Yingwu @ Yingwu @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Ouff great call! Then I'll just keep browsing on my phone.

I do a lot of personal surfing on my work computer... But in my country the employer isn't allowed to track what I do on the computer as long as I haven't committed a crime 🤷

The information superhighway as we called this thing way back when. Wikipedia, the Internet Archive, Gutenberg, free MOOCs, shadow libraries and what not are a godsend.

I'm not even convinced that Loops was a good idea to begin with. Yes, sure, always nice to have fediverse alternatives of mainstream apps, but short-form videos like those on Tiktok wouldn't have been successful if not for Tiktoks algorithm which is much, much better than even any of the competition. It's really good at discoverability and being addictive. And Loops doesn't have anything like this (and even if this is good depending on who you ask, it definitely doesn't give Loops an advantage). Who even is the target audience of Loops?

Not really? Always something else beyond the horizon.

At least I'm hoping that there'll still be a spectrum of both BW and color screens available. Apparently many seem to like/prefer colour screen, and the screen door effect and worse contrast doesn't seem to bother a lot of people. Some even prefer the more textured look of the screen door effect, though I don't know myself as I've never tried a colour screen. Either way, I'd be hesitant to try one, and as I kept my Kobo Aura One for like 7 years it'll be quite some time before I upgrade my current Kobo Libra 2. If I have some spare cash I might be inclined to try a colour e-reader as an alternative to my current one, but it's not high on my priority list.

But yeah, it definitely seems that Kobo is pushing their colour screens as they're only selling the Libra in colour now. Might be that they release a B/W once the hype dies out a bit though.

Wow, I just bought it last year before they discontinued it then. Interesting that only colour screens are available now. It must mean that they are at least as good though? Edit: after reading reviews, apparently not... that sucks.

Absurd. Glad I have a Kobo.

Visited Hong Kong for the first time last year. It was great, I really enjoyed it. It also made me want to learn Cantonese after my Mandarin haha.

Yeah, don't misunderstand me. I don't mind them existing, but I don't want to see it. My mistake maybe by browsing all using scaled sort tho, top is usually fine. But I usually just don't browse all, I curate my subscribed comms instead.

Especially with a lot of the content being posted on there is not just nsfw but also super fringe. I feel there's a lot of uncomfortable things being posted, but I might just be sensitive...

I'd like to traverse that stargate for sure

Mbin has better support for microblogs and Mastodon federation than Lemmy. I also prefer the default front-end of Mbin to Lemmy, but Lemmy has better alternative frontends and apps. I think it's great to support Mbin as well.

I do not know about this specific case, but many cracked copies are true false-positives. Only 28/74 flagged it as malicious. Sure, do your due diligence, but in general it'll be picked by antiviruses as malware.

Same here! I never used /r/all on reddit either. Just found places organically and sometimes intentionally.

I try to find communities named after the same subreddit, and I subscribe to trendingcommunities@feddit.nl which I can recommend.

My subscribed communities? Yes, there's a lack of content in general but I'm content by filtering what I'm interested in. I'm not on here all day

I updated the title to reflect that they were being unbanned as of this moment. But if you look at the thread I linked, this was all true a couple hours ago.

Yep, updated the title. Hard to not get conspiratorial though when it affects subs like /r/transgender_surgeries... might be testing the waters.

Until these starts getting used on a broader scale, I'm not convinced these are not schemes to funnel more investment money into their companies. The examples are really short, probably made after I don't know how many attempts, and probably very limited in what poses and/or actions they can show. I'm so tired of the LLM hype in general.