You also can’t exactly get ethical approval to put microplastics into people for the purposes of scientific experimentation. Or at least, it would be very difficult. More so when current evidence shows that it does have actively harmful effects.

To think we could have almost had the Octopus system Hong Kong uses.

They’re nice when they work. Problem is when they don’t.

Why are the new Myki readers so awful? I’d argue them to be worse than even the first-generation readers with a bad read.

The entire device basically gets locked out on a bad read for about a minute. If your Myki doesn’t read properly, or your phone is acting up, a few retries could lock out a big chunk of the station gates.

What do you like better here than on Reddit?

The interfaces are better, and being able to integrate with mastodon is interesting.

What do you miss from Reddit?

The size of the communities, really. On Reddit, a lot of the subs have grown big enough that they can maintain themselves, whereas here, they’re pretty much dead without input. A few of the more interesting counterpart communities that I would frequent a tonne on Reddit are dead now, and if you’re just one user, it does feel like spam to try and contribute to it constantly.

It’s really only a limit subset of communities that seem very active at all, and they are generally news or politics based.

Do you feel the culture here is genuinely different, or does it eventually drift the same way?

Bit of both. The culture in the larger communities would drift the way of Reddit just by volume, but the smaller ones are a bit more unique, and not always in a good way. Because Lemmy is a bit more tech-focused, I find a lot of the main medium-sized communities tend to have similar abrasiveness you see a bit in tech, though it can depend on both community and server.

IMO the appeal isn’t the actual breakfast in bed, it’s having your partner care for you enough to make you breakfast and bring it to you.

Lately, she doesn’t even wake up and she just kinda turns in her sleep and whacks me in the face like she’s hitting the snooze button. It’s… admittedly been very effective.

Cat energy

I don’t think a non-Fediverse person would be very familiar with Mastodon. They’d be more likely to go “What, like elephants?”.

I would keep it really simple, and just go for “Reddit alternative”. The whole Federation and decentralised business is going to be a sledgehammer if you introduce it to someone who’s not familiar with the concept.

Then you shit out the slop content and hope your channel picks up. If it fails to drive numbers you abandon it and start with the next channel with the next topic variation. If you get lucky and the algorithm blesses you, you continue to shit out hundreds of videos.

I’m not even sure that you would have to do the abandoning part. There’s likely toolkits that let you upload to multiple channels at once. You can just start them up and spread them out as you wish.

Why abandon a channel when it costs nothing to upload to it, and it might go viral one day?

A lot of older videos can be randomly promoted by the algorithm.

Everyone on Reddit Lemmy is a bot, except you.

He brawled with the shotgun shell, and lost.

Hate it when the bed ends up cooked.

Induction does do that. It’s too bad that they tend to have the rather opposite problem where because they go so quickly, a lot of the time, the graduations aren’t fine enough to work with.

If it wasn’t for the fact that electricity was so expensive (3x the price for power, though an induction stove uses half as much), I’d not mind using an induction hob nearly all the time.

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No. Being able to do that was why Martin Luther had the whole problem with indulgences.

You could pay the church to forgive a sin before committing it.

Another victim of the high blood pressure epidemic 😔

He should’ve tried eating less salt.

I thought they got put together like a tapestry?

That’s why they have looms or something to knit them up.

There’s a fair bit of nuance around the topic of whether honey should be vegan or not, since honeybees also overproduce, and that is its own problem. Like with sheep’s wool.

Although crude oil has the additional complication where it’s an incidental post-death product, like fertiliser, and from that viewpoint, it would be about as ethical.

If you have a chronic health condition, are particularly ill, or have a disability, good luck. You’ll need it.

What’s your use case?

One of the biggest weaknesses of the XM4 is that they don’t fold like their predecessors or successors.

If you want to carry it around a lot, it might not make sense to buy them compared to what you already have, or one of the other models.