Seems about the same?

Agreed, most of the characters in the book are so flat, and only do things because the plot needed them to do that thing.

The Netflix series managed to make the character’s motivations seem more believable which I appreciated.

I just wish Signal had better history and backup features.

Well, to quote a classic film:

“Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.”

New Coke was the 80s, not 70s — they actually briefly brought it back as part of a Stranger Things tie-in. Super interesting to actually taste it.

I miss AskScienceFiction; it was always fun reading those in-universe answers.

There’s one here on LemmyWorld, but it’s pretty dead: !AskScienceFiction@lemmy.world

IIRC, my dad bought progressives from Zenni and said they were as good as the ones he got from an optician.

I think so, I believe you can open them in Books via the Files app on iOS.

Depends on the platform.

If you’re on an Apple device at least, the built-in Books app works great for reading ePub files.

The problem typically isn’t that the community doesn’t exist – the problem is that it does exist but is empty or mostly empty.

In short, open source APIs for everything.

1. Open up Facebook Messenger to Matrix, allowing interoperability with all Matrix clients
2. Open up Facebook/Instagram to ActivityPub, allowing for third party clients
3. Remove account gates for public Facebook/Instagram pages
4. RSS feeds for public Facebook/Instagram pages

If Lemmy ends up with enough interesting content that it supplants Reddit as a source for vapid YouTube channels’ content, I see that as a win for Lemmy.