IronKrill

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

She literally said this though.

"I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory. I also told him that we will help him and his team with their transition and that we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power."

Source

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago

Bless you for not making people use Tik Tok.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I'll have to give it another go! I was absolutely loving the feature in beta, however the experience was dampened by intermittent game crashes that stopped the moment I disabled this feature. Classic AMD driver issue, most likely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Can't say I agree with NSFW content being "filth", but I would agree that generally it's harder for NSFW content to find a home over here due to the increased moderation costs it brings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I didn't know we were in c/news! Oh wait, we aren't. :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Tea, water. As god intended.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Force feeding estrogen to CEOs to break the glass ceiling. Woke.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can't say I see many people using the "ANAL" acronym in lowercase... lol

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

I'll throw my -opinion- in the ring here because no one else is saying it the same way.

  • Echoing what other people said, finding a server was hard especially as at the time I thought defederating seemed stupid (changed my mind somewhat now that I use Lemmy). Then once signed up discovery was/is a pain. How do I find good accounts when they aren't synced with the instance I am on? Fuck if I know, I never found an equivalent to lemmyverse.net for mastodon.
  • Now into the big problem I had: federation was a pain. It was my first interaction with a federated service that isn't email and it was confusing and annoying. Finally find an account you like? Well you either can't see any of their posts or the few you can have 1 reply and 5 likes. Eventually you realise you have to click onto the account's instance to see everything and they have 100 replies and 500 likes (made-up numbers, obviously) but guess what you can't interact with any of them because you are no longer on your instance. It basically forced me to browse logged out for 99% of my browsing, constantly following links between websites. I have not had quite the same trouble with Lemmy because despite having some similar problems, it has been a LOT quicker to sync especially once you point your instance to another.
  • The lack of algorithm or fine control of my feed was off-putting. I still hate that Facebook and other platforms make it hard or impossible to sort chronologically, but having only chronological makes for a potential to miss out on massive amounts of stuff.
  • And on a personal note, I think I'm just falling out of favour with the idea of a microblogging platform with strangers. If my friends used it things might be different.

I did try out Firefish and enjoyed that way more as it had a fun and engaging UI and lots of extra features, but it holds the same federation and discovery issues.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

In the imaginary world where Gmail required you to visit Outlook to view the entire thread because it hadn't synced yet, yeah sure they're exactly the same. In the real world the email comparison stops being useful beyond explaining how @ monikers work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I've seen a lot of fabrics that say "Dry Clean Only" because the manufacturer was too lazy, but my experience with dishes finds that the labels are generally quite accurate. Putting a non-dishwasher-safe item in usually ruins it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Are you being purposefully obtuse? Proton is based on Wine yes, but it is it's own distinct project.

 

I use the location tracking of Google Maps/Google Timeline constantly for work, and it's exceedingly helpful to know when I was at certain cities, buildings, etcetera. Of course, this means I'm basically signing my soul away to Google. But I can't really find any alternative location tracking apps, even though I would have thought there would be lots available. Are there any good alternatives out there?

The closest I found was Owntracks, but it doesn't work for me for a couple of reasons. Primarily, it doesn't tell me the places I've been, only the latitude/longitude. That isn't helpful. I want to know I was at X or Y convenience store and when my last visit was. Secondly of course, the interface was extremely lacking and I didn't like that it was split across two websites and an app. Why even have a map in the Android app if it doesn't show my location data??

view more: next ›