Not everyone has the privilege of their family members making it to their 80s or later. Heart disease, diabetes, cancer. I’ve had family members die in their 40s, 50s, 60s, but almost never later than 70s.
Why does it matter if journalists report on this stuff more? Because a crazy amount of people are dying from these top causes, and they are not just “shit that happens.” They have causes, and they are preventable.
I have two, they are flexible, and I find them obnoxious to have to use. I specifically chose my current phone because it has a headphone jack, and I won’t make the mistake of missing that again.
Prove it.
It makes no sense to say it’s for a very small segment when we weren’t given the choice in the first place.
No, bluetooth is not great. Just because you don’t use something doesn’t mean other people are like you.
Phone makers need to understand that a missing headphone jack is a dealbreaker.
Tho it wouldn’t be if companies would at least put two usb ports on the devices. I’d be fine using usb wired earbuds as long as I don’t have to give my phone one of those dumb splitter tails.
too overwhelming in UI/UX for majority of people coming from Discord
Uhhh, Discord’s user experience is one of the most chaotic fever dreams I’ve ever come across, and is a large part of what makes me want to get away from it (among many other reasons).
One of the really frustrating things about Discord is that people are using it for things that it’s not good for. Like documentation, or really anything where a new reader is looking to find a persistent source of information. Chat should be good at chat, and wikis should be easily accessible on the open web - not in an obscure digital group that has to be joined to be seen.
It’s like when people start a business and then use facebook as their “site.” No that is not a site, and you know what, I don’t want to shop there anymore either. Same energy.
The advantage that even a regular tricycle has over a bicycle is that it can remain upright on its own. A bike wants to fall, and that continues to be a problem no matter how good your traction is on ice, because even the smallest slip sends you straight to the ground.
The disadvantage of trikes is that they are generally very slow and cumbersome. Some bikes can feel like a real slog to try to commute on.
An underrated place to start is with Doom modding. The various ports of Doom engines have grown to have surprizingly rich feature sets these days, and a lot of indie games have been getting made in these engines. It’s easy to get into because you can get started pretty much right away by making mods for existing games.
So for example, you could download the free game FreeDoom, get the UZDoom engine to play it on, the map maker Ultimate Doom Builder to make maps for FreeDoom, SLADE for the other aspects of editing, and then finally the ZDoom wiki should be able to point you toward everything you’ll want to learn to be able to make whatever you’d like.
So you can start learning and producing content very quickly by making maps, learn and develop those maps into more extensive mods, eventually learn and develop those mods so far they become “total conversions” - meaning that it’s still technically a mod, and still would depend on the Freedoom game you’re building on, but has grown extensively enough to replace all assets; and then finally it is possible to convert that total conversion into a full fledged standalone game.
And of course once you have enough experience with this, you can develop standalone games right from the start of a project.
Snow, ice, and high winds are mainly what I’m referring to. A big enough gust from the wrong angle can pretty easily throw you off a bike, or send it veering in the wrong direction briefly at least (not to mention the struggle against headwinds).
Snow is one problem, but ice is the worst. I’ve used everything from studded tires to fat tire bikes, and they all have the same problem: two-wheeled vehicles want to fall down. A recumbent trike on the other hand is much closer to the ground, and stays upright by default. It virtually solves all of the aforementioned problems, while also being much more comfortable to sit on.
With recumbent two-wheelers, there’s a small bit of awkwardness maintaining balance as you go from a stop to a start. Other than that, the only real issue is that you can’t stand up when you’re riding up hills. All you can do is drop the gear and keep pedaling.
Personally I think it’s well worth the issues they solve, trikes especially. They’re much more comfortable. The trikes are much more resilient to bursts of wind, and the stability makes them much better for winter riding.
They’re more expensive, but recumbents do already solve this problem.
Would still like to try an alternative to saddles on regular bikes though.
Right, that was always my understanding too, but I do know that there are also anti-circumvention laws that play a more direct role in the jailbreaking scene. I’m just not up-to-date on what’s going on with that these days.
Okay, I see. Weird, I don’t remember that being in the article when I read it. Yeah, that was just dumb then. People who sell these things need to stop preloading them.
But now I need to look more into this, is there precedent for Nintendo going after people who sell Jailbroken devices without copyrighted content on them? I think if I ever tried to make a living like this, I would just avoid Nintendo all together. Well, anything 3DS or newer anyway. Those GBA mods these days are 🔥
I didn’t see anything in the article indicating whether or not the person sold them with games pre-loaded. If all he did was sell jailbroken Switches, that’s not a victory. That’s a loss of our rights to use and change our own hardware.
You do you, but why not keep it simple? Friend to friend, just give your peers a link to the same instance you’re on. We can start instance sports teams and find out who wins the tournaments!
Then I’ll just quote it directly:
"Here’s what all these complaints about federation choices reminds me of: every job I’ve ever had, new people get hired from time to time. What do they do? Long before they’ve had any time to get any training or learn how things work to maybe get a better understanding of why some things are done the way they are - day one, they start complaining about all kinds of little things, waxing fantastical about how they’d do things differently. Same energy.
Nothing is perfect, and maybe things can be improved in a number of ways as time goes on. But also everything has a learning curve, so maybe try learning that curve before making demands about getting rid of the core elements that make federation what they are."
That’s the thing: no matter how well a system is designed, there will always be a subset of people who find it confusing and frustrating. I’ve seen Facebook users who refuse to touch reddit because it makes no sense to them. People who never “got” Twitter. Hell, I love digging into operating system environments and learning how they work, and even I ragequit Apple devices every time I touch them - systems whose design is the most celebrated in the tech world.
Learning new things is just uncomfortable, and there will always be people who refuse to do it.
But the fediverse is here, and despite your gatekeeping attitude about it “never being adopted by the masses” because it doesn’t follow your personal views; it is growing just fine. New users come and go every day. New systems get federated regularly. Maybe a different reddit clone than lemmy will prove to be the most favored one? Who knows. But it’s doing just fine, one day at a time. And it’s open-source, so if you don’t like it, then code something about it.
If somebody gave up on the registration, how would you know? They wouldn’t be here to say it.
If you gave up on the registration, then how are you here? You’re inventing impossible physics to support your arguments. Are you a professional programmer for doge?
Here’s what your expert opinion is really about:
Where they are is having spent most of their life in a walled garden corporate internet. What you need to understand is that all new things have a learning curve, and the process of learning needs to be accepted - rather than trying to pressure free systems into being the very thing everyone is wanting to get away from.
Freedom means having choice. Sometimes a lot of it. Sometimes that’s scary. But it’s worth embracing.
Would be interesting to see studies showing contaminant levels of popular pet foods vs plant-based pet food brands.
Now watch some people irrationally lose their minds because I made the heinous crime of mentioning plant-based pet foods.