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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

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  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
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  4. Posts must be original/unique
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If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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It's the same as with Linux, GIMP, LibreOffice or OnlyOffice. Some people are so used to their routines that they expect everything to work the same and get easily pissed when not.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh really? I was unaware lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, the KDE twitter account even mocked Microsoft's for some of their latest 'innovations'.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, ultimately, I'm glad that something open source is wagging the dogs tail, I assumed it was the other way around.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes and no, it's mean that the creativity and innovation of people at KDE is taken without credit. But on the other hand it shows that their features are really great...

BTW they not only copied ideas but also KDE Plasma's slogan "Simple by default, powerful when needed."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I was reading about that. It's a shame about the credit, but hey, what do we expect.