level of protest is for protestors who were active on subs but not moderators who are now promoted to mods to protest in the same vein. Reddit is bleeding money from this and more importantly losing trust and views even from lurkers only. I think the protest path works and it just needs to be followed through.




  • I think path of exile has an extremely accepting community towards new platforms and new 3rf party tools to help them, but lemmy isn’t able to replace reddit overnight and frankly reddit is most active at the start of leagues, although clearly lemmy is far less active. Most people seem to have turned to discord for in depth discussions. I think reddit, even if poe sub comes back, is a bad place to support going forward unless they allow us to use 3rd party apps, imagine GGG banning people for detecting path of building or seeing you’ve been to poe.ninja? If lemmy doesn’t pick up, I’ll still be here until it does, but I’ll get my deep discussion fix on discord for now. Let’s see where this wild ride takes us.

    Edit: I think lemmy would explode and possibly catch reddit if we got GGG bex and others to be apart of this community. A huge reason to post on reddit was to be heard by GGG as a side product.


  • Well, as someone who has lived in Europe half my life and the good old US of A the other half, I’d argue that people don’t prefer cars over public transit in general. America has a super strong car culture, and we could blame American’s for this problem, and we could also be tempted to say that America isn’t dense enough to have good cheap national public transit, but we had the best public transit in many ways leading up to world War 2 (good video on the topic: https://youtu.be/-cjfTG8DbwA ). In reality, with urbanization, lobbying, and the status/convenience cars just made a lot of sense. Plus, flexible passenger- and cargo-carrying capacities are a huge plus for cars all on your own schedule. Even, in great public transit cities people who can afford a car and the associated fee to drive it, largely will do so, since it just gives you the greatest amount of options to get around.


  • halcyontoMemesWindows...
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    2 years ago

    Even if it was perfect and everyone should use it. The issue is that you can not remove (uninstall) it, which you should be able to do, especially for a browser.