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Quicky OP , (edited )

Nope.

Not wanting to play the global ignorance stereotype, but £100 says you’re an American.

Quicky OP ,

But what if the Jarvis family do still live here, and I just can’t see them? Maybe I’m a Jarvis? 😱

Quicky OP ,

That’s put me right off my brew.

Quicky OP ,

One year I did actually open one of the cards, but as predicted there was no return address, or even surname, so no chance of getting back to them.

So as much as putting “No longer at this address” as has been suggested would probably stop me getting the cards, the senders would never know because the cards can’t be traced back.

This way, those wishing the Jarvis’ season’s greetings year after year can continue to happily wish them well, oblivious to the fact that they lost touch over a decade ago.

The Jarvis family probably have a different opinion though, and question why they never get Christmas cards from these people despite sending their own every year. Should have given them a forwarding address then shouldn’t you? Clearly you’re not that disappointed to lose touch if you couldn’t be arsed to update them, you boring-surnamed fucks. Merry Christmas.

Quicky OP ,

Sadly no. On the one occasion I did open one of the cards, there was no return address. Otherwise I’d have been going round for a plate like Jamal and Wanda on Thanksgiving.

Quicky OP ,

Thanks, I got it for my birthday.

Quicky OP ,

Unfortunately we only rocked up half an hour before the party started, but that would otherwise have been a good idea.

That or just a piece of paper to the right of it with “+10” written on it.

Quicky OP ,
  1. Party venue in pub conference room.
  2. Arrived 30 minutes prior to the start time of our party.
  3. Brought some token decorations to make it look like we’d made some effort.
  4. We brought a single small balloon.
  5. There was obviously a party the night before, celebrating a 60th of some kind.
  6. Pub owners hadn’t removed the decorations from previous party.
  7. We didn’t want to dispose of the original balloons in case their owners wanted to collect them and weren’t able to previously.
  8. The 60 balloons sat there the whole time during our party.
  9. Previous party organisers made us look like the absolute amateurs we are.
  10. MILDLY infuriating.
  11. Bonus extra item: nobody actually cared, just thought it was comical, emphasised by the placement of the 70th balloon, where each set of balloons is in direct proportion to the amount of sentiment held for the celebrant.
Quicky OP ,

Thanks. Would a prosthetic one be bi-yonic?

I’ll see myself out.

Quicky ,

Can’t see the wood from the trees.

Quicky OP ,

I reckon this is the correct answer. It’s in a popular wedding venue, so it’s probably to try and dissuade the pissed-up mums from having a crack at the swings and fucking up the surface on the way.

Quicky OP ,

I think I’ve met your mum.

Quicky OP ,

either way I want a swing

You’ll find no judgement here.

Quicky OP ,

Either that or it’s to prevent the other kids’ envious tears when my toddler rocks up in his Jimmy Choo stilettos.

Quicky , (edited )

My bugbear is all the Linux circle-jerking. I get that the fediverse has a high nerd-count (I’m one of them), but the “switch to Linux” sentiment is so tedious. Yes, Linux is great for those that have the time or inclination to learn swathes of new terminologies and procedures just to achieve the same level of productivity that the equivalent commercial data-harvesters offer in a more readily-accessible UX, but the vast majority of users simply don’t care.

This old meme couldn’t be less appropriate on Lemmy.

Operating systems

Edit: Not wanting to poke the bear, but the accusatory phrasing in a couple of the responses below (“you obviously haven’t used Linux in 10 years” and “you don’t really understand the motivation behind FOSS”) go some way towards emphasising the point of this comment.

Quicky ,

Since when do people need to take into account if anyone else cares when posting to social media? They’re not content creators serving an audience.

I mean, this whole post is about what content is preferable in this specific community.

Quicky , (edited )

You obviously haven’t tried Linux for at least ten years. It’s really not like that.

This is the standard response I’ve heard from Linux advocates for the last 20 years.

I know it’s easy to assume off the back of my initial comment that I might not have, but I assure you, my frustrations with Linux are not borne out of inexperience.

Quicky ,

I wouldn’t disagree, and I’m not saying FOSS is inferior, I’m just whinging about the Linux evangelising.

There is no perfect OS that can have universal approval. However if I’d I said “Windows is a data-harvesting nightmare” or “Being locked in to Apple ecosystems is constricting and expensive” then I’m sure I’d see the upvote button hammered on Lemmy. But to seemingly question the validity of Linux as a silver bullet for the vast majority of desktop users is borderline heresy.

