[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 68 points 2 weeks ago

Sooner or later they're going to become meander scars or oxbow lakes, when the river reconnects with itself.

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 63 points 1 month ago

Usually when that happens there's a way to tie it back to circles, but it's not always easy to find

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 65 points 1 month ago

Laptop keyboard layouts. There is no reason they should be so different.

Specifically, those laptops that have full-sized left and right arrows, but half-sized up and down arrows - those earn 1 week of jail time for the CEO per unit sold.

While we're at it, the power button must be in the same place on all laptops.

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 55 points 2 months ago

I think they meant shoot in like a friendly way. You know, happiness bullets!

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 64 points 3 months ago

What a coincidence, I am a pack of wolves in a trenchcoat.

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 64 points 3 months ago

Windows' might be complex, but it is NOT graceful. If you have notepad open with unsaved text, then shutdown will never shut down - but nothing on the screen will make this obvious to a non-technical person.

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 60 points 4 months ago

ADHD memes is this way: !adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com

(this is not to say you should have posted there instead of here, I'm just putting the link here because I want to)

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 77 points 7 months ago

Can I just say that is awful advice. There's an easy way to save it:

"Tell me where you are and I'll give you a few good options to start with"

When the poster is clearly a hopeless beginner this kind of response is useless and overwhelming in information that they have no chance of understanding.

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 66 points 7 months ago

You're not wrong but there is one thing: hitting the ground is an instantaneous impact with a hard surface. Being swooped in some direction is a relatively slower process - the swooper is softer than concrete, and the change in velocity is spread over a longer period of time (even if it's still "instantaneous" to the casual observer, it can be an "instant" 100 times longer than ground impact).

It's like landing on a mattress vs a hard floor - from a high enough height both are deadly, but I'd still pick the mattress.

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 62 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I've been looking for info about this for months, as it was obviously a part of the EU's anti-gatekeeping legislation from last year, but I couldn't find any info. Specifically I wanted to know which apps would be able to communicate with WhatsApp - Telegram? Signal? Something else?

And now that there's an article, it's behind a paywall...

Edit: managed to read it through Firefox's reader mode. Unfortunately they don't know, but not for lack of trying:

So far, it is unclear which companies, if any, are planning to connect their services to WhatsApp. WIRED asked 10 owners of messaging or chat services—including Google, Telegram, Viber, and Signal—whether they intend to look at interoperability or had worked with WhatsApp on its plans. The majority of companies didn’t respond to the request for comment. Those that did, Snap and Discord, said they had nothing to add.

The only service they mentioned that definitely will have chat interoperability is Facebook Messenger.... Yeah, no fucking thanks.

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