TheRealKuni

I’m on lemmy because it’s less horrible than reddit or toktik.

Likewise, though I am constantly saddened by how quickly the community started “othering” one another based on instance.

It’s like if you put a bunch of humans together they’ll figure out a way to hate each other. 😕

Oh no! I hadn’t spotted the lemm.ee!

Are you migrating to another instance or just fading away?

Happy cake day!

Fair enough. Thank you for explaining where you’re coming from. I can understand your frustration with that wedge.

That is reductionist and overly simplistic. Just because they are all pejorative does not mean their meaning is identical. Not all communists are “tankies.”

(But I know very well we need to agree to disagree on this, because I don’t think there’s any value in trying to convince you.)

No, you’re not wrong. They’re muddying meaning of the word “tankie.”

“Tankie” does not mean “commie.” Not all commies are tankies.

The 2013 turn to “flat” design felt quite fresh to me, and I haven’t really gotten tired of it yet.

Man, I have. I liked it at first, but I’m so ready.

The processing power wasn’t there yet in 2007 for the level of refraction and skeuomorphism that makes this look work on a system-wide level. In Vista and 7 Aero was just fancy transparency with some blurring and flares. But this design language Apple is showing off is beautiful. I hope others copy it (which will probably happen, since everything in tech is everyone copying everyone else).

(That said, I would probably also take a return to the 9x/NT4/Windows 2000 2.5D grey UI over the flat stuff at this point, so maybe I’m not a good source of opinion. 😅)

Apple hates giving users choices, though, so I hope they do ok for those folks.

They’ve definitely improved on this front. It’s fun comparing my iPhone homescreen (a user who moved to iPhone after over a decade of Android customization and arrived at almost just the right time) to people who’ve used iPhone all along. They don’t know what to do with themselves, they’re still pages of app icons.

Meanwhile I’m sitting here with a single beautifully minimal screen with some folders and a big ‘ol weather widget, a swipe gets me to a page full of useful widgets, a swipe the other direction gets me to my app drawer or whatever the hell Apple calls it.

Disagree. 2000, Vista, and especially 7 all looked better than XP. XP was childish.

Nothing else works

With the exception of some UI elements I need third party tools to restore to their previous customizability, I’ve had no problems making anything that worked in 10 work in 11. Which isn’t surprising, 11 is 10, with a shitty UI redesign.

What doesn’t work?

Man I loved Aero and I’m excited for iOS and iPadOS 26. Shit looks beautiful.

There are a lot of things they’re supposed to do that they don’t.

FoE has “report cards” on the major companies and they’re all awful.

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There’s all-inclusive resorts, yes, and I’ve found they’re generally more expensive than cruises. If you make your resort hotel float, it’s cheaper. I don’t know why.

Because you can get away with following very few regulations if you’re in international waters, and pollute the shit out of the environment. Cruises are horrible, environmentally speaking.

My wife’s family loves cruises. I have made it very clear that I am morally opposed and will not join them on one, but her mom has tried to schedule a cruise as a family vacation anyway at least twice. I think she now finally understands I’m not going to be convinced by being told how much fun they are, after I outright said, “I understand they’re awesome, I’m sure I would love it, but I am not going to support that industry and its practices.”

At one point I honestly think she thought if she just got it scheduled and everyone else was onboard I’d come along. Fortunately she never got that far.

(I promise she’s actually a pretty cool person, I love my mother-in-law very much, but she can be stubborn.)

Oh 100%. I love Nebula. I’m considering doing the $300 lifetime subscription.

Internet Historian is also, unfortunately, a Nazi. Or at the very least alt-right and full of dog whistles.

It’s a shame, because his content—even the stuff he outright stole—was funny. But the evidence is staggering if you look for it.

Edit: Here’s a good summary from the old site.

creators who bake in their sponsorships are USUALLY paid upfront for the space.

Sure, although if they have a promo code they’re usually getting a percentage kickback from that as well. That’s what the whole Honey scandal was about, PayPal injecting affiliate links and stealing commission from the very people they had paid to advertise their service (and also everyone else).

Nebula is awesome. But if you’re going to pay for a video service, you could also pay for YouTube Premium and not get ads regardless of your ad blocking setup, AND support the people whose videos you watch (at least a little, certainly more than ad-supported viewers).

(Nebula is better than YouTube for specific genres, but YouTube is of course more broad and contains most of what Nebula has.)

I can’t fall asleep to silence. I have to have something playing to keep me from being alone with my thoughts, or I will literally never sleep.

I have experienced this. Something that helped me is “cognitive shuffling.” Essentially forcing your thoughts to drift.

The technique I learned was this:

Pick a word, preferably one with lots of different letters.

Start with the first letter. Think of as many objects starting with that letter as you can, and picture them. You don’t need to be rigid about this, and don’t waste time trying to come up with objects if you’re stuck, just move onto the next letter. If you finish the word, pick a new one. But I don’t know that I’ve ever finished a word before falling asleep.

The idea is this sort of directed but disconnected thinking helps put your mind into the sort of state that lets sleep come. And when I’m diligent about it, it works like a charm. It’s like a way to actively fall asleep.

Unfortunately because it requires some effort I often don’t do it. But I do recommend it!

I still haven’t seen the series-ending movie because I was so underwhelmed by the final season.