Quicky ,

I’ve been reading about its potential for a long time. Maybe next year will be the year of Linux ;)

Quicky ,

What’s your barometer, bearing in mind you said it had the potential to be a silver bullet? Silver bullet for what?

I don’t want to sound defensive, but please don’t assume I’m not invested in FOSS. I’m on Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed and am the developer of half a dozen small FOSS projects on GitHub.

Quicky , (edited )

Linux absolutely does not exist “outside the market”, that’s absurd. Red Hat, Canonical, SUSE etc aren’t charitable organisations. These major contributors to the Linux kernel aren’t doing so out of love for their fellow man.

For you, yes, Linux is “free” if your measurement of cost is purely financial outlay.

There’s a great back and forth here, and the original thread on Mastodon, which nicely covers both the evangelism (my original issue) and the “cost” of Linux. There’s plenty of reactions in there from people talking about the same things, from both sides of the coin.

FOSS

Quicky ,

is your shame of being nerdy so deep that you prefer to try and shame others for not being ashamed?

This response couldn’t be a more perfect example of what I’m saying. Thank you.

Quicky ,

Your response is precisely the reaction I referenced by the edit. Why is it personal? “You don’t understand FOSS” “You clearly don’t use Linux” and now, beautifully, “You’re ashamed of being a nerd”.

Quicky ,

Nah mate, you can have this one. This is where I drop off. Jumping into a topic with “you must be ashamed of being a nerd“ is never going to provoke a worthwhile discussion.

Quicky ,

Completely agree, hence the reply to lolcatnip’s comment originally. It’s to be expected I guess, given where we are (as deweydecibel said earlier), but that doesn’t make it less annoying.

Quicky ,

Which is it? Are you seeing this complaint constantly, or is it a spicy individual opinion?

I’d probably say my preference to have fewer default knee-jerk recommendations for Linux within various tech posts about other systems isn’t particularly unpopular, if only going by the up/downvote count. Even if it was the other way around, I’d stand by it, however antagonistic you might find my “bravery”.

Quicky ,

2025!? That doesn’t even sound like a real year.

Quicky ,

Agree this is bullshit, but at least there’s a Reject All button which is far more than we probably would have got prior to the introduction of GDPR.

Quicky ,

In their defence, that is the correct term for this kind of data processing. Legitimate Interest

Quicky ,

Same here

Quicky ,

Loved my Windows Phones, I had three of them, and even released an app. I thought the app support, from a technical standpoint, was really good insofar as I could release the same app and have it run perfectly on phones, tablets and desktops. The issue I had with Windows Phones was how they just got steadily worse instead of better. They lost their uniqueness and became closer to Android clones with each iteration, and it was clear Microsoft weren’t fully behind the platform long before the app developers began to leave. Real shame.

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Quicky , (edited )

Was the prompt “Woman from China”?

Edit: I feel like the nuance of this joke may have been lost on some. Whether or not I read the article is irrelevant, since this was not a genuine question, rather a play on words of the double meaning of “china” as in “A woman from (the country) China” and “A woman (emerging) from china (porcelain)”.

I’ll get my coat.

Quicky ,

Whoosh

Quicky ,

The next time I make the same joke?

I reckon I’ll just keep it to myself instead. I already feel ridiculous for having to explain it. Lemmy is harder than real life.

Quicky ,

Nice try officer

Quicky ,

Onboarding. The fact that you have to choose an instance to join while creating an account is essentially forcing people to make a decision for which, unless they’ve done some reading, they’ll have no idea of the implications. It’s such a weird concept for new users - they have to know about a thing before they’ve had experience with a thing.

Even if it doesn’t really matter which instance you begin with, the experience will be different, and there’s a sense of “pressure” at the point of signup, which doesn’t exist outside of the Fediverse.

Quicky OP ,

My apologies

Quicky , (edited )

The article is about transitioning from Instagram to Pixelfed, i.e. it’s targeting people who already use Instagram. If an individual is an Instagram user already, then privacy clearly isn’t a consideration for them, and if it was, there are countless articles already regarding Meta’s approach to their data that don’t need to be recycled here.

If your concern is your data, then yes, don’t trust anyone but yourself. As has been said, there’s alternatives for that, including self-hosting.

Pixelfed’s advantages aren’t limited to potential privacy features though, which I agree would have been excellent items to raise in the article, such as a focus on photos and a complete lack of any algorithm forcing tailored content at you. But this is a how-to article, not a feature comparison. I’m sure we’ll see a prevalence of those in the future but it’s still early doors. I would argue that it literally does imply that Pixelfed is more privacy focused though - it’s right there in the title.

Quicky ,

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