If the other one is a guess, Tahoma is another strong possibility.

Ugh, damn post title. I went through the whole article looking for the alternatives before realizing the title of the article says nothing about alternatives.

That doesn’t change the issue here.

Keep in mind the best answer is still the size. The rest is my opinion.

Besides the obvious size difference already discussed, the biggest causes of Lemmy feeling like a ghost town, are the splitting up of communities, both by instance and by niche, and the lack of common defaults across instances.

The first split is inherent to the design but could be solved (I think I saw a proposal for aggregating like communities from different instances that aren’t defederated), but I don’t know what the interest level is.

I feel like the second is a mental issue for everyone coming from the likes of Reddit. With the number of people here and the amount of activity you’d see, people should be much more forgiving of “off topic” posts in any given community. I’m guilty of it too, so this isn’t meant to be a slight. But the answer to someone asking what community they should post in for some niche topic shouldn’t be “create one”. It should be “post in a popular related community, they’ll be fine with it”. I could go on about the nuances, but hopefully my point is clear: hardly any communities (if any) on Lemmy are big and active enough at this point to warrant gatekeeping to keep the noise level down.

The last one would be easier if there was a solution to the first one, but having five or six communities that everyone who joins Lemmy is subscribed to by default would go a long way to making this place feel busier.

The “person” is probably the god Isis (often pronounced EE-sis) with wings.

Edit: nevermind, didn’t see the other response linking info about it.

Yes, I mean tab stops set to two spaces.

2 spaces is pretty common in JavaScript… And I think I remember it being pretty standard in HTML way back when. Screens used to be smaller, with low resolution. 4 spaces was a luxury.

Isn’t 2 spaces the standard in Ruby? I don’t use it, but I’ve heard such things.

The byline of the article you posted is “Americans see a role for AI in some areas of society” and it clearly states “a majority is open to letting AI assist them with day-to-day tasks and activities”.

Being “afraid” of it isn’t the same as not using it.

“Normies” don’t default to pro AI [emphasis mine]

That’s a pretty significant distinction there. People are using AI even if they’re not “paying” (directly) for pro versions.

A lot of people are using AI in ways they don’t realize as well. Like the click through rate on Google search results is terrible now since people are just reading the AI generated summary and moving on (Study Confirms Google AI Overviews Cut Organic Clicks 38% https://share.google/8gllKLbbC0Onygqvz).

Other people eat up and share AI slop articles, videos and photos without even batting an eye. I ask them if they’ve thought about whether it’s real or not. Nope. I point out its AI slop. “oh, that sucks. But it’s still hilarious/cool/fascinating/etc.”

I know several people who don’t even think twice about using free AI directly. Need to translate something? Copilot. Need to write an email? Copilot. Need to post something to instagram? Copilot (for text, not the photos - as far as I know.)

Will they pay for it? No. Will they say they’re worried about AI? Yup. Do they connect what they’re doing to the issue? Nope.

If you only pay attention to the prevailing winds here on Lemmy, your view of the world will be very skewed.

Seems like a “win-win” for the power companies to me. Not sure what your problem is.

Back in the day we used postscript and by extension, Ghostscript, for making PDFs. I wonder if that’s still a thing.

Theatres hate it when OP takes a seat.

Does a thing like crowd-sourcing ram work?

No.

Is it a thing?

No.

This would probably be the symptoms though, yeah?

No.

You seem very confused about what RAM is and what’s happening here. You seem to think that RAM is something you make on your computer. It’s a physical part of your computer that you load information into.

Imagine you’re sitting at a desk in an office. The desk has little shelves where you can put documents you’re working on. You can only put a small number of files there. The office has filing cabinets where other files are kept that you’re not working on. You can store a lot in there but it takes time to go find it. You also have some special filing cabinets that are still slow but you only use it to store files temporarily that someone brings you from another office, or when you run out of space on your desk but still need to keep files handy.

In this analogy, the shelves on the desk is RAM. You only put the stuff you’re immediately working on in those shelves because of the limited space, but it’s really fast to find stuff compared to the filling cabinets, which are your hard drive. When you go on a website, like YouTube, you’re calling someone in an office in another building and asking them for some files. They send over a bunch of files, which takes a really long time. You put a much as possible in your desk shelves to use right now, but anything that doesn’t fit you put in one of those special filing cabinets, which will call the cache, which is slow, but not nearly as slow as waiting for the files to come from the other office. When you’re ready for the extra files from YouTube, you just grab them from the cache.

What’s happening in this problem with youtube is that you request the files from them, they send them over, along with instructions on how to use them. The instructions say something that requires putting a bunch of things in RAM. At first this is normal. But at some point the instructions start repeating and tell you to put more and more files into RAM, maybe even repeats of files you already have there, shouldn’t need again. But you just follow instructions, that’s your job. So you keep loading things into RAM, but then there’s no room left and your system falls apart and you can no longer do any work. Until you close youtube and chuck all the youtube files out of RAM.

Hopefully that makes it clear why you can’t outsource RAM. Essentially you would be putting your little desk shelves in a different office, but we already have a better solution than that: the cache or special local filing cabinet on your hard drive.

What we outsource normally is the hard drive (filing cabinets) and call it cloud storage (for example), and the creation and processing of information (done by the CPU, GPU, or other chips on your computer) and call it cloud computing (for example). That’s because those things are slow, and the extra time to move the files between offices isn’t necessarily the bottleneck.

This deserves a post in YouTubeClassics

I’d tell ya, but then I’d have to kill this account.

Yeah, fair. I was thinking “produce more” in general, too.

Maybe if Trump’s tariffs hadn’t driven steel prices up so much, the USA would be able to produce more.

https://smokinggun.org/trumps-tariffs-are-driving-up-ammunition-prices/

Stand up maths (Matt Parker) did a video on this bug I think.

I can’t tell what the latest update is when glancing at this page.

Exactly. You never get what you want, but you certainly get whatever crap you see.

Personally I feel like they’re generally pretty good at WYSIWYG. What they’re bad at is WYSIWYW (What You See Is What You Want).

After I do a bunch of work in Word and I have a bunch of garbage, when I load that file back I still have the same garbage. If I print it, I get the same garbage. So yeah, I get what I see.

Is that what I want? No, I want not-garbage.

Anyone remember WordPerfect coming out with “reveal codes” and allowing you to basically edit the markup and fix the issues?