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What's was your favourite fast food product that unfortunately got retired and never came back?

Here, for a while at McDonald’s there was a 🍔 called “the 1955” and it was the best, big pieces of onion, an special sauce, buns and big piece of beef with bacon (for Europe standards anyways) it disappeared once and came back for an encore only to be removed again and never return.

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How can no one else miss Taco Bell’s naked chicken chalupa? I loved that thing.

And the McRib is missed every time it leaves.

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Glad I could help

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I love Signal and use it with my family which is the majority of my messaging. But I was surprised to find out the rest of my family on iPhone are missing features I have on Android. This doesn’t help bring the iPhone users.

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I use following feed the most, but now that I think about it I need to check out the other feeds more often to find interesting follows. Same goes for trending and discover features, yeah, I’m on Pixeldroid. I rarely use the web too.

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I’ve had the best experience with Summit. Went through quite a few before stopping here.

who is on Lemmy (the sociology of Lemmy)

I dont know if this has been asked before or if this may be a little goofy of a question but I didn’t see anything relating to it and I’m kinda curious what the culture of Lemmy is like and what sort of common things people see. ive been paying attention to interactions but nothing is as good as just asking everyone.

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56, in Alabama. Pharmacist. Use Pop!_OS on a System76 Darter Pro. I’ve never used Reddit but I’m a regular on Mastodon and Pixelfed. Also use X. No other social media.

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I use both Mac and Pop!_OS (Gnome) and I like and dislike both. MacOS has a great qulcklook that I miss in Gnome. Sushi almost corrected that oversight but it hasn’t worked right for me in a couple of years now. I also like Mac’s useful icon shortcut in the window title bar.

Gnome’s extension system is a clusterfuck, but at least I can decide how windows function, unlike Mac.

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I’m talking about previewing PDFs, mp4s, and photos in the finder by selecting the file and hitting the spacebar.

And Linux really needs an app like Preview too.

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But you can follow Lemmy accounts from Mastodon

the Pixel 8 Carveit case is beautiful, but... (discuss.online)

These cases are beautiful and I would love to have many of them. But they don’t offer as much protection as many other cases. There isn’t much protection for the camera especially. They provide a sticker to place over the camera area to prevent scratches. I stuck this on because I was afraid I would need it....

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That would suck

YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream (youtu.be)

While it is no secret that exploitative practices are interlaced with capitalistic tendencies, the practices are becoming intolerable. Signing up to pay usually takes only two clicks that are prominently visible whereas cancelation options are hidden away in deep settings requiring multiple clicks. Pricing often feel arbitrary...

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Speaking of dark patterns, anyone use TurboTax lately?

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But does it do state too?

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Cool. Do you know Elvira’s handle?

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The idea is to show normies on Threads that it’s better over here without so the ads and shit. Let Meta introduce them to the fediverse.

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Today.

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I use an adblocking DNS plus UBO on Firefox

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I just blocked it’s Internet access

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Same here. I looked for alternatives but nothing worked as well.

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I tried that one too. I couldn’t stick with it. I don’t remember why now.

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Those that are on Threads are likely not even aware of the rest of the fediverse. I think that when they interact with us they will be. And when Meta decides it’s time to start ads some people will think it’s better over here. Also, some people won’t like Threads using an algorithm on their feed.

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I’m not a fan of Meta and I don’t want to join Threads. But there may be some people over there I would like to follow. At least on Mastodon, we can block any instance we choose to manually. I hate when instances make the decision for me.

Defederation should be a last resort when there are so many options here for people to tailor their own feeds.

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They are going to need an algorithm if they want to keep people. The whole fediverse needs it for that matter. It makes for less work for the user base. User chosen or created is fine, but they need it.

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I’m the only Android user in my family. We use Signal for messaging and video calls. Anything Google implements is not likely to be cross platform anyway.

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Working in the caddyshack. I use that all the time which makes me think you’re genX too. I think maybe the fediverse skews older because we’ve learned from our mistakes with prior social media.

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A few years ago I felt the same way. I installed the Should I Answer? app and even limited calls to people in my contacts to get it under control.

I’m on a Pixel too. I’m in the USA and, at some point, Google got their act together on screening calls here. Most spam is rejected outright and the remaining ones get screened by the phone itself. I haven’t had spam call in a couple of years now! And I don’t have to use Should I Answer? anymore.

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Much like librewolf, my favorite desktop browser

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It is my default. I use ublock and Dark Background Light Text extensions. And the reader view is better than any chromium phone browser.

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On mobile I only use New Pipe for videos. Admittedly, I don’t do much YouTube but I haven’t noticed any problems on my laptop.

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Sync works great over here. It even syncs history which is great because I use an extension on the laptop to limit history to 28 days and that becomes synced with Android without an additional extension.

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Forgetting politics, I liked Brave. But sometimes they do seem a little shady. I’m loving Librewolf even more, though there’s no Android version. It does sync with Firefox and Mull though.

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I agree with you on this much of the time. Especially on sites today that have ads. The fediverse doesn’t have that problem.

But the mobile web interface isn’t that great yet for Lemmy. Pixelfed’s web interface is so good I debate whether or not to use an app but Lemmy isn’t there yet.

What's a good phone now that doesn't force ads on me?

I’m using a Pixel 6 Pro right now, and I’m looking around to see if there are any good phones. However, I have heard that there are ads in the newer flagship phones (Samsung, Xiaomi). I am willing to spend around USD$750 on a new phone, but I just don’t want any crazy ads or preinstalled apps like Facebook. Are there...

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I love librewolf too but there is no mobile version. And don’t say mull because that refresh rate makes it unusable.

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I would use mull if they only increased that refresh rate. But as it is now, I use Firefox on mobile in the strictest tracking protection mode and UBO.

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Thank you for your effort, but I honestly already knew all this. What I want to know is why one couldn’t simply report 60hz to fingerprinters while, in reality, maintaining the highest possible rate in the browser.

I don’t want to turn off resist fingerprinting but that refresh rate ruins the browser for me.

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The gay marriage thing is not a good look now, but it’s worth noting that he’s not trying to abolish it today.

And the referral link things is also old and it was walked back after it was discovered.

Choose your tools based on your needs because everyone will have some politics you don’t like.

Delusion6903 ,

As far as I know, you are correct. My main browser is Librewolf and search engine is DDG. But I still use Brave when I rarely need a chromium browser or alternate search engine and he gains nothing from that.

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Too bad people on mastodon don’t have the ability to block an instance they find objectionable for themselves-- oh wait.

Not sure about Lemmy, but we can do this on mastodon. I don’t need someone else deciding for me.

Tldr? Couldn’t disagree more

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I look forward to the additional people Threads could bring here. Once the conversations are both directions I think many people will migrate to this side to avoid ads and Meta.

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This.

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not here either

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Other launchers are better anyway. But it does become another big step for those that never leave defaults.

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I use Firefox and DDG on my Pixel but I do keep a small Google option for those (usually location based} particular searches https://discuss.online/pictrs/image/8f732ff7-8311-4d76-a175-5d146d45a479.png

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Firefox had the best reader view of any browser and looks great in both mobile and desktop.

Also, uBlock

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Brave is great on mobile, but they still don’t have the Firefox reader view.

Brave is my second choice.

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No work around is needed. You can install a very limited number of extensions on Firefox mobile and they are the ones you want the most. This includes uBlock Origen.

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Browser choice. Actually browser ENGINE choice. And the ability to set my own default apps, including the launcher.

F-droid. Side loading.

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