well shoot. this sums it up so well, there's nothing to add.
longshaden
joined 1 year ago
The definition of "reasonable ads" and "just a few ads" keeps sliding. I'm old enough to remember the early internet, and that this lie has been told many times.
Just a few acceptable ads always becomes many unacceptable ads, because money.
this. temperature and smell are two big components of our perception of taste. the shape and material of the cup affects both.
I make cold brew coffee for enjoyment at home, and savor every drop.
At work, the coffee just isn't the same.
Do I miss my cold brew while I'm in the office? damn straight.
Do I still get enjoyment from ready access to plenty of free mediocre coffee? damn straight. It's not amazing coffee, but it's fresh ground arabica bean, decent roast. If I'm honest about it, it's plenty good enough, and definitely beats having to go for a 5 minute walk to pay $6-8 for a cup of mediocre coffee.
By this logic, it only takes one bad apple to spoil the name of a group, but that bad apple isn't necessarily representative of or indicative of the whole group.
sure, we could argue about who's bad apples are more rotten, but what's the point? humans are fallen and imperfect, so it's no surprise that groups of humans are also imperfect.
I guess the next question to ask, is the group defined by the actions of it's bad apples, or by the principles it claims to stand for?
this doesn't work effectively, too many lemmynsfw posts aren't tagging as nsfw, and wind up in the all feed.
cut the deck into manageable stacks.
shuffle the stacks.
cut each stack, and mix the other half with a different stack.
reshuffle each new stack
reassemble the stacks into a complete deck.
repeat as desired.
also depends on the religion.
oof, this comic hurts so bad it's funny.
your first hurdle is installing a lemmy server locally. this is a mission on it's own, and I can be of zero assistance here.
your second hurdle is enabling port forwarding and making that server accessible from the internet. I'm going to assume you know how to do the 2nd. port foward dot com if you don't.
your third hurdle will be setting up dynamic dns. again, lots of choices here, and different tiers of service/support. I'm assuming this is enough to point you in the right direction, and your home router likely has built in support for a few providers.
I recommend tackling these hurdles in order, but they don't have to be done in order.
beehaw disabled downvotes, but other instances haven't. the sidebar said disabled downvotes encourages more active discussion, and prevents unpopular opinions from being silenced by a flood of downvotes. they want people to engage by saying "i disagree with you, here's why" instead of passively downvoting and moving on.
you should be able to see you the upvotes on your comments though.
this was an excellent article. I'm old enough to remember being impacted by these events.
I'm not in Munich, but I remember trying to embrace OpenOffice, and telling my wife how pissed off I was that Microsoft wasn't following it's own open source document standard.
I remember Google killing XMPP, and there's also the more recent examples of what Facebook has done to WhatApp, Instagram, and the other potential competitors that got buried.