PascalSausage

It's actually three medium-sized online platforms in a trench coat.

It was worth it back when it was people renting out a spare room in their house or their whole apartment when they were away for a small bit of cash on the side, there was a mutual understanding that you are staying in another individuals private space with all the rules and caveats that come with that, so the pricing will reflect the arrangement. For me, this made the inconvenience worth putting up with in most cases.

Now that booking an AirBnb costs as much as a hotel room and the service has been overrun by landlords looking to use it as their primary rental income though? I'm booking a hotel every time. If I'm paying hotel money I want hotel service and convenience.

And if it's anything like the other protests they'll roll over as soon as Reddit threatens to take their mod privileges away.

Meta entering this space is not something to celebrate. They don’t care in the slightest about fair play or open standards. They will use this as an opportunity to monopolise the fediverse (they have a strong track record for this) and push out open platforms in favour of their proprietary, data harvesting shit. Trusting Meta will be catastrophic for the fediverse.

This blog post explains in a bit more detail how this is a problem: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

It's one that not a lot of people consider when looking to replace their smartphone with something that respects their time and attention span, which surprises me. This is the main scenario the cellular model was designed for imo.

I've tried dumbphones, but frankly most of them are a bit too dumb for how I live my life in 2023. This won't work for everyone but I've personally found that a cellular Apple Watch strikes a nice balance for me - I can still access all the essentials I use daily like calls, messages, maps, timers, music, podcasts, Apple Pay etc but without any of the distractions of my phone. The caveat is that you do need an iPhone to set it up, but this gives me the flexibility of leaving my phone at home when I want to while still having the convenience of a smartphone when I need it.

As someone with a soft spot for the series, I personally enjoyed it well enough. It’s another Indiana Jones movie, it’s quite formulaic, but its fun and it works for its intended purpose. It was never going to be incredible, high-brow cinema and I do wonder why anyone who has seen any of the others expected it to be anything other than what it was.

Elon Musk says something fucking stupid, must be Tuesday.

I don’t think the idea is that it doesn’t matter, I think the idea is that if you disagree with someone, you should put some effort into it. On Reddit, the downvote function only really works to hide and punish opinions that the community sees as bad, which doesn’t really contribute very much in that respect. Upvotes work for indicating agreement because if you agree with a point you probably don’t have much to add to it, and if you do, you can both upvote and reply.

Beehaw like many other instances doesn't have downvoting enabled.

Yeah, you’ll need to add entries for them to /etc/fstab if you want them to be mounted on boot, and make sure that Steam is pointed to the directory where they’re mounted.

Why do you mean by “Steam won’t see them as internal drives”?

There’s no such thing as a backdoor only the government can access, this is a concept that the luddites making these laws needs hammered into their brains. Any encryption method that is backdoored is useless. This legislation will turn the UK into a cyber criminal’s wet dream.