The lengths Americans go to not use metric 😁

lemmit.online ?

This sub is used mostly for providing support to those who didn't want to register on official forum. It has little traction, memes, shitposting and engagement in general

So its value stems from users providing support to the main product -- rather than being engagement farm which is profitable to reddit

Unfortunately, there's noone who would respond to that. Everyone knows about ux problems yet noone knows how to approach them. Those who can help, usually do so with pull request -- and even if not merged right away, they give base for future attempts.

Open source needs quality contributions to move further. However if one cannot solve any "good first issue" by themselves, tossing $5 into the donation bin allows devs to hire those who can solve those.

Once critical mass of contributions is achieved, you get wikipedia, vlc, blender etc: dominant players with no close proprietary rivals

I like to think of "open source software vs closed software" as "stairs vs elevator": stairs are healthy, autonomous, require little to no maintenance but given the option to elevator I don't have any illusion what most people would prefer

Yes, stairs are very inaccessible -- stairs might exclude a bunch of people by its own design

In the eyes of stairs-builder you shouldn't build (residential) buildings that require an elevator. Moreover, in narrow cases you might wanna consider to build an elevator, consider an escalator first

Answering the question "How can we get people to use stairs everyday?", stairs-builders make stairs well lit, wide, friendly and well placed.

A user of stairs might prepare their friends and family to use existing stairs they got: by explaining the techniques to approach the stairs, by recommending appropriate shoes, by timing the stairs climbing at an appropriate moment of the day etc

Less advanced user might simply point to the stairway and say "why don't we take stairs this time?". And here we (advanced users) wanna ask them not to do that with their sore/acky nana -- she wouldn't like the stairs either way

Don't waste your energy. Focus on the achievable

Ain't urbanisation made fertility drop tho? Like raising a child in the city is bloody expensive while in the country extra child is spare hands for work

Thanks for the tip about instance agnostic search, it's pretty cool! Where did you get the info? Did you figure it out yourself?

[[S]](/search/q/search-term%40instance/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1)

Someone once said that philosopher is a failed writer: you wouldn't do philosophy if you are talented enough to write a good novel.

From the lens of writing almost every novel has bits and pieces of author's philosophy. However, in modern world there's not a lot of demand for modern philosophy (same as with other deep academic field).

Consider how many novels were written about gas thermodynamics? About zero and the reason is simple: there's little demand for it to afford hundreds of hours of professional writer

that's okay, I welcome your opinion

If masterofballs suddenly comes out of fog, we could discuss the pros and cons once again. See you then

Usually I write down a list of wants whenever I come around something I like. So when it's time to celebrate I have a "menu" to choose from.

noice! gracefully and appreciatory snatched to Steam Deck - Sopuli

Idk if you know this additional trick without the search Instance agnostic link to meta of sopuli

It doesn't work on mobile, in fact internal linking isn't stable on mobile at all, so..

Thanks for the info, TIL

Well, despite our political divide, it's sad to see this strong instance to go. Hope he'll take care of himself and reappear on fediverse in the future

Doesn't work on mobile clients tho

I also noticed that I don't get posts in my feed from some communities of other instances. For example ![email protected]

I can't find this community via search from beehaw as well unless I preview it on lemmy.ml

Can anybody confirm this?

You're a gem, thank you for updating the post 🤗

I think you're right and there's isn't one as of yet -- which is a shame; however, due to lemmy's subs having RSS feeds and mastodon's ability to post on lemmy (by tagging a community), I made a simple proof of concept trigger on IFTTT (because it's free)

RSS to mastodon recipe on IFTTT

Admittedly this might be clunky to rely on 3 external services just to copy paste content inside the federation 😞

It seems like you wouldn't have asked that question if your network worked flawlessly. Saving bandwidth on local network seems like a weird saving on its own.

So I imagine that you might be suffering from a more fundamental problem: like having a low end router that you push to self-host and cater to a family of wireless devices at the same time.

Am just speculating of course. Could you tell us why are you chasing to reduce power of 5-20 watt device?

You guys get dates?