ALostInquirer

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What made everyone move to Bluesky or Threads instead of Mastodon? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Does Bluesky? Have they been running marketing? Much of what I've seen/heard of it has been more a result of Twitter imploding and people bringing up alternatives than any concerted marketing pushes.

edited for clarity, realized I'd overlooked Threads mention

How can we return to techno-optimism? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I haven’t paid interest in over a decade and have made thousands from rewards.

I'm not too familiar with credit cards, do you mean this in a literal money sense or something more complex, i.e. the value of rewards & money?

Adding GIS data to oblique drone imagery in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't, but what kind of GIS data were you wanting to add? Specifying might help others know if they can help more.

Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Have you seen the [email protected] community? This would be a good post there as well, I think!

What's a giveaway or tell that someone may be *too* online? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sorry. This is why I included the bonus question:

what does it mean to be too online anymore?

This wasn't included in jest but in recognition that for many now there isn't any too online, it's simply the means of socializing, among other things.

Anon's experience at a coffee shop in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 150 points 1 week ago (2 children)

did anon invent a strawwoman to be upset about?

What hobby was easier to get into than you thought? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Any resources to pick this up that you can share?

What are some ways to see the back of your head without others' help? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

What’s your purpose for doing so?

Curiosity, of course!

how does a tote bag work? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Could you provide an example image of the sort of tote bag you're mildly confused by?

Why does Apple insist on supporting bullying with the blue/green bubbles? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In the case of children, isn't some of this on the parents involved as well? Have the parents of affected children talked to each other about it and reached out to the parents of the bullies to ask if they know their child's been bullying or however one might go about that conversation?

That said, Apple's certainly in the wrong in taking advantage of this, and in many ways it's no surprise. They're essentially a luxury brand, whose entire business model is exploiting this kind of behavior of social pressure and buying specific products to better fit into a group.

20 Years of Blogging on my own website in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I had been publishing articles on my own website since 2003, but I did that mostly manually by writing whole HTML pages.

Huh, so literally raw html? I know it's not too difficult, but I have wondered occasionally how many small websites may have been written that way.

What would the IRL (in real life) of "real life"/offline life be? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Appreciate the reply! It's a cool way to view it in individual terms. I was thinking in more social terms, however, which I've been a little fascinated to find seems to be a little atypical from the replies so far.

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Is there an active community for sharing a variety of different websites? (lemm.ee)
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Which types of work suit those that prefer to work alone, or with smaller teams? (lemm.ee)
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Why don't more filtering systems enable sorting by least viewed/visited, including for older pages/material? (lemm.ee)
 

Sometimes what I'm interested in may be more specific or niche, but a lot of search engines and filtering systems don't seem to provide a way to drill down to those results. What may be some reasons behind that?

Or am I overlooking some obvious ways to search/filter this way?

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Like the classic game Rogue? Have you played Brogue Community Edition? (github.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/27550316 in [email protected]

Brogue's a more up to date spin on the classic game Rogue, with some slight modern touches to make it more approachable to newcomers while keeping to the spirit of the original.

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Where to find online communities of people making stuff mainly as a hobby? (lemm.ee)
 

Stuff could be anything, digital or physical, but the idea is of discussing and doing it as a hobby without any pressure or push to make it a business or side-gig. Nothing against that, simply that communities/groups with that atmosphere are easy enough to find as-is.

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Does sociology extend to other social animals besides humans? (lemm.ee)
 

If sociology's exclusive to humans, then what might be the field of other social animal research?

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What's been an interesting safe for life linkhole you've found on the web recently? (lemm.ee)
 

There's probably a different word for it, but linkhole like rabbithole.

You went to this one site, and it mentioned some other site, and they kept your interest and kept linking on to others and you've surfaced just long enough to share here.

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KDE Connect should only enable downloading files from allowed directories, right? [issue report found, may be very old notifications] (lemm.ee)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I was working on some stuff on my PC and stepped away for a bit, and on returning noticed notifications on it that some files had been downloaded via KDE Connect from my phone. I was using my phone at the time, and didn't send the files.

I know that you can quietly download files from a phone with its paired device (i.e. no notification on the phone, nor prompting permission) from allowed directories, but these files weren't from those directories, so...What may have happened here?

Glitched notifications, or something else?

Also, the downloaded files weren't anywhere on my PC, so... 😕

edit:
I found an issue report I think may be what I was seeing: KDE Connect spams the desktop with a torrent of old notifications.

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What details/tools have you found help people transition to similar, open software from closed software, or think could help? (lemm.ee)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/30719639 in [email protected]

I'm thinking of ways to help people move from established software to more open, flexible forms that don't lock them to another organization.

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Are there any typewriters still in production for those after a classic style of typewriting? (lemm.ee)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/30929451 in [email protected]

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Do others feel somewhat conflicted talking positively about commercial goods/services? (lemm.ee)
 

Sometimes I feel like if I do so I'm basically serving as an ad, and I don't really care for that, especially if later I find that the business was scummy in some ways (which is often the case, especially later as it changes leadership/ownership).

If you do, how do you deal with it?

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[Low priority] Where's Lemmee's lil' site icon disappeared to? (lemm.ee)
 

They've run off somewhere the past few days I think, and I tried a hard refresh of the site on desktop with no change. Also looked via app and the lil' Lemmee's disappeared there as well.

It's nbd, but has had me wondering.

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