I have no complaints about Lemmy, but posting on Mastodon is basically screaming into the void - I’ve been trying for more than a year, and I basically hardly ever get any reaction at all. In comparison, in the first week on Bluesky I found multiple people following me, commenting on my silly wine and cactuses posts, and in general just interacting.

Don’t get me wrong, I still prefer Mastodon technically and ethically, but it’s just so goddamned barren and dead I feel completely unmotivated to post there…

Also, I love how these things always need a lengthy explanation of what all this design vomit is supposed to mean and what it symbolizes, because there’s no way you could tell by, you know, actually looking at it…

Zorin has a pro tier that costs money but it’s supposed to have the look and feel of classic Windows - maybe it’s that?

Only 100%? How about billion bazillion percent instead Donald? And make them buy you a pony too while you’re at it, that’ll show’em!

Did they also say that one of the big pots they were using for cooking was actually a camouflaged Hamas Control center? Because that’s about as believable…

And in the next episode of “Americans voting against their best interest because they moronically believe one day soon they will be wearing the boot that they’re currently being crushed under”…

Honest question - when did everyone collectively decide to stop calling Turkey Turkey? And why? Must have missed that memo. I don’t really mind, I just wonder why and when it happened…

Really? I’m very much for strict gun control, but do you really think if a person kills someone with a hammer (or a knife, or a spoon), the manufacturer of the murder weapon should be liable for that?

Should gun manufacturers be liable for user’s murders? No? Then fuck off and leave ISPs alone…

”Plantation owners say they won’t be able to phase out slavery because of insufficient supply of people who work for free without being chained and whipped"

After an astonishing success of his bold “mam-child temper tantrum waah waah” strategy in Brazil, it’s time for another go, eh?

Shropshire blue, which is amazing, has already been mentioned, so here are two other favorites of mine:

Laphroaig Cheddar - I don’t even like whisky, but this thing is divine. Fantastic flavour profile, I love it with wine or on lightly toasted baguette. https://www.scotcheese.com/product/iok-laphroaig/

Mont d’Or - a little wooden box stuffed full of creamy goodness. Perfect on its own, or oven baked with some garlic and white wine. https://thegoodlifefrance.com/mont-dor-cheese-of-france/

Outside of cheese, I’m a huge fan of Zibibbo raisins: they look great, smell great and taste great. I always get ones on the bunch, looking like this: https://www.italybite.it/en/zibibbo-raisins-on-the-bunch.html Saw them being sold in jars too, but I prefer them on the bunch.

Not sure about Lemmy community, but I use this page when searching for communities: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

Amen. Basically this survey reads to me as “we decided to focus on AI and we need some pretty graphs to show it’s an awesome idea - please tell us why you think AI is the best thing ever!”

Good try, but I much prefer this Luce mascot: https://www.tenutaluce.com/en/

Great, can it also automatically filter out AI slop and block the sender, just like I do to regular old spam that’s also impersonal, robotic and soulless? Because that would be great.

"A new eye-opening report (that we are not going to link, or even give you a title of, because trust us bro) has revealed something surprising about our social media platforms

How many military orphanages, military preschools and military press tents are they planning to strike this time? Are military supermarkets, military food banks and military temples also on the target list, or not this time?

This one is surely the last straw, right? This is when Israel starts facing consequences for their war crimes, right? Right?!

Oh, wrong? Put it on the pile of war crimes over there then, right next to the pile of money from Uncle Sam they got to perpetrate even more crimes…

Is there really no other word apart from SLAM that those “journalists” (or perhaps AI bots) are taught to use? Just one other goddamned word? I’m so tired of everyone and their mother slamming everyone else all the time…