The .ml domain stands for the country of Mali, but lemmy.ml definitely chose that domain because it can stand for Marxist-Leninist.

Dual trackpads but still dual joystick and a real D-pad.

I really tried to like my steam controller but the trackpads as the main control surface didn’t work that well.

“Panama isn’t about a city, it’s the stage name of a stripper from Albuquerque!”

• David Lee Roth

I think people really overestimate how much everybody knows about the US.

I’d say there’s a large population that only know NYC, LA, and Chicago.

Useful alternative app: Google calendar. Or any of a hundred other calendar apps.

There are specialized scheduling apps for most things as well. I know for sure there are a ton of gardening apps.

$100M of $VT, secure my ultra-comfortable retirement right then and there.

I got a call from this woman in Boston, out was just a product activation call so I had to read her a 20-character activation string. We use the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for those, to reduce confusion over the phone.

The last character was Y-Yankee. I followed that up with “but I guess that’s a politically incorrect word around Boston, huh?” And she goes on an absolute tirade about how people are way to sensitive, throwing out a few racist dogwhistles along the way.

I just said “Ma’am, I was making a joke about the rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees.”

She went silent for a few seconds and hung up on me.

You don’t even need “power hungry mods” for that to go wrong, you just need mods who don’t care. That’s EXACTLY where Facebook and Twitter are right now. Getting content removed there is basically impossible, I’ve reported people for death threats and was told they never violated community standards.

If the platform isn’t going to moderate itself, the users should be able to.

While it’s true that the downvote often gets abused as a way to stifle otherwise-good discussion, without it it’s hard to deal with discussion that truly should NOT be happening.

There’s a reason election denial is more common and looks more legitimate on Facebook and Twitter. It’s because they don’t have a mechanism for people to nuke that discussion out of the top of the thread.

The GameCube was pretty mediocre as a console, but SO MANY of its games have aged like wine.

Some useful simulations for understanding many proposed voting styles, and the potential drawbacks of each.

https://ncase.me/ballot/

Not sure if it’s my specific app or lemmy as a whole, but that spoiler tag isn’t working. Sometimes they’ll break if you put a space between the tag and your text.

… >! Testing with spaces on both ends !<

… >! Testing with a space at the front!<

… >!Testing with a space at the end !<

… >!Testing with no spaces!<

Looks like reddit spoiler tags just don’t work in general

Not sure if it’s my specific app or lemmy as a whole, but that spoiler tag isn’t working. Sometimes they’ll break if you put a space between the tag and your text.

! Testing with spaces on both ends !<

! Testing with a space at the front!<

!Testing with a space at the end !<

!Testing with no spaces!<

There was some social commentary in that golden casino planet where the rich lived in excess while the poor barely got by (pay no attention to the Jabba behind the curtain)

And, of course, they cast minorities in leading roles!

“China is the worst polluter on the planet and they need to do better”

[China invests heavily into green technologies]

“NO NOT LIKE THAT!”

It’s the “all your eggs in one basket” problem.

“In a gold rush, you want to be the guy selling the shovels”

Nvidia is the shovel-seller right now. A couple of AI companies will probably get huge, 99% will fail. But Nvidia is getting paid by them all.

Man, I knew fingerprint encryption was bad but that is nuts.

Antibiotics. Turned so many lethal wounds into minor cuts.

Honestly don’t even remember, but it was in my peak “know enough to be dangerous” days in college. I almost certainly didn’t have to go that nuclear to fix it, but that’s what I did.

Take 2 of Arch, after that wipe was completed, went pretty well. It revived an old piece of shit laptop for another few years before its motherboard gave out.