I’ll chime in since I’m in Canada, which is sadly just US delayed by 20 years.

I can walk to a convenience store with high prices in about 5 minutes or 360 metres and little else. It’s all residential beyond there until a 25 minute walk or greater and everything is spread out. The main shopping centres you might want to walk around are an hour walk away. To reach the store I actually shop at for reasonable prices, it’s a 12 minute drive or a 7400 metre walk (a miserable one with spotty sidewalks)… just for fun, it’s about 45m by bus BEST CASE but realistically you will take an hour unless you hit the exact right bus at the exact moment it pulls up.

That is the million dollar question, isn’t it…

I found 3D theatre experiences underwhelming and sometimes headache inducing, but watching Transformers on a friends’ TV with all the properly rendered depth was fantastic.

Birth. My life was exceedingly different before coming out of the womb, no doubt.

Twitter was quite diverse actually (it might still be, I can’t say). You had the far left, far right, and everything in between on there but it worked somewhat because the algorithm kept people mostly in their bubbles unless they went seeking it out.

Depends what you use and how you use it. With how I use my computer, I have issues on Windows that require terminal input to solve and are more confusing than many of the Linux issues I face, but the way I use Linux also requires terminal. Some applications just work better or only on terminal whether you’re on Windows or Linux and some debugging steps will inevitably take you down the dark road of decade old menus and terminal commands.

Day to day basic tasks though? It shouldn’t need any special knowledge, provided that you don’t follow the wrong online tutorials like I did when starting out. For example, Firefox was out of date so I looked up how to update Firefox. The package manager did not have a new version and I didn’t think to manually go into settings and refresh the repository (stores auto update, right? Well, no actually…). Basically I ended up trying to install via a .deb package from their website… it didn’t work and I felt Linux was dumb. What I should have done was update my OS and package manager first or simply sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade (yes this is terminal, sorry). My point is, sometimes you have to realise the question you are asking is flawed and not the system.

1. Create new Lemmy account.
2. Subscribe to news communities only.
3. Download alternate Lemmy app or clone your current one somehow (i.e work profile).
4. Use second lemmy app with new lemmy account only for news.
5. Profit?

That’s… almost worse. Ew.

Instead of up/down buttons you would have a set of buttons such as “Agree”, “Disagree”, “Funny”, “Useful”, etcetera. The only website I know of that still uses these is Ravelry.

While it is easy to fall into this trap of disagree downvotes, they should really not be used that way. All that does is turn them into a popularity contest. Downvotes should be used on comments that do not improve the thread. This may be because they are wrong, made in bad faith, rude, or otherwise, but not simply because you disagree. Ideally we would have different buttons for this like the forums of old, but no one seems interested in that nowadays.

I downvoted you because this guy should absolutely not watch Goblin Slayer lol but I found your comment funny. Keep it up, slayer.

Oh! Well that’s awesome then, thanks for the correction. I did look it up but ended up on some “top feature” article which barely mentioned any features beyond layer multi select. I should have looked further.

Still no smart objects/non-destructive editing? :(

You’re the first one, thanks! :D

Per your advice I got a tattoo of Anna and Elsa 69ing on my cheek, thanks!

That’s my strategy for intimacy, too.

No subscriptions? Sounds to me like you’re deep into a subscription to big paper, old man.

It annoys me more that some apps have no light mode now. It’s not a “one is better” problem, both have their use!

I hate being without stuff I need, so I always carry around a backpack. I just always keep stuff in it so I don’t forget it. At the moment the core kit is:

• At least 1L of water, usually 2L+.
• Hand sanitiser for the inevitable moment the public washroom is out of soap.
• Re-usable shopping bags in case I buy something.
• An energy bar or two in case I have to stay at work late.
• Nail clippers (having a broken nail at work sucks).
• Band-aids.
• A mask in case anywhere requires it, but this one has definitely seen less use over time.
• Deodorant, because sometimes I forget to apply it before I leave in the morning…
• Hand lotion for winter when my hands crack.
• And finally, a charging cable for my phone.

If it’s likely to rain and I’ll be outside longer than 15m I will add an umbrella to the mix.

Procrastination.