Phantom_Engineer

joined 5 years ago
[–] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago

Look at the bright side: other companies that want to do this will be discouraged by having to pay Microsoft a royalty until the patent expires in 20 years

[–] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 month ago

Three things happened:

  1. RedReader did get a free api key for being accessible for screen readers. All the other third party apps got left in the dust.

  2. The people who were seriously mad came here. Lemmy was still a bit of a ghost town before these protests, and it was around this time that it gained enough traction to be a viable platform imo.

  3. The people that didn't leave got waited out by reddit and went back.

[–] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

It happened to PC games. Sure, Steam will do a big sale twice a year, but you hear about people with massive libraries of games that they've never played and can't get rid of. In ye olden times, they'd be in the game shop used bin.

[–] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Realistically, who would even buy Windows Lite? What advantage would it have over regular Windows AND Linux systems?

[–] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

We can call it transrealism.

[–] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago

Of all the reddit replacements, Lemmy has the most staying power because of its federated nature. It's not dependent on a single source of administration or funding. Voat, for example, went to shit because it ended up full of Nazis that got ran off of reddit and then they ran out of money. While this same fate could potentially befall any individual Lemmy instance, the platform as a whole can react and continue.

[–] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

"Ice? There's never been any ice! Ice is just a myth."

[–] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

It depends on the subject and the style of the test, imo. If it's conceptual, then yeah that's probably enough. If there's problems to be worked out, then it helps to some practice problems imo.

[–] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The idea is you process the food yourself via cooking it at home versus the food being processed at a factory and subjected to the engineering described in the original post: addition of preservatives, excess salt and sugar, etc.

[–] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Gotta stick as much as possible to minimally-processed food when shopping. As a general rule, nearly anything you make yourself is going to be healthier than the processed version sold in the store.

[–] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

Sciatica-ed to death

[–] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think, in the long run, Kirk's legacy will be his assassination and it's contribution to the season of assassination now unfolding. (The two failed Trump assassinations, the UnitedHealth assassination, and now Kirk).

Beyond that, he was an agitator and a grifter. I have the same empathy towards him and the people around him as he had towards school shooting survivors, Palestinians, and etc. It's what he would have wanted.

 

What are the requirements for community icons? I've had a little trouble on another instance getting these to work right, and I keep running into somewhat opaque errors until I ended up hitting the rate limit. Where can I find requirements concerning size, format, shape, and etc?

 
 
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