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What's your opinion on Opera browser?

I loved Opera 20 years ago when the built in RSS reader, email client, mouse gestures and unique rendering engine that was either faster than the others or completely incompatible with websites. Now I don't give it much thought, all the chromium browsers feel the same.

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What operating system do you use on your main computer?

Windows 11. Don't @ me, I don't have the mental or physical energy to deal with Linux. I've never had a Linux install that's had close to everything working, there's always a device (network, sound, graphics, usb toaster) that doesn't work and attempts to follow people's instructions to fix it either make it worse or just do nothing.

Maybe I'm just useless or unlucky, but I'm due to die in a few decades and I don't have time to deal with that nonsense when Windows does everything I want it to.

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The time has come to reduce/remove DRS

I don't think the dirty air issue is solved as much as you think it is. It looks better than it used to, but you can see in situations where drs is disabled that following close is still pretty difficult unless you're Max Verstappen.

The FIA are finding it really difficult to tune the drs zones though. Passing either seems guaranteed or impossible most of the time, haven't seen much happy middle ground. Maybe they could invest in some better simulation software to make their guesses better.

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/r/horny complies with forced reopening of the sub, now accepting all Christian minecraft content (mostly horned goats for now)

Loving the malicious compliance on display from the Reddit mods.

Honestly, I reckon Reddit will eventually install mods that will restore the status quo and it'll probably be fine after. But this moment in history is so cool to watch, with massive group of internet users saying a collective, prolonged fuck you to the man. Love it.

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World chess federation bars transgender women from competing in women's events

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I think it's to give the top women a platform, for young girls to see people like them on the TV and make them believe they can do it too. If enough young girls start playing and keep playing, there should be plenty of female players that can compete with the best men in short order. There are also women's titles that have lower requirements than men's. It's a pretty controversial thing; some women refuse to take the "lesser" WGM title over the open IM title.

I'm not saying this works or I agree with it, but that's the thinking.

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Goodnight, RIF

Thank you so much for RIF. I didn't realise what the date was and was idly browsing Reddit last night, then it suddenly stopped working. I became a little sad when that happened.

Fuck Reddit, fuck Spez.

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Lemmy users who feel the heaviness of depression, what issue in your life weighs you down the most?

The real issues? Social anxiety, general guilt and regret about the past, the acceptance and occasional pain in knowing that I'll never have a partner.

But the situation has been the same for about a decade and I've moved past the point where it bothers me other than acute episodes. I'm fortunate enough to have a good job and enough money that I don't have to worry about housing or food, and aside from work I can basically do whatever I want (the positive side of "no partner"). I have hobbies and am going to start traveling soon and work keeps me busy, so I don't really have grounds to complain.

Also, at some point if you're not dangerously depressed, it just becomes a part of life and the new baseline. I feel "meh" at the best of times aside from when I level up on OSRS, and having that kind of pessimistic outlook does have some advantages. I don't really panic when something goes wrong because everything is shit anyways, so the boiler breaking down or w/e is just another Tuesday. Makes life much more chill then the rollercoaster of being an optimist.

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I'm pretty new to the fediverse, but I haven't been too negatively impacted by lemmy.world's issues, especially in the last few weeks since the performance issues were solved.

I wouldn't be against setting up another acct on a smaller instance, but I don't want to have to maintain two sets of sfw subscriptions. If there could be a service to sync your subscriptions between instances I'd be all over it.

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Hello from r/formula1 - Just testing a few things.

Platform is basically fine from a users POV, I see some people complaining about the lack of mod tools. One annoying thing is because different instances, there are at least 2 F1 communities. I've seen the diehards say it's by design etc etc but that doesn't stop it being annoying as a user.

Also it's much quieter, which is a blessing and a curse. More than zero people means it's at least active enough to be worth checking, but the size of /r/formula1 plus the voting system meant the top comments were usually pretty good, its more of a mixed bag here.