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I know that Lemmy is open source and it can only get better from here on out, but I do wonder if any experts can weigh in whether the foundation is well written? Or are we building on top of 4 years worth of tech debt?

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In case you’re wondering, the AC unit in our bedroom costs $0.16/hour. The living room costs $0.50/hour....

This might be just EU thing, but is there an effective way to deal with endless “accept/reject cookies” dialogues?...

All / Hot is flooded with these random posts that are just porn search terms. They are all brand new posts with no comments or upvotes.

Usually when someone is venting at me, I feel like I should respond somehow and say something, but I have no idea what that something could/should be. Is it better to just listen or try to comfort them in some way?

Two weeks ago, I had a date with a girl I met through a dating app. She was really nice, we had a great conversation and she told in person at the bar she would love to see me again....

I went to college with this guy 10 years ago and I considered him a friend up until this year. Something changed in him, and he constantly needs to put me down and I don’t know how to handle it....

So this dude is basically a 46 year old man child and I don’t wanna armchair diagnose people, but he’s probably on the spectrum....

I’m sure there’s something “nutritional” there for them but?

There has been a ton of CSAM and CP arrests in the US lately, especially from cops and teachers, along with at least one female teacher seducing boys as young as 12. I cannot understand the attraction to kids. Even teens. Do these people think they are having a relationship, or it is somehow okay to take away another human...

Edit2: It’s a subjective perception I’m talking about. Are you offended? Why?...

Shouldn’t be that hard, right?

Let’s say you find a subreddit with a very interesting guide that contains no private information....

Given that racists and slavers used the “natural physical strength” of black people to justify putting them on hard labor and some medics still think that blacks has higher resistance to pain, I wonder if when black athletes started to join mixed race sport teams, some racist would have used the same “biological...

I’m speaking of online data harvested through apps, websites, hardware (such as phones/streaming devices)....

If you’re using the laptop as intended (i.e., on your lap), wouldn’t those be almost entirely blocked?

Let’s say there’s someone I want to call Mr/Ms/Mrs [Name], but I don’t know their gender, is there a title I can use that doesn’t assume their gender?

Reddit doesn’t actually own any of the content, right? Neither do any of the contributors? Seems like a good way to fuck Reddit.

I have a friend who has been using an e-cigarette for 10+ years. He doesn’t seem any less addicted to smoking as back when he was using old-fashioned cigarettes....

Businesses are in it for the money, employees tend to be one of the larger expenses, so maintaining some bullshit positions that would cost them money doesn’t make fiscal sense, so what’s up?

It just seems crazy to me given the power imbalance. A cynical part of me suspects that things are playing out exactly as some evil strategists hoped they would, which, given all the children dying, is super-depressing....

I remember this site years ago - maybe in 2018 or so. It had like 50 or so references to scriptures and how they could be interpreted to Trump being the Antichrist....

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