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POV , your secretary bought a new car for her daily commute to the grocery stroad.

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Probably. You'd be amazed at what someone with a regular license is allowed to drive. Such as the International CXT. Basically made to be just under specs that require a CDL. (To my knowledge it is mostly a weight thing. Like 26000 pounds and CDL is needed. 25999 pounds? you're fine without.)

The laws are pretty arbitrary and leave a lot to be desired. Which is also why you see some sketchy driving by people driving the large U-Haul box trucks and other moving rental companies. Same with trailers/campers. Any random can hook up an oversized/improperly loaded trailer to their little Ford escape and drive about.

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Do you believe Lemmy/Mastodon can become mainstream and fully replace their centralized counterparts?

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Agreed. Not sure if there is a fair and easy way for the whole "instance" user distribution but the current set up isn't straight forward. Not to say it was difficult but my experience with it was an immediate thought of this barrier of entry is too steep. It's unlike what most anyone has likely ever encountered. (at least knowingly.)

Like mapping a network drive. Is it an actually difficult task? No. Can any significant portion of the general population identify what I just stated? Probably no. Sure a small percent may go on to Google that and figure it out. But in general I find it bad practice to ask that of them.

Would it be reasonable if some algorithm handled that aspect and just default assigned people based on location, maybe a couple quick questions of their interests, and the hosts willing capacity increase rate? Plus some other factors I didn't think of. In some text could also say you can choose from a list of instances if you so choose or just leave it as is.

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Sound Off: How many 10+ year redditors have left the site?

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Pretty sure I joined in 2011 as well. I'd check but why give them traffic. The website was only still usable with old reddit and the app is total trash. RiF is what I used to interact with reddit about 99% of the time. When they axed it I left and the flow of people over to Lemmy has made it just fine for my needs.

Sure it is still a little lacking for some of the subs but it's getting there.

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We've grown an absolute shit ton of people the past day, insanely nuts to see how active World is.

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For someone who just wanted to be able to interact and hadn't a clue what anything was I figured world was the biggest. I think I kind of underatand how this works now? Though making a log in was much less intuitive and simple than anything else I feel I've ever come across.

Basically thought process was the word "world" encompasses a lot of places. It's probably big and I'm tired of scrolling through stuff so I'll use that.

Edit so if I make a new account or transfer this one or something to whatever the main one is will stuff load faster?

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Do you have a main? If so, which class and why?

Solo I tend to pick scout just for laziness of getting around quickly. Normally only run simple mission types this way.

In group play I mostly do driller. Even if I'm useless the whole mission I can make up for it with B lining to extraction point. Overall I just like the feel of the class and that I am always making an easy to use hole to where we're going and use later. (Don't worry about the one that leads through a ceiling to my and your death. I'm sure it won't be a problem later in the mission.)

That said I do like all the classes and mix in a healthy share of gunner and engi keeping overall ranks semi near each other.