I tried Kagi and found the results to be significantly less helpful than Google. Searches for local businesses, open source libraries, and Canadian history missed useful sites that Google provided.
I guess I’m an outlier, because other people seem to have a good time with it.
Our demographics don’t support uncertainty. Most of us are here because we are certain distributed is better than centralized, community run is better than corporate run, FOSS is better than proprietary, etc. The sign-up process discourages casual users, so most users have made up their minds to be here.
For better or worse, we’re highly opinionated, and we’ve decided some things are bad and others are good. Very few topics are open to discussion because we’ve already decided.
And if we haven’t decided on something, it’s usually because we’ve decided it doesn’t matter, so we’ll ignore it.
It isn’t a sustainable community, but I fit in, so I’m still here.
https://lemmy.ca/post/15125231 has results of a demographic poll for lemmy.ca.
Yeah, bull sessions were (and still are) part of my experience. I’m a similar age, and had a similar university experience.
Sadly, I didn’t get a chance to watch Three’s Company.
Agreed - traditional media and online commentary both suffer from this problem.
We need a way for beat reporters to get paid for their work. Sadly that doesn’t really exist right now.
We need experts that are knowledgeable on issues who can put them in context for lay readers.
In the past, those were often beat reporters, but academics can fit that role too.
With the collapse of traditional media hegemonies companies we’ve lost beat reporters, so we have to rely on third party experts. Of course, there are problems with that: if they’re owned by bad actors, then they can spread misleading narratives.
I’m not sure who fills that role now. Whoever can tweet the most convincingly at journalists? Whoever makes the sexiest YouTube explainer?
😂^(we’re screwed)
I got a Breville Dual-Temp for $350 CAD on sale, but you can spend less. You can always spend more if you want, but that’s where I top out.
I’m not sure about ROI. I guess I’ve had it three years, so that’s like $.33/day, but I don’t track what I spend on consumables.
Espresso machines rock. I got one to cut costs, and I’m really happy with being able to make an Americano in a minute or two.
I found Covenant incredibly forgettable. If it wasn’t for your synopsis, I wouldn’t have remembered it at all. It’s just a bland sci-fi action movie that’s loosely attached to some great IP.
Prometheus had some memorable bits (mostly the Builder flashbacks), but neither of them hold a candle to the first two Alien movies.
A place for teenagers to go on dates.
The invocation is complete.
Now that I think about it, every phone I’ve owned has had significant issues: lousy camera (HTC), overheating (LG), poor battery life (Samsung, Google, HTC), steadily degrading performance (Samsung), boot looping (LG), weird colour handling on photos (HTC, Google), etc. So I guess they’re all bad?
I wouldn’t say “favourite”. I’ve bought two Pixels because I like the photos they produce.
My current phone (P8P) has the fewest issues so far. It’s only a year old, so I’m sure they’ll appear.
You have my sword.
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I’ll give it a shot, thanks!
Ditto. I enjoy some of the hobby/local communities on Reddit.
Gboard is pretty good. I switched off Swiftkey because Gboard has the lil space bar cursor thing. Swipe typing is pretty great, and the predictions are fine.
I would prefer a non-Google keyboard, but I haven’t found one that’s easy to install and works the way I want it to.
In their cars.