I was in a book club as a kid so now I have a first edition of Game of Thrones.

Gee whiz, I’m a cryptic ass-eating turtle demon of the river! Now I’ll be remembered for millennia as “that weird creature with the bald haircut.”

I was literally about to make a worse version of this lol

And all the prices lowered upon our house

Fish still breathe with their gills, right? It really doesn’t seem like there should be enough dissolved oxygen in water.

Don’t you want to just be sure? Go on, check. I won’t tell anyone.

Here’s a related question… Why is Elon Musk demanding a massive cash salary from the board rather than typical CEO compensation of stock and performance bonuses?

Likely, he understands that the company is massively overvalued due to his hype machine. He is cashing out before it fails.

As a plus, by manufacturing animosity between himself and the board, he is preloading the ammunition for when the company fails and discards him. When he leaves, the hype machine leaves with him. The stock will “crash” which really means returning to a sane market valuation. He can easily claim that the failure was due to the board interfering with his genius. The board members either know this, or are his lackies (or both). They will ride the wave along with him as long as they can.

In essence, we are witnessing the largest pump and dump scheme in history, and it is being done in the open.

It got better.

Where is the button to report unsee this?

Amazon is also an arrow that points from A to Z.

Remember, they used to be a bookstore.

A default instance is not ideal, but adding a barrier to joining is counterproductive. If someone has an interest in a specific area, they should be directed to join programming.dev or slrpnk.net etc. If they want a general purpose instance, then they should just be assigned a default.

Personally, I started the signup multiple times because there are hundreds of servers and if you haven’t already used the platform it’s impossible to know what you need.

Anyway, more than promoting Lemmy as a platform, we should be promoting Lemmy content. Mostly it is publicly visible without an account, and if someone sees Lemmy links 5-10 times, they may start wondering what they are missing out on.

I like it but I really think we spend too much time explaining the home instance. We should put a lot less emphasis on it because it’s stressful to people. Just invite them to join your home instance and they can change in the future if they want.

Patreon link

Joke’s on you, I’m into that.

Sort of. The interesting part is that it is “permanent” or at least extremely long lasting.

Well, “nothing” may be a slight exaggeration. But I know little enough that wasn’t aware Java and JavaScript are two different things.

Open source requires SOME understanding of computers, but really, you don’t have to understand economic theory to see the benefits of joining a union. I don’t know much, but I value privacy and I am old enough to see how tragically profiteers have broken the web. People smarter than me assure me that Open Source tends to be more secure, more private, harder to abuse and that all seems like a good idea to me. I’ve helped out with lots of Community contribution projects like Wikipedia, Open Street Maps, Open Clip Art, etc. and I see the good that Creative commons does, which is a philosophical cousin of Open Source. So, yeah, I understand Open source insofar as I understand its importance, even though I really don’t know enough to contribute much other than cheerleading :)

I don’t really know anything about computers, and it seems like I’m not the only one who finds the entire app suite a little confusing. The Github says this, which is where I got the understanding that it involves both:

ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors contain the following components:

• desktop-apps - the frontend for ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors which is used to build the program interface for the operating system selected.
• desktop-sdk - SDK which is a core part of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors.
• core - server core components for ONLYOFFICE Document Server which is a part of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors and is used to enable the conversion between the most popular office document formats (DOC, DOCX, ODT, RTF, TXT, PDF, HTML, EPUB, XPS, DjVu, XLS, XLSX, ODS, CSV, PPT, PPTX, ODP).
• sdkjs - JavaScript SDK for the ONLYOFFICE Document Server which is a part of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors and contains API for all the included components client-side interaction.
• web-apps - the frontend for ONLYOFFICE Document Server which is a part of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors that allows the user to create, edit, save and export text, spreadsheet and presentation documents using the common interface of a document editor.
• dictionaries - the dictionaries of various languages used for spellchecking in ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors.

Hopefully you can explain what that means.

Thanks, this is really helpful in understanding the history of the community.

Using @ just sends a notification to the person tagged, or sort of threads the conversion if it is a reply.

The # is for tagging. A good way to get a sense of how it is used would be to frequently check the trending or popular hashtags. Basically anything with the same tag will show up together when someone is interested in the topic. Sometimes people also use them ironically like #ThisIsAReallyLongAndSpecificTagThatWillNotConnectWithAnyOtherPost

I got like this in shopping malls, and some big box stores until my early 20s. I’m sure it’s related to some type of social anxiety or overstimulation.

Here’s a tip: if you have multiple children, split everything evenly no matter what. It doesn’t matter how good your reasoning is. It doesn’t matter if one kid is an addict, it doesn’t matter if one kid needs the money more. It doesn’t matter if one cares for you in your old age and the other disappeared.

No matter what.

You are inviting nothing but misery into ALL of your children’s lives by dividing it unevenly. No matter how reasonable it is to do something else, they will always tend to think that dividing the inheritance unevenly means that you loved them unequally.