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derf82, in What's your favorite restaurant chain?

Culver’s. Butter burgers, cheese curds, and custard all in one spot.

burntbutterbiscuits, in Be honest, do you still use reddit?

Not since July 1st…. For a few days I was refreshing google and yahoo news habitually but so glad I finally found lemmy

rhacer, in What is the worst thing you have experienced on Reddit?

Gosh sometimes people disagreed with me. That was horrible!

Hiru,
@Hiru@lemmy.world avatar

I entirely disagree with this comment, up yours!

rhacer,

That got a laugh!

DrQuint, in What is the worst thing you have experienced on Reddit?

Well, on reddit, I was only ever banned from one community, that being /r/worldnews.

And I got banned because there were hours old comments by users there basically stating it was a good thing that old people were dying from covid. They were downvoted, but still, not enough, and no one had the guts to say it so I did: I told them that they were plaguespreaders and a blight on humanity, and should improve it by killing themselves, and the fact they weren’t already banned was a gigantic shame for the website.

Which I stand by.

The mods then banned me (after I got like 50 upvotes in a couple minutes proving people paid attention to the comments but didn’t realize how nefarious they were) but… didn’t ban the other users. That is until I complained about it elsewhere and basically highlighted how terrible the mods of that subreddit are. THEN they got banned.

They still didn’t unban me and I wear that ban with pride. I am 100% aware that I triggered an automated ban on myself. Which is, actually, the de facto bad experience I bring to the table: One of the largest subreddits, filled with nothing but “”“powermods”“”, is being left completely unmoderated and easily free to be astroturfed by coordinated bad actors. This is effectively the same as being tolerant of them

My one political stance on social media is no one should ever be allowed to moderate more than 3 communities.

i_pee_through_that,

Wasn’t /r/worldnews an anime titties subreddit?

SilentStorms,
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No its the otherway around. /r/anime_titties is a world news/politics subreddit. Oddly enough it had more mature discussion than most of the other news subs.

KaiReeve, in Which is the most satisfying IO connector system, in your opinion?

I’m glad that most of the older formats are gone. Screws are cumbersome, USB formats were intentionally varied for profit, and molex would break itself before you could seat it properly.

I love USB-C for its universality and SATA cables are a nice alternative to the old IDE. I wish they’d come up with a better solution to the plastic clips on my Ethernet and PSU cables.

As for my favorite… Maybe 3.5mm? I mean, it’s old as dirt but still super functional. Nice chunky clicks and usually a solid connection. I miss having a 3.5mm port on my phone. It obviously has some drawbacks, but it’s a solid contender.

Dubious_Fart,

Thumb screws are great for a secure connection that holds up, and can be undone at any time, and takes the stress away from the port itself, since the screws support the stress, so you cant screw up the port by accidentally yanking the cable out like you can with HDMI.

USB variants? You mean mini and micro? That was so products could be made smaller and smaller, cause no one wanted a phone that had a USB B slot on it, making the phone an inch thick.

Everyone has different experiences, but in all my years of PC building and repairs, I only ever had 1 problem with a molex connector, and it was cause the pins had corroded together (PC had water damage, was seeing if anything was salvageable.)

3.5mm its old as dirt and functional, but its also flimsy. a bad bump and you can break the connections inside it without breaking it externally… Which is what happened to my last pair of headphones…thankfully they had a replaceable cable.

USB-C is a major pain in the ass. You pick up a random USB-C cable. Okay… is it a charging cable, or does it have data? is it Slow speed or high speed? Does it support thunderbolt? Who knows! Hope you label them and keep them properly separated!

Kelsenellenelvial,

USB-A, USB-B, USB-B Superspeed, mini-USB, micro-USB, micro-USB-Super Speed. Some of those also presented the issue of not having a simple visual indication of whether it was USB 1, 2, or 3. At least with USB-C, the cables should all work, even if you get slower speeds, whereas a USB-B-3 connector wouldn’t fit a USB-B-2 port at all.

The solution to the USB-C mystery cable is to just get a pile of Thunderbolt cables and then you can be sure it’ll handle whatever the attached devices do.

j4k3, in What is the worst thing you have experienced on Reddit?
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Told my experience with a brand from when I worked as a wholesale Buyer for a retail chain. A person that was not part of the original conversation picks a fight, is a combative asshole that looks like any other user, logs in as a mod and permanently bans me. It’s the only time I’ve ever been banned. Reporting him did nothing even though he had a long list of abuse in his history.

SomeoneElse, in What is the worst thing you have experienced on Reddit?

