Tbh, that’s just the difference between someone who has nostalgia for a game and someone who doesn’t.

I played Pokemon Red as a kid. I replayed it dozens of times since and it’s always really fun. Just feels good.

I didn’t play Pokemon Gold as a kid. I tried to play it quite a few times and never got throught it. Objectively, Gold is a much better game than Red in every regard. But I don’t have nostalgia for it, so it’s just an old game with bad UX, outdated gameplay and weak graphics to me. Can’t get through it without getting bored and quitting.

HL2 was revolutionary, 22 years ago. Nowadays it’s just woefully outdated in every respect including gameplay.

As OOP says e.g. about physics: That stuff was amazing in 2004, but it really isn’t in 2026. Almost every shooter includes physics and in many cases better physics than HL2 did. In part because game designers have learned from HL2 and other games and improved upon it.

If you have nostalgia for HL2 because you played it as a kid, it’s still going to be amazing to play. If you don’t, then it won’t.

This. Being sassy towards the person who decides on your application isn’t so much “getting back at them” as it is a self-own.

But (hate to be that guy) it’s likely fine, because this really doesn’t sound like a story that happened at all.

Do I read this right? That comic is from 2011?

Well, that’s my age group. I wish I understood that before I got into my first long-term relationship in my early 20s, where I felt like I couldn’t get out because she goaded me into proposing and thus I had to follow through even though I really didn’t want to.

Tbh, I’d much prefer to throw out a carton of sour milk than to keep it in the fridge for years or even drinking it because I am afraid of feeling like a failure for throwing out the milk.

Depending on the circumstances, yes, that would totally be illegal.

It’s called “aiding and abetting”. In most countries it’s illegal to convince someone to do something illegal.

If you are someone the victim sees as an authority figure (especially if the victim is a minor), a bunch of other other charges can be added too.

In Canada, the UK or the USA, for example, someone who “aided or abetted” someone to commit a crime can be punished exactly as if they had committed the crime themselves.

Hmm, kinda? A lot of industrialization went hand-in-hand with losing customizability and things made to fit.

A while ago I talked with a woman in her 90s and she said that when she was young, no serious TV moderator would have worn an ill-fitting off-the-shelf clothing.

The same holds true for all sorts of articles: custom-made shoes, custom-made furniture, custom-made houses, for example. All that is relegated to the luxurity sector and most people just go with ill-fitting off-the-shelf industrial goods instead.

AI kinda fits into that department for many tasks. Low-quality translations, low-quality texts, low-quality work, all off-the-shelf and ill-fitting but cheap and mass-produced.

Everyone forgets Africa.

We had that here too. For a week. Then it all sorted itself out. Mostly because people got their panic buying out of their system and everything returned to normal.

That’s fair, yes.

I think this might both be caused by media portraying relationships weirdly. On the one hand difficulty in long term relationships is displayed as a reason to end the relationship, while difficulty in new relationships is portrayed as something that warrants going to crazy lengths with huge romantic gestures to save the relationship.

In reality it’s just the other way round. If you start your relationship and there’s stuff where the partners are seriously incompatible, that’s a good reason to end it while investment and commitment is still low and there’s not a lot of cost to ending the relationship. On the other hand, if you have a long-term high-commitment relationship, investing more effort in saving it totally makes sense.

Relationships taking work wasn’t my point.

My point was staying in a relationship that you really hate to be in because you feel committed even before commitment happened.

I’m specifically talking about the dating phase, not about having been together for 10 years.

I’ve seen it quite a few times that people were like “I really don’t want to marry that man/woman, but I said yes so now I have to.”

For the point of the argument it doesn’t really matter if the goal is marriage or some other type of long-term relationship.

And if you are going with a low-commitment casual relationship (which is totally fine, of course, no judgement here), then you do that because you don’t exactly expect the relationship to last to the grave. In which case not ending a non-functional relationship purely out of feelings of obligation, commitment or shame should be even less appropriate.

I mean, isn’t the point of low-commitment relationships to have low commitment? If the relationship sours, why feel shame for ending it?

If you figured out that it’s not meant to be at a point where ending the relationship is easy/cheap, that’s successful. A failure would be pushing it through at the easy/cheap part and having it blow up when you have kids and a mortgage.

A friend of mine was in a relationship that his girlfriend ended after 7 years. Turns out, she decided that it wasn’t going to happen after the first year and kept stringing him along for … reasons? Mostly because she feared that she’d be seen as a failure if she ended it at an earlier time.

Der Sinn ist Doppelposts zu vermeiden. Ich hab mehr abonniert, mit dem Effekt dass ich in meinem Feed ständig Kopien des gleichen Posts habe.

