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@ mesamunefire @piefed.social

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Im on the fedi doin fedi things.

  • Who is, like, the Banksy of Lemmy?

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  • nice stickers! I have a couple on my laptop too.

  • What is the best email server you use?

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  • Ive actually ran corporate email servers for around 7 years at a couple of previous jobs. Ill be honest, I just dont want to do it. Its too much like work and for literal cents on the dollar I can have some entity deal with it.

    Its the one thing I dont want to self host. Hell I even have my own lemmy/piefed I keep around for testing purposes. But email admin-ing over the years sucks

  • Kobo ereaders are integrating with Goodreads alternative StoryGraph

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  • I would love to have https://joinbookwyrm.com/ capability. That would be fun. You finish a book, and bookwyrm would auto tell you were finished. Give users the option to post about it.

  • Kobo ereaders are integrating with Goodreads alternative StoryGraph

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  • By preference (at least for me):

    1. Buy outright (AKA online stores like https://www.baen.com/). No DRM ebooks are great.
    2. Buy from authors website or sometimes patreon.
    3. Calibre + digital library download. My local library has an app, and you can just get the book and then sideload.
    4. Yoho if I cant find it elsewhere.

    I try really hard to give authors money in some way....but sometimes Yoho is all you got if they have an amazon exclusive contract.

    Its been 14+ years with this combo and I cant say I have ever had issues getting books.

  • Why do you prefer the Fediverse over other Social Media?

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  • I hear you. You get used to one of the clients, the really awesome nitche communities, start making friends (or at least start recognizing the user names) and then...rug pull. The clients were removed, a lot of the ways we communicated with said people got MUCH worse. And then you discover people are getting paid to post/comment on reddit, teh whole AI thing...just felt crummy.

    The last thing you want to do is make it harder/impossible for your power users, users that love your platform enough to make a free app to interact with it to use said platform. Its so dumb they made a competitor thats still going strong to this day (US).

  • Why do you prefer the Fediverse over other Social Media?

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  • Its nice when you go on Fedi websites and see ublock origin with 0 blocked elements.

  • What would be your opinion on a lemmy/piefed instance that's run like Athen democracy?

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  • Make it! Fork Piefed/lemmy and get it setup. Why not, might be fun.

  • If most of the jobs get replaced by AI, how people will have income to spend on products which will likely be produced by AI itself?

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  • Ill put it on the reading list :)

  • If most of the jobs get replaced by AI, how people will have income to spend on products which will likely be produced by AI itself?

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  • I remember the book series that was called rats, bats, and vats. Its sci-fi but It explores a bit of "Shareholders" AKA people who owned everything and "Vats" people born from vats/test tubes that owned nothing. In fact you owed the shareholders for being born and almost no one could pay for themselves. But if you only got one share, then you had much more rights in the society they found themselves in.

    The only people that will make money are the Shareholders and only huge amounts of shares at that. Everyone else will become the "Vats". Thats one such terrible way of living that I could very well see occurring in the US. Next generation land owners vs everyone else except its peoples time via shares.

  • Recieved a book as a gift through Amazon

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  • Amazon allows people to report those now. If you go to the support tab, theres a section on getting "free" stuff randomly from Amazon stores like what you are describing.

  • What gaming console you own/owned disappointed you the most and why ?

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  • It was sooo bad. We had such a bad time with it. The controller buttons stick, the software was super buggy, and they required a credit card to log in (I dont know if that changed after the first couple of months, but I remember being pissed).

  • What is your favorite youtube video?

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  • Alternatives to Big Tech for Laptops

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  • Alternatives to Big Tech for Laptops

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  • What is the difference between piefed and lemmy and what are the advantages of this platform?

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  • What is the difference between piefed and lemmy and what are the advantages of this platform?

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  • Yep. Thats what ive seen on both my instances. Piefed has had a lot of new features. Lemmy has had stable dev work.

  • Is it worth to learn native Android development given the current uncertain state of Android?

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  • Learning is fine. Its not too much different than other development if you have ever worked on java.

    That being said if i had to make an app, i would just make a mobile site and call it a day. That way you can have iphone and any computer work with it.

  • Are there any phones or tablets out there that can run on the charger cable only, completely missing the battery?

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  • Just take out the battery of any phone like a fairphone and most will work.

  • Peertube @lemmy.world
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    Commuting Is Getting Expensive. Here's What You Need To Know About E-Bikes

    peertube.tv /videos/watch/8bb7f5ac-b5c7-4f2b-8853-1daec71be33a
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  • WOOOOOOO!

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Starship Velociraptor

  • Reddit @lemmy.world
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    r/conservative lost about 1m subscribers in a month (reddit admin actions)

  • Peertube @lemmy.world
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    Solarpunk Right-to Repair

    peertube.stream /videos/watch/e1239db8-7f64-44f0-b325-6ccf16c74b90
  • Peertube @lemmy.world
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    Louis Rossmann's Keynote Speech on Right to Repair

    peertube.futo.org /videos/watch/94381e9a-2891-4721-89d0-403291d5089c
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    99% Invisible - Enshittification

    99percentinvisible.org /episode/666-enshittification/
  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    This Video is Different at 360p

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    When Escalator Breaks, It Turns Stairs

    aartaka.me /escalator.html
  • Peertube @lemmy.world
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    Daniel Stenberg of #curl and Kent Pitman of #commonLisp (and screwlisp, no affiliation) on #AI and #softwareEngineering

    toobnix.org /videos/watch/d11f3600-7f7d-41b3-b558-92a7db328722
  • Peertube @lemmy.world
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    Everything's Getting Worse

    peertube.futo.org /videos/watch/c246103d-e6a4-4868-9205-e725dbc0bbdf
  • Peertube @lemmy.world
    mesa @piefed.social

    Inkscape Beginner Tutorial: Simple Icon Drawings

    dalek.zone /videos/watch/2638a4b2-aea5-4996-8f0b-239e624153d0
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    W Social uncovered: the reality behind the hype

    blog.elenarossini.com /w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What are your BEST tech purchases?

  • Peertube @lemmy.world
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    President Trump Is Wrong. Agrivoltaics Can HELP Farming Communities

    peertube.tv /videos/watch/634e75eb-7c81-47df-b578-c9549df76466