What is a “trustworthy software environment”?

Does that mean that it will get mad and fail you for having Developer options enabled? Having F-Droid installed? Having it plugged into a computer?

I didn’t, actually, but thank you.

The Star Trek ones over on startrek.website. They weren’t the most active to begin with, though their activity has dropped a bit more over time.

That “little more complicated” is asking for a lot, though.

Say you’re coming from Reddit, or Facebook, or something.

It would not be unreasonable to believe that, like Reddit, every single Lemmy instance is its own separate, self-contained site.

And that’s even before figuring out federation works, and how to access things from outside of your instance, or all the nuances that come with defederation and all of that. You made the mistake of joining beehaw? Whoops, all the other “subs” are now inaccessible, because beehaw is not connected to any of the others.

Central places like Reddit don’t have that complexity. Reddit communities are singular, and there’s no overarching layer to complicate things. A community that disagrees with another, and blocks them doesn’t affect your experience as an user.

The decentralisation probably doesn’t help either. People coming to Lemmy from other places are coming from a centralised system. That takes some getting used to.

If you’re new to this, you can be forgiven by thinking that all the Lemmy instances are their own separate thing, like the forums of old, rather than that they’re all interconnected (excluding a whole bunch of stuff about defederation and all of that mess).

Part of it is that people also moved on from Lemmy too. Lemmy is nice, but there also isn’t very much by way of activity on it, which feeds back into itself. No activity means there’s nothing to draw people into it, and not enough to keep them around when they are there.

One of the communities and (non-world) instances I frequented is all but dead these days.

It basically gets longer every few years. At this rate, it’ll turn into an Amazon listing.

USB 3.5 Gen 3 2x2 20 Gbit Two-Sided DP PD USB 3 USB 2 USB 1 Compatible

If they somehow succeed, that’s how you know you’ve found a keeper.

Had the company paid for the training data and/or left it as voluntary, there would be less of a problem with it to begin with.

Part of the problem is that they didn’t, but are still using it for commercial purposes.

. (Actually, it’s worse than that. Ask me if you want to know. It’s its own rant.)

Mind enlightening us? It could be useful to compare against, for those of us who haven’t used those kinds of apps before.

You also constantly shed skin, so any mould that tries to get a hold would have a difficult time staying on.

Video was nicer when you could buy a piece of physical media to watch your movie on.

Even then, you still had to contend with such nonsense as region locks later on. Can’t have people watch the movie earlier than release because the production company decided to delay release a while. That would be apocalyptic.

1. Naked wrestling…

That just sounds like a euphemism for sex, not an alternative.

Especially if they also misuse acronyms.

“Grandma died LOL 😂”

Or when the network that the car relies on no longer exists. My old e-reader’s mobile connectivity no longer works because the phone company providing the service turned the 3G network off in the upgrade to 4G.

It’s just 17 years old. People tend to keep cars for about that long. What happens then? Does it just become limited to basics only, or become a big metal brick?

A car is also difficult to ignore, compared to something smaller.

A small expensive device that stopped working because the company shut it down is annoying, but you can at least put it to the side and ignore it.

You can’t really do that to a car that has functionally become a paperweight because the parent company has gone under.

Tumblr’s codebase is also both quite old and infamously terrible, even if it’s from being shuffled around companies a bunch.

Centralising its backend into one platform doesn’t like too bad of an idea.

A few car companies seem to be doing that. Toyota(?) here are advertising their hybrid vehicles as “self-charging electric vehicles” instead of a hybrid, even though there’s no way to plug them in and not have them self charge.

It has kind of come with newer laptops being driven to be thinner, and for newer devices, because the old SODIMM format is no longer capable of the throughput/latencies needed for higher speed memory.

From memory, 2.1Ghz DDR5 is where it caps out. Anything faster, like 2.8 GHz either requires it to be soldered, or one of the new formats like the one Dell has started using.

These days, the CPU probably runs Linux on itself.

Storage drive control boards are basically small computers in their own right, now.