Oft kommt der identische Post zeitgleich in 5+ Communities, jeweils mit seiner eigenen kleinen Ausschnitt der Kommentare.

Wenn ich jetzt kommentiere muss ich zuerst mal schauen in welcher Kopie am meisten kommentiert wurde, weil ich ja nicht ein Kommentar schreiben will, welches dann niemand liest, weil in der Community niemand aktiv ist.

Ich bin, ehrlich gesagt, fast nur wegen den Kommentaren und der Interaktion auf Lemmy. Und wenn die dann auf klein-klein runtergebrochen werden, weil jeder Post auf zig winzig kleine Communities aufgeteilt werden muss, dann hab ich nichts davon.

Das funktioniert wenn dein Account auf feddit.org liegt und du auf den “lokal” Feed schaust.

Wenn ich mit meinem lemmy.world-Account auf “lokal” filtere, dann krieg ich keine einzige feddit.org-Community.

Wenn ich mir die User in diesem Thread anschaue, dann gibts da schon ein paar von feddit.org, aber der Großteil ist das nicht.

In diesem Kontext ist es, denke ich, wichtig im Blick zu behalten wie winzig Lemmy insgesamt ist. Lemmy hat rund 40-50k aktive Nutzer pro Monat.

Das sind alle Lemmy-Instanzen kombiniert.

Reddit hat grob 100 000x so viele Nutzer. Selbst kleine Nischensubs wie r/Wien kommen auf 130 000 Nutzer pro Woche.

Dort macht es durchaus Sinn die Nutzerbasis aufzuteilen, weil man sonst einfach nicht mehr hinterher kommt.

Noch ein Vergleich: r/WienMobil hat rund 16k Nutzer pro Woche. c/DACH kommt mit 1.1k Nutzer pro Woche auf nicht mal ein Zehntel von einem Sub für die Wiener Linien.

Das andere Problem hast du selbst beschrieben. Separate Diskussionen heißt dass insgesamt weniger geredet wird. Wenn 10x mehr User jeweils 10x mehr Kommentare unter der Diskussion sehen gibt es 100x mehr Chancen für Interaktion. Trennt man das auf klein-klein auf, dann verliert man den Netzwerkeffekt.

TIL dass das ist wofür CH steht! Ich hab angenommen, dass Ch die ersten zwei Buchstaben sind für Schweiz auf Latein oder so. Chweiz.

Epstein Files waren nie was Anderes als Ablenkung.

Oder anders gesagt: die Taktik, die Trump und seine Leute verwenden ist “Flood the zone with shit.”

Ein Skandal nach dem Anderen mit so hohem Tempo dass man nichts davon abarbeiten kann. Alles ist eine Ablenkung von allem, während alles davon katastrophale Ergebnisse hat.

At my job:

We do have a linter and tons of automatic tests. Changes are generally quite safe, not a lot of manual tests are necessary.

Meanwhile, a trivial change requires a whole day because the developer has to adjust dozens of tests and get them through a pipeline that takes hours to run.

Tbh, the biggest issue with Linux right now is that the GUI path to doing things differs too much.

You can do quite a lot of things via GUI by now, and I think that’s really important because GUI is much more discoverable. As in, not knowing what I need to do, GUI is more easy to figure out.

But the issue is that GUI changes a lot between distros, DEs or even distro/DE versions.

So if my mom (who is quite on the tech illiterate side and running Linux for years now) asks me a question, I don’t know how exactly the GUI on her distro/DE version looks like. But I can tell her some command line command that works on almost all distros.

That’s also why most of the stuff you find online tells you to copy some command into CLI, because CLI differs less.

The problem with that is that CLI is of course also much less discoverable. Once you learn where to look (help option of the command, man pages, tldr pages) and how the concept of CLI works in general, you can figure out stuff yourself. Or you just google, that’s ok too.

Right now, Linux works ok for tech illiterate masses as long as they know one guy who knows Linux quite well and they can ask them. Apart from setting stuff up in the beginning (which does require someone with a bit of skill), the tech illiterate Linuxers ask much fewer questions than the tech illiterate Windows/Mac users. So once it’s running it’s ok.

There’s been various methods for blocking sperm from travelling down the vas deferens that managed to get through studies and then just got dropped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vas-occlusive_contraception

Edit: This is what Wikipedia has to say on that topic:

Despite this, pharmaceutical companies are reluctant to lose market share of a thriving global market for female contraceptives and condoms which bring billions of dollars of revenue each year. Initially, RISUG attracted some interest from pharmaceutical companies. However, considering that RISUG is an inexpensive, one-time procedure, manufacturers retracted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_inhibition_of_sperm_under_guidance

That kind of procedure would wipe out most of the contraceptive industry. And of course that can’t be allowed.