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skulblaka , 2 months ago to Technology in Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production

Nuclear suffers from the airplane fallacy where when something goes wrong it tends to go really wrong and a lot of people die at once and it makes the news. But fact is, many orders of magnitude more people have died from fossil fuel plants, mining, byproducts, and combustion. They just die slower, in smaller groups, so it doesn't get reported on as easily.

skulblaka , 2 months ago to Memes in that place is more and more shitty all the time

but the point I'm trying to make is that there is more than enough content here, if you look for it.

If you're looking for Linux memes, American politics, or tumblr crossposts, absolutely. Lemmy has you covered in spades. But I miss some of my more niche communities. I miss memes and discussions about Deep Rock Galactic and Guilty Gear. I miss discussing Elden Ring pvp. I miss the Warhammer 40k nerds. I miss /r/JustRolledIntoTheShop. In the meantime I've been making do (ineffectively) with Discord groups but it's not a good replacement.

I'm not going back to reddit, especially now after recent news, but even you have to admit some types of content are lacking. For certain subjects, we've got it handled. For many, many others, we just don't have the mass of users required to build that community. And in some ways that's good. Not having Lemmy become the seething mass of infinite strangers that Reddit was helps keep us more personal, more manageable. I recognize names here sometimes that I'm happy to see, that rarely ever happened on reddit. But I've had radio silence on some of my favorite hobbies and communities for about a year now and it kind of sucks. It sucks to the point that I'm frequently tempted to return to reddit just to check up on some communities, but I'm always turned away by their most recent user-hostility.

skulblaka , 2 months ago to 196 in Weird Explorerule

He sounds like the Technology Connections of fruit

skulblaka , 2 months ago to Technology in Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?

Mine has a habit of correcting "people" into "puerile", a word I've never used except for complaining in this context.

skulblaka , 2 months ago to Memes in Chinese numbers

It's clearly a man pissing his name into the snow (in simplified Chinese)

skulblaka , 2 months ago to 196 in [not a meme] anyone I should add?

Zefrank makes exactly the sort of content that's required to get bored kids interested in a science. He is doing us a public service.

skulblaka , 2 months ago to Technology in FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote

It's a fun thing to talk about but everyone seems to forget that historically, that didn't actually end that well.

Eat the rich, yes, but you need to have a plan first for what comes after.

skulblaka , 2 months ago to 196 in Homeless rule

That word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

skulblaka , 2 months ago to 196 in julius rulius

Hell yeah, one of my top life goals is to get sacked by goths

skulblaka , 2 months ago to Technology in YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking

Unfortunately that's more likely a strike against them than in their favor

skulblaka , 2 months ago to Technology in ‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram

You are being blackmailed. This is no different than having the boys show up at your front door demanding protection money. Pay us and nobody (read: us) will break your legs. Pay us and nobody will steal your data.

skulblaka , 2 months ago to Technology in ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say

Yeah they won't speed up shit, that requires investment in infrastructure. They'll just slow down all existing lanes by 40%, blame it on something unrelated, and then charge you 2.5x as much as you used to pay to get your original speeds back.

skulblaka , 2 months ago to Technology in X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs

I'll believe a corporation is a person when I see Texas fuckin' execute one.

skulblaka , 2 months ago to Technology in Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools

.... I don't, actually, I've been using ClassicShell basically since the day Win10 came out and it's always worked perfectly. Don't think I've even updated it actually.

skulblaka , 2 months ago to 196 in rule

Terry Pratchett's Discworld approaches magic as a fundamental force akin to gravity or nuclear force. It even has a unit of measurement (the Thaum, further broken down into millithaums, etc)

There are a whole host of reasons you should read Discworld but this just adds another.