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  • Ah, bummer. Some of the other EVS are obviously designed to be disposable (or at least not third-party serviceable), which I don't feel is exactly a win for the environment.

  • You've just made the Chevy Bolt seem far more interesting to me.

  • TL;DR: It's the only symphonic march. Loads of brass chord progressions.

    Because Jerry Goldsmith did a great orchestral arrangement riffing on the old sci-fi 60s style theme. He made it very grand with Symphonic March style and the layered horn/trumpet progressions. It is a revision of what he had previously written for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which might also be part of why it's a March. So, if we look at the styles of a bunch of the the themes:

    • TOS: fast 60s vocal arrangement
    • TNG: symphonic march with cascading brass/french horn progressions
    • DS9: Slower non-march style of symphonic theme
    • VOY: Slower grand/inspiring symphonic theme
    • ENT: Well, it's a pop song.
    • DISC: Very moody/pensive slow start, growing slowly to a note of inspiration.
    • PIC: Similar to DISC with a very slow/moody start. Lots of melancholy layering.
    • SNW: Almost between a march and mini overture in feel, but without all those cascading horn progressions that TNG had.

    :)

  • /ɑrs/

    I have never heard an American say /ɑrs/ for any reason if the were not hanging around with Brits or referring to/imitating some British thing.

  • That's really nice, and we'll get there some day for everyone.

  • This is why EVs remain a poor choice for people who drive long distances regularly.

  • Yes, money is usually the answer.

  • ...and also, such intensely fast charging might shorten the lifespan of the battery considerably? This is an impressive engineering feat, but most ICE cars get half that range per fill-up. Targeting that level with rapid recharge might be more realistic to make practical, and would still be a huge step forward in practicality for a lot of non-urban drivers.

  • Yes, we need something like this. Like the equivalent to an opml file for rss readers, just with our community lists.

    EDIT I just saw this, so it could offer one way to back up your subscribed communities list, in case you need to take it to a new instance: https://lemmy.ml/post/1870958

  • Well, I completely ignored karma on Reddit for around a decade, until a friend one day pointed my huge karma out to me in a very enthusiastic way. I believe I will also ignore it here.

  • Windows has a command prompt, and you can even install a Linux shell on it and use that if you need/want to these days. Windows Subsystem for Linux.

  • EDIT I was wrong! Lemmy does have karma, even listed in the API, though for some reason it doesn't show this to you itself. So, those of us just using Lemmy directly have been under the mistaken idea that it didn't do it, and those using third party apps are seeing it: https://lemmy.world/post/1250922?scrollToComments=true

    ~~That's interesting, because on the Lemmy website, there is no total upvotes number visible. It only shows the total number of posts and total number of comments. It then shows the list of posts and comments, and you can see the scores for each, but there's no total. Memmy must be calculating this itself. This seems to be something third party app developers are adding which is not present in actual Lemmy itself, in order to try to replicate Reddit Karma somewhat.

    As Lemmy works itself: On Reddit, in addition to your posts and comments having visible scores, your username also has an aggregate score, which Lemmy does not have. At least, when I go to your profile, I can see the scores for your posts and comments, but I cannot see any aggregate score for you as a user. That's what Reddit Karma is. I don't know what black magic formula Reddit calculates it from, as old Reddit and new Reddit show different Karma numbers for the same user, but whatever algorithm they use, it's an overall user score that Lemmy does not have (so far, at least). ~~

  • No, it definitely sucks, because although I have a lot of IRL ppl using it, I get literally 20 advertisement posts in a row in between posts from my IRL people. It it absolutely hideous. It frequently just... breaks and refuses to load my news feed, or it will suddenly load 5-10 advertisement fake posts as I am scrolling down the feed, making a sudden huge jump up or down the page, and meaning I must scroll a ton to find the post from a real human that I had just started to look at. Half the time, I only find out about something because someone IRL tells me "did you see X that so-and-so posted?" and I go specifically to their profile page and then see it. I think they keep making their website worse on purpose to drive more people to their apps, and I am simply not installing such a data syphon for Meta onto my phone.

  • Couldn't a person just make the decision not to follow anything from Threads, though?

  • That was a great little mp3 app. It worked better on a low-resource, low-memory system than all the competition at the time (late 1990s). This is instead referring to the chat protocol that Google Talk ran on. It was formerly called Jabber.

  • FreshRSS already has web scraping abilities, and can grab the entire story for truncated feeds almost all of the time, if you add the css container class to the settings for the feed. What does Morss do beyond this?

    EDIT After looking, it seems as if it does save the step of looking to see what the CSS class is. But I don't like the fact that all my RSS feeds then go through and are dependent on one single third party. Seems to somewhat defeat the point of self hosting. I'll just stick with FreshRSS alone.

    EDIT AGAIN I see now that it is open source, but I still don't see value beyond what FreshRSS can already do.