Hold on a sec, you don't want them to use any of the Highlander 2 revolutionary ideas?
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Seriously though, trying to reboot Highlander might actually work. It's a known property, but really only the first movie had any value (and some of the TV series) and it's not that well known from younger generations. It's also not such a classic that you cannot touch it without people screaming (like, say, Ghostbusters)
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I guess I'm out of the loop, perhaps because I mostly browse communities I subscribed to, but...
What happened? Lots of spammy bots signing up and spamming the site? I guess I didn't notice where I was looking
Also, what does application based sign up mean?
Anyhow, Lemmy.World and Lemmy (in general) are growing nicely, so what's needed to defend them is cool.
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You hit the nail on the head, mate!
In previous times, I used to follow certain sites more closely, but then life happened and I lost track of things and now several sites have closed and I don't know where to start.
For example, I used to dig GameSpy for game reviews, but it closed down. I rarely buy games these days, but I don't know what to read when I do and want to inform myself (I remember IGN, but I don't know if it's good). I can check out reviews on Steam, but they're short reviews.
Same deal goes for PC reviews or computer accessories. I don't know where to look: everything looks like an ad site. I remember PCmag.com but I don't know if itself is an ad site or what to compare it to, if I wanted to check a second opinion. Every YouTube video about technology feels like a sponsored ad, though some are legit
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I also work from home for several extended periods of time, while during others I need to be on site one or two days a week (sometimes it's nice, sometimes it's a drag to be on site).
I have to say, while I can work a 100% of the time from home, the nice parts of being on site is to get to know more personally the people I meet. I don't deny the fact that this be successfully done remotely too, but I believe as humans we need social connections. Yes, we can make friends online (which can carry over IRL and I know that personally) and yes you can meet your partner online too, but it always felt (at least to me) that if you meet others in person, you accelerate the connection.
I mean, I had a fairly bad time in high school, but I had the time of my life on college and met most of my friends then. I'm not sure I'd have made as many friends if it had all been online.
Also, as someone wrote in another post today (but I can't remember where so I can't link it, sorry), sometimes people (perhaps new hires fresh out of college) are not experienced enough to know when to be vocal and object to flaws in a project and in person meeting can be a boon to acquire that skill.
It's a tricky subject, since it's not that WFH or doing things online prevents normal life evolutions, but perhaps can make them more scarce or slow, while in person events can precipitate them.
I agree that companies forcing things is not the way to go, but somehow it feels like doing things entirely online should happen more later in life, when you're settled and not before when you need to learn and make connections who you'll want to meet in person too.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk
I haven't been following this lately and thought every cell phone mounts some form of chip designed by ARM.
When I read about the announcement I even started wondering if it would be sound to buy some shares (a tiny quantity, I'm no gambler)
Several people say it's a sinking ship and so now I'm thinking I'd better be careful with this idea.
Why is it sinking? Could I ask you guys to sum it up or give me a flavor of why that is?
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Moreover, not to take sides with Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Dropbox, Box, etc, but storing files costs money to maintain (there needs to be redundancy, every once in a while drives need to be replaced, they need to be cooled, etc), so we'd like it to be cheap, but doing all these things cannot be free for the hosting company.
This is not to say they are jacking up prices, but that it cannot stay super cheap forever.
Still, these services have been very handy so far, though I'm looking to see if the plan I have is still convenient compared to the competition
Perhaps it was a already a washed up idea, but at the time, Freejack had a brilliant concept idea that totally hooked me at the beginning of the movie.
Then the movie seemed to have almost no special effects and to be set in a future that looked too much like the present and the cars and tanks didn't look amazing at all. Freejack was from 1992 and the world had already seen sci Fi marvels as Back to the Future Part 2 which, defects aside, really "looked like the future"
Still, the movie had a pretty good ending with the dead billionaire stalling the hero in order to capture his body and the main character's posing as such billionaire after having managed to screw with the takeover procedure (and making up the confirmation code), and making a mistake afterwards showing he knew how to drive (when the billionaire didn't)
It was a deeply flawed movie with terrible special effects, but it had an engaging premise and some smart ideas along the way.
This is really nice, thank you!
OT but related to the discussion: is there a way to track if and how the fediverse is increasing?
I looked on Wikipedia and it said it's just about ~67000 users on Lemmy VS ~52 million users on Reddit.
I'm spending most of my time on my phone on Lemmy (and about 5 mins on Reddit) every day now, but it would be awesome to be slowly attracting more users from Reddit over time.
Sure, it's better to be fewer users if it does lead to more quality conversations (which is what I find so far), but the fediverse still needs to grow!
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Ecco sì, questo è la forte impressione che ho avuto dopo aver aperto Sync, però sento tantissimi utenti contenti, quindi forse sono io che non ho apprezzato certe sue innovazioni.
Per ora accedo a Lemmy usando più app (quasi sempre Jerboa e a volte Liftoff (ottimo per cercare comunità) e Connect per vedere meglio riassunta la mia attività)
Sto capendo in ritardo cosa mi stesse suggerendo un altro lemming: ho sentito parlare di Wef Wef, ma non l'ho provato.
È una Progressive Web App (PWA)? È una pagina web che permette di navigare su Lemmy dandogli un'impostazione particolare, come se si fosse in una app apposita?
(Ora controllo gli altri nomi che hai scritto, ma almeno Memmy mi sembrava solo per iOS)
It really feels worse now, even in terms of topics in the subreddits for which there is no equivalent here.
Still, until certain things are born here or well populated, I'll still check it out from time to time.
At least, so far I seem to check it less and less and am grateful for Lemmy and its growth. I hope it keeps growing!