Or it turns out you accidentally left caps lock on, and now you’re locked out for a few minutes.

How things change. Checked up on a uni friend who I’d not seen in a bit, she’s married with kids now, which was just a wild thing to think about.

Meanwhile, another friend and I are about the same as we were then, just with degrees.

Genuinely amazing how some parts of the city have barely changed in the intervening decades. Popped by Narre Warren, and it was almost like it was still 1990.

I didn’t, actually, but thank you.

The Star Trek ones over on startrek.website. They weren’t the most active to begin with, though their activity has dropped a bit more over time.

That “little more complicated” is asking for a lot, though.

Say you’re coming from Reddit, or Facebook, or something.

It would not be unreasonable to believe that, like Reddit, every single Lemmy instance is its own separate, self-contained site.

And that’s even before figuring out federation works, and how to access things from outside of your instance, or all the nuances that come with defederation and all of that. You made the mistake of joining beehaw? Whoops, all the other “subs” are now inaccessible, because beehaw is not connected to any of the others.

Central places like Reddit don’t have that complexity. Reddit communities are singular, and there’s no overarching layer to complicate things. A community that disagrees with another, and blocks them doesn’t affect your experience as an user.

The decentralisation probably doesn’t help either. People coming to Lemmy from other places are coming from a centralised system. That takes some getting used to.

If you’re new to this, you can be forgiven by thinking that all the Lemmy instances are their own separate thing, like the forums of old, rather than that they’re all interconnected (excluding a whole bunch of stuff about defederation and all of that mess).

Part of it is that people also moved on from Lemmy too. Lemmy is nice, but there also isn’t very much by way of activity on it, which feeds back into itself. No activity means there’s nothing to draw people into it, and not enough to keep them around when they are there.

One of the communities and (non-world) instances I frequented is all but dead these days.

Went to the aquarium today. It was lovely.

They have this ridiculously big baby penguin, that’s twice the size of the other penwings. It looks like a gargantuan kiwi.

If they somehow succeed, that’s how you know you’ve found a keeper.

Do the emoji in the thread name stand for something? They seem to be different every time I’ve seen them.

Bought a bike from cashies, but can’t quite shake the paranoia that it might have been stolen and pawned or something, after taking it home, so that’s been a fun damper to the day.

You also constantly shed skin, so any mould that tries to get a hold would have a difficult time staying on.

A little sad to see the Lemmy winding down a bit.

Small victories, but learned to fry an egg, and get it cooked the whole way through without flipping it.

Still yet to figure out how to have it be slightly runny without being raw up top though.

Also kind of wish that they sold thicker cuts of bacon. A half-cm thick slice sounds heavenly on toast.

Especially if they also misuse acronyms.

“Grandma died LOL 😂”

Why is there a minimum hold time of 30 minutes when calling any government service? Always “we’re experiencing a high volume of calls”.

It’s particularly bad for Centrelink, where you might not even make it to the hold queue, and just get a busy tone/automatic hang-up.

They’re basically never not “experiencing an unusually high volume of calls”. At some point, you’d think that the high volume of calls would just become the norm. Your average worker is juggling a whole bunch of different people all at once, and that doesn’t seem at all sustainable.

And the hold music is terrible.

Tom Scott did a video on it. It used to be better, but newer computerised systems, where they’re both using old files, and it’s crushed to death because it’s cheaper to store/process that way.

As an aside, I feel like the sound quality has also gone downhill. it used to be either clear, or at least somewhat audible, but now, it’s just incomprehensible gibberish at times.

Anyone know if those power meter monitors are any good? Was thinking of getting one that sits on the counter, since I’d rather not do it by app, but nearly all of the ones that I looked at either had no way of getting one, or needed an app.

There’s a company that comes by every few weeks and offers to attach a chromecast-looking dingle to the power meter, but it seems a bit dodgy/fragile.

Other companies? Companies also need things, so they would also need things to buy and sell. Buying and selling to each other doesn’t seem entirely unreasonable, particularly if the goods are non-physical. A company selling editing services for articles to a company that writes those articles for a news company who might be selling stocks to an investment company, and ad space to an ad company, etc.

Realistically, though, that doesn’t tend to be that high a priority, or much of a long-term worry. Most of the concern these days seems to be focused more on the short-term profit more so than anything else, even if it will ultimately harm the company.

Not that it would really matter for most, since a lot of the people who might otherwise be affected would likely be out and away by the time that that rolls around. It would barely affect them.

It’s either somewhere obvious that you could have sworn that you’d already checked, or it’ll turned out to be in some inscrutable place, and you’ll have no idea how it got there.

If it keeps up, he might be able to use it like whales use their baleen.