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Cake day: August 8th, 2024

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  • Because there are 8 billion people on the planet and those chatting about this stuff on the internet are a very small subset of people. Unless someone is investing time to learn about this stuff, odds are they won’t hear about it elsewhere. I hate to say it, but I’m probably checking out of actively checking out current events and becoming one of those people not paying attention. 20+ years of internet access has taught me this stuff has been happening for a while and there’s nothing I can do about it and no one cares enough to do anything about it as a group. The current US president sitting in the White House and not a jail cell is proof enough to me that it’s futile. It’s become too much on my mental health and I need out of the news cycle.





  • Assumptions, exaggerations and over-assertions being said by yours and others’ comments - and to be quite frank that toxic attitude turns me off of using Lemmy and the fediverse in the same way it turned me off of using reddit. Of all the communities I explore on Lemmy, this fediverse community is full of the kinds of posts and comments that would make the average person --or anyone, really-- assume this community is full of pompous jerks and isn’t worth exploring. Fediverse is not user friendly to the average person, whether or not the community ever wants to admit it - and until it finally admits as such and attempts solutions the fediverse will probably fail. Modern technology can be as agile as possible, but if the user experience is still unfriendly it simply does not work to peak efficiency. The bogus superiority complex here needs to be squashed.











  • Thank you for the rec. I checked them out, but it’s not really what I’m looking for. Ideally my watch face will let me see a lot of information related to location and weather. For example, my main Apple Watch face currently shows: a compass, date, time, current temp, the high, the low, the conditions, wind speed and elevation. That’s partly why I’ve stuck with an Apple Watch despite the severe shortcomings


  • I was looking into Pebble watches right before they got bought by Fitbit, was super bummed. Since then I’ve tried a Garmin (hated the app) and now on my third Apple Watch… I still don’t love the Apple Watch and want an alternative. Between having to charge it all the goddamn time and after 10~ years it only having 3 usable watch faces I’ve been craving an alt. I signed up for the Pebble list - I’m ready. Pebble for every day and going to try out a Coros for fitness.


  • hype isn’t based on anything tangible

    So just like crypto

    EDIT: The crypto bros out in full force… and right on cue proudly proclaiming they don’t understand the difference between the value of blockchain technology (which so far has not had a ton of real world value outside of mostly impractical database applications, other than furthering climate change and buying drugs) vs the SPECULATIVE value of coins since coins have no real value factors to back up their SPECULATIVE value. Stocks often have real value that back up their value, like company profits or products. Stop drinking kool aid to the point of literal zero critical thinking, jfc.