deweydecibel

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So this was before cell phones, and I'll bet the landlines got knocked out by the quake, so yeah, in the immediate aftermath, you'd have no idea if your family was ok until you raced home to check on them. Makes perfect sense they wouldn't stop to take the shit off first.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you saw it moving, that means it wasn't an Angel. They literally don't exist when observed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I've been saying it for years: were currently going through a soft reboot of the Post-Civil War/Reconstruction era. There are an incredible number of parallels.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

The ethos of the fediverse (insofar as it's completely free with no ads) won't be sustainable at scale; income for continued development and support does need to be taken into account at some point, and that goes for servers, frontends, apps, etc. Funding from donations only gets you so far. We will have to talk about it some day.

However, it is entirely too soon for ads and subscriptions. This feels openly and brazenly like talking advantage of Sync overly enthusiastic fanclub and the Sync name recognition. Get in early with a big name and start making money before any other big name apps like Boost are released.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is also the dev that got really hurt over his paying customers not liking when he completely changed the app they paid for under their nose with no option to roll back, and quit pushing updates for a while after that. It was a whole thing.

I'm not paying a dev that can't handle feedback and has an entire fanclub cheering on literally every single decision.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Liftoff is open source with no ads.

Sync requires a subscription.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

And btw, if you haven't watched since Smith, you really, really should dive back in and watch Capaldi's era. Even if you didn't care for him at first, his Doctor is a slow burn. His second and third seasons are phenomenal and by the end he rivals Tennant for my all time favorite.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

We don't know yet.

David came back to play the Doctor for the 60th Anniversary, so we're getting a story where regeneration went wonky. But it's only temporary.

Basically, 13 regenerated into Tennant again (changing clothes this time in the process which is unusual), and the Doctor reacts with confusion. That was the new years special last December. The specials this year will have Tennant again and explain why 13 regenerated into a familiar face. After the specials, Gatwa takes over as the official new Doctor.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

The android community, especially on /r/android is/was intensely hostile towards Motorola for no good reason. It's basically just a Pixel/Samsung circlejerk, anything less than a flagship from those line is spit on.

Motorola's lines have been very solid midrange phones, shipping with near-stock android, unlockable bootloaders, and just all around respectable specs for their price. They were also shipping aux ports/SD card slots for way, way longer than the others until very recently.

And before someone says "update speed", not everyone cares. Most just want something stable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Probably believes in Tildes more. Which is disappointing, because Tildes is less of a social media platform than it is a gated neighborhood. It doesn't want to be reddit, it wants to be a club.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

would rather not use anything google because of privacy reasons.

Amazon is just as bad if not worse.

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