tamtt

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[–] tamtt 3 points 1 year ago

I'm still interested in whether Pogi can continue to bring the fight, whether or not the breakaway gets the stage.

Oh this tour is heating up and it's only been one week!

[–] tamtt 6 points 2 years ago

Of the play store apps I think connect is the best one so far. Very customisable.

[–] tamtt 3 points 2 years ago

Account age: 2 years

Ok grandpa time to get you back to your home.

[–] tamtt 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Account age: 1 week

Yep checks out

[–] tamtt 1 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah I forgot about that. The double twist for the camera too.

Man I was so jealous of that phone.

[–] tamtt 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

My brother had one of the original Moto X phones which had this neat gesture where you waved over the screen and it turned on to show you your notifications. I think it was a basic proximity sensor thing, but it was super useful when the phone was on the table.

Can't believe I haven't seen it since.

[–] tamtt 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Because it's GDDR memory, not DDR. They're two different standards that aren't interchangeable.

https://www.technipages.com/whats-the-difference-between-ddr-and-gddr-memory/

TL;DR it's like the difference between a GPU and a CPU. Similar acronyms, different function.

[–] tamtt 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For those who don't want to give Reddit the traffic:

We’re back - and here’s what’s happening

(Please don’t give any awards for this post - although it’s a kind gesture, that’s money that goes to Reddit!)

Hello r/LegalAdviceUK.

As you may have noticed, the mods have taken part in the Reddit blackout for the last week.

For those not in the loop of the drama, there are a lot of concerns about Reddit's recent changes and their response to user concerns.

LAUK took part in these protests, not only in solidarity with other subs and their issues, but we feel that these Reddit changes make moderating more difficult, and therefore present an increased risk of our users being exposed to harmful and dangerous advice, or influenced by idiots or directed by people looking to make financial gain.

The mod team of LAUK are mostly employed professionals either directly working in law (e.g., Solicitors, Police Officers,) or in related professional fields (HR, finance, etc); who rely on well developed mobile apps to moderate, which the official Reddit app has never, ever been good at.

Last month, the moderators manually removed over 5,500 unique comments that broke the subreddit rules - this is a very different subreddit to more casual subreddits and the mods take delicate care to balance the regulatory environment of giving legal advice in the UK, the Reddit platform, and trying our best to help people in need. This task would be impossible without 3rd party tool and applications.

Like many other subreddits, LAUK was recently sent a vaguely sinister and threatening message from the Reddit admins, attempting to divide and conquer mod teams, re-interpreting their long standing rules in order to desperately leverage them against the moderators who curate and manage their website in their own time for free.

Reddit is both stating the protests are having no or minimal effect, whilst at the same time giving away free ad-space to try and keep advertisers, and doing everything it can to force subreddits to re-open. The protestors are both weak, and strong, depending on which argument makes Reddit look less-terrible at any given time.

In response to these threats from Reddit, the LAUK mods have opened the subreddit under protest.

The mods are in discussion about the following changes:

Encouraging users to look at safer and more regulated advice options than Reddit

Supporting users to minimise supporting Reddit financially (e.g., use adblocks)

Moving our FAQ and wiki off-site out of a Reddit controlled location

No longer constructively working with Reddit admins - e.g., no AMAs, betas, surveys, mod council, etc.

Additionally:

We may decide to operate from whatever Reddit alternative turns out to be the most popular, or move platform entirely e.g. to Discord. This would be over the coming months

Some moderators may stop moderating Reddit to give their free time to the alternatives above

Our initial reaction was - as we suspect it would have been for many of our users if threatened in that way - to refer the admins to the reply famously given in Arkell and Pressdram. However, the primary motivator for moderators (as well as being power hungry neckbeards) was to help people using our professional skills and knowledge. Reddit is actively harming this community but the majority of moderators believe morally we should continue to use the community we have built to help people as best we can.

We encourage any admins reading this to look for other jobs at organisations who are not going to make you actively harm the community you are supposed to support, whilst excitedly looking to treat you like Elon treated 6,500 twitter employees.

For and on behalf of the LAUK mod team,

Fuck u/Spez and long live John Oliver.

[–] tamtt 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I read Three Body recently and while I can see how it has two sequels I didn't feel the drive to read them.

The mystery has been solved, it must transition to a different style of book to continue. It's the same thing that stranger things did - once they showed the monster and explained where it came from it went from a monster horror to an action thriller. You can only lift the lid on the mystery once.

[–] tamtt 20 points 2 years ago

Using discord as a replacement is like permanently sorting by new. I really like the voting mechanic and that's what set Reddit apart, along with subreddits.

It's not functionally the same.

[–] tamtt 2 points 2 years ago

Oh same. Not a good feeling when you accidentally take up the time of the emergency services.

[–] tamtt 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did you get a power meter? I'm completely addicted to mine! One of the best bike purchases I've made.

 

That's some serious effort going on there.

 

XCO is on today in Lenzerheide. Wondering if anybody is interested?

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