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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually love tech, but I also think a lot of modern tech is overkill and shouldn't exist, and I can't get excited about modern gadgetry anymore.

Machine learning will continue until morale improves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@trashgirlfriend @schmorpel noob question, how do you include the previous comment in your response text?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

> at the start of the sentence makes a quote

Like this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@trashgirlfriend
>Oh!!!!
Wait but how did you do the > without the quote?
> Add a space?
Hmmmm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

backslashes remove all formatting so *hello* can be written as \*hello* without becoming hello

you can also escape other backslashes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@trashgirlfriend

>Hello
\>hello
*whoa*
👌👌👌thanks for the tip!
Is there like a list of all the secret formatting stuff that's available?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Uhh not sure.

I think the formatting is called Markdown? But sites like this usually use a limited form of it, so I'm not entirely sure.

The italics, bold, link formatting , quotes etc are all pretty common.