Not to mention pay later credit card cr@#.

I encountered this at work today. I just assumed I couldn’t turn it off. Will def be looking for that setting tomorrow.

Is this actually accurate though? From my understanding you had to “activate” threads access, and those who did this are those who have been counted in the numbers.

Well, that’s just silly.

Honestly, keeping half is pretty good.

I honestly think it’s more likely they will continue to run Win 10, but without updates.

You need to consider anything and everything you post to the Fediverse to be part of a public, everlasting record. At least in it’s current state, the Fediverse is not the place for privacy oriented users.

While Firefox was getting stale they invested in Pocket, and VPNs and stuff.

At least those products could have given Mozille a source of income in the long term if they became popular enough. Money that could have gone towards keeping Firefox going.

I feel like getting any big game day 1 is risky. I usually give most games 6 months to mature now.

I just don’t like the “police” comparison. There are ways to motivate people to keep order without sending armed state goons to kill or imprison you.

I think weather or not this comparison is good or bad will completely depend on where you’re from. The concept of police is good. It’s how it’s practiced that is either good or bad.

I hear a lot of people talk about how Reddit was full of terrible people. I very rarely saw these people though. Not sure if their voices got down-voted, or maybe I simply stayed away from the communities they gravitated to. Personally I never really browsed Reddit home screen, I just bookmarked the communities I liked and went directly to their pages. So maybe that’s how I missed out on a lot.

That said, I did se quite a bit of nonsense when browsing gaming forums. PC gamers hating console gamers, xbox gamers mocking ps gamers and vice-versa. Never did understand peoples need to be superior in the gaming world. These are all just methods of enjoying the same hobby!

I agree. The problem is that many people who come to Lemmy don’t know how it works, and they gravitate to the biggest instances automatically. Heck, it’s what I did when I joined Beehaw. It wasn’t until a few days later that I understood the pro’s of this method. Fortunately, the Beehaw community rules really aligned with me, so I was lucky in that way.

I honestly don’t think the fediverse will become nearly as popular as many seem to.think. It’s still complicated to use/understand for many non-tech enthusiasts, and in the case of Reddit, while people are angry, I doubt most of their users are going anywhere any time soon. Some will leave, but it’s not going to be a small number.

We keep going on about how Reddit relies on it’s “creators”, without whom they’ll die. Frankly, a lot of the highest rated content is just repost of old videos or tiktok videos. A lot of that stuff isn’t original, and the deep conversations are, in my opinion, few and far between. Sure there are some communities whi h have this, but they’re not exactly over represented.

I’ve got a pretty booring setup compared to most 🤣. Ubuntu Server running the following in docker,

• Plex
• Audiobookshelf
• Komga

Audiobookshelf has come a really long way. The version out now is heaps and bounds better than what it was 1 year ago.

Not technical enough for this one. What does port forwarding allow a user to do that they don’t achieve using regular VPN setup?

Change doesn’t happen overnight. It’s hard enough to convince 10 friends to change messaging platform. Imagine trying to move a whole community to a new service.