Am definitely human.
I am very carefully trying to find a space to share with people that I’m building yet another dating app. Ugh, yes, but…
I cannot believe that these offerings must be so expensive, and so enshittified. Where is the open source mentality?
I don’t want to be blocked for selling things (I’m really not), but I hope to find a place to start a conversation about what an actually user friendly offering could look like.
So, usb devices that are connected to your laptop, or the laptop’s usb sockets themselves?
I’m just curious about the choice of elements used to construct those letters in the signage, as those beams and angles aren’t in the game (even the testing version) although the devs have udsættes about an upcoming update with steeper roofs (which, I suppose, implies steeper beams, too).
I wonder if it’s any mod? I’m on Linux and AFAIK mods don’t work under Proton.
For anyone not familiar with the Firefly show, your comment makes very little sense. So I’d just drop in to help.
As a little bonus, did you notice that the AA guns in the very first battle scene were Wayland Yutani branded?
When the fuck did you compare? Uh, wording, but whatever.
And “hellpers” on the cover, tee hee.
That last one is fun. Look at it for long enough and you’ll realise it’s actually a colour photo.
Serious question: what if I am, and have no idea how to prep for it?
My pension and other things are tied up in stocks and such, if there’s a crash coming I’d think cash under the pillow would be better than stocks. But how do you do that, with your pension?
Honestly, that’s a caricature. Of course that is utterly overwhelming.
Most poly is nowhere near that, but just a person dating a person who also happens to be dating another person. End of story. The “quad dates” are ludicrous, and the foxy cat(?)'s explanation shows she’s way too involved in relationship that don’t, uh, involve her. Back off, be happier.
Didn’t think one was needed.
Honestly, the Psion 5 was an absolute beauty. Also the Revo of you wanted it cheaper.
I still keep a Palm V by my nightstand because its baclklighting is just 😗👌 compared to today’s thousand-nit 6" oled phones.
It does need to be Internet connected. It’s critical for patching remote exploit vulnerabilities…
I don’t know you but I love you for that Palatino statement. I’ve used it since forever (ie. back when Macs were black and white) and just love the curves of the italic style. These days, on Linux, I use Tex Gyre Pagella for basically all my documents.
For UI like menus and such, I’m quite nostalgic for the Chicago font - yes, pixelated and aliased and everything.
Agreed on your last point. That’s when programs still had proper tool bars and keyboards shortcuts, before the “ribbon” shit started to fuck over everyone’s muscle memory.
It would have made sense for MS to start with “finger painting UI” and then work towards the power user UI - but the other way round makes zero sense to my poor brain.
This is what I call “confidently wrong”. If you ask it about things you have no clue about, it seems incredibly well-informed and insightful. Ask it something you know deeply, and you’ll easily see it’s just babbling and spouting nonsense - sure makes you wonder about those earlier statements it made, doesn’t it?
The digital national ID is not corporate or government snooping. If you believe it is, I don’t think this conversation can continue. What it is, is what’s needed to log into your doctors system to schedule an appointment, or the schools system to read updates about your kids, or to log into your online banking. All of that, and more, in my country, is using the same ID system, which won’t work on a rooted android phone (at least, I haven’t been able to make it work for the past 3-4 major versions).
Yes but do they support the digital national ID and SSO apps that are (only) avaliable for android and apple? Until they do, a lot of users are going to be locked into those two big OS vendors. 😞
That is depressingly insightful. See also: the internal war on everyone who isn’t a middle-aged white cis het man (and even some of them, too). Just negativity all around.
What really brings me down it’s the certainty that even if that is guy was suddenly not there anymore, there is a whole gaggle of like folk ready to continue that same rhetoric. How do you even dig yourselves out of that?
I have commented stuff like this before, and gotten it deleted (or gotten summarily banned). I have been searching for spaces where this sort of discourse is even allowed, where non-vagina-havers get to say that many men suck but it’s not only their fault and they certainly can’t fix it in a vacuum.
Good questions.
That first one’s a real head-scratcher: who would ever want to be the very first member on a dating app? I hear Tinder had “launch parties” but then I’m sure they had about 100% more funding that I do (which is none). In fact, what even is the smallest useful density of users? It’s obviously quite varied across geography, it won’t matter if there are 100.000 real people if they’re all in Belgium (sorry, Belgium).
One approach to lessen scammers is to require phone numbers rather than email addresses, and yes I’m aware that “lessen” does not equate “fix” – not by a long shot. There’s plans for supporting national eID’s of various target countries, but that should/will be a voluntary thing for users, but not every nation has a solution that “random apps” can build an integration with. Another remedy, I’m afraid to say, is to have no free tier - in fact my plan is to have only a paid tier, but also only one paid tier (reasonably priced, even) so everyone get’s access to everything on a level playing field. Then peer review and moderation (if people can be made to be arsed about it).
Lastly, one way to answer that is the wry practical perspective of (a) having few users (in the beginning at least), (b) don’t aim globally, © efficient data schema, (d) offer relatively low-res photos (eg. 800px should be “good enough” for a 3-inch-wide display), plus a bunch of other practicalities. Seriously, you don’t need “real time”, if you can’t be patient enough to wait for ¼ second between swipes, you’re probably not going to be a fun date anyhow. The real selling point is the features, not the performance.
«Dating apps don’t sell love. They sell the feeling that it is one premium upgrade away.» is exactly the sentiment I want to combat. If the user can trust that there isn’t “just one more payment” holding them back, what might they truly want out of a dating app? I’m guessing one thing is “honesty”.