Icaria

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[–] Icaria 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do yourself a favour and don't read the possible side effects on the back of the box of paracetamol you bought from the supermarket.

[–] Icaria 2 points 6 months ago

You search for one thing and it starts showing recommendations.

I fail to see how this is a bad thing. Youtube's old default homepage would show scam and content mill recommendations.

[–] Icaria 1 points 7 months ago

Figuring out matrix was annoying for me. I had to figure out which client program to use, I had to navigate the less-than-ideal way of joining servers, and there was a difficulty curve for understanding the program's features and how to use it. It wasn't impossible, but it took effort

I went through the same effort and all I got for my troubles was a few dead chatrooms where what little discussion exists is purely about distros.

The barrier to entry filtered out everyone else.

[–] Icaria 1 points 7 months ago

If an OSS project is designed to connect people with each other, and it doesn't do that well, it's kind of a failure.

Looking at you, Matrix.

[–] Icaria 1 points 7 months ago

Discord is moderating private chats PC Gamer

This annoys me, not because discord is doing anything wrong, there needs to be a way to report spam and abuse, but because users can potentially abuse the feature. My hope is that reported DMs past a certain age are automatically ignored.

Discord moderating policy is becoming more ideological and political. TechCrunch

This one is just inevitable due to all the kids on it. Discord doesn't want media and govts breathing down its neck after kids are bullied into killing themselves via the platform.

Where it gets annoying is one of the bigger public servers in Oz is straight-up a neo-nazi recruitment vector, and no amount of reporting seems to get anything done about it.

[–] Icaria 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I can't be sure it's morally acceptable to bring a new life into the world just to struggle until death.

That has been true for just about everyone throughout history.

the game changes yet again and you get knocked back down to the peg you started on.

People in the developed world not having kids is part of how they 'win' the game.

The reason boomers were able to demand so much is because, as the name implies, they're a big fucking cohort. They were politically influential from the time they could vote. Keeping birthrates depressed and shipping in cheap foreign labour is how those with power keep everyone else powerless.

It's a weird situation, but the way to improve living standards for future generations is to... have future generations. Even if you don't feel like you can entirely support them now.

[–] Icaria 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Had a look at it, seems to lack dedicated modifier and cursor keys. Looking specifically for a PC-style keyboard.

[–] Icaria 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Does anyone know of an alternative to Hacker's Keyboard? It hasn't been updated for about 5 years and I'm worried it will stop working on newer versions of Android.

[–] Icaria -3 points 8 months ago

Your first mistake is using dating apps.

[–] Icaria 1 points 8 months ago

I did. It had some okay ideas (the ones that weren't heavily borrowed) but questionable execution.

[–] Icaria 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I didn't like the EU, and I don't like what they replaced it with either.

SW is just three movies and two seasons of Mando.

Also if I can go my whole life without hearing a bunch of mystical gibberish from dudebros holding glowsticks, it'll be too soon. Wizards are usually supporting characters, and far less overtly dumb, yet everything SW tries to make these guys the centre of that universe.

[–] Icaria 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nah, mate, you're just deranged. You see any two people in public together and assume they're screwing, then if someone points out to you that they're probably just related you still think they're screwing? Fuckin' weird.

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