DannyMac @ DannyMac @lemmy.world

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I keep bouncing between the two. It's great to have options!

I hope not. I remember a time in which you needed to know something in order to enjoy the Internet and I kinda hope this place remains less approachable by normies, but attractive to those who love technology. I feel this is like how IRC was in the 90s.

Wait... FB/Meta is going to create instances? Somehow I missed this news and I'll be trying to look this up after by post.

Anyway, yes they should not be allowed. They have a vested interest to destroy the Fediverse. How would they do this? Well, Microsoft has pioneered this strategy known as Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish. It's much harder to apply these things to opensource, but we've all seen how much Microsoft has been Embracing Linux in the past 6-7 years.

Could have been worse: "I'm turning 18 this year. My mom is gen-Z."

We have a few years before we see that post.

I wish you the best in your future endeavors.

I'm hoping it won't. I've had discussions with my friends from the earlier days of the Internet. The Internet was a much nicer place when you didn't have everyone and their grandma on it. You actually had to be tech literate to use it. This resulted in higher quality interactions and content. You still had undesirable groups and places, but they were sectioned off to their own corner. Now, social media and its algorithms give everyone a soapbox. I'd rather they stay off my fediverse lawn.

I liked my Brother, but they have some tricks they pull. For one, when I got my Brother box duplex monochrome laser printer, it had just printed a fantastic looking page and then it stopped and declared it was out of toner. I turns out, there's an option in the settings that is enabled by default to stop it from printing when it feels the toner is out. Anyway, I then ordered some aftermarket toner and the printer was fucked since. I'm not sure what happened, but the print quality went to crap. I'm guessing I'd need to buy a new drum kit or something, but for what I paid for it, I gave up on it and threw it out. I've not had a printer since. Occasionally, I wish I had a printer, but nowadays, you can get by without one fairly easily. I may purchase another Brother at some point, but it's low on my list of things to get.

EDIT: I also forgot to mention that Brother label printers are annoying. I'm not sure if they own stock in battery companies, but if you let them sit with a battery in them, it will be fully depleted by the next time you'll want to use it. I feel the engineers secretly offered a way to stop this without alerting upper management by leaving a void in the battery/media chamber with enough room to store a battery that you can pop out to disconnect the circuit and store the battery inside the unit. Also, they are overly generous with the margins for the labels by giving them like an inch on each side. Instead of a label printing out like [ TEST ], it prints out like [ TEST ]. Such horseshit!

idk, but for Lemmy/kbin/mastodon to be successful, it needs good word-of-mouth advertising. I didn't end up on reddit because of an ad I saw somewhere.

On his planet, it's called High-Fructose Infant Raymonds.

Which is why I love this post! Makes me want to play conkers and fight my teacher again.

Huh, it's almost like for-profit insurance companies shouldn't be a thing...

I tried to enable it and it didn't work... Luckily, I'm not locked out and was able to disable it.

It's absurdist humor.

I wonder why the author didn't want to make lif?

I'm guessing these are weird stock photos?