holy hell this is massive

thank you for your work db0

the same way that removing a headphone jack is courageous, i guess

Well yeah I guess I should have expected this coming lol. But to be fair I don’t think me commenting on cth justifies their personal insults.

no, it doesn't. but it also doesn't justify you demanding that l.ee blocks them entirely. personally, i haven't had any bad experiences w/ hexbear, and i'm subscribed to at least one of their lemmyspheres.

Also, another half of personal insults happened on !worldnews@lemmy.ml.

yeah, that i can't (and have no plans to) defend. but my i did skim the thread i believe you're talking about, and whilst some of your ripostes are quite good; my advice would just be to block AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net and just not engage. just walk away from the computer and make a cup of tea. i know that's what i do

if you feel like being courteous you can tell the person that, or you can just block them and not respond

ah, but[^1] if you donate a kidney you go to the top of the queue

you're losing one when you don't need one, and receiving one when you do

insurance salesman here[^2], just in case that might have gibt unnoticed

[^1]: to the best of my knowledge

[^2]: obviously not

well actually, i did recently make a backup acct. on lemmy.dbzer0.com...

personally, i chose lemm.ee for, amongst other reasons, the federation policy. at the time i joined, l.e had blocked the fewest instances that i could find, i think it was only burggit.moe. i would choose to continue in this vein. i'm a big boy, and i can curate my own online experience - i'd rather do that than have someone do it for me

i have never had any problems with hexbear users (in fact, the few i've seen seem to be perfectly nice). it's possible that i've just missed it, but it's also possible that a lot of people are caught up in the hype of "the hexbears are nazis, let's all block them". i think if you browse subscribed: just don't subscribe to hexbear communities; and if you browse all: you have to be prepared to block some users/communities.

this is assuming this is possible: i think it would be considerably preferable for lemm.ee to block individual users and communities, rather than defederating a whole instance

i think if people want an instance that blocks instances they don't like, they should make they're own rather than pestering you about it (this isn't a "if you don't like it, go make you're own" - it's more "everyone has their own list of things they want to block, and i think people would find it easier to block exactly what they want on their own instance"). i personally would rather lemm.ee blocked every mastodon instance so i wouldn't get the twitter experience in my link aggregator, but i'm not going to request it because that would be selfish

get well soon!

i hated material ew as soon as it was announced. so much padding everywhere, and so little contrast - to paraphrase the incredibles: if everything's orange^[other colours are available, i just like orange], nothing is. your eyes will adjust to it. i want actionable items to stand out, not be a slightly lighter shade of the same colour. it also looks rather like a fischer-price my first phone interface

i must say, if an app (for example, jerboa) uses material 3, i usually try to look for an alternative

some examples:

with material design, it's clear what's a header, what's a footer,^[look at the lack of contrast on that "new post" button] and what each button's state is.

with all the padding, there's also less space; leading to less functionality

with material ew, it's much harder to tell at a glance what each app is, one has to scrutinise the icon rather than just tell at a glance by colour

i also really dislike monet; the way it pulls this horrible washed out sickly pastel colour from a wallpaper and washes it over the entire app. if i just pulled one accent colour, and applied that to, say, the header and main action button, i'd like it a lot more

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i don't hate webp. i think png is better, but i think webp is fine

but i really don't want google to have more control over how i browse the internet.^[especially given how they've recently shown that they will abuse their monopoly] let's maybe use an image format that isn't owned by them, perhaps

because it's already compatible with everything

i have a cheap pair of earphones in my pocket (which i'm prepared to lose). another by the door. a more expensive set of headphones upstairs. a speaker in the kitchen. and when i get in a friend's car or go to their house, i can just plug my phone in and it works without the aggravation of having to pair to their speaker

tell me, oh "you can just buy a dongle" people, what am i supposed to do? buy one and accept that i'll lose it all the time? buy 5 and keep one plugged into every 3.5mm i own and don't own?

plus, y'know - takes slightly more battery, hassle to pair, can't charge and use dongle, all the other obvious issues

the whole archived article is worth reading as well - i particularly like

Reddit user malsomnus hails it as the best change since the quest to depose Quackion, the Aspect of Ducks.

the qt one is much better. on kde i can use a portal to make gtk apps use it; i don't know if there's a way to do that on cinnamon, but it may be worth looking into