Isn’t he just so nice?!

I’m pretty sure it’s because it’s just a misdemeanor charge or something like that. Too lazy to confirm though.

I think it has more to do with minors operating machinery in the workplace. If he was 18 it’s “just” a horrible workplace accident. But since he was 17, it was illegal for the company to have him operate that piece of equipment and that’s why they were in court over it.

Google’s messaging app actually has a desktop browser based client that you can use to send messages from your computer. So that might actually be a good solution for you. I use it regularly and have no complaints about either the phone app or the web app.

I’m curious how big of a dip there was with macOS when they fully dropped 32 bit support. I’m just one person but a lot of the games I played through steam were older 32 bit games. I don’t think I’ve opened steam on my Mac since that update.

It bothers me that people find it out so supremely confusing and it’s definitely an issue that needs to be addressed because it’s definitely keeping people away. The fact of the matter is, you can go to any Lemmy instance and get that front page experience because the r/all equivalent of each instance shows threads from every other instance (minus defederated, etc but that’s beside the point).

Sync helps in that it is a familiar and polished look and feel for those who used third party Reddit apps, but outside of that it’s just another Lemmy app.

Probably the biggest factor in the confusion is fediverse terms being used to describe the fediverse, which is basically speaking nonsense if you don’t already understand it.

There’s this: Lemmy is a federated link aggregator where anyone can start an instance and communities within that instance and all the instances can communicate and share information. Doesn’t it sound amazing?

Then there’s this: Lemmy is like a version of Reddit where there’s a whole bunch of separate reddit dot coms. You can sign up for whichever one you like to be your home “reddit”. The reddits are all connected, so you can subscribe to subreddits on the other reddits while just logged into your home. You can also post to them, comment, and see the posts and comments from your home.

I’m sure there’s some analogy out there that really boils it down well much better than mine, so please share if you think of one.

Loving it so far! I think everyone freaking out about the pricing needs to chill out and just use a different app.

There’s one thing I’m curious about and wasn’t able to find in the settings. Do we have the ability to turn off the red/blue highlighting on the action area for a post we’ve voted? I don’t like how it looks and find that the font color for the vote count is perfectly sufficient for me to know that I’ve upvoted and downvoted.

There needs to be better awareness and support structure for postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. It is truly horrifying and when you’re a parent, you often don’t realize it’s happening until things are really bad. The mother has really scary intrusive thoughts (sometimes intensely violent) and often does not feel safe to open up and get help. There are many tragic stories out there where things spiraled completely out of control and ended up in infanticide or suicide, sometimes both.

Mothers and their partners/spouses preparing to have children need to learn how to identify it and have a plan for what to do if it happens. It’s more common than you might think, and support is needed when it happens.

https://saferbirth.org/aim-resources/aim-cornerstones/urgent-maternal-warning-signs-2/#thoughts

It’s pronounced NOOK-YOU-LERRR

RiF is Fun for Lemmy

Haven’t used sync before, but I’m really digging the amount of flexibility in customizing how it looks. Thank you for your hard work in developing this so quickly!

My local store had numerous room temp superconductors right next to the perpetual motion machines.

I’m not sure how reliable eBay in Europe is, but I would suggest finding one available from a highly rated seller on eBay.

This is amazing

Yeah I have the feeling a lot of them are as bad or in some cases worse than bicycles upfitted with gas engines.

Posthumous Michael Jackson activated

One of the reasons the Hollywood strikes have the potential of working is because of the strong unions where the union workers are not even allowed to do any acting or writing related work at all while they’re striking. The music industry does not have that. Thousands of people could join a music “strike” and it wouldn’t remotely move the needle since there’s nothing stopping everyone else from just continuing on. I think your point about the atomized nature of the justice business makes it nearly impossible.

Practically there needs to be an organizer. Maybe it could be as simple as a top musician leading the charge by saying they will pull their music off of all streaming platforms until those platforms offer a base pay of X per stream. It would have to be really public and they then would need to get as many others on board as they can. If a large movement of people comes out of that pulling their music from streaming, maybe that could move the needle.

Another issue is that streaming platforms allowed the general public to spend significantly less on music. Instead of buying one album for $10-15, you now can spend that per month for access to basically all the music you need. I don’t think the streaming services would be able to just straight up start paying musicians a whole lot more without that completely breaking their model. Film and TV studios started paying less residuals, but to my knowledge they didn’t make significantly less money on the top end as well. With music it’s a much more delicate ecosystem where if the streaming services charge more so they can pay more, they’ll start losing subscribers. And if they charge the amounts they would need for musicians to make a decent living, they would lose a LOT of subscribers.

In essence, the music industry is completely fucked right now and I don’t see a way out of it any time soon.

If you’re ever in the Vegas area, I highly recommend going to the Valley of Fire State Park. I visited Red Rock Canyon, Death Valley, Hoover Dam, Zion - all of those were absolutely incredible, but valley of fire was otherworldly in ways those other places aren’t. It’s only about an hour drive from Vegas.

All that said, if you want to go to Vegas as a base camp for all these amazing things, don’t do it during the summer. Heat exposure is no joke. This article says there was a group of hikers who had encountered these women earlier in the day and noticed that they hadn’t come back, so they called the authorities at 3pm. They weren’t lost out in the desert for days, they went out hiking for a day and were dead in hours.

Visiting the desert in the winter is uncomplicated. You don’t need nearly as much water, you’re not in significant danger just for being out there. During the hot months, it’s another story. Unless you’re very experienced and extremely well prepared, it’s just not worth it. And even then, just go somewhere else in the world to hike while it’s 115°f/46°c in the desert.

Diminishing returns!

This is one of the worst jokes I’ve ever seen. Thank you!