None of these points make any sense to me when I think about the pre-reddit internet. There were all kinds of communities everywhere on various forums across the internet. Some forums discussed specific topics, some very niche, other forums were for more general discussions. But hosting and setting up a forum was not always the easiest thing. So when reddit came, subreddits eventually replaced forums. Easy to set up, easy to discover, everything in one place.

Now the fediverse is to me pretty much like going back to the old forums, but a bit more organized. And all of the points in this article could have been made about forums if you decided to analyze forums as one big thing. But in the end, none of it has been a problem (and there are still some forums around today).

I ignore any calls that are not from my contacts. If it’s important they’ll leave a message. I have DND on at night. Calls and messages from my wife have separate sounds and exception from DND.

Samsung galaxy has the same feature (at least on the S25, I don’t recall if I had it on the S10)

UX experience

We should shorten that to UXX

Or just go to vger.app, which defaults to lemm.ee but allows you to register and log in with a whole bunch of different instances.

Ok, that’s absurd. I thought it makes sense to change the name for people in the US if that’s the official name in the US (according to the USGS data, which has always been the official source for this info). But translating the US name into other languages that already have a name for it makes no sense.

There are studies about how other tools reduced various capacities. Our memory capacity has decreased and how we use it has changed. People used to store a lot of information, now we only store a sort of index (we remember where to look it up, not the information itself). Our attention span has also greatly decreased with the shift to short form content (not a useful tool, but just another cognitive change).

2024-12-07 is not “American style”, it’s ISO standard date format.

Except he didn’t mention the product name anywhere in the letter. Looks like he purposefully avoided it being interpreted as an ad.

These accessories

They were attached to an accessory that allowed them to slide like that. It must have a point other than just look cool on the trailer.

My switch came with black joycons. Iirc it cost extra to get the colored ones.

But nobody actually calls it “natriu”, it’s just a thing you hear once in school to help you remember why the symbol is Na and then never use it again.

If your phone is connected to the cell network, then you can be tracked.

https://youtu.be/wVyu7NB7W6Y

My cars are not modern enough for that, but I always carry a surveillance device in my pocket to make up for it.

I’ve always done that. If it’s not a contact, I let it go to voicemail. If it was actually important, they leave a message.

This article gives a good view from an average user’s perspective.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-tried-replacing-twitter-with-bluesky-threads-and-mastodon-heres-what-i-found/

The platform is decentralized and has community ran servers.

For most people that’s a complication, not a bonus.

Which one is Commander Vimes?

In my country unlimited fiber was $6/mo. Imagine the shock when I moved to the US (also in Mountain View initially). Eventually I got AT&T fiber for “just” $40/month, but now I moved to an area outside their coverage and it’s back to Comcast :(

I’ve had my Samsung Bar for 5 years now and no issue with it, if that’s worth anything