mr_tyler_durden

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

If it’s legalized at a federal level then we better get a “We did it Joe!” video (like we got after winning the election)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

“The Biden administration’s irredeemable. There’s just nothing they can do at this point. There’s no executive order he can issue. There’s nothing else that can restore his credibility on the border,” Cramer said. “This is all on him. In fact, anything he does to correct it is an admission of his own failures.”

Typical Republican. No matter what the person does we still hate them, and if they do change their mind, they’re weak. 

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

That’s not true at all, just don’t buy through Apple/Google, buy off their website. Apps charge extra for IAP (vs online) all the time, I have no clue what you are talking about.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I’m confused, my M1 MBP had like 1-2 things max that were x86 still that I needed and those ran fine on Rosetta.

I know docker is a bit more annoying but it’s not that bad IMHO.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

“I drive for free”

So your solar panels didn’t cost anything? Look I’m very pro-solar but rooftop solar for residential makes sense for very few people. It’s not very efficient (even with the best panels available at the time) and the efficiency falls off over time as the panels degrade. Most rooftop solar savings calculations use absurd estimates for power costs in the future to justify themselves and take 10+ years to pay off. Furthermore selling a house with rooftop solar is harder due to having to find someone to take over the lease (which is needed to pay for it for most people).

None of this even starts to address the solar rooftop companies that have gone out of business while leaving their customer high and dry.

Again, I like solar but rooftop just doesn’t make sense for most people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So we can let Mastodon die on the vine or chance it dying? Ok, I know my choice.

It’s not like the majority of people are already on open protocols. I’m sure Threads dwarfs Masrodon usage just as Twitter and possibly even BlueSky.

IF Mastodon was dominate I might have a different view but it’s not. If Threads federates then there is an opportunity to push people to other clients which make switching to a Mastodon/ActivityPub server much easier. That’s literally only upside. It’s not like the people on Mastodon now are going to leave it for Threads.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Honestly, this was a pretty stupid policy in the first place. The maintenance and upkeep for all the houses is way more than just putting solar in the field somewhere. It was a policy that sounded good on paper, but did not actually work in practice. A much better policy would be a community owned solar power facility. The solar panels we have today will be obsolete in five years time if not sooner, a dedicated solar facility would be able to update panels overtime and handle the maintenance at scale. Much easier than trying to upgrade or maintain solar panels on top of a bunch of peoples houses.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (7 children)

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I think this is actually a great thing for Mastodon. The truth is the majority of people are just never going to sign up for a Mastodon server as they stand today. The majority of people want algorithmic feeds run by a central entity. I know the people here don’t want that, but that’s what the majority of people do want. Will I use Threads? No but if this breathes more life into Mastodon and exposes more people to the concept then that is a good thing. Being able to use a client of your choice to interact with people on something like Threads is also a very good thing. The alternative is a completely closed social network like Twitter.

I know, I know “embrace, extend, extinguish”, but literally this is the best that we can hope for unfortunately. The alternative is everyone goes and uses a closed system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Thank you for looking into it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Wordpress. Or some other hosted blog/cms.

Yes you can go crazy with SSGs or write your own site but especially if it’s rare that you will blog/update then it’s way better to just use something off the shelf. That’s what I’d do as a software developer. Heck I paid for a static site with a simple web UI to update it just last week to serve as the marketing site for my software product (that I wrote from scratch).

Unless you enjoy tinkering and know programming I would shy away from the SSGs. I used them for years and now I self-host Ghost and even that I’m considering just paying someone else to do since it’s not how I want to spend my time (maintaining it).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

“Camera”, “Web Browsing”…. In name only.

I had the phone pictured in the post. I even activated the browser. It was 100% trash. WAP sites and browsers were nothing like even the first iPhone. That’s what made the iPhone such a shock, no one had browsed the web like that on a phone before and it was, no exaggeration, a game changer.

As for the camera the first iPhone camera was garbage comparatively but still was better than most if not all flip phones. I have picture back from when I had that phone pictured in the post and they are a grainy mess.

 

The update is great but for gestures I’d love a way to keep swiping right to upvote/downvote/etc but allow any swipe left to go back (a la Apollo). Right now you have to disable all swipes to be able to “swipe anywhere to go back”.

Also I would love to be able to swipe right on the main feed to go back to the last comment feed I was drilled into. I miss that feature so much from Apollo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Also you know that wasn’t the first time he hit “generate”, he added multiple other prompts/text until he got it working then demoed the final thing. It’s disingenuous at best and the “might start looking for another job” just about made my eyes roll out of my head. It’s a fucking breakout clone and not a very good one at that, give me a break.

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