So that’s why every site started charging sales tax at the same time. Wonderful.

While true, most sites do not have the fame of the pirate bay and will not see anywhere near the same number of fans hosting remakes, even if the source is available.

Why is it the people that are ok listening to music out of a phone speaker are also the people ok polluting public spaces with music from phone speakers?

System prompt and other tooling make some difference.

Some of these are extreme, but what you’re talking about is the https://512kb.club/, just keep it small, but no limits on what you can use.

StackOverflow solved this specific issue pretty well IMO. Each downvote costs you a reputation/karma/fake-internet-point. Lemmy doesn’t count karma, so that’d a bit of a nonstarter, but for systems that do, that feels like a good way to discourage rampant use of downvotes.

I’ve had this idea as well, and I definitely see some benefits though as stated in the thread by someone else, most admins would want to be on a groups instance and not a users instance and I’m not sure how to combat that. The thought that occurred to me was a lemmy federation compatible community only instance server that could augment the current thrediverse landscape. Essentially making it easier to spin up a community for your topic than it is to spin up a while new instance. It would still be easiest to just make a community on your main user instance but it would introduce a new difficulty level for communities to run separate without standing up a whole Lemmy instance.

I don’t see how running high beams held you see when there is oncoming cars with brighter lights. Maybe it has more to do with the fact that older cars are smaller and lower?

I am not disputing new cars have higher brightness on regular lights, that absolutely is true. Though running high beams throws light both forward and up toward the oncoming drivers eyes.

I don’t disagree. There are plenty of led upgrade kits that are way too bright regularly and also probably misaligned causing them to be double bad. Brighter than normal and aimed directly into your eyes.

I’m with you though, driving at night used to be a lot different and more enjoyable than it is today with all these extremely bright lights pointed at your eyes.

There’s a load of cars with headlights that are overly bright, but there is an even bigger epidemic of idiots driving around with high beams on as part of regular course.

In the city there is no need for those, ever. Let alone always being on.

Answered my own question:

If you already have a favourite online retailer, you can install Kindle, Kobo, Nook, Scribe, Libby, Tolino, or third party apps such as Koreader or Moon+ Reader.

https://goodereader.com/blog/reviews/meebook-m7-e-reader-review-a-great-all-rounder

The follow up is how does using these compare to a kindle?

Does it integrate with local libraries? How do you acquire content to read, is there a non kindle store available?

The average user will go to join Lemmy and abort, because they can’t grasp the idea that joining one server gets them into other servers. They worry about server selection, have analysis paralysis, and nope out. That’s why they’re asking for a bluesky reddit and not a mastodon reddit.

Normie’s want centralization because they don’t understand how else it can work and while some can learn and have it explained many will give up before giving it a chance.

Agree. It works well, but in the context of the original meme, not getting updates is a risk to Lemmy api breaking changes breaking the app. There’s also a few annoying theming issues with eternity. For a free app its good, but leaves something wanting compared to some of the other apps. Even if it has the better UI.

I enjoy eternity as well, but its also been a while since any updates were published.

Where are you reading that? The reademe in the repo says the sync tool is gplv3. Its a separate process (c++ vs react) but still open source. Admittedly that’s as far as I read.

Curious what they are and how you manage the incoming?

I have been trying to curate my list and they’re all very chatty. I end up struggling to stay on top of it even just dismissing articles I won’t read, let alone reading a significant percentage.

I see the article mentions this sub as having as an unreliable claim value. I can’t dispute that experience, but have not observed it personally. Though my experience is on a much smaller system.

Usually the flaw us on the service provider side when using only email address for SSO. Typically the idp will provide a sub claim which is unique to the account and independent of email.

Did you also notice the “hair” on the top right? The custom CSS on that sub is epic, and a big reason I dislike new reddit theme.