None of these points make any sense to me when I think about the pre-reddit internet. There were all kinds of communities everywhere on various forums across the internet. Some forums discussed specific topics, some very niche, other forums were for more general discussions. But hosting and setting up a forum was not always the easiest thing. So when reddit came, subreddits eventually replaced forums. Easy to set up, easy to discover, everything in one place.

Now the fediverse is to me pretty much like going back to the old forums, but a bit more organized. And all of the points in this article could have been made about forums if you decided to analyze forums as one big thing. But in the end, none of it has been a problem (and there are still some forums around today).

Other Uncle David?

I ignore any calls that are not from my contacts. If it’s important they’ll leave a message. I have DND on at night. Calls and messages from my wife have separate sounds and exception from DND.

Samsung galaxy has the same feature (at least on the S25, I don’t recall if I had it on the S10)

UX experience

We should shorten that to UXX

Or just go to vger.app, which defaults to lemm.ee but allows you to register and log in with a whole bunch of different instances.

Ok, that’s absurd. I thought it makes sense to change the name for people in the US if that’s the official name in the US (according to the USGS data, which has always been the official source for this info). But translating the US name into other languages that already have a name for it makes no sense.

Same in the US when you zoom out.

There are studies about how other tools reduced various capacities. Our memory capacity has decreased and how we use it has changed. People used to store a lot of information, now we only store a sort of index (we remember where to look it up, not the information itself). Our attention span has also greatly decreased with the shift to short form content (not a useful tool, but just another cognitive change).

It exists

aything is better as GMail, only Hotmail is worse

So yahoo mail?

I’m too lazy to double check now, but afaik the problem with his voyage was the exact opposite. People knew that the earth was round and its approximate radius, so they knew that going all the way around the other side to India would be much too long of a voyage. What they didn’t know was that there was a whole other continent in the way.

I wrote my next essay in highlighter

When I went to school that would have been an automatic fail. We had clear rules about what we can and cannot write with (fountain pen was the standard, but some teachers were fine with ballpoint pens too).

It’s never difficult. Wikipedia cites sources. It’s very easy to check if any piece of information has citations and what those citations are.

That means that the gas above the boiling water is colder than the boiling water itself.

But if it’s colder then it’s not steam. It’s air mixed with water vapor. Steam is by definition hotter than boiling water.

That was a culture shock for me when I moved to the US. I knew that back in the day, in rural areas of my country, the markets only opened once a week. I was shocked to find that happen in urban/suburban areas in the US. Back home I could just go to the closest market any day. Morning news would have a report comparing prices in different markets across the city, so you could pick the one that has the best price for what you need that day.

2024-12-07 is not “American style”, it’s ISO standard date format.

Except he didn’t mention the product name anywhere in the letter. Looks like he purposefully avoided it being interpreted as an ad.

A few of the recent Mario games

Don’t know about others, but you can barely call Odyssey co-op. Cappy mostly just watches Mario play.

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