ALostInquirer

This guy thinks he can’t be arrested because he saw her having sex with her husband!?!

Wouldn't you enjoy the new legal precedent of Consensual Voyeur Immunity?

But at the end of the day, I think lemmy is architected wrong. It relies on people spending a lot on hosting, which I really don’t think it’s sustainable, and it is also confusing for users, which is going to reduce adoption.

Have you considered that while those may be genuine technical issues, addressing those alone won't in turn help much in building good communities? Imo one of the common problems across all social media is that a lot of smart, capable folks build their backend systems but neglect to bring on community relations teams (or in the context of entire platforms, community governance teams, maybe?) that coordinate with the people that use those systems.

Probably the big reason for this is that thus far large social media platforms have been built with a corporate mindset, and so the people aren't viewed as people, but an audience for adverts, subscriptions, products, etc. Lemmy has a different yet similar issue insofar as technically capable folks building backend systems, but they don't (nor others deploying their tech) have the resources to bring on any additional community-facing help to then coordinate and collaborate with people in governing their spaces.

That and an increase in size for religions that believe in reincarnation [...]

Would reincarnation alone still really be a religious element at that point, given that it may just be a natural phenomena?

Thanks! Something's certainly better than nothing!

Speaking of, would anyone happen to know where one may buy digital movies/tv shows without DRM? Up to now I've opted to simply buy DVDs/blurays and rip them, but if there's a more straightforward digital option without DRM, I'd be all for that.

dishonors the previous selections from previous presidents.

To what degree should prior selections be honored/respected if the presidents in question won under questionable circumstances, e.g. George W. Bush's election in 2000 and the stopping of the Florida recount, or Donald J. Trump's election in 2016 after his call for foreign interference, alongside James Comey reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton just before the election?

They do reportedly sell them at a loss and compensate via software sales and these days more than ever, subscriptions. Ads are just icing on the cake for them, I imagine, compared to the software sales & subscription revenues.

It’s absolutely bonkers for Microsoft to even consider that paying $99 or $199 for their ad ridden software is fair and reasonable.

Have you seen their Xboxes? Somehow they get by with charging even more for those with more blatant ads and they charge you to play online multiplayer.

I like your description, it gives me a fun image of a phablet case with a soft big butt on the back like some mousepads with wrist cushions

100% imagining this as wearing a finger extension to help

I had to stop handling my phone this way 'cause it felt like that may have been happening, but not quickly enough to mitigate the general discomfort.

That's right on the edge of larger to me looking at the dimensions. It's not super comfortable but not as bad as the Max might be imo. I can say that without having one as I currently have a phone around the same dimensions and it's workable but I'd honestly like it somewhat smaller (both in length/width).

Tbh I feel like the iPod Touch (6th/7th gen I think) is right around the sweet spot in terms of dimensions for me personally, albeit I suspect those probably suck for folks with larger hands.