reality is often disappointing.

I’m happy that you’re happy, but over here I miss the 4 button navigation bar that was standard in ye olde android.

this can be easily avoided by using linux.

I think that people have a hard time recognizing that you can like a thing but hate the company that made it and that’s not cognitive dissonance.

Some like it, others don’t. It’s more important that consumers have options rather than absolutely everyone being forced to agree on one way being best.

this philosophy applies to many things, not just controller layout.

I’ve waited so long

1 year and 6 traffic collisions later (all the fault of the car drivers), I still drive a scooter (not the same one I started the year with) and do not have a car. I believe that I do not have brain damage.

I’m the type to beat my head against a wall until the wall breaks. Then through that hole, I lead my friends. Fewer and fewer of my friends follow me through such holes. Last time I did such, I brought all my friends to discord (and now I regret it). It is hard as fuck to convince normies to adopt a new platform. If they’re not already invested, it will take a serious investment for them to give half a shit. I was able to get some people on discord by promising them that I was running a dnd campaign (I was at the time, but it fell apart shortly therefafter), and those people haven’t been on discord since.

How do I convince them that lemmy is the future? I don’t think I can. Fundamentally, lemmy is objectively better than reddit (not for features, but because lemmy won’t ban you for mentioning green mario and other similar administrative bullshits). I wasn’t able to convince them to use reddit back when reddit was good!

The infrastructure is there, and most of the features are there, but the content comes from content creators and they’re not here yet.

For example, we have grimdank, but we don’t have vezimira and emmawatnot. We have users who repost their content, but they’re not posting here directly.

The thing that I am still struggling to wrap my smooth brain around, is that I have an account on a widely federated lemmy instance. Allegedly, I should also see content from mastadon and other federated services. How do I do that? How would I even phrase the question so that a search engine could provide useful results?

actually, imma ask chat gpt. if it spits out anything usefull, i’ll report back.

I’ve tried a few keyboards over the years, and the only one that I actually liked was actual malicious adware.

Looking forward to seeing good suggestions in this thread.

If i have to suffer because I’m a dumb dumb, that’s on me. I’m tired of suffering because other people are stupid.

The problem isn’t the updates. The problem is microsoft downloading things and restarting my pc without my consent (annoying me until I say “fine, do it” is not consent). No one but me decides when my machine installs updates and reboots. I know I’m putting myself at risk if I let my system fall behind on updates. That’s on me, it’s my computer, it is my right to make that decision.

what is jack?

ok, yeah, kinda hard to argue with that. Not sure what a good middle ground would be.

I’m of the opinion that federation should only prevent a community or instance from appearing in the all feed. I should still be able to subscribe to communities that my instance has defederated from.

I prefer e621 personally, full of all kinds of degenerate nonsense.

live in the south, can confirm. Not on pornhub though, too vanilla for my tastes. Redgifs got unblocked, but their site sucks so much ass I’d prefer that they stayed blocked.

I’ve got the same complaint here. Firefox has a setting, but it’s kinda crap and is only in Firefox. I haven’t been able to find a solution that works system wide and isn’t horrible jank. I’m on mint with cinnamon, btw.

a user friendly user interface is one that the user is already familiar with. It is subjective, determined by the user, and will vary from user to user.

Think about the placement of face buttons for an xbox controller vs a ninttendo switch controller, specifically A and B. The function of menu accept is always on a, and menu back is always on b, but the physical placement of those buttons are opposite on the competing platform. Now think about a playstation controller, and where it puts menu accept and menu back. The glyphs are different, but a nintendo player will find it intuitive while the xbox player will be confused.