Mods should be joining in on the celebration instead, in particular unpaid / community ones like Reddi’s.

Could be wrong, or just more domain-specific, bu my experience is people don’t complain that the video is 15-30 minutes long, is that it’s a video (and that long) when the information could have been more succintly and practically displayed in a text tutorial or a blog format. Basically “this could have been an e-mail”.

Not to mention that way people avoid having to go to YT which is yet another cesspit community-wise.

You are right that people have shorter attention spans ofc, but then again when it comes to tackling it it’s largely an issue of medium: in the world of coding you can convey easily copyable or testable instructions in text format maybe with attachments, that can be verified in up to 60 seconds… or you could post a 30 minutes long video plus ads. Why would anyone expect the Fediverse, with the kind of people who are naturally attracted to it, to prefer the latter, no idea.

You don’t understand why or how platforms like these got made, don’t you?

If enough people came in to “put them in their place”, the way you describe, this place would basically become Threads (or Twitter) anyway.

This post is actually so stupid, they didn’t take shit from us, it’s still right there.

It’s not. it’s quite visibly not there.

USB-A/B is very outdated.

I take it you are offering to provide me with the adapters needed for all my USB-A devices, and my square-USB printers, for free? Because your mouth certainly runs well oiled.

USB-C can be used to deliver audio, video, ethernet connection, etc. You didn’t lose any functionality. Worst case scenario you’d need a hub for the card readers or a usb to usb-c adapter, or ethernet to usb-c.

Worst case scenario is if you have one sole USB-C connector and it breaks or is damaged. You’d lose all the eggs you had in one basket, whereas with separate adequate connectors you’d at least get to keep some workflow.

I think you mean a Ethernet to USB-C cable?

In any case, I already have the bad experience of Ethernet to USB-A cables not working, and not being able to know if they need some sort of driver. Not even on Linux, which is weird enough for me to temporarily give up on them and prefer built-in to bolt-in for something that’s so important.

To be fair, if I was going for a laptop I defo wouldn’t be doing this so-called “aaa” gaming. The good quality games are the oldies, the NES, SNES era, the CPS arcades. Those run well emulated on a decently-sized potato.

The PITA is that I use RJ45 pretty much every day. It’s not just a matter of “oh there’s wifi everywhere”; 99% of wifis everywhere are not open, or are actually not connected to the networks I’m working on, or I need the physical connector to diagnose wire / networking issues; and the performance of wifi on Linux on refurbrished machines tends to be subpar and they tend to not allow for “developer mode” options (playing with your MAC, WPA supplanting, etc).

If Tesla, the actual Tesla, had given us technology instead of the thief Elon Edison, then perhaps we’d somehow have point-to-point wireless RJ45 that would function everywhere, and I wouldn’t need the connector.

At least those are still here in my country, so yeah. Might be an option.

Yeah, but it feels like they’re mostly worth it. Like, if there was ever a reason to get into the world of international smuggling, those machines would be The good justification.

Or just a little dongle with both of these ports which can be plugged in on any usb-c on any side?

Dongles break, slide off, cause disconnects, can cause internal damage to the connector if the cables you have to connect are heavy, etc…, I already have the bad experience of having to use a USB hub to attach storage.

When it comes to engineering, I’m of the opinion that built-in > bolt in.

I’ve been thinking about it, the main issue is how to get it shipped to my country in a way that I don’t end up paying about 4 times the cost of an already expensive machine.

8.8 inches (22 cm for civilized folks)

would have to basically “chinese man squinting meme” at any serious work

no function key row

no physical navigation keys

not even the physical keys for braces

Fam, thanks but am looking for daily driving some sort of laptop, not a glorified smartphone.

As someone who daily drives a laptop for work and does field work on server facilities, finding a modern replacement that has both a RJ45 port and square USB (USB-A?) ports available on both sides, has been a pain in the hassle.

And I’m not even crying over the loss of VGA any longer. That one I can live without.

Their faces omg!!! The void unveils its hunger!

I’ve had cats on churu before. I’ve gone on record on how Churu is basically like fentanyl for them.

But without comments, there’s no “why” anything is good or bad.

Strong truth. But then again, the UX for this is relatively as reduced as the standard usecases allow; if the user can’t bother to click on “reply”, post even a “good.” then click send… come on man, we’re asking for literally two clicks and five keystrokes… if people can’t even do that yet they interact for hours on end on TikTok, then perhaps the problem is not lemmy.

the cats

The voids whence the content shall come!

I see your response here, read it, like it and then think: “Yes I agree, nothing to add”. So I don’t respond, which makes it feel pretty quiet.

On the one hand, upvotes are there. On the other, they’re not really the right took for the job, Lemmy (and the Fediverse in general) needs some sort of “same” / “mood” / “this tbh” tag.

I really love community-driven social media like Reddit. Lemmy feels… too small. I really loved that Reddit let me jump into any niche hobby, and instantly I had a community.

Please note: you only ever had something like that with Reddit when it had already several years of operation. Even today, you can’t jump instantly and find there a community for any niche hobby.

As with all these things: be the change you want to see. Add content, or else it won’t be there when you or someone else comes in.

(There’s also a feel that Lemmy is “small” becaue it’s not only one place and all that)

the Fediverse may be missing a clear, cohesive narrative.

I think this is because it’s not a clear, cohesive place. Developers keep trying to make it look like centralized social media, but I don’t think that’s going to work in the end; it certainly isn’t working now.

So true. It’s impressive and laugh-inducing to me how complainers seem to demand from the Fediverse something that you can’t even get from GRR Martin. And to be intellectually honest, you are not getting it from Facebook Twitter etc because the “narrative” there is a fabrication a fiction. There’s no real thing that has to be coherent there other than branding and fascism.

Thanks for the reminder, there’s a fake-it-till-you-make-it already, as a Firefox extension.