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haverholm @ haverholm @kbin.earth
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Why aren't all rooms holodecks?

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  • a Star Trek future where things have advanced so far that it would appear to someone like Picard like he and the Enterprise appeared to the Mintakans.

    This was my major gripe with the 900+ year jump in Disco. The premise of TOS is that 300 years from now, we have developed warp speed, transporters and evolved past scarcity.

    In the 32nd Century of Discovery... looks like shoulder pads are back? 🤷

    • Goodbye K-9 Mail: A so-long to the community

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  • For now, Thunderbird intend to keep K-9 development going "for a year or two", but yeah. For now I'm still getting updates to K-9, let's see what happens after that.

    • Goodbye K-9 Mail: A so-long to the community

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  • Still is, it's developed in tandem with Thunderbird Android 🙂 This is just one developer's fond farewell.

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  • I genuinely can't tell if that's intended as a comment, or if it's something you need to have looked at 🤷

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  • There's an icon request on Font Awesome's github, go give it a vote/thumbs up! 🙂

    (edit: first posted link was a duplicate request, it has been changed to the recommended one)

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  • all the militaristic language

    All of those two examples you cherrypicked?

    You have demonstrated your reading retention abilities already, just jog on as suggested 🤝

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  • TFW to skandinaver sidder og skriver engelsk med hinanden online. Dansker bosat i Sverige her 🤝

    But to continue in the lingua franca, yes — Runes are unfortunately appropriated by Nazis. I asked without thinking about that connotation, because I generally try not to give those troglodytes too much thought.

    On the other hand, are we absolutely sure there isn't some kind of occult baggage to the asterism as well? I'm fairly certain Aleister Crowley used one constellation of asterisks or other in his writings... Just putting it out here in case the potentially satanic implications of a pentagram logo really did motivate the asterism campaign 😄

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  • If you want to be taken seriously, or at least get a constructive reply — don't open with "If you want to be taken seriously". It reads really condescending, and I'm going to have to assume that's your intention.

    So here goes:

    Assume that even if you don't immediately understand the context, one probably exists outside your frame of reference. If the post catches your interest, look up that context. Otherwise, move along.

    Don't expect other users on a discussion board to take you to by the hand and explain the circumstances leading up to this point in history. If you do, please don't act like you're the keeper of the style guide (see preamble).

    For full clarity, I did not post this for you as a bumper introduction to the backs and forths of the Fediverse symbol feuds, but to signal for those already in the know that the frontline is shifting.

    TL;DR — this wasn't for you, don't demand that it be customised to your measures.

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  • See, there's a typographic argument I can get behind. Having worked as a magazine layouter and kerning pincher, horizontal alignment is a very valid point.

    As for handwriting, that's barely an issue since we're talking online text, but let's go: Is an asterism easier to write by hand? Not really, you have to squeeze in three asterisks in the height of one line. They'll likely render as blobs. Could you draw a star easier and faster? I think so.

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  • it fits the metaphor

    Does it though? If the stars are nodes, how are you going to illustrate a (federated) network with less than four points? The pentagram does that more clearly.

    Just riffing off your username — sorry if that's uncalled for — isn't there a good Runic character that fits the same purpose? AFAIK those have a Unicode subset?

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  • Yeah, but the asterism is hardly readable at small sizes either. The solution would be to have the rainbowgram included in Unicode standards, but clearly somebody preferred a triangle of anuses over a widely adopted existing symbol 🙄

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  • It's a typographical symbol consisting of three asterisks ⁂ — it has literally and visually nothing to do with the fediverse, except some fickle worrywarts campaigned for it to replace the rainbow pentagram a while back.

    And it needs to get in the sea.

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  • Hell to the yes. 🔥

    • How to get people to use Mastodon?

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  • Just the sheer percentages of Software User Distribution by MAU on FediDb contradict your assertions about what "people" focus on.

    Currently, Lemmy is at 3.05% vs Mastodon 56.85%.

    All of those other platforms you try to throw into the discussion are beside the point. Nice try though.

    • How to get people to use Mastodon?

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  • That went hard from "people I know" to people, period. I'm decidedly non-celebrity, but I use Mastodon as well as Lemmy Mbin 🤷

    You'd have to live under a rock (or not bother looking up publicly available stats) to claim that your experience reflects general usage.

    • William Shatner Confirms Talks for Star Trek Return at 93 Years Old

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    • [Answered] Most customizable desktop environment?

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  • The most customizable DE will always be "any WM" 😄

    • Tinder-alternatives for the Fediverse

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  • like, on matrix or something 😄

    • Tinder-alternatives for the Fediverse

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  • Yep, "she" sent me identical, unsolicited messages from three different profiles. Seems it got stamped out though.

    • Started trying out TinyBit Launcher and have been enjoying it a lot!

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  • Interesting! I used KISS exclusively for years, and only changed because it broke on my latest phone. Maybe it's time to try it again.

    I will say, I didn't have an issue with KISS' widget handling, but more with how few modern apps actually offer widgets...