I can’t remember when I last saw fireflies. They used to be quite common 25 years ago when I was a kid. Damn, time flies and I’m getting old. And fire apparently doesn’t fly any more.

Sorry, zu müde, hab den Vertipper mit dem falschen Teil aus deinem Kommentar verbunden.

This is sadly it. If it gets niche enough, there’s no way around Reddit.

I completely replaced Reddit with Lemmy for political topics, for wasting time, for doom scrolling and so on. But when I need information about a niche topic (e.g. how to overclock the 15yo netbook I recently got), there’s just no way around Reddit.

That’s the difference between 50k monthly active users and 360mio weekly active users. There are dozens of subreddits that have more active users than all of Lemmy combined…

Sadly, the big exodus is still pending.

Or luckily, considering how badly Lemmy instances scale. If a few million users were to migrate over to Lemmy, probably the whole system would just collapse.

Mostly Lemmy here. I use it for my doomscrolling and distraction, and for that it’s imho much better than Reddit, since the content is much less fake (I hate all that AITA creative writing and similar crap) and the politics are better.

I do sometimes use Reddit for when I actually have questions about some deeper topic. Lemmy sadly doesn’t have the manpower and the decades of content to help me when I need to know how to overclock a specific 15 yo netbook or when I need help with some issue in a game or something. For that, there’s sadly hardly a way around Reddit. Some things can be (badly) covered by Stack Exchange, some things I can maybe find on DuckDuckGo between heaps of AI slop, or I could let ChatGPT lie to me by hallucinating a wrong answer. But in many cases there is sadly no way around Reddit.

I thought that Covid would have been enough of a trial run for that.

At least in my country it was that. You know, it was Covid, with the highest unemployment rate since quite a long time, and farmers ran nation-wide ads looking for workers. They increased the pay sometimes up to 2-3x. They promised housing in nice hotels. And still, nobody wanted to do the job and that year there was just no strawberries on the shelves.

The only way working as a farm hand makes sense is if:

• The workers have no decent other option
• Working on a farm is safer than working at home
• Money is worth a lot more where they are from, so that the meagre salary they make in the target country is worth multiple times of that back home, so that the €1000-1200 they make over here turn into the equivalent purchasing power of €4000-6000 back home.

Freudscher Vertipper

There are numerous reports of police shooting each other thinking that the other are criminals.

Oh totally, you are right with every word you say.

They are just playing with fear to justify their existence.

Two things can be true at the same time:

• GNOME devs can pour hundreds of hours of free labour specifically into accessibility
• GNOME accessibility still sucks

And GNOME is not alone with that problem, it’s prevalent in the large majority of apps and platforms, because accessibility is really hard especially if you don’t have a tester with the specifically accessibility need on staff.

OOP says they have a legally blind and a semi-blind person on staff, but that’s by far not the only accessibility issue. Accessibility is much more than just screen reader support.

A big one is learning difficulties, and for that, having an UI that can be used the way the user wants/expects/knows how to is very important. And here, the very concept of an opinionated DE contradicts accessibility.

Never had Eternity lag before. Impressive.

That’s a game I’d love to play, but right now I still have a semblance of a life left and I’m not sure I want to risk that.

Not surprised that OOP knows better what users need than the users. That’s pretty much the whole concept of “opinionated” GNOME.

GNOME isn’t even accessible to non-disabled users.

Thanks for stealing copying the whole content so I don’t have to click the link!

You are right with that, but there’s actually a reason why companies book adspace on searches for their own product name (e.g. Lenovo booking ad space on searches for “Lenovo”), and imho it’s even worse.

That way they want to stop competitors (e.g. HP) from booking the adspace, which would lead to HP being the first hit on a search for Lenovo.

That’s pretty much digital racketeering. “That’s a nice website you have there. It would be a right shame if something would happen to the traffic going there.”

All good, neither could I :)

They just need to add one more lane, bro.

I got banned for saying that poisoning an invasive species like cats isn’t any different than poisoning an invasive species like rats, except that cats are cute and fluffy and rats are not.

It was under a post about the Australian government putting up poison traps to combat the local cat population which is threatening local endangered wildlife.

You are right, I had trouble defining “lots” or “enough” in math or code :)

Idiots never learn if they are never told what they did wrong.

You asked for an explanation since you obviously didn’t understand the argument you were making.

I understand that it was rhetorical, since you thought you knew what you were talking about. But I thought, if you are already asking so nicely, maybe you’ll learn something from it.

Looks like not only do you not know what you are talking about, but you are also resistant to learning.