Some instances are kinda obvious to figure out what they have in common, like the now-extinct VeganTheoryClub, but some are a little harder to figure out, like the ml in Lemmy.ml is for Marxist-Leninists.

Something that’s a little different compared to other social media platforms (and isn’t on your list of thought/questions) is being able to judge books by their covers.

Since you can choose which is your home instance is based on the rules, moderation, and general vibe, the instance someone is from can tell you A LOT about them. There are some users who just mute all users from certain instances, because of this.

If you’re on Lemmy.world (which is based on the Netherlands, but everyone just assumes is from the USA), you likely won’t be muted because of your home instance since it’s basically the default.

Peter Thiel

A right-wing billionaire who is responsible for a lot modern evils, but he sometimes likes to pull the “I’m not evil or racist, I am gay, so I can’t be”.

You may have heard of Facebook, or Palantir, or JD Vance.

For those unaware, this isn’t something like replacing a slur with removed, he edited users’ comments, turning them into insults to other users.

I don’t care that those original commenters were (likely) pieces of shit, and the people who he made the comments insult were definitely pieces of shit, putting words into people’s mouths to make them fight each other is unforgivable. Even if you put out a shitty apology.

The biggest weakness is multiplayer games with aggressive anti-cheat. So those are the types of games you play, continue to stay away from Linux.

But for most games on Linux, it is just install and play now through a platform like Steam. I haven’t run into a game that I want to play that doesn’t basically “just work”.

I would say that most people who own a computer use local apps, and that the experience, and long-term costs, of using a local program is often better than doing something completely cloud-based.

They use data from webtraffic to make their charts, so talking about local apps doesn’t really have much to do with this website.

whether or not there are better sites for exchanging coin to cold wallets with lower fee’s that are trustworthy.

Nothing connected to crypto is trustworthy.

From that Lemmyverse thing you linked.

The problem is that ! links only work if you click them on a comment while you are logged into your account.

That lemmyverse thing you linked doesn’t seem fully functional,

Can you click on these?

!mazda@lemm.ee
!miatanc@lemm.ee
!cx5@lemm.ee

You’re on .ml which is blocked by, and blocks, a LOT of instances. You can’t interact with .world communities.

Infowars was/is a media company, Alex Jones’ show was on TV and online.
They are known for peddling and creating far right conspiracy theories, and because of this were often banned from social media websites for breaking their Terms of Service.
Because Elon is a right-wing conspiracy theorist who likes Alex Jones, he unbanned infowars from Twitter when he(Elon) bought it.

Inforwars was recently sued into the ground because of the claims he made to his audience about the victims of school shootings and their families. Because of this, he was ordered to have his assets liquidated.
The Onion (a satirical news/comedy website) won the bid for Inforwars and its assets, and Elon isn’t a fan of this, so he’s trying to not allow The Onion access to the Inforwars Twitter account.

If you like a little more crunch, Pathfinder or Starfinder.
If you like a little less crunch, Cities without Number/Stars Without Number/Worlds without number.

If you want something different, Vampire: The Masquerade.
If you want something completely different and to only last a session, 10 Candles.

I went with the Razr (2023), and it’s great. It was cheap, it gets small, and the screen is on the inside, meaning I don’t need to worry about things scratching it, and the battery lasts a long time.
If there is another similar phone when I go to replace mine, I will grab it.
If all the market offers me is an expensive phone with a giant outer screen, I won’t.

Reader mode of Firefox helped me be able to read the content of the article, despite the unacceptable layout.

Here’s the short version:
Wet-bulb weather is when because of a combination of humidity and heat, you can’t naturally cool off with things like sweat.
There are certain combinations where the weather only needs to be 25.8C for a health younger person, or 21.9C for an elderly person for “wet-bulb” to be achieved.
Climate change is real, and it’s causing more instances of “wet-bulb” weather.
Outside activities may not be possible in the summer in certain parts of the world, people will die, the rich will move.

That doesn’t make it any less awful.

Thankfully, a lot of browsers have a reader mode to undo such sins.

That’s some awful website design.

They can only tell that something is blocked because the ad wasn’t loaded from a server. If it’s not loaded, then they can’t count it as “viewed.”

If the ad is just blacked over, it is still loaded, and they wouldn’t know.

I don’t have any idea why are you posting on reddit.

This doesn’t look ergonomic at all. It looks like instead of potential wrist issues, you get thumb issues.

by “client” do you mean “just use a browser”?

Some games/software expected/relied on a certain CPU speed to run correctly. If your computer was faster than that, the software would run too fast. The turbo button let you toggle between the maximum speed your computer could go, and the speed that the software needed/expected in order to run normally.

Basically, there was an actual reason for the turbo button, it wasn’t just marketing on computers.