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jaybirrd@lemmy.worldto
AssholeDesign@lemmy.world•From the iOS Mastodon client LigtEnglish
14·3 years agoSure that’s high, but I don’t think that’s quite what makes this truly asshole design though. It’s that the trial is on a weekly subscription of $4.99 when a year is only $9.99. $4.99/week for a year is $259.48 which happens to be 2,597% more expensive than the annual subscription. They are hoping people select the trial and forget about it while they rake in an astronomical amount for a third party app for an open source social network.
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Android@lemdro.id•Google Messages turning on RCS by default, group E2E encryption launchesEnglish
101·3 years agoGoogle’s messaging app actually has a desktop browser based client that you can use to send messages from your computer. So that might actually be a good solution for you. I use it regularly and have no complaints about either the phone app or the web app.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamersEnglish
30·3 years agoI’m curious how big of a dip there was with macOS when they fully dropped 32 bit support. I’m just one person but a lot of the games I played through steam were older 32 bit games. I don’t think I’ve opened steam on my Mac since that update.
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Sync for Lemmy@lemmy.world•Remember you can join any instance and still talk to everyoneEnglish
17·3 years agoIt bothers me that people find it out so supremely confusing and it’s definitely an issue that needs to be addressed because it’s definitely keeping people away. The fact of the matter is, you can go to any Lemmy instance and get that front page experience because the r/all equivalent of each instance shows threads from every other instance (minus defederated, etc but that’s beside the point).
Sync helps in that it is a familiar and polished look and feel for those who used third party Reddit apps, but outside of that it’s just another Lemmy app.
Probably the biggest factor in the confusion is fediverse terms being used to describe the fediverse, which is basically speaking nonsense if you don’t already understand it.
There’s this: Lemmy is a federated link aggregator where anyone can start an instance and communities within that instance and all the instances can communicate and share information. Doesn’t it sound amazing?
Then there’s this: Lemmy is like a version of Reddit where there’s a whole bunch of separate reddit dot coms. You can sign up for whichever one you like to be your home “reddit”. The reddits are all connected, so you can subscribe to subreddits on the other reddits while just logged into your home. You can also post to them, comment, and see the posts and comments from your home.
I’m sure there’s some analogy out there that really boils it down well much better than mine, so please share if you think of one.
Loving it so far! I think everyone freaking out about the pricing needs to chill out and just use a different app.
There’s one thing I’m curious about and wasn’t able to find in the settings. Do we have the ability to turn off the red/blue highlighting on the action area for a post we’ve voted? I don’t like how it looks and find that the font color for the vote count is perfectly sufficient for me to know that I’ve upvoted and downvoted.

Never heard of this, but I just tried it and really enjoyed it. Thanks for the recommendation!
jaybirrd@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•First U.S. nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in GeorgiaEnglish
2·3 years agoIt’s pronounced NOOK-YOU-LERRR
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Android@lemmy.world•Sync for Lemmy is live on Google Play StoreEnglish
111·3 years agoRiF is Fun for Lemmy
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Sync for Lemmy@lemmy.world•Sync for Lemmy (beta) is now live for everyoneEnglish
8·3 years agoHaven’t used sync before, but I’m really digging the amount of flexibility in customizing how it looks. Thank you for your hard work in developing this so quickly!
jaybirrd@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•First claimed successful replication of LK-99English
2·3 years agoMy local store had numerous room temp superconductors right next to the perpetual motion machines.
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Android@lemmy.world•Where to buy a good second-hand Pixel phone in Europe?English
41·3 years agoI’m not sure how reliable eBay in Europe is, but I would suggest finding one available from a highly rated seller on eBay.
jaybirrd@lemmy.worldto
Dad Jokes@lemmy.world•Where does the king keep his armies?English
1·3 years agoThis is amazing
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Technology@lemmy.world•New York City wants lithium-ion e-bike batteries to be stopped at the border when they don’t meet national safety standards after rash of deadly firesEnglish
9·3 years agoYeah I have the feeling a lot of them are as bad or in some cases worse than bicycles upfitted with gas engines.
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NBA@lemmy.world•zion Williamson doesn't pay back loan of 2 million
15·3 years agoAgreed. From what the article says it seems like this loan was taken urgently to help pay for real estate that him and his mom/stepfather had bought before a sponsorship of his fell through due to his injuries.
I can’t imagine what it’s like to grow up with little money, and then suddenly hit big. I imagine everyone around him is trying to manipulate him and cash in somehow. People in his position need a fantastic support system and a good amount of luck. Seems like he has neither. And now he’s involved in multiple lawsuits at only 23 years old.
Dude needs a mentor like LeBron or Wade. Someone who can guide him through how to support his loved ones without being taken advantage of, how to set himself up for long term financial success, how to keep his body healthy.
I really hope the best for him. He’s such an exciting player to watch when he’s on the floor.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Metaverse could be renamed to escapeEnglish
5·3 years agoPosthumous Michael Jackson activated
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NBA@lemmy.world•Juan Hernangomez agrees to two-year deal in Greece
9·3 years agoAdam Sandler is going to be very upset that the Sixers never gave Bo Cruz a chance.
jaybirrd@lemmy.worldto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•An X is kind of a sans serif German swastikaEnglish
4·3 years agoIs there something tangible? Slack’s logo is a symbol that suggests clockwise rotation while the version of the swastika that the Nazis used is a symbol that suggests counterclockwise rotation.
Especially given that the Nazis appropriated one version of a symbol that had many other versions/uses/meanings in different cultures, do we really need to equate every symbol or logo that has remote similarities to the swastika with Nazism?
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NBA@lemmy.world•[The Athletic] Kyrie Irving posts triple-double in Drew League debut
2·3 years ago[The Athletic] SHOCKING! Kyrie Irving is better at basketball than players who are worse than him.
jaybirrd@lemmy.worldto
Android@lemdro.id•not seeing any non negligible difference between 60 and 120 Hz, am I weird?
12·3 years agoDiminishing returns!

The Sixers are truly cursed