There’s a massive cultural thing in the US about the iPhone being the preferred phone and if you don’t have one it must be because you’re too poor to afford one. Obviously this is a result of marketing and isn’t universal but it is a surprisingly widely held view.

Given that, showing up in a group chat as a lone blue bubble marks you out as the inferior group member (in some people’s eyes). It doesn’t matter so much 1:1 but if there are 10 people the odd one out stands out.

From that quote I took “that salmon is ok, but this dish that it’s in is overall good”.

What do you mean by Phase 2?

There’s some stuff about the roadmap for most of this year: https://blog.beeper.com/p/state-of-the-app-spring-2023

Yeah, anything after the @ is the instance. Each instance hosts some of the communities (subreddits) and some of the users. Donate to the instance you’re signed up to as a first priority and then maybe any other that hosts a load of communities you care about or do a particularly good job at something.

But if you’re broke and can’t afford it, don’t worry! On the other hand those of us who DO have a little bit of disposable income should donate a little here and there to help bring about the internet we want to see.

Everything else in my life is USB-C now - my laptop, my Steam Deck, my ear buds etc. My wife and I are both Android so we only have to have one charging cable anywhere in the house or our bags.

I’m not sure I agree (observing from the outside as a Brit). I feel like Citizens United is the origin of a lot of the problems in modern US politics and that was only 2010.

For those who don’t know it, it’s a landmark legal case that basically allowed a lot more money into politics. When you make winning politically about who can raise the most money you take power out of most poeple and put it in the hands of rich people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

To me the term “Fake News” means “News that is true, but I don’t want you to think is true”.

That seems to be how it is used by the guy who made the term popular.

I agree, but this provides a path towards that. It is Matrix underneath so if we get a proportion of people using Beeper they it becomes easy to transition to using Matrix to talk to those people.

I think they mostly died when GChat turned off XMPP support and became a walled garden.

If Beeper does become a successful business though, there’ll be a full time development team “playing catch-up” with money behind them. It’s interesting if you read this that they’re rolling out features ahead of the message providers in some cases!

They’re also leveraging some existing infrastructure. Beeper is built on Matrix which does a lot of the heavy lifting for them.

I’m going to guess Lake District or Scotland. You can easily be several hours walk from shops.

Someone once told me “if you’ve never missed a flight, you’re spending too much time in airports”. I think about that a lot in a lot of other contexts - sometimes being too safe comes with more of a cost than the risk!

Oculus Rift. Would love a VR headset and the Rift is at a great cost point for it’s level of function. No way that I’m locking myself to Facebook with a piece of hardware though.

Do you have a citation for this? It conflicts with what I know about GDPR.

Mostly GDPR encourages companies to delete personal data they were holding once they no longer have a legitimate use for it. There is a rule where you can demand your data be frozen if so that misuse cam be investigated and in that case you’d be right. But in general companies can and should delete personal data.

I think we lose sight of why “powermods” gained power: they built the big successful communities. Reddit was largely successful due to some fantastic communities being built up, and that takes work. We need that work on Lemmy just as much as we needed it on Reddit.

Yeah, it’s not ideal if a small number of people control a large number of communities but we should understand why they got there, and I think the structure of Lemmy is likely to make it a bit less prevalent.

What really helped me learning to cook was experimentation. I was always ok at following recipes but at some point I decided to cook Bolognese every week and every time I cooked it I had to use an ingredient I hadn’t used before. Cooking the same thing with variation helped me learn the effect of adding different ingredients.

Solid ranking, but on audio you’re neglecting XLR. Quarter inch jacks are indeed very satisfying, but XLR is so reassuring.

The fuse thing comes from history but is still good because then each device is fused appropriately for its load. Get a short on a 3A circuit - fail nice and quickly. If you just rely on house wiring your breaker need to be the maximum possible load on the circuit.

That said of all the non UK plugs, the Australian one is up there. US are the worst and schuco (most of Europe) isn’t great.

How much of a redesign have you had to do for Lemmy? Have you been able to retain all the UI and presentation and mostly just rework the API and data handling code?

In the UK you have to stand there and hold the pump. They don’t fit the catch that allows the pump to keep going while you don’t hold it. The pumps in the US are very convenient but petrol streaming out potentially while no-one is paying attention always feels like a bad idea.

It’s not quite NO evidence. I would say that it’s very weak evidence of a minor effect. For example: https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2000/04/video-games

It’s a nuanced point where the people who complain that video games are ruining society should be completely ignored, but things like age ratings on games are probably a good idea.