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Cake day: March 14th, 2023

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  • They were not liked at first, but they’ve spent enough time making money while not pissing people off that they are doing far better than every public company who must find a reason to piss people off to be more profitable.

    They’ve been able to use that time to “cook”. Valve time has been known to be within its own dimension, but from that we got Linux to be just click start and play for 90% of games like Windows, and with the Steamdeck a powerful, comfortable, DIY-able handheld PC gaming device.


  • There’s a lot that can be easily improved when it comes to cleaner default settings and usability. I’m all for what you’re suggesting. But…

    We can’t expect people who want a perfect copy of Reddit to stick around here. We can welcome people when they come try out Lemmy, but there needs to be some give and take. For the benefit of leaving the control of spez and co., some jankiness and learning curves is the price to pay, mostly owing to resource constraints, a smaller userbase and the decentralized philosophy.

    You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. When new users arrive here, I welcome them and regularly offer tips to make their experience better. On the other hand, if they aren’t willing to put in the effort to make the experience their own, I won’t cry if they go away either.





  • It has to be something that is nearly fully outside your control but is affecting you, there are probably milder problems as examples but I think this apt.

    In the metaphor, half of the answers are asking you to do a useless workaround, blame you and/or are irrelevant to solving the problem. Hence the leak, where the answers are telling you to try running your taps for 10 minutes, put a bucket under the leak, telling you that there is no leak and that’s actually a water fountain, etc.









  • Changing the system from the inside is one piece of the puzzle, that on it’s own can have limited effectiveness.

    Protests and occupations, sometimes in the form of rowdy riots are an important factor of how Dutch people got their bike lanes. The 70s oil shock pushed the government to the goal, but they might have just stayed the course towards building cities for cars instead of people, if there were no protests.

    You need a bit of both. Like protests groups disrupting the Davos meetings, and other young representatives participating in the same meetings.


  • (as one girl, who volunteered for the Democrats said “I just got yelled at because I can’t be Left wing unless I want to destroy capitalism? Which feels weird.”)

    I get why folks do it, but I’m not sure if they’re going to get people to embrace their philosophy, if they keep jeering at other people like this. There are more cordial ways that one can acknowledge the benefits while showing why the drawbacks outweigh them.