I bet a lot of folks have just quietly given up or moved to lemmy or mbin because they’ve gotten frustrated with all the issues.
I made an alt two months ago when Kbin would never connect. I have barely been back since, so it is now my main. I hoped Kbin would come out if its slump but... that seems unlikely at this point. I'm actually quite happy on Lemmy, especially after the v0.19 upgrade allows blocking of an entire instance. I personally virtually never see any spam (maybe one comment per month) and while connection issues do occur, they are like a handful per week rather than handful per hour (it varies a lot though, sometimes it does get bad for a day or two and then weeks go by without a hitch).
I avoided the initial hurdle of making a Lemmy account for so long and, while it was super annoying, in retrospect it wasn't that bad, compared to all the other problems here and still having to go through all that, eventually.
If anyone is thinking about switching: don't worry unduly about it, just make an account and see if you like it, but you can always keep your Kbin active too, assuming Kbin remains alive.
Also, you may need to try out a few places before you find one that fits you best. But that reduces your anxiety bc you know more and don't need to worry about having to do it again in a worst-case scenario.
por queue no los dos? :-P
King shit
Do I really want to know what "quaff" is?
he quaffed pint after pint of good, good juice.
No, methinks I doth prefer mine earlier ignorance. :-P
Who doesn't enjoy our annual, third of a year long Christmas-gasm!?
No don't answer that, I know what you mean:-P.
Northeastern USA is extremely cold compared to temperate Europe.
Though that is nothing compared to north midwestern states, brrr... did you know that at some point, the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales converge? :-P
Yes, yes, yes, and yes. Even the CEO has acknowledged this. They serve you what makes THEM the most profits, not what YOU wanted, ever.
For years now, the only way to find something technical related was to add "Reddit" to the search. But then Reddit imploded as well, chasing profits over the needs of its customers.
And Twitter/X likewise is now chasing profits over the needs of its customers, causing many to flee.
As too is happening in so many other places, such as Stack overflow, and most of Hollywood itself was on strike for months, bc they have been chasing profits over the needs of its customers.
Managers think they know better than customers what you want, or at least what you are willing to put up with.
And now they are pushing AI to the rescue, to put even above the SEO results, but soon they'll have to think about actually monetizing those answers, and the cycle will repeat at the level of SEO'd AI answers.
DuckDuckGo works, for now. Maybe one day there will be a hostile takeover and it won't anymore.
Btw this phenomenon is called https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification of the internet - yes that's the official term afaik!!:-)
Similarly, Mac OSX is POSIX compliant and therefore more truly UNIX than Linux is, fight me. :-P
it’s just that the only one that survived long enough to survive to the present day is the really good advice
Okay but... I thought that was basically the point, in that if the advice survived for that long, then it is worth paying attention to at least, to consider if it might apply to a particular situation? e.g. chicken soup really is good for a cold, whether we knew the precise reasons why or not.
It knows...
They do it simply b/c they can.
OMG why does this remind me of this old video? :-P
It's b/c 40 s in, the phrase: "Raw rhymes stronger than my jaw line when I spit a phrase"
Oh great, 2020 part 5, wonderful.
Well, hopefully not that shocked.
Not true. They voted, and THAT legacy will be with us for a LONG time...
And sadly, I don't even mean DT - there's Ted Cruz, Moscow Mitch, the whole cohort - along with all the international agreements that we've already pulled out of and so on.
See, they left us something after all?! :-P This economy, lack of access to healthcare, and so much more!?
