troyunrau

troyunrau, 10 months ago

Best meme. Shut down the internet.

troyunrau, 10 months ago

You

troyunrau, 10 months ago

This is me. I still go there for two or three subs that don’t have critical mass here (thus no conversation). The upcoming weighted sort algo should help a little, drawing people to smaller community content.

But I also moderate a reasonably large sub there, and have stopped attempting to grow anything there – just spam removal, manually.

But I don’t post new content there. Sometimes I’ll reply on a comment chain. Here I post new content and interact a lot more.

I’m using Lemmy Connect as my app (like 98% of it). What’s interesting is, when I use Reddit I refuse to use their app, so I’m using old Reddit, in a browser. But I catch myself attempting to swipe on comments using the Lemmy Connect gestures.

So I’ve definitely flipped to Lemmy first.

troyunrau, 11 months ago

Yeah, but it was much harder to add your own captions then

troyunrau, 11 months ago

Depends on the sub. r/Ukraine is set to NSFW, so they require an account to “verify” for some reason.

troyunrau, 10 months ago

Pics or it didn’t happen ;)

troyunrau, 11 months ago

Funnier in the context of VeggieTales being Christian morality tales.

troyunrau, 11 months ago

Somewhere, in the back of my memory, I have recollection of an old school comedy sketch with a title like “foghorns in disguise”. Monty Python or Kids in the Hall or something similar. Wherein people would start a conversation with someone, only for that someone to respond by being a foghorn. But all attempts at googling this sketch has ends in total failure. I thought it might be the enshitification of Google search results, but I tried a few others too. Now I think I might have dreamed it.

troyunrau, 10 months ago

It’s almost like we need a non-profit (like Wikipedia) just to handle search in a centralized and fair way.

troyunrau, 10 months ago

Depending on where you live, the cost of living and housing makes this the only viable option. Or moving :)

troyunrau, 10 months ago

So embrace it ironically then ;)

troyunrau, 11 months ago

I decided to fact check. As far as I can tell, the initial stories were all based off of rumour and supposition, amplified by twitter (Elon specifically). I do see stories about the fallout, including a 100M defamation lawsuit. On the balance of probabilities, my factcheck concludes that it is likely a fabricated story.

troyunrau, 10 months ago

All these air fryer, broiler, sautéing, and other methods…

Y’all forgot about microwaves. Microwaves and veggies are amazing. Broccoli, carrots, etc. Microwave until a fork still has a little resistance. Add a spot of sour cream or honey and dill… Or something. Tada. So fast. So yummy.

troyunrau, 10 months ago

Try microwaved beets. Mmm.

troyunrau, 10 months ago

Not every illustrator is a structural engineer ;)

troyunrau, 10 months ago

This cracks me up. The ole switcheroo punchline haha

troyunrau, 10 months ago

Some of this is correct, and some of it is myth. Source: I was there ;)

Qt way back in version 1 was merely “free for non-commercial use” and shipped with the source code. KDE was founded on that version. This was in like 1996, before KDE even had a stable release. Gnome was founded immediately in response, choosing GTK (the Gimp Toolkit) which wasn’t really ready for use as a full fledged desktop toolkit, but existed and the license was friendly. KDE and Trolltech formed a few agreements – the first was the creation of the QPL, an attempt to create an open-source compatible license for Qt, and the second was the creation of the KDE Free Qt Foundation (it said, effectively, if Qt were to become closed, the most recent version prior to that would be released under the BSD license).

However, the damage was done. Stallman and others would never forgive KDE for choosing a not-free-enough toolkit, and the Gnome devs were associated with redhat. That meant Redhat and Debian, the two biggest distros, defaulted to Gnome. Ubuntu just adopted Debian, ergo Gnome.

Qt would shortly thereafter be released under GPL, GPL3, and LGPL. There’s still a commercial license option, and that pisses a lot of people off for some reason. But it was never a risk to KDE or the community – not since before KDE 1.0.