A master of Karate
and friendship
for everyone

I can assure you that my van and my basement are totally save! So come right in stranger.

I think questions with “how”, " why", “where” etc. tend to be open. An example for a closed question would be: “Do you use apps to learn a new language?”

Maybe you could argue about “what” and “who” questions, but I prefer uninteresting questions to be filtered out by votes instead of rules, anyway, so I don’t care.

Also, even a “bad” question can be saved by a good answer, e.g. a report on language learning apps.

“Is your computer connected to a power outlet? Yes? Could you please unplug it and plug it back in for me?”

I don’t think being on Lemmy counts as reading and writing. hehe

COMEFROM is my go to function;

Thanks dog!

We need that template! 👷

The other guy never stood a chance! That’s the power of the F.O.R.K.L.I.F.T. system:

Forklift
Observe
Rule the situation
Knockout your competition
Lift her into your arms
Initiate eye contact
Fuck
Target your next cargo

Son, your mother and I discussed this lengthy and we have come to the conclusion…

What your father is trying to say, is that we expected you to serve dinner five minutes ago and, despite our endless love for you son, our patience is running short.

We can do it, we can create our own Internet, I mean Lemmy, without pitchforks and torches! At least until Lemmy gets relevant. Well, as “relevant” as reddit used to be.

Basically I see two options:

1. This works for advertisers and based on your “profile” you are strongly influenced by the ads shown to you. So might just as well give your data to Meta and Google, who already sell profiled (and not individualised) ads.

2. This doesn’t work for advertisers and you are not strongly influence by the ads shown to you. So the advertisers could just as well put a link somewhere and hope it is found by their target audience.

Also I don’t my browser, my OS or any other core component on my system to be in bed with people who are trying to extract as much money as possible from me.

There are radio stations, financed through ads. And they check if people are listening by calling random persons to ask them what station they are listening to.

So this is a viable business model and nobody is stopping anybody from putting plain pictures and links on sites and just estimate the page visits, but online advertisers want to know more. They always want more.

At the same time, a browser is the essential software to browse the web. So this is as if your TV was like:

Yo, many people mute their TV during commercials and don’t pay attention, which kills the poor networks. So I made a deal with advertisers and will check what your doing, while I provide unmutable ads , but don’t worry, your privacy is very important to us and we only care about providing to you the best TV experience possible.

Thank you for being genuinely interested in the opinion of others and for explaining culture differences.

I… I think the mind trick is working on me. Which would imply that this actually is what I was looking for…

Which means not I, but Obi Wan was the degenerate pervert the whole time!

And as an unstoppable force of nature and chaos… you order some stuff online and get food delivered.

Behold! Our mundane god of meaningless is looking for ways to fill the void inside!

An API that unlocks DLC? That sounds like… wait what community is this? (looks around)
Is that a wooden IP address? Nice eye patch by the way. Cheers matey!

I kind of want to abuse OP because of that chart, but I’m afraid they will “unmeet” me.

I’ll get the plunger…

Wait, you play games to have fun and not as a duty? What about “pride and accomplishment”? ;)

The moment I embraced easy mode was when Assassin’s Creed Odyssey was like: “Is the gameplay we designed for our single player game too tedious? Then buy some legendary items with IRL money or maybe our XP cheat!”