There was a kid, maybe 14 or 15 who complained about his mum and sister in r/parentsarefuckingstupid or a similar sub. He didn’t mention being autistic in the post but it was pretty clear - it was his behaviour and response which was inappropriate, not his mum’s. Having grown up with an autistic brother his reaction was very familiar to me. I tried to give him some tips to help him avoid conflict and smooth the situation over - “apologise even if you don’t mean it right now, it’s the easiest way of getting your game back tonight. In future don’t raise your voice to your sister even if she’s shouting. Remove yourself to your bedroom to calm down. Ask to speak to your mum alone to explain your side of the argument. Etc” pretty benign advice that wasn’t judgemental or insulting in anyway. I put a decent amount of time into writing my response in a way that was constructive and helpful from his perspective. I felt pretty good about myself afterwards, like I’d done my good deed for the day.

The kid went absolutely psycho. He was writing comments and immediately deleting them, then saying I was sending him extremely inappropriate sexual messages. He was summoning all the bots he could think of, like the n-word bot to accuse me of racism (I’ve never ever used the n-word). It was so out of left field I was stunned. A couple of people stuck up for me in the comments but it left me really shaken. Who the fuck accuses someone of being a racist pedophile out of nowhere? That boy needs help and it has nothing to do with his autism.

sarsaparilyptus,

I dunno, this comes across as the kind of comment a racist pedophile would post, just saying.

Blaze,

Damn

SomeoneElse,

He was “transcribing” the messages I supposedly sent him. Really sick stuff.

Snowman44, in How fluent do you think one have to be to be considered "bilingual"?

Different people have different standard of what it means to be fluent in a language. I would say that if you can comfortably have a casual conversation you’re fluent. If you’re fluent in 2 languages I would call that bilingual. You don’t have to be as good as a native speaker in both languages.

English is your second language and you typed a pretty long post in perfect grammar so I would say you’re bilingual.

Theradox, in What's your favorite restaurant chain?

Nando’s for sure - the one saving grace of having to to go back to the U.K. for business so often is a cheeky Nando’s each time

LrdThndr, in How fluent do you think one have to be to be considered "bilingual"?

Judging by the text of your post alone, you’re bilingual.

Had you not said that English wasn’t your first language, I, a native English speaker, would never have know.

meiti,

Fun observation: as a native, just like many natives, you have made a grammer mistake. “have known” and not “have know”. Might be a typo though.

My fun theory is that grammer is just a form of heuristic made up by humans to simplify understanding languages.

I’m not a native.

LrdThndr,

Ah, dammit. Yeah, that was a typo :).

Zagorath,
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you have made a grammer mistake

I love a good case of Muphry’s Law.

*grammar

meiti,

Haha good catch!

Interesting_Test_814,

Muphry’s Law.

Was this one intentional ?

*Murphy’s Law

Zagorath,
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Interesting_Test_814,

TIL

InEnduringGrowStrong,
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I think there are even a few grammatical errors that native english speaking people are more likely to be doing that us folks who learned it as a second language.
When I see things like “should of”, “would of”, “for all intensive purposes” it’s usually coming from a native speaker.
I think someone who learned speaking the language before first and writing it second is more likely to make these.
I assimilated “should”, “have” and “of” before I really used contractions, so I never make that mistake.
It’s even somewhat jarring to read.
should of… of what?

boovard, in What series did you rewatch most often?

It’s always sunny and arrested development, I can’t which one I’ve watched the most

AugustMetronome, in What's your favorite third-party app that integrates beautifully design-wise with your native iOS/Android apps?

I’m really enjoying Ice Cubes for Mastodon. It really fits in with other iOS stuff well. And I’m using wefwef for lemmy too.

michikade, in banned from c/memes

lemmy.ml is down right now. You’re going to have to wait until it’s back up to ask them - this question/answer is just local to lemm.ee until it comes back up and can appropriately federate.

TWeaK, in banned from c/memes

Check /c/memes@lemmy.ml to see the names of the mods in the sidebar. You may be able to contact them there - try and do that through your old account.

However the community hasn’t been working for me at all today. In fact, I’ve struggled to get on lemmy.ml in general.

SchrodingersPat,

Thank you so much. l’m glad to know that I probably wasn’t booted from the entire instance. And while ignorance of community rules isn’t an excuse, I hope they see I was posting in good faith.

TWeaK,

Nah you didn’t even get banned. Worse you’ve done is show that your alt is linked with some other alt on another instance.

I’m sure you didn’t use the same username across multiple instances. That would be silly. Ahem.

SchrodingersPat,

Mistakes were made

radix, in What's your favorite third-party app that integrates beautifully design-wise with your native iOS/Android apps?
@radix@lemm.ee avatar

Anyone have an example of an Android app that feels like this?

Personally I don’t see the appeal of adhering to an existing design system just to make it feel “native”. I’m using Voyager on Android and it’s not native-feeling at all since Voyager is very Apple-inspired, but that doesn’t feel weird/bad. Discord is another app I use every day (though not for Lemmy) and it’s certainly not designed to feel native on either Apple or Android.

8bit, (edited )

Lemuroid and Libretube are good examples. I personally think they’re beautiful and match great with stock (Google) Android Material Design

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