Basically nothing of unique value really comes from Reddit the company. Their platform is easily replicable (as you can see from the MANY Reddit clones other than Lemmy) and their staff are glorified powermods and repost bots. The only thing Reddit has of value is its communities, and those got where they are despite Reddit's best efforts.

Yep, had an idea for a game and when I read all this stuff I decided to check out Godot again since the last time I did it wasn't in a great state yet. So far it's looking pretty good now!

These guys aren't happy with some support. They want all the support i.e. money. Feels like no tech corporation thinks about its products long term anymore. Just the most readily available cash grabs possible, even if it means possibly losing future revenue.

Who is setting this standard? Is the general gaming population really upset if the graphics of the new CoD or sportsgame iteration is not hyperrealistic?z

Free pis as far as I'm concerned. If they were ever gonna "recover" their assets they would have to track them down and if anybody has just the pi in their possession they'd have to prove it's one of theirs, probably by getting law enforcement involved. I doubt the city would be all that happy to help when they've literally just littered throughout the city and left.

Seems like it. I suppose it's an honest mistake to make, she (or her PR team) put the Kanji for "seven" and "ring" (but also more generally means circular or loop or wheel), but Kanji when combined doesn't always mean what you'd expect it to mean. In this case those two Kanji together is a noun meaning charcoal grill. Kanji combinations can be highly logical, where their standalone meanings come together to a very sensible combined meaning. But sometimes they don't make much sense and the reasoning for the combined meaning is lost to time.

But come on, man... Just search for it online or open a dictionary before you permanently write something on your body.

Yes. I want something to do routinely otherwise I'll go crazy. I want to contribute to society's production and do my part. I want to put my time and effort into inventing, creating, and generally making life better for everybody. I don't want to have to do it under threat of starvation, and I damn sure don't want to do it for some asshole who just wants to watch number go up.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as the clutch, is in fact, the clutch pedal, or as I've recently taken to calling it, the clutch+pedal. The pedal is not a mechanism unto itself, but rather another mechanical component of a fully functioning clutch system made useful by th

Them: "my favourite political party will stay in power forever"

You might wanna read up on the algorithm Lemmy uses. Specifically this part:

• Active uses the post votes, and latest comment time (limited to two days).
• Hot uses the post votes, and the post published time.

If you're sorting by Active, that means those posts you're seeing are pretty, well, active even if they're a couple days old.

More like several very complicated moving parts hosted on complicated infrastructure to keep the illusion of nothing on nothing.

Sure they can. But...

1. How can they compete in a space where people are already there providing a service without trying to extract value from them?
2. Why would one of these larger instances sell out when their userbase can sustain them and selling out is antithetical to the reason they started the instance in the first place?
3. I and many people like me would be fine in our own instances. We'd just defederate. If, say, lemmy.world sold out those guys would just have to switch instances. It's a pain, yes, but it's possible.

is-sorted and a handful of about 300 other npm packages. Cloning the repo and installing takes about 16 hours but after that you're pretty much good for the rest of eternity

Didn't crunchyroll used to be exactly that kind of website they're getting taken down now? Lame...

I wonder if he thinks about it at all or if he's got a gang of yes men telling him it's all good.

Franklin Clarence Mars (/ˈmɑːrz/; September 24, 1883 – April 8, 1935) was an American business magnate who founded the food company Mars, Incorporated, which mostly makes chocolate candy. Mars' son Forrest Edward Mars developed M&M's and the Mars bar. He is also widely believed to be the god of war.

And pounds are what Americans use instead of kilograms.

Even when they do tell you it's ok, it's probably not ok. Toilet paper is designed to disintegrate rapidly in water, hence why it's easily flushable because by the time it's actually going down the pipes it's all ripped up already. Wet wipes, even the "flushable" ones stay intact. You can try this at home, take two cups of water, in one put in a few sheets of toilet paper, in the other put it a wet wipe. Stir them both for a minute to simulate flushing them down the toilet. The toilet paper rips up and what clumps are leftover are pretty small. Wet wipes stay completely intact, which is why they cause problems down the line when they're flushed.

Because nobody really cares about free as in freedom. Speaking in hyperbole, of course, but you step outside of our tech savvy bubble for just a moment and it feels that way very quickly. As far as they're concerned, Facebook is free. Threads is free. Switching from twitter to threads is just switching from one shitty free thing to another free thing that they think will be less shitty. Of course it's less shitty now, they want users. Mastodon? Pleroma? Seems kinda confusing, what's a server? Is FB a big server? Yeah... Free software alternatives have some PR problems to overcome at the moment. Now if there could be a new thing, a killer app, that was free? That would be insane.

She can't "own" people, don't be ridiculous now. She can only compel them with violence into servitude and extract the fruits of their labor. But ownership? That's messed up.