Post-latest-US-election, when the feeds got somehow even worse and more doom-scrolly than before even on my curated lists. This was still before people were getting banned for upvoting comments.

Someone posted open source alternatives and while I was never big into Mastodon or other social substitutes I found Lemmy as a parallel to Reddit and eventually made the jump. Haven’t looked back since and am far mentally better off for it 😄 /genuine

“Sifting through resumés all day is like a horrible experience and it’s not very reliable.”

Ah yes, and applying for jobs is just so easy and not at all disproportionately more degrading than hiring. /s

This might sound nuts but, programmable/shifting tattoos.

Like, it could detect elevated levels of cortisol in your blood or increased heart rate and then just gently pulse or warm up to a comforting temperature as a way calm you down or remind you to breathe. Or light up like a custom RGB keyboard, or change colors/holographic effects depending on time of day. Anything really.

This is the time for Nintendo to whip out a lawsuit

There’s dozens of us!

You mean well but these cars weren’t personal property:

Have they never heard of insurance? Tesla is having issues selling cars right now. You are burning unsold inventory that they can then claim to their insurance.

Unsold dealership vehicles. I wouldn’t be surprised if the dealership committed it themselves for that reason.

People focus so much on “but it’s not enforceable” and “you don’t own what you say on the Internet” that they forget it’s a statement of intention.

You’re sharing your support, however nominal, for good causes. I see nothing wrong with that ¯\(ツ)/¯

People used to put goofy-ass sign-offs on comments back in forum days; a couple extra lines of text that don’t hurt anybody shouldn’t be an issue.

You keep doing you, comrade. /gen /pos

I used to spend hours creating custom color schemes for my Plasma setup and installed a bunch of icons themes. Now I switch out my wallpaper every so often and let the highlight color auto-pull from the image.

Not OP but this is a hell of an insight, thank you.

You’re right that I would have no frickin clue what that second sentence would mean. Someone asking me if I emailed Bob yet directly would not offend me, and I’d prefer it.

My only solution so far has been to say directly to my coworkers that they won’t offend me by asking directly but that doesn’t work 100% of the time. I get paid to do my job, not decode 400 lines of possible subtext from a passing sentence because they’re afraid of asking a question.

I still say hello and act friendly though. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Seconding Heroic. Lutris confused me too but I was able to connect Epic and GOG to Heroic.

Also, when you’re not using steam remote play Sunshine/Moonlight works wonders for remote streaming.

In a fucked up way I lol’d at this. If I put on my tinfoil hat I’d say the USA is encouraging China to “spy” on us so they have to absorb the brainrot. Poor bastards

Preface to say I don’t necessarily hold these views, just my observation:

• .ml is considered “tankie”

• Blahaj.zone is shitposty and pretty solidly trans-friendly/oriented

• .world is “neutral,” and I think federated with most instances (I joined this one bc I was brand new here and it seemed beginner friendly, but I lean further left so ¯\(ツ)/¯ may instance hop in the future)

• Lemm.ee runs similar to .world but maybe slightly more right leaning

• Sh.it.justworks is predominantly techie

• Sopuli.xyz seems primarily meme-centric

• Feddit.org seems neutral-ish and more EU based, beyond that don’t know much

I’m sure there’s others I’m missing/stereotypes I’m wildly wrong about or not yet informed but that’s what I’ve gleaned so far.