thebardingreen

joined 2 years ago
[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I do run an instance, but I don't use Cloudflare, so I'm not sure I can be much help.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have an ex whose parents are like that. Voted for Obama twice, I'm sure they voted for Trump three times. They literally moved out of our state (Colorado) because we elected a gay governor (Polis) and my ex's mom was terrified God would punish the state for that.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think you badly misunderstood my take.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

JoA never killed anybody. She just went into battle. Many people also believe Saint Patrick committed genocide against the druids in Ireland, but this is an historical myth, originating from the speculation of Elizabethan era scholars. The actual historical record only supports him preaching in Ireland, not being violent (plenty of the people who listened to him were THEN violent).

However, there are a bunch of saints who led armies (or were just soldiers) during the crusades, at least one saint who was a Viking leader who then converted and helped to (violently) Christianize the Nordic countries (Saint Olaf of Norway), and Saint Peter of Verona was an inquisitor who zealously hunted heretics in Northern Italy in the 1200s (very likely ALSO a torturer in addition to a murderer).

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Bitching about the woke feminist agenda in 3... 2... 1...

Fun fact: if you think that ppl sticking to old designs is silly, Panasonic has a whole $$ niche in Japan selling modern-internal, vintage-external laptops with DVD drives and old-style keyboards. https://old.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/v0t06p literally has both a VGA and a thunderbolt lol

Just in Japan?? I'll buy one of these right now!

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 107 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)

I love the Lemmy UI.

But I'm a gen Xer.

There's some great analysis floating around of how different generations actually interpret UIs (and make decisions about how or whether to engage with them) very differently. So there is no "one size fits all" that will make everybody happy. Change the Lemmy UI to something like Photon and I'd be like... "this is dumb." Making a bunch of very different options is a lot of work. If you want to do it... no one is stopping you. The Lemmy project is opensource and you could go start contributing and making pull requests today. You could go run your own instance and make it look like whatever you want and get the average redditors to join that. I run my own instance. We have a whole two users. It works exactly the way I want it to and federates with exactly who I want it to.

Frankly, I'm not sure Lemmy needs to go out of it's way to appeal to the average redditor in order to have a thriving, healthy community. Sure, there are some things I miss about having a giant user base to engage with, but honestly, I'll trade them for the MUCH MUCH lower toxicity. I don't know that "growing Lemmy" should be our focus. It's not like we're getting paid.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Additionally, the FBI is exploring the possibility that these flying objects might be linked to extraterrestrial beings, with some theorists suggesting that the intention could be to manipulate or disrupt global electronic systems.

...wut?

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You wouldn't download a car.

In the first Witcher game, you fight a god from the Cthulu mythos (Dagon) on like a side quest, and he's not even that tough.

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