Interestingly, I have two Lemmy accounts and hadn’t set any languages in either at first. Until I noticed one of my accounts couldn’t see certain posts, and was advised to do the multiple language thing. Why it only affected the one account I have no idea, but it’s definitely worth explicitly setting this just in case.
I was renewing mine at age 50 and the lady at the DMV said, “don’t you think we should change your license to say grey hair?”. That was the day for me.
I’ve been bleaching and dying my hair different colours for the last few years (because I didn’t go to the office for two years and then no one cared). I recently got a new passport and had blue hair for the photo. Fortunately the main photo is black and white as my hair is purple now, and will likely be a different colour by the end of the year.
I don’t play any mobile games so I unfortunately don’t know any recommendations but if sandboxing an app that doesn’t respect your privacy sounds like a good solution to you, you could try shelter. Additionally, the Aurora Store can show you what permissions and trackers an android app on the Play Store uses.
You were downvoted but you’re right. What’s the cutesy nickname for people who use email? Do these people still say they’re surfing the information superhighway?
For me, probably Half-Life 2. Especially at the time? It was such a leap ahead in both technology and overall world immersion. I still revisit it sometimes and get sucked right back in.
I’ll agree with you on Beatles Rock Band too, though. It’s a work of art.
The original Half Life is pretty fun, but I’d recommend checking out Black Mesa. It’s a remake of the original game in the same engine that Half-Life 2 uses, and changes some things for the better.
I’m oldschool, I used old reddit on the desktop, and when I was on my phone, I’d use old reddit, in a browser, desktop site.
Pinch to zoom was the massive feature missing from all the apps. My close vision isn’t quite what it was, so my optimal font size for detail reading is a bit bigger than for headline-skimming - and skimming with large fonts is a horrible experience; the information density goes to shit, and everything is whitespace.
So I want to be able to zoom on text when I want to read in detail, and out again when browsing. And I want it in one seamless gesture that I can change from second to second without having to think about it, not laboriously drilling down into settings menus and completely disrupting the flow. Pinch zoom in the desktop site did precisely what I wanted, and every mobile site or app goes to enormous lengths to disable it :(
I just don’t like any apps very much. They always feel claustrophobic, dumbed down and over-curated, like I’ve got a sales assistant breathing down my neck trying to sell me an experience instead of just letting me loose to browse. Let me see the fucking URL. Let me copy and paste whatever the fuck I want to, using the system facilities. Stop reinventing the wheel with UI and UX. It’s text, images and buttons; we have an app for that, it’s called a browser, and a million times the development you’ll ever be able to muster has gone into getting the interface general-purpose, effective and predictable.
This gets asked a lot, but we need a definitive answer from the guy who started the project, damn it. He just won’t tell us other than some vague references to “Lemmy” things. I guess there’s this;
It was nameless for a long time, but I wanted to keep with the fediverse tradition of naming projects after animals. I was playing that old-school game Lemmings, and Lemmy (from motorhead) had passed away that week, and we held a few polls for names, and I went with that.
kbin.life
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