They're blaming all of Lemmy for 1 particular server's issues. Maybe a stability tracker of some sort to go with the 'total users' metric in the instance list would solve that?
Okay, first thing: Lemmy is Federated. This means you don't need new logins. See a community on a different server? So long as the server it is on hasn't been defederated you can read, vote, post and comment just fine on it. For example, I'm not on this server.
The only time you would need more than one login is if you wanted separate accounts. Whether they are on different servers or not doesn't matter so long as they are all on the same Federation/web of connected servers.
Second, complaining about Social Media issues on a SM platform is pointless. The people that aren't problems won't care, and the people that are will just feed on it and use it against you. Don't like the thundering shithole that is all Social Media anymore? By all means, leave. I absolutely understand and agree with the sentiment. Maintain your mental health for your good and those you interact with IRL.
No, this wasn't "making an honest mistake". This was having complete ignorance of the subject matter and letting that slip in the first sentence. If you were blogging about mathematical concepts solely as your product niche then absolutely yes you should have a Math degree.
This is "didn't actually read the book" levels of book reporting, and you're defending it. Good job mate. Keep striving for the enstupidification of humankind.
No, they basically replaced a WIFI Router antenna with a TV IR Remote (with all the issues they have) and said 'teh new hotness!'. Fibre optics uses light too, but, the wire is designed to unimpede the signal.
You know this whole post is doing absolute wonders for demonstrating exactly how reliable this particular Community apparently is. Seriously, posters linking articles with blatant ignorance of the subject matter, defending that choice (and their choice to link it demonstrating their lack of knowledge on the subject matter too), getting crazy up-votes from people who obviously don't know any better and then your comment of 'muh, Science vs Technology is an arbitrary distinction and totally not something where both rely on each other intimately'.
[Slow clap] thanks guys. Good to know if I ever need to cite how unreliable this community actually is I'll forever have this exquisite reference.
Nah, there are many news sites that post corrections. This one was just so blatantly egregious that they had to put a stop to it before their entire corporation became a laughing stock. This isn't just a 'news site'. It is a Technology News Site. They had one job and they f'd it up. They shouldn't even be hiring writers without a science degree let alone one that flunked highschool science.
Light is almost certainly the fastest thing around. So it makes sense that "light-based wireless communications," or LiFi, could blow the theoretical doors off existing radio-wave wireless standards, to the tune of a maximum 224GB per second. [Edit, 2:40 p.m.: It does not make sense, and those doors would remain on each rhetorical vehicle. As pointed out by commenters, radio waves, in a vacuum, would reasonably be expected to travel at the same speed as light. Ars, but moreso the author personally, regrets the error. Original post continues.]
JFC is this really where you want to get your technology data from? Authors that clearly have no grasp of even the basest fundamentals in the physics involved? Really?
The reason is that the assumption 'no other light sources aside from the screen' is almost impossible to control for. You'd have to be in a room with no daylight coming in and zero other blue light sources emitting from say a smartphone, clock readout, artificial lighting for the room and/or any of its appliances.
Even accepting this ridiculous decision to rule 'all other sources of light out of scope' then the obvious only possible answer is that THE SCREEN EMITS BLUE LIGHT OUTSIDE THE CONTROL OF SOFTWARE COLOUR SETTINGS.
For example, LCD screens use a white light bulb to light up a screen of LCD pixels. This white light leaks. It's why LCD screens have lower contrast (black looks dark grey).
No. You 'can' log in to each individual server if you want, but, because Lemmy is Federated you don't need to. Pick a home-base and you can interact with all the others (that aren't defederated). (Edit: tip - choose an instance that shares your interests for your home-base. It may make things more comfortable for you in the future.)
In practice, this means instead of clicking another instance you just Search:All and subscribe to what ever Lemmy communities you're interested in. Annoyingly this can mean duplicate communities (think r/cute, r/aww, r/pics, r/pictures, r/awwnopitbulls, r/awwcute....) but this downside is easily tolerated. Post and comment on other federated communities as you wish.
The ways to force a refund on a preorder are much reduced over that of straight purchasing the game after release. Pay by Credit Card too far in advance? Request declined. And, considering you already proved most my assumptions correct (namely 'lack of impulse control', and 'muh, my money my right to be a bitch') already I'll add another one. You won't refund a bad product even with the only assured window you get (the small warrantee period you get from things like Steam ie: 2hours) for 2 reasons: 1) you're a sucker for the BS appeals to patience and tolerance that marketing always puts out when there are 'unforseen, lul, issues with development', and 2) you're so starved for anything to distract you from your miserable life you'll accept getting your feces pushed in by game companies for the meagre hits of dopamine you get from your pre-purchase rewards.
Here's the deal: your life is already so bad I'll give you permission to make the selfish, impulsive purchase decision only because I'd rather you ruin the game industry than take out your issues on real people in your life (if you have any left).
Nobody, not once, has said 'it is not your choice'. This always gets brought up like that's what the argument is. Make the stupid choice all you want. Be our guest. What we're saying is "if you pre-order this game, you have zero right to: complain about its content for ANY reason, bitch about release delays, or complain about the constant degradation in release quality of ALL games (because like it or not you're the reason why this happens)". Thing is you won't though will you? You'll be first to give a bad review saying 'I got early access and the quality is garbage!'.
Let me guess though, you'll be like "muh, my money, my right to complain about what I want" because taking responsibility for the inevitable consequences of ones actions is for people with actual impulse-control.
The Baldur's Gate series has some roleplaying involved in that while the story is fairly scripted your characters behaviour affects the outcomes of various events (with some unique trees branching off). Additionally, the more your actions diverge from the team's alignments the greater the odds members will outright leave.
It's not perfect, but you really won't get that from any game without multiplayer involvement. In the end almost all roleplaying in electronic games can be boiled down to simply making multiple-choice decisions that result in a predictable chain of consequences/output.
Mass Effect is similar to Baldur's Gate in this respect though much more dialogue driven. Fallout Series is another that you might like too.
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They're blaming all of Lemmy for 1 particular server's issues. Maybe a stability tracker of some sort to go with the 'total users' metric in the instance list would solve that?