Ugh, flashbacks to KDE 4…

I only really watch foss stuff, which should be exciting, but I get tired as it’s always much of the same news:

• a new private messenger (like we don’t have 500 of those already)
• a new app/program/distro that does the same thing as 10 other ones
• a “simple” app/program that doesn’t do much of anything, just like 10 other ones of the same kind, will get 3 updates and then die
• something for the terminal for terminal nerds that could really use a gui but shutup you dirty normie
• a library that sounds cool but nobody except maybe some corporation will ever use it
• announcement of a complete rewrite, which means we’ll never hear of the project again

So I’m not exactly thrilled about anything either, tho for every different reasons

I’d like the Reddit style flairs. On communities, mods could set up a bunch of flairs for people to choose from when making a new post. Also be able to assign a user flair.

I think this is useful for distinguishing e.g. questions from debates or memes.

Twitter-style (hash)tags, I understand why they exist but I don’t care for them. Everyone just puts all the tags into every post anyway. Communities on Lemmy serve mostly the same purpose anyway. Like, would technology posts on technology communities have technology tags? Silly.

I don’t think FairPhone customers are exactly regular consumer population, and there was a strong backlash against removing the jack in fp4 (and introducing ewaste wireless buds). So either the people we buying the phones anyway, or the company has so many customers they don’t give a shit.

You drank too much Apple koolaid

It’s even wilder that they didn’t learn the lesson after fp4. Did people really just complain and then buy it anyway? How many phones can they sell that they can afford to piss off their customers like this? I just don’t understand how is the smartphone market so borked.

In the sense that vegans want vegan food available in vegan stores? Cause that’s the equivalent of wanting a headphone jack in a phone from a company that sells their products on all these promises.

I’d say the change in Calculator from W7 to W8 was more than cosmetic. Never have I stared at my 27" 2.5k monitor so stupidly than when I first launched calculator on W8 and that thing blew up over the entire screen with no proper way to leave it on top of other windows.

I think that’s when it really had to be clear to everyone that MS has no idea how humans use computers.

Sounds good, but with how the Fediverse operates, you’d be sharing all your information with everyone. It would need to be a lot more secure and reliable than it is.

And then you get banned if you (even accidentally) upvote something with two accounts.

It’s impossible based on how Lemmy works on principle.

I have a rule, that if I’m debating with someone, and they use one of these things against me (or against someone else):

• calling up the post history (unless the receiver is an actual nazi, spambot etc.)

• making fun of grammar (unless the receiver deserves it, e.g. doing the same thing first)

• accusing of something bad or evil without any evidence, or being a total snowflake

• using “grand” words like disinformation, whataboutism or entitlement completely inappropriately, and to just shut the other person up

Then I consider the discussing immediately done, and I’m likely to block the person outright, because it’s clear they only debate in bad faith and just use dirty tactics to make tgemselves feel better; so it’s a waste of time to keep talking to them, and best to avoid ever getting into that situation with the person again.

Exactly, so at the end it’s just comparing two numbers anyway.

I can respect that consistency.

I don’t get that argument. Sometimes I just don’t have the time or can’t be bothered to write a comment, and a downvote serves as a perfect, fast replacement to indicate my disagreement.

Echo chambers are created exactly when you can’t express youe disagreement easily. If all you need is an upvote to agree, but need to comment to disagree.

I hear there’s this thing called ratio on Twitter, a comparison betwen something and something else, idk I don’t use it. But you know what would be just as useful? Upvotes and downvotes.

I’m tired now, today I’ll only be downvoting what I don’t like :p

Ok so why keep upvotes? It’s the exact same problem. I’ve seen so much crap with shittons of upvotes, but one downvote and it’s suddenly an issue.

Oh ffs, I wasn’t even talking about you specifically, the “you” was just generally addressing anyone, but yea I see it applies you completely.

Don’t worry, I won’t bother you with my “attacks” any longer, in fact I’ll rather block you outright, because I can’t stand people like you who scream “attack” or other bullshit accusations whenever someone is just in their vicinity. So I’ll never reply to you ever again, win-win!

So what, what’s wrong about expressing “I don’t like this”? How’s that different from expressing “I like this”?

The only “toxicity” is that it seems there are downvote trolls, so almost every post automatically gets a downvote immediately. But you can just ignore if you only have that one or two downvotes. If you can’t handle that, you can’t be surprised if you get called a snowflake.

Not that I want to defend Elon or anything… But it’s an X. The second most simple character in the alphabet. What are you expecting from an X? How much should one pay for one X?

What, are the bots on strike?

It’s ironic, considering how much we’ve been fighting over whether to let Meta in or not.

Fuck me, that’s exactly how society works, some bully doing something, the normal people fighting over it, then the bully going “never mind lol”.