Honestly, reddits API change was an awful thing to do but my phone usage has plummeted since then. I’ve been trying Lemmy but it’s not been an easy 1:1 replacement and I find myself not engaging or feeling so invested in conversations and content as much.

That works in my favor, though, because I really have been spending way too much time looking at screens anyway.

Oofos have some exactly that except I find them to have far more comfortable soles.

The are quite expensive though.

I’ve rode in the back of something similar. Don’t be jealous. The cage really decreases the ability to appreciate getting to ride in one.

I haven’t, but thats actually surprising. Back in 2001 someone had my name for their Yahoo email (it’s an unusual but common one) and decided then that I wouldn’t let it happen again.

For the next few years, I would immediately register for everything that looked like I would use it.

Got a good Hotmail in the 90s. But later on I would register for every little thing like Hushmail. Shushmail. Then MySpace. The best, though, was when I managed to get an invite in late 2007 for a little email service provider that was called Gmail.

Suck it every other variation of RhetoricalOrator@gmail.com!

(Not my actual email.)

" I feel like this is where people who can, and actually do, read and understand everything before responding are hanging out."

Don’t worry, me and other new users will get that corrected ASAP!

But for real, the users and vibe here seem far less caustic and I’m enjoying it. It’s been a nice journey recognizing that I want hooked on Reddit because of content so much as because of the dopamine hit I got from endlessly scrolling through a lot of low effort content.

I think security warnings are kind of like cancer warnings in the state of California. If virtually everything causes cancer then warnings become just a normalized part of life.

It’s tangential, but why Nintendo made the Switch without a quick and easy to access brightness setting is beyond me. Is it really so impossible for one of the biggest game console companies in the world to add a drag-from-edge brightness setting into their OS?

I love the games and really like a lot about the console but their software has almost always felt like it was at least a decade behind the rest of the world.

Okay, sorry. Done ranting.

I wasn’t trying to make any personal attack or really even be snarky or whatever. My attempt at humor just didn’t land.

Dad Laws dictate that when my children ask, “Can I have a popcicle?” that I must reply with, “I dunno, can you?”

Edit: Oops! Just saw that you weren’t replying to me. The thread makes more sense now.

Huh, TIL that my old person trait is being petty and plainly wrong.

I fix a LOT of random things for myself and as a side hustle. Google is sometimes good for that sort of thing but but adding “reddit” into the search field generally yields far better results.

I don’t mean to brag, but I was a very active Guide for a couple years and I am still in the top 10% even though I haven’t posted a review in two years. My profile info shows that I have had hundreds of thousands of views.

They gave me a pair of Google Guide themed socks. They were cheap, poorly sized, and wore thin quickly.

After a while, Five fully became whatever his old age is in the story. I stopped seeing a sixteen year old pretty quickly and that’s what pulled me in.

It’s so rare that I see anyone talk about Bacon Reader anywhere but that was the only app I liked. It was so minimal but still felt like it had everything I needed.

On the bright side, Reddit valuation has dropped from $10 billion to $5.5 billion in two years…so there’s that.