Unfortunately, I don't think employers seeing their employees as mere resources is exclusive to Japan. Though they definitely like to dial it up to 11 there.

That is the goal, yes. One thing I've noticed is that the relative scarcity of posts here, especially news, has me frequenting a lot of news sites directly. Which I think is a good thing. Of course, one can't expect Lemmy to rival Reddit's content and engagement from the get go. We'll see where the platform is headed in the future.

Exactly my thoughts. I have no idea where she got all that confidence from, though in her defence, she doesn't have the power of hindsight here like we do. At least there's no noticeable bend in the wrong direction.

Agreed. The entire homepage being half ad and half shorts hurts my eyes. Good thing we have Revanced and such. I just hope Revanced doesn't go the way of Vanced anytime soon.

That depends on the phone. I remember some old Samsung flagships using a native 16:9 sensor. That was over at least half a decade ago though. Another device with such a setup I remember would be the Nokia 8 Sirocco.

And, the now extinct Windows phones had atypical arrangement where neither aspect ratios would result in the full usage of the sensor, though 4:3 got closer. The Sony Xperia 1 V has multi-aspect ratios too, afaik, where you'd gain some horizontal FOV at the expense of the same vertically when switching from 4.3:3 to 16:9 or longer.

For the vast majority of the phones and their users out there though, I agree with you. I've seen way too many people go with 18-21:9 pictures, probably thinking they're capturing more of the scene as they see that aspect ratio fill up their screen.

This video was exactly what first came to mind when I read "badly understandable dialogues"! It bothers me that as we got better mics, the actors became more unintelligible instead of the other way as one would predict.

It looks beautiful. Both man made intricate details and natural greenery in one place.

Technically, I guess.

Unfortunately, we still seem to be very far away from it replacing our usual way of growing meat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0zCf4Yup34

I second Vivaldi. It's a great chromium based alternative to chrome, and the level of customisation on offer is jaw-dropping. Its mouse gestures in particular, have been a huge convenience. The only thing about it that irks me somewhat is that it's noticeably slower to start compared to Firefox and Edge.

I don't think Reddit will feel a noteworthy sting anytime soon. But that's okay. Like some here have already said, what matters is fediverse ultimately growing big enough for us to have a sizeable group of people to interact with regarding hobbies or any random topic posted here.

Although, I can't move on without whining about the bug or whatever it was that prevented me from commenting anywhere for the last ...almost a month! On rare occasions, I couldn't even see anything on my feed so Lemmy clearly has ways to go in regards to matters outside of its contents.

Das ergibt absolut Sinn.

There are dozens of us.

In all seriousness, I do occasionally visit select subreddits even though I no longer have an account. I'd like to think leaving reddit has changed my internet browsing habits in a good way.

I deleted my account so there's no going back for me. Not that I would anyway. I'd be lying if I said I don't miss some of the subs I used to lurk on there, but that's not something I can't move on from. I still have many informative comments and posts I'd saved up in RES though.

Speaking of which, I came to know way too late that the max number of saved items in Reddit is 1000. Does anyone here have a clue on whether or not Lemmy has a similar restriction? I lost many good posts and comments I'd saved up for years due to that limitation until I switched to RES saving.

They certainly made the most of the space given to them by mother nature. The dearth of green in there feels unsatisfying though.

You will be pleased to know that Apple watches are some of the best health/fitness trackers out there. In fact, they're the only consistently best all-rounders.

For peace of mind, check this fellow out. In my humble opinion, quite underrated for the quality of content he puts out, he reviews smartwatches and fitness bands like no other. At least as far as I'm aware. https://www.youtube.com/@TheQuantifiedScientist

His reviews helped me settle on the AW 8. Sometimes, I wish this thing cooperated with Android phones too though. Android arena doesn't have any watch that perform as well across the board as Apple watches do. The Huawei come close, but they lag Apple in sleep tracking.

Heh. Basically nothing works with Android, unfortunately. You can't pair the watch with an Android phone to begin with. Without an iPhone, you might have to use it as a standalone watch, with no way to receive your health data in your phone.

In this day and age of worldwide financial morass? I applaud you for your courage (or affluence maybe), my friend.

I too was initially wondering that. A comparison with a similar camera to that of the Mars rovers would've been more interesting. We have much more capable cams here at home.

Somehow, I did not see that comment coming. I laughed out loud.

"Only" the first two apply to me as I blasphemously love Windows, but I somewhat agree with your observation.