naught101

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know how you'd measure driving "goodness", but I expect the distribution would be something like exponential (there are billions of non-drivers, and only a few rally/stunt drivers). So the average is likely to be higher than the median.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

This is hilarious

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

Firefox was decent 10 years ago.

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

All the station wagon I ever owned I could comfortable sleep in the back of, with a partner. Hatchbacks are way too short.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm a fan of (five door) hatchbacks, but station wagons were fucking cool

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Web browsers about 10 years ago

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

Any instance that interacts with any other instance is federated. Which is the vast majority of instances with more than a handful of users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is the same not true of Lemmy?

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

Mastodon federation is not opt-in. As soon as anyone on one server is following one person on the other server, the servers are fully federated. From there, it's opt-out, via blocking.

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

That's nonsense. I'm on one of the main servers, and like 90% of my feed is from other servers, and it includes lots of small servers. And that's been true for years.

It's try the search function was bad prior to earlier this year, but it's improved a bit. And if you are looking for someone specific, then presumably their account would be listed somewhere on their website?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Everything you just said is also true of mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Mastodon is scaling fine though? I've been using it for years, and it's great, and still growing. User base is a bit tech focused, could be more general, but I think it'll get there eventually.

 

I've been a linux user for 20 years (mostly on KDE). I just started at a new job, and they gave me a mac. I found out later that I could have got a linux machine instead, which is a bit annoying. Still, I know there are some nice things about a mac, and I figured I'd give it a try for a while.

I'm pretty quick moving around my desktop environment, and I'm finding picking up the mac is not too bad. BUT I use keyboard shortcuts a lot, and they are all every different on a mac. So whenever I switch back and forth between my work machine, I end up stumbling a bunch and wasting my time, and getting annoyed. It's mostly keyboard shortcuts, but the trackpad buttons and scrolling are annoying too.

So, question is: is it possible to regularly use two OSs with wildly different control surfaces, and be comfortable with it? e.g. either MacOS + Linux, or I guess MacOS + Windows? Or will it be annoying forever?

 

When you're reading or listening to verbal material ( e.g. fiction, nonfiction, prose, poetry, lyrics, etc.), what kind of imagery has the most impact?

Imagery in the broad sense (including all senses, not just sight).

"Kind" can be whatever categorisation you can think of, e.g. genre, sense, place, scale, human/non-human, etc.

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