Andreas

Is this like when they made the kilogram some function of the speed of light instead of the weight of a metal ball in a French museum?

No, it's 100% economics. Why do you think that having "careers, lives and travel" (as if having a family is not having a life?) is more appealing to modern first worlders? Because it doesn't impact their finances severely. Having more children in impoverished countries is a financial gain because children are free labor and lottery tickets to get the entire family out of poverty. In wealthy countries, children are only a financial loss.

Använder inte ChatGPT själv men i min erfarenhet är grammatik inte ChatGPTs svaga punkt (bristande pålitlighet av själva innehållet är största problemet). Kan du posta ChatGPTs svar om du ber den att rätta precis detta inlägg? Det kanske inte finns behov för alternativa tjänster om ChatGPT klarar jobbet.

The first distro I used was Ubuntu as part of a computer class at school, but it was preinstalled on a school computer. The first distro I installed on a personal computer was Arch because le reddit said it was le epic hackerman's IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE TO INSTALL distro. It installed, and after that I didn't use it because my favorite Windows apps couldn't work.

That's relieving to hear. I know the backstory of Kbin is that Ernest was originally a Lemmy contributor but he and Lemmy's devs got into a disagreement about politics, so he went to start his own project instead. There was no communication about the block from Lemmy's devs for a while so a lot of people, including me, theorized that it was related to the conflict.

Exactly, if an instance loves to censor others so much they should deal with the consequences of less interaction and visibility. lemmy.ml is also dropping off my feed because their devs have beef with Kbin's dev and they blocked interactions from all Kbin instances.

Why don't you start an account there and help them out, or start an account on an instance that is federated with both if you prefer the community there? I personally disagree with their moderation and don't like the kind of users they approve of, so I'm happy seeing less of them around.

I was a kid when all of the big social media websites except TikTok took off so I never got to have it anywhere else. I wanted the sense of pride and accomplishment of being the first person ~~on my instance~~ to get my name as their username.

This design is so cute, it reminds me of the art style of HyperBeard Games. I hope something inspired by this gets chosen and not another boring "iOS flat design" icon.

Im not sure its so much learned helplessness as, and I know this will be an unpopular opinion here, I don't want to understand how it all works behind the scenes.

"Learned helplessness" isn't meant as an insult, it's just a way to describe... well, this. The idea that the internet is too complicated and you'll never understand it so don't bother trying. This is not the fault of the "normie masses" but rather society not treating digital competence as a necessary skill. Society has many more complicated systems like law, finance, insurance and property that people can still navigate!

Wow, I didn't know that LineageOS has such long-term support! The original Pixel is still supported?! I'm using GrapheneOS and they offer support for the same lifetime as the official Google updates, so I assumed that the rest of the alternative OSes are the same.

The feature is there, but it's glitchy. Whenever I try to post with a language tag to lemmy.world and other big instances, the post screen stays loading forever and the post is never submitted. It only goes through when I remove the language tag, so I avoid posting non-English content on lemmy.world because I can't tag it...