To be clear, this creates a separate Pixelfed account, it just uses your Mastodon info for quick profile setup and authentication.

A lot of people in Michigan are expecting the state population to boom in the coming decades. No earthquakes or hurricanes, minimal wildfires and tornadoes. Lots of access to fresh water.

We passed a ballot initiative in 2018 that made an independent committee draw up congressional districts and wouldn’t you know it, the state suddenly went blue when no one could gerrymander anymore! Legal recreational weed, legal abortion, free school lunches, the progressives are moving fast with the new majority.

What area all depends on how much winter you can take. Detroit-Ann Arbor area is probably the mildest, followed by Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo (great cities, lake effect snow storms), Up North (even worse snow) and da UP (Marquette is amazing but if you don’t like snow sports you’ll go insane).

$500k will but you a great house in some suburbs or a decent house in a hot market.

Naming a compression scheme “XL” seems like a bad choice.

Copyright law? One Thousand and One Nights is in the public domain.

It's already happening: US Internal Refugee Crisis: 130-260k Trans People Have Already Fled

Plasma. Everybody forgets plasma.

To answer your title question, plenty of people do. I follow my friends there and have lots of conversations. Mastodon doesn’t have a lot of famous people, but I didn’t really use Twitter to follow famous people either.

You might want to try FediFinder (when it’s working, they are dealing with Elon’s changes like the API shutdown) to find your Twitter follows on Mastodon.

You can tell the moment you get onto Michigan highways. We are building more lanes when we can afford to maintain the ones we have.

Do people these days still know O’Reilly books? I’ve seen a few posts over the past couple years that are essentially asking “how did you figure out how to program without Stack Overflow?”

I follow a couple Lemmy communities from Mastodon. If you create a Mastodon account and search for @[email protected] you can subscribe to new posts, which get boosted into your feed. You can upvote by favoriting a post and you can reply from Mastodon and it’ll show up on Lemmy.

I can also follow Lemmy users, like by searching for [email protected] and your posts (but not comments) will show up in my feed.

Execution is what matters, not ideas. Anyone can half-ass an idea and say “I did it first” but whoever comes along and does it right is who gets remembered.

IIRC the post format is:

Title
@community@server
Body text

If you make a post and tag @[email protected] it should post the first line as the title. If you include a link, I think it will post it as a link too.

Edit: found the issue, it looks like links aren’t supported but it uses the first part of a post as the title.

I’m more comfortable with macOS than Windows and find many of the UX patterns on Windows to be grating. It doesn’t mean Windows is insane, just that I’m more accustomed to the macOS patterns.

FWIW the Dock can be hidden, and the menu bar at the top can hide as well when an app is in full screen mode.

As of 2020, the Monroe plant is the 6th dirtiest power plant in the country. I'm glad that they're planning to get off coal. I wish DTE would stop crippling residential solar with their rate structures though.

Detroit has some great suburbs (check out areas like Ferndale and Plymouth/Canton), but don’t write off Detroit based on what you’ve read in the media. A lot of people in Michigan are in the same boat as you and are missing out on what Detroit has to offer because of what they think Detroit is.

Neither of those assertions are true, I don’t think you’re arguing from an informed position.

I might upgrade my 12 just because of the USB-C connection.

I’ve really liked what I’ve had from them in cans, excited to check out their new space