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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redirect to prevent back button⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pop a window open with a your app in it (with the user’s permission) without a back button if you want that.

  A web page should be a document, not an experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redirect to prevent back button⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit has been doing this when I click a result from a Google search (yeah, sometimes you have to)

  It’s fucking annoying and I hope whatever JavaScript trick lets them do this gets blocked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is linux actually gaming ready or is it just not for me?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes because again it’s the mismatched ram sizes and the different clock speeds. IMHO the clock speed issue is way more likely to throw things off than the different stick sizes, although neither are ideal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are people in the stock photos real?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Personware” sounds like Elon’s brain implant plan

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What chemicals and tools do I need to clean my bathroom?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t buy any of those toilet tank tablets. They often will corrode and wear down the tank valve over time, and your toilet will start to run on its own (or could even break).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What chemicals and tools do I need to clean my bathroom?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  White vinegar is good on any wood or porous surface because it’s small enough to get inside and kill the biological things (black mold, etc) while bleach just tends to just clean the surface and evaporate quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do "chest pillows" hurt for women to do?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The thunk and all the silverware and glasses rattling lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intentionally chose an open ecosystem for the smart relays in my house, now they crippled the app adding a $4 subscription⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  HomeAssistant is not cumbersome in the slightest. The only issue is that you have to set it up yourself, so if you do it poorly then it’s cumbersome. People post beautiful dashboards and automation blueprints daily multiple places around the internet.

  Honestly the most mildly infuriating thing is that you have this whole bunch of devices tightly integrated with an easy local solution and you decided to use their cloud app. You never use the cloud app! It’s always a trap. I don’t even use the Nabu Casa cloud stuff from HA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intentionally chose an open ecosystem for the smart relays in my house, now they crippled the app adding a $4 subscription⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My brother in Christ, if you have Shelly why don’t you just run HomeAssistant which controls them locally? www.home-assistant.io/integrations/shelly/

  Why would you ever hand some server on the internet control of your own fucking home?!

  Join us !homeassistant

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨probably my biggest gripe with Lemmy right now. Feels like I'm just stuck in a loop.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t even realize this was a thing already. The apps need to add this ASAP, seems like a pretty vital part of making the experience smooth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between communism and socialism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably important to also include that personal property is not private property. Private property would be means of production such as farms or factories - they are owned by the workers collectively. You still can have a house, a bed, a refrigerator, a TV, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s going good so far 🤞🤞⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy is AGPL. From what I understand, that means anyone running Lemmy (or a fork of Lemmy) needs to make their source code public, even if their code changes are strictly to support their own network infrastructure.

  it really doesn’t matter though, as a corporation only needs to implement an interface to Lemmy via ActivityPub protocols; in other words it they could write a completely closed-source backend to use for profit and as long as it can poop out the correct data structures over ActivityPub to allow Lemmy instances to understand it, it will work.

  This already happens as we can see and subscribe to kbin magazines, and Mastodon users can be @'d and IIRC can reply to comments via Hoot (or whatever they call it). Kinda wild, but it also leaves the door open to literally whoever.

  I think the real interesting question is will a large corporate player be able to maintain a captive userbase? None of the doomsday scenarios play out in their favor unless they can capture users and communities - because then the usefulness of the whole thing rides on their server being available. At that point it’s reddit with more steps - they can do what they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to eat in such a way that you'll never have to fart?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That first guy went 3 days and then posted a follow-up looking for constipation relief.

  Seems that opened the floodgates. 😏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestion: asking for the community's thoughts before defederating with an instance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree

  Ok

  But that should be up to Ruud, not us

  Ok, so you actually don’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americans answer the phone with "Gopher"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And, if you’ve reached Gopher Ted, you might respond with “Go for Gopher Ted”

  Roger, Roger! What’s our vector, Victor?

  Tower to radio clearance, over!

  That’s Clarance Over!

  What? Huh? Who?!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨😷😷🤒⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  psshh Olive Oyl wants her neck back

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reply to an ongoing email conversation land in spam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t moving to out of the spam folder tell it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where do the instances actually reside?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, to put it in a simple one-liner: Instances are servers.

  However you would set up any other server, you set up a Lemmy instance. There is no central datacenter as there would be with a corporate-owned site like Reddit.

  Think of it like a bunch of little messages board sites and they automatically import posts from other message board sites - because that’s exactly what it is.

  While that’s a bit different to navigate than what we are used to, an instance (aka a server) going down or becoming hostile and being defederated only removes that one server from the network.

  It’s similar to how IRC networks function; except with those, the server owners decide what servers they link up with. With Lemmy (and other ActivityPub based services), the users decide (by subscribing). Instance admins can block (“defederate”) other instances though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way I can force my garage open from the outside?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t usually true, as a power-outage could trap a vehicle inside without a manual release. This is usually a little rope hanging from the connecting latch on the motor chain or screw-traveler.

  If there wasn’t a spring to help lift the door open then the manual release would at best do very little to help you open the door, or at worst send it crashing down uncontrollably if you released it while the door was open.

  Trust me, it’s got a spring.