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

I never thought Reddit was addictive. I actually spend more time on Lemmy in a day than I did on Reddit. My browsing habits changed though. Reddit is so big I only looked at a few niche subreddits. Lemmy being much smaller I view a much wider range of topics. It's a different and better experience for me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Lemm.ee best instance, lemmy.world worst instance.

It doesn't matter how many communities an instance hosts since you can interact with any community on any instance (barring any defederation). Lemm.ee's strength is in being a fast, reliable instance with the best admin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Haha, most of my opinions are unpopular. Some posted in this in thread I agree with.

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

I don't see that either. People have disagreed with me politely and intelligently here which is just good conversation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Not going to read the article so in response to the comment, electric bicycles put people in a strange place in terms of safety. You've got the speeds of a motorcycle without the ability to flow with traffic. In the presence of high density traffic I'd say an e-bike is more dangerous than a motorcycle.

I've been a motorcyclist most of my life and I can say you have to be super vigilant about situational awareness and ready to evade at all times. People driving in cars are not programmed to notice motorcycles. They're always looking for cars and sometimes don't register other hazards. It shouldn't be that way, but nothing is going to change that as long as human beings are driving.

My recommendation to anyone who wants to use an e-bike for regular transportation is just go to a motorcycle, it's going to be much safer in traffic. There's some really nice electric motorcycles now. For e-bike users you have to be extra careful. Drivers don't see bicyclists anyway and you're going a lot faster most of the time. A head injury at 10 mph can be fatal.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's pretty ironic how companies will spend so much money on advertising to gain brand recognition, but then throw it away on a whim.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do each app need to manually integrate with another app to be considered federated or is any app using ActivityPub automatically integrated to your app?

ActivityPub provides the framework, but a platform also has to be designed to support another platform. It's not automatic.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good to see the FCC going after this kind of thing. Put them in jail even better.

I have my phone set up so the only numbers that chime the phone are those in my contact list. The abuse of voice and text on the cell network network is rampant and it's equivalent to trespassing.

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

Can always tell when a show is 4:3 aspect. Recently I've noticed some modern TV shows adopting the theater aspects of flat (1.85:1) or scope (2.4:1) which I think is pretty cool. The last episode of Strange New Worlds I watched was in scope, that's some high end filming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think sci-fi has it right with that, I mean you'd only get up out of your chair or whatever receptacle to perform bodily functions. Most people think everyone would turn into fat blobs, but I think that's not the case. There's this one sci-fi where I think they got it right, most people became emaciated due to a failure to eat and get any exercise.

Oh and I'll take the blue pill, VR all the way, reality blows. Though some might say reality is already virtual. It's an interesting hypothesis, sure would explain a lot.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A practical superconductor is a huge deal, it would drastically change the way we deal with electrical power distribution and electromechanical applications. So any development is going to be big news. Though we're not talking about an actual working conductor, it's just excitement over research advancement, yeah? I've seen this kind of "big news" before in other tech sectors and time often proves it unworthy. If it does present a big step toward a practical superconductor that's great, but I wouldn't count any eggs yet.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Microsoft’s name was basically equivalent to dogshit from the mid-90s until maybe the mid 2000s.

I'm old enough to remember well the Microsoft hate. It's not so much they've changed their ways, but Google has now taken the trident and diverted attention away from them.

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