Then what is a pancake? Same batter, but different cooking method.

Toad in a hole in the UK is a vastly different dish of sausages baked into a Yorkshire pudding

In Ireland? That’s not the case in the UK.

Found the cat.

It’s exciting for someone. And it’s not the end user.

That can be said about any app.

At least for Android you can turn off push notifications. Long press the notification in question on the top pull down menu and pick your options.

Applicable for all apps, not just Reddit. Somhandy to silence irritating Uber Eats or Twitter crap.

I’ll be curious to see how much of an impact this has really made when someone gets around to publishing the metrics.

I would like to hope that Reddit has take a significant traffic hit due this whole API bullshit, but I honestly wouldn’t be all suprised if it was less than 10%.

But we will wait and see.

Close to 13 years, if not just over. Started as a lurker. Then saw something that I felt that I really needed to share my thoughts on. Of course it was just a mumble in a crowd, but it obviously meant enough to me to go through the effort of making an account.

I can’t even remember what it was.

Over 100k karma and 3000 comments.

Reddit was by no means small in 2010, I don’t claim to be a pioneer, but it was a different feeling place. Even back then RES was a must for desktop browsing. And 3rd party apps were the only option for mobile browsing. BaconReader was my choice. I think it was actually the first app I ever paid for.

Over time I tried different apps that were being developed and tried to bring a new thing to the table, such as card view (couldn’t ever get away with that) or recently the ability to see deleted/removed comments (until Reddit started blocking certain API stuff that allowed that). Rather poetically found myself back on Baconreader just in time for the shutdown.

I don’t think Lemmy necessarily feels the same as Reddit back then, but I wonder if that is more due to me changing and the communities that I follow, but it is scratching the itch of something to browse and occupy my mind, discover new information and feel like I’m among similar people when I’m procrastinating, shitting or something else.

What is so different about my Pexel7a that’s any different to my 5?

Nothing that I even notice. Except for missing convenience such as the rear finger sensor.

And that’s the same for most models.

In fact in a desperate bid to make phones exciting again, manufacturers are trying to bring back the folding concept. And that’s just going to be a total fad since it doesn’t actually bring anything functional to the market.

What they gonna do? Sue a decentralised network that noone owns by it’s pure design?

Except that doesn’t happen, no matter how much you want it to.

I don’t see the strawman? And it’s more than just the ‘oh it’s only once every 3 years’. It’s the environment. Why are we making phones to be replaced needlessly every 2 or 3 years and all the waste that comes with it when you should just be able to replace the one common failure point?

You’ve got to be on a very old phone before you stop getting updates pushed through though? I know Apple are actually pretty good at legacy updates, but Android has got to be 5 or 6 years? Although the challenge is probably more to the variety of Anroid options out there in both the OS configurations and the hardware, where iOS is just iOS and the hardware is known.

I feel that when you get to that age then your battery is pretty much cooked anyway unless it’s had very light use or the owner has been absolutely meticulous in it’s care.

I think the biggest reaction will be that it will likely also impact the US and other markets. Just like with the previous EU regulation that mandated that everyone standardises on the same cables (USBC) it benifited the rest of the world as it was just cheaper to design and manufature one phone rather than multiple for the different markets. Probably the same here to.

I am curious to see how they will design around this requirement though. Curretly we’ve been ‘spoiled’ with some very sleek and clean designs, but if designers have to find a way for them to be easily openable either tooless or with non-propreietry tools and all the rest of it then it may change this.

Although, to be fair, I have noticed that phones have recently started getting bigger, heavier and clunkier. For example the difference between my recently retired Pixel 5 and new Pixel 7a is night and day. I actually regret upgrading - if it wasn’t for my son being ‘due’ for a new phone and being a little skint at the moment (easy ‘free’ birthday present), I wouldn’t have switched.

this is the summary of 60% of reddit now

Likely because that’s who is left on the platfrom. 60% who actively don’t care, and the other 40% who either haven’t realised what’s happening or have no idea what’s going on.

I think this is a pretty shit post.

Hobbies aren’t supposed to be about whether they’re a good financial consideration, they’re about passion, self fulfillment and looking after yourself.

I wasn’t as personal, my pre-delete edit was ‘fuck the greed’.

Don’t know whether the pre-edit is worth it since it wouldn’t have indexed on the scrapers but whatever. No additional effort from me either was.

That’s just the nature of it at the moment. It’s not different to having to deal with swarthes of headlines or posts anywhere when something big is happening.