I use Xfce, as do most of my Linux friends, it’s lightweight and simple yet also very customizable.

The bots have become sentient

I mean, nobody is forced to eat crickets lol

At what point did you realize The Onion and The Beaverton are two different websites?

This isn’t even satire, it’s just the truth.

Because the rich pretend like it’s in peoples interest, people believe them because oh they are rich they must know what they are talking about, and because people are stupid.

I have a few Norweigan friends and they say the same.

They’re creating the one thing they want to destroy. lol

They even admit that pepe can be used in perfectly normal ways, yet they show it’s the number one most used one. That’s crazy to me lmao

I think a lot of the future of social media is going to be determined by ease of use/beginner-friendliness.

The issue (and strength) with Lemmy is there’s multiple instances. You’re not gonna be able to explain it to non-technical people, even as an experienced programmer myself I sometimes find myself getting confused by Lemmy. People don’t want to learn, they just want to use something that works.

Then again, KBin only had the one instance pretty much I think, and yet that died out anyway. So I think part of it is people just want to go where everyone else is, and that did end up being Lemmy and not KBin (although the maintainer of KBin also refused outside contributions which helped seal its fate lol)

If Bluesky has the one instance, and you literally just go to bsky.app and sign up, that’s going to be a lot easier than trying to sell people on Mastodon or Lemmy when they Google those. Then again, I just googled Mastodon and it took me right to Mastodon.social so maybe I am mistaken.

I think it depends on the game. Some games, like certain racing games, the motion blur can sometimes enhance the feeling of speed.

I hadn’t heard of the shinobi, I might have to check that out! Cheers.

If the article sounds interesting, I’ll read it, although I usually skim articles these days.

I use DDG but I’m always open to alternatives.

I was also thinking old Thinkpad keyboards, and Dell membraine keyboards. Those were both widespread enough that nearly everyone back then had used them, and some of us still remember them lol

That’s a really cute goat.

The weird thing is, the original version of it wasn’t AI lol

I’m pretty sure this is an AI-enhanced or AI-created version of an image, since the original image existed long before AI/LLMs did.

These sound extremely historical lol

They probably feel like it’s “personalized”, like it’s “for them”, which is an absolutely disgusting and horrifying thought.