Btw, I don't know about you, but I have a retirement plan for my old age. I plan to die. :-P
In fairness, it is less that they are "selfish" and more that they are "clueless" (to the point of obstinacy, outright refusing to open their eyes) - b/c as you said, your mother didn't inherit anything, and yet THEY are fine, so why wouldn't you be, with nothing left to you either? (remember as you think this through to remove all of the actual "facts" first, and add the layer of Faux News Nostalgia factor)
I don't follow you. They are BOTH the capitalist party, though not equally so. Also, voting for one side vs. the other does not mean that you agree with EVERYTHING that they do - in fact it is more common these days to vote against the other side and ignore what your own might plan or actually do. Nor is it true that avoiding voting - e.g. for mental or physical health reasons - means that someone does not care at all about what happens as a result of the election. Plus, a rather ENORMOUS fraction of people in the USA could skip a particular vote and it would not make the tiniest iota of difference, due to the electoral college system, though that heavily depends on where you live, and also trends to be more true the larger the region impacted (federal state county), whereas local elections could turn on a dime and also make a huge impact regardless of what goes on in upper levels - e.g. federal sends monies to help people but locals turn that aid away b/c "reasons".
Unpopular opinion alert: I dare to say that many people who should NOT be voting - especially those who do little to no research beforehand - would vastly improve the outcome of elections by NOT voting, and thereby contribute more that way than they do now, by actually voting, where they tend to just magnify the votes of whatever the TV & radio talk show people (or more recently, pastors behind the pulpit) tell them to do. The latter makes the USA even more of a plutocracy than later, when the votes get ignored and the rich get whatever they want regardless of who got elected does.
Hehe, nothing to see here, these are not the stories you are looking for, move along :-P
I mean, not directly no - we boiled it first - but you gotta drink something, sometime.
What worried me more is not when the screw-up is so easily detectable, but when it goes unnoticed, like the permanent damage done to the residents of Flint, MI, or all those toxic chemicals caused by the multiple train derailments, where the company men tried to pay/threaten/whatever people to say that they were not sick.
Company profits human health & safety.
I continue to upgrade my assessment of the Seesaa wiki: in particular I find the writer akashic_lin to be worthy of high praise!
I have mentioned before how extremely impressed I am with pages such as the Japanese SDE guide that has not one but several "Meta" lists, including an environmental characters and equipment summary that lists excellent characters across sensible roles such as general DPS, attribute-specific attacker, support, and even "tank".
The individual character pages are also astonishingly good, imho - e.g. Sesta's that, aside from translation difficulties, offer great support to newer players. Explanations as to the major things to look out for (in multiple forms, some for beginners and more advanced advice separated out for veterans of the game), exact party line-ups t
Minor achievement: I completed all 100 enemy kill achievements in the game up to the end of GoT2
I LOVE (note the present tense:-) Chrono Trigger. Chrono Cross is... not quite what I was hoping for in a sequel (it was not bad, it simply did not scratch that itch). I knew that Another Eden also would not be the same, yet it did seem the closest thing to it in spirit.
Thus when I started this game I decided that I wanted to be a completionist and grind my way through everything in it. So I went forward super slowly - I'm now 2.5 years in and I have not even started Main Story part 3 yet:-) - and like I got enough materials to upgrade every weapon and armor in the entire game, finishing out one dungeon entirely before moving on to the next, which I felt was true JRPG style even if it runs counter to how modern games are played. I even completed Otherlands before moving on to get grastas (mostly - I did take a bit of a break by overlapping them some). As you can se
Major achievement: completed rod fishing up to 150 for every fish in the game
The picture only shows Rinde Sunfish, which is the rarest of all, as previously I finished all the horrors, Silver Carp, Rolling Turtle, etc. and yet this straggler still took months all on its own:-).
As a newer player when I began this long road (which ultimately took TWO AND A HALF YEARS for me to complete!), it was really fun to chart my development in the game as I learned better team-building skills. e.g. the only water chars I had at first were like 3-star Cyrus and 4-star Nikeh iirc, so it was really useful to learn that Violet in an earth zone could 1-shot the lake horrors better than trying to exploit weakness using pathetic DPS characters. And then as I got AS Tsubame and m!NS Felmina I developed new 1TnoAF approaches even for the upper set of lake lords, b/c when you need to do something hundreds of times (like in order to get 150 Silver Carp I got 320 Sky Serpents along the way), it is good to keep it as simple as possible, like only on