It is, but it’s a use case that has a shitload of money behind it.

Do you know why we have had reliable e-commerce since 1999? Porn websites. That was the use case that pushed credit card acceptance online.

The demand is so huge that firms would rather stumble a bit at first to save huge amounts for a bad but barely sub-par UX.

Not all states. Fewer do this than don’t, IIRC.

Depends on the person. My spouse and I, along with 5 or 6 friends, use a variety of key words from a couple shared languages to talk about things when we don’t want other to understand. Mostly haggling or talking about sales stuff to discuss if we like something or think it’s too expensive when a human is hovering right there. So I can give body language of disappointment while saying “this is great.”

I don’t hate Arch. Or Vegan diets. Or Crossfit. Or colleges outside of Boston, either.

But the people…well…

In practical terms, I threw a couple paychecks of USD into EUR when it was $1.11=€1 as a test case for if the Mar a Lago Accord ends up really happening. So late Jan, and ready to move more in 24ish hours if I these fools do more of what they do best. I made like $75 today alone just on the mid-market rate arbitrage.

Y’all, were cooked, but I’ll bring beers to the cookout.

My only regret is not buying more Euros at $1.11/€1

Brace yourselves for being told on MSN and Yahoo about the hottest new toy this Xmas! If you don’t buy it, you might be arrested for child abuse!

Anyone know what Linux distro? I assume Ubuntu…

Yes, from a general misunderstanding of how microwave ovens work, and what “radiation” was during the 1960s and 70s.

https://kitchenpearls.com/why-do-we-say-nuke-for-microwave/

Rural poor checking in.

I’ve lived in a camper, and then in the back of a convenience store my patents ran. Eventually upgraded to a doublewide. But I went to a rural school with like 40 kids that were all also poor. One kid and his family were miners living in a series of vans upon blocks by the mine. My best friend and his family lived in a half used rundown motel, the other half too broken down to bother living in. The richest kid was a rancher’s family that lived in a barndominium.

So every family on TV was rich to me, but it was TV, so I figured it was all fantasy land anyway. Star Trek wasnt real, either. I had seen a “normal” school before 3rd grade, but by high school and college, people that thought Nickelodeon (which I didn’t see until college anyway) shows were relatable at all just seemed like space aliens to me. I was likely more the space alien to them.

Sorry if it seemed smug at all. The “My my” was more being happy that the Fdroid app repo is pulling it’s weight and a valuable resource that fascists seem to over look.

Don’t insult this cat!

My, my. Look at all the open source, privacy focused period trackers in the Fdroid store.

There’s a good chance another seagull ate the body before it was even cold.

Can’t happen fast enough.

I’ve modded some small but active enough to need real coverage subs on reddit. It’s a real job. People are too weird to self-moderate.

It was my first Lemmy love.

Fair point. I also code useless silly things as a hobby, so I guess maybe I’m no one to talk. But I also don’t have the skills to peak around the Linux Mint errors list and just give one or two a go, which, selfishly, benefits me as a Mint user.

I feel the same way about Linux distros.

There’s something like 500+ actively updated distros. 39% (according to some random article from 2020) are used by less than 0.1% of users.

Y’all… Spend that time and energy other open source projects that need the help!

All us babies here smoking cigars and betting on horses like some Fediverse Baby Herman army.