Can we sync on that real quick? I think we can ideate on some quick wins for your allergy that’ll get you unblocked.

Damn great username btw 👌

Mine is that, except they DON’T complain. Like when someone is showing me a YouTube video on their device and an ad shows up 30 seconds in… I lunge for the mute button while I scan the room for a blanket, clipboard, or other item to shield us, yelling “AVERT YOUR EYES!!” but next to all of my commotion, they’re just nodding along placidly like “Oh Coinbase, interesting.”

Like… Aren’t you affronted that some company paid another company to make it less convenient to do the thing you’re trying to do?! Does the gaudy, pushy tone change to too-loud propaganda designed to coax you away from your money not gall you?!

“Idk sometimes the ads are interesting. Free month sounds good.”

Jesus christ he’s too far gone.

No podium finish for them :(

Hell yeah monetized validation! 🤲

I believe it predates Lemmy and isn’t particularly associated with it. I would endorse adopting it either formally or informally, though.

Have an updoot anyway, for good vibes.

Oh, got it-- thanks :)

How is it open source?

3.5 is still reasonably useful for the same reasons you described, imo… Just less so.

Non-paywall version: https://archive.ph/bsSon

Why does being a team sport or not affect whether you can root for them?

The title still works if you remove the word “scraping,” too. (I mean, except grammatically)

Double tilde (~~) for strikethrough, friend.

_People vs. People

Great contribution. Reminds me of “it’s not practice that makes perfect; perfect practice makes perfect.” Not exactly the same idea, but related: A good coach can elevate your progress well beyond what you can do yourself.

Or like consumptive knowledge vs. participatory knowledge or something.

I notice a huge difference between things that I consume alot of content for but don’t engage with, vs. things where I actually try to apply the knowledge. Your brain makes connections in a totally different way when you try to apply the knowledge.

I watched piano tutorials for like a year before I finally saved up for a decent digital piano to play at home. I had tons of little facts and ideas rattling around my head, which were actually very helpful, but completely disorganized. Every time I learned a new piece, some of that loose knowledge would Tetris into place, and things would get a little more coherent.

But there’s always this gap between my pool of ingested information and my ability to do something with it.

See? There’s something for everybody on Lemmy!

Lemmy is great in the same ways (and better in some) in principle, it’s just a scale thing that makes it more difficult to obtain that “build your own experience” effect like Reddit has. There just aren’t enough people right now to support the super idiosyncratic stream of content that you can curate with Reddit.

My advice is to just lean into it. Start with Ubuntu or Mint, queue up The Next Generation season 1 on your Jellyfin server, and keep contributing.

Yes. I noticed my Discord problems uptick sharply when I uninstalled the creepy invasive desktop app and started only using it in the browser. Element just sometimes fails to upload a file or something, but it’s pretty stable for me lately.

Heh “Join the Tailchat Discord.”