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  • Is lemmy dying?

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  • Reddit, like Facebook, has the advantage of inertia: most people are on Reddit, so other people patronize Reddit, making Reddit even larger. And just like Facebook, it takes something particularly egregious from Reddit to get enough people to walk out at the same time. And you're correct: Reddit has learned to slow-boil the frogs to avoid this.

    But - maybe I'm naive - I'm banking of the Fediverse offering consistently better quality and less drama than Reddit to slowly attract people who want something better, and I'm trying to do my part to increase the S/N ratio on here.

  • Is lemmy dying?

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  • I think it's waiting for some new event that will drive a lot of people away from Reddit again to achieve critical mass and finally outgrow Reddit.

    In the meantime, I'm trying to keep my little corner of Lemmy alive - my dinky little special-interest communities - so that those who don't want to partake in the big Reddit equivalents know they have alternatives on here that are not stale.

  • Aliens could prank earth by double thanos snapping all gold

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  • On the plus side, the White House would look a lot less gaudy.

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    What do y'all think is up with Trump glazing Mamdani?

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  • I wonder if Mamdani's nickname is Bubba...

  • No hate to Tyler , but how is he considered a lyrical genius ?

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  • Everybody famous is totally overrated.

    Bob Dylan for example barely qualifies as a musician, yet he's considered one of the best songwriters ever. I'll never get it. My son wrote more inspired lyrics and played the guitar better a month after picking it up for the first time when he was in high school: where's his Nobel Prize?

  • Your task is to blow a job interview in the first 30 seconds. What do you do?

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  • That's easy: just say "Allahu akbar" when you get in.

  • Your task is to blow a job interview in the first 30 seconds. What do you do?

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  • You'd be surprised the number of head hunters you'll pique the interest of with that line.

  • Trump suggests there was a cover-up about Joe Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis

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  • He underwent a cognitive test - which he aced.So his doctors decided to make him take another one in the same year - which he aced too.So his doctors decided to run him through the MRI machine - which he aced of course.

    Because as we all know, when your medical tests come out a-okay, your doctors always make you take more tests - to marvel at how a-okay all your tests are, no doubt...

  • What questions do teens (14-18yo) have about choosing a career path, or navigating school and education options?

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  • I think it's not the first doomed generation. The previous one already had pretty high chances of being worse off than their parents (i.e. us). But sad - and quite frankly scared - though I am to recognize it, this one is in even more dire straights.

    And the reason I'm scared is, desperate people are rightfully driven to do radical things. I'm fairly sure the desperate kids of today is the generation that will eventually drive the world off the cliff and into WW3. And I won't even blame them.

  • Trump suggests there was a cover-up about Joe Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis

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  • I wonder which of Trump's strong paedophilia suspicions or Trump's strong dementia suspicions are a cover-up for the others.

  • What questions do teens (14-18yo) have about choosing a career path, or navigating school and education options?

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  • I'm so glad my kids have long been out of the house and have well-established job situations at this point, because I genuinely wouldn't know what to tell a teenager about career opportunities that wouldn't cause them to fall into a deep depression. All I can foresee in the near future is mass unemployment and war. And goodness knows I'm normally an optimist.

  • Apple's iOS takes a bite out of your freedom

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  • A bite? Since when did you have any freedom with Apple software?

  • Historian Answers Native American Questions

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  • Native American casinos exist to prove that casinos can be profitable when it's not Trump running em.

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    Mine screaming at me 😂😂

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  • I'm at the age when my body screams "don't even think about it!" two days before I do anything. Where's my hoodie?

  • All cults go through phases of culling the non-believers. Anytime you justify a cult leaders anti-social behavior solely for the benefits received by keeping the cult going you've begun this process.

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  • A lot of them end up culling the believers too in the end.

    That should be concerning to MAGA.

  • What I understand of this community

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  • As dangerous as it is, it's easier than Perl:

    That's the reason it won out.

  • Apple and Google won’t like this... [Free Software Foundation just gave humanity a final shot at salvation by announcing the Librephone] | Fireship [4:10]

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  • That's the same reason why I gave Ubuntu Touch a go: CalyxOS going stale on my FP4. But I decided to buy an FP5 to give it a whirl and leave the FP4 alone, because I can't really do without a reliable phone while I make sure the kinks are worked out.

  • Apple and Google won’t like this... [Free Software Foundation just gave humanity a final shot at salvation by announcing the Librephone] | Fireship [4:10]

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  • Sure why not:

    • The UI is really quite polished. Honestly, it's slicker than you imagine.

      There are weird quirk that you simply don't encounter in Android, like the UI not really tailored for displays with rounded corners or with a camera in the top-middle blocking icons, or the side drag areas being too small for my taste. Or the keyboard's haptic feedback seemingly not going away when you disable it, because there's also a general touch haptic feedback that's well-hidden in the settings menus, that you didn't know about.

      All this is fixable with enough time and minor hackery, but it still requires time and hackery you don't need in Android.
    • I haven't tried an external display. I have a computer for that.
    • Waydroid - the Android emulation - is very slick and quite stable. Integration is quite good: when you install an Android app, it shows up in the UT menu immediately. Sometimes they show up twice: just refresh the menu by pulling down and the extra instance disappears. At least in my extremely well-supported Fairphone 5, there's no issues with access to camera, networking, NFC... But the camera has a quirk: you have to open the native UT camera first, otherwise Android apps won't be able to use the camera for some reason.
    • Sharing files between UT and Android apps isn't a thing natively, but you can download Waydroid helper apps to do that in the Openstore.
    • If you want long-winded Android apps, you have to leave the window open. If you close it, the app stops if it was the only one running in Waydroid.
    • There's a thing called Libertine to run native desktop Linux apps in UT: I find it crashy at best. But it's there.
    • Most important apps like calls, SMS, browsing, emails are handled quite well by native UT apps. Other things like maps are handled by web apps, and while I intensely dislike web apps, I must say they work really well.

    All of this is easy to live with if you're willing and persistent enough. But if you want a phone that Just Works™ like most people do, this won't cut it. That's why I'm saying, Apple and Google have absolutely nothing to fear from Linux phones: most people aren't willing to spend a tenth of the time I'm willing to spend on a quirky phone for the sake of principles.

  • Apple and Google won’t like this... [Free Software Foundation just gave humanity a final shot at salvation by announcing the Librephone] | Fireship [4:10]

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  • As an actual person who owns and operates an actual Linux phone that actually works as one of the best Linux phones you can get (Fairphone 5 running Ubuntu Touch), I can guarantee you that neither Apple nor Google are losing a single second of sleep over this - much as I'd love that they quaked in their monopolistic corporate boots...

  • Taylor Swift, Defender of Artist Ownership, Allegedly Uses AI in Videos

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  • That's because Shitler is obsessed with her, and you hear a lot more about him that you want to also.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    ExtremeDullard @piefed.social

    Flock’s Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening for Human Voices

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2025/10/flocks-gunshot-detection-microphones-will-start-listening-human-voices
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    ExtremeDullard @piefed.social
    Linux

    How to keep avoiding Google when it hamstrings Freetube

  • Finland @sopuli.xyz
    ExtremeDullard @piefed.social

    Can you help me figure out this (minor) mystery?