Unblended

I saw the writing on the wall a few years back, it was so painfully obvious. I started switching to KiCAD early, and feel so bad for ever recommending Eagle to people who will now have to learn yet another new tool in order to find something usable.

Fusion360 is so bad, I had to explain why SolidWorks was different earlier today and they were shocked by things like “if I move the case the board I say is attached to the case moves to” and “I don’t have to align it by eye, it’s a computer”.

And I’m definitely not starting VMWare to run Fusion360 with nonsense online components that slow it down to uselessness and integrate it into a tool that doesn’t need to be on at all… it’s just not possible. It was obvious once they stopped updating the version. It’s pathetic nonetheless that they cannot think beyond the one-true-way of integrating a dozen mediocre tools into one extra-mediocre product.

I think I’m much too old for Prodigy or something because one episode was too much.

But Lower Decks is absolutely amazing, it’s really nice to have a legitimate comedy within the honest-to-god Star Trek universe so they can just actually make fun of Riker by name.

I like Strange New Worlds alright. It’s better than Discovery, and I liked Discovery fine.

Picard was great until the S1 twist and I refused to watch further. Maybe that’s not fair, I found it a bit Disney-ish but wow that ending. I just have to head cannon a more respectful ending and I imagine I’ll get around to it.

Though I have somehow never managed to get around to Enterprise…

I appreciate that on Mastodon I had the ability to hide stats from my UI view, no harm making it optional I suppose.

I’m not from reddit, what is a reputation and what practical effect does it have? Is it just upvotes minus downvotes?

I found a reputation in my profile of “1” but I don’t have a clue where that came from. I’m not sure why we need to have scores associated with our accounts, that in itself seems toxic to me to care about (clout chasing).

Upvoting comments in threads makes sense, I’m just not seeing any actual practical connection with the thing called “reputation” on my profile. What does it do in a best case?

I think that bots that repost automatically are lame, personally, but as long as they are clearly tagged and I have the ability to ignore anything from any bot that’s fine. We had the same issue on Mastodon, I still can’t figure out how to straight up block bots on there which is frustrating so instead I just filter out any posts that say “twitter” or “RT”.

I don’t have any issue with bots as long as they’re easy to block across the board instead of individually.

I do think it’s lame and that y’all are better than that.

I wonder if China has a favorite.

Can’t control when you do it.

While true, people seem to pretty immediately get it once it’s clear where to see the source instance. If they care, they’re usually surprised, and then the reason magazines on different instances are different makes sense.

I’m not sure what there is to do about it, the impression that there is one magazine is a relic of centralization, all there is to do is explain that it is not the case when people are inevitably confused. I hate simplifying it to “bob@microsoft.com and bob@apple.com are different people” because I know it feels more complicated than that but it seems like it doesn’t take that long to click honestly.

Best I figure is to have welcoming communities that don’t turn into asshats if someone is confused or asks questions. This doesn’t seem like something you can force people to understand before they run into a problem and try to figure out what’s going on. Eventually there will be an AI bot that answers questions I’m sure…!

I wonder to what extent the massive imbalance in news coverage was simply super wealthy families handing journalists pre-written pieces so that laziness would dictate this result (rather than the journalists doing this naturally, although laziness is natural enough I guess).

No, absolutely do not run your own instance, that’s absurd. That’s like saying you shouldn’t bother using email if you don’t host your own server.

Your concerns make sense, they have complete access to anything you post and I can’t imagine that any sort of messages are encrypted. That’s just true. They could theoretically take your posts and sell them for profit, though anyone can already do that by simply federating with your server.

Anyway.

There’s a limit. Just assume anything you post is not private for sure. I don’t know if you can edit things, but I’d be shocked if it were impossible for an admin to. Maybe I’m wrong, they’re such early software…

The good news is that in theory you should be able to migrate your entire account from the one you are on to a new one if you don’t like the policy. Maybe? Not sure if that works yet.

But no, do not roll your own instance, that is silly and ruins discovery. At the same time be aware that the one you are on is ultimately owned by someone with the root password.

In your case, lemmy.ca says this about the instance you are on.

Lemmy.ca
A canadian-run community, geared towards canadians, but all are welcome!
Welcome to Lemmy.ca!

“Lemmy.ca” is so named due to it running the Lemmy software, in the Fediverse, and it’s geared toward Canadians, hosted in Canada, and run by a Canadian. It is, however, not at all restricted to Canadians, or Canadian culture/topics/etc. All are welcome!
We have some rules here:

No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
No porn.
No Ads / Spamming.

That gives a fair amount of information about what is and is not acceptable on that particular instance. Looking at your local communities only should tell you a lot about the general character of the group, I don’t use Lemmy (this is from kbin, hi) but it seems like your UI has multiple buttons to show all/subscribed/local feeds, so switch it to local and see if it pisses you off.

Telling who owns it is harder, I think that’s often somewhat obscured for dox/harassment reasons. However, in this case the website shows at the bottom of the right-side column who the admins are:

admins: @smorks @crb

And now I see that @smorks noticed your post and hopefully that will clear things up ;-) Hopefully they don’t mind being doxxxxxxed.

I love #mosstadon (do mastodon tags do anything in posts on kbin I wonder?).

I love how many mastodon posts are people taking pretty pictures of moss or mushrooms or birds.