It’s also a standalone app as a flatpak, if that makes a difference: https://flathub.org/en/apps/app.vger.voyager

You can technically use Voyager on desktop and mobile. You can access the web client here: https://vger.app/

Get absolutely loved and cherished, you wonderful critter!

I suppose it is a woefully underutilized glyph, isn’t it? I consider it very important, and make sure to check any typefaces I download, to ensure it’s designed before using them in creative projects. While it didn’t become mainstream, I love letting people know it exists through writing when an opportunity arises.

Exactly, they’re usually pretty easy to add if you want to. I totally understand most folks don’t talk so formally when in informal settings, but the em dash thing is hardly the smoking gun paranoid people want it to be. A lot of the “tells” by themselves are just punching at competent writers; it’s the same thing that happens to visual artists, or musicians, or anything else creative. You can try and find several tells at once—and sometimes you do—but it tends to boil down to glorified witch hunting, rather than something of substance. People want desperately to be able to just know something is AI generated on vibes alone. It’s not always going to be that easy, and most aren’t the sleuths they believe they are.

It depends on the keyboard, and the software. I’m using HeliBoard on my phone right now, and all I have to do to make an em dash is hold the dash key—that’s it. It’s actually quite trivial to add em dashes in various cases, and I wish folks wouldn’t pretend otherwise.

I also make use of other characters, like my beloved interrobang. I actually have that pinned to my clipboard, so I can paste it when it’s appropriate.

“You care about writing enough to use special characters‽”

“Yes.”

Is it too late to ask the host if the category is tools, or toys?

He can afford foreshortening and detailed hands, in a stickman world‽ His greed sickens me.

Different person but:

1. I am concerned about continuity of consciousness, not about copies. From an earlier comment posted, you mention disintegration and reintegration. If we’re just transcribing the data into new atoms on the other side, continuity of consciousness will not transfer over. Well, to be more precise, the individual on the other side will believe it has, and to the rest of the world I will be functionally the exact same being. This doesn’t matter to me though, because my specific consciousness no longer exists. If we’re actually using the exact same atoms after disintegration, I couldn’t tell you if that would work. I sure as shit wouldn’t be trying it though.

2. My family and friends do things daily I am not interested in, including things which they find to be convenient or important to their daily lives. I’ll be fine, but I also wouldn’t bother stopping them either. From my perspective, their original continuity of consciousness is irrelevant to me. They will live, feel, and act the exact same regardless. It only matters to the self, and the new iteration will always feel as if their continuity is unbroken.

As someone who loves puns and other dad joke type humor, puns feel very much situational and a part of improv. They’re great in the moment when you quickly think of something that gets the crowd groaning, but I can’t just dig them up with no buildup and get that same feeling.

For example, I could tell you ten random puns without context to try and make you laugh, but more than likely, “no pun in ten did.”

It’s quite a nice player for that purpose, and I was able to move over all of my favorites and ratings without too much trouble either. I chose it purely because it’s FOSS and met my needs on my distro. If you’re willing to use freeware on something like Windows specifically though, idk.

“That savory fruit in your description? Nothing more than a direct stand in for the very avocado I told you couldn’t be used to form your description. You don’t get to genie your way out of your obvious inability to describe your precious ideology without making an appeal to an avocado by any other name.”

-Very smart Internet person

If that’s the desktop like I think it is, the mother will probably be far more disappointed with that desktop mess than any homework on the drive anyway.

I’m not even sure why the criticism is so highly upvoted; it’s literally a crude stickman comic. It feels on par with pointing out the distances between 100m and 50m appear shorter than 50m and 10m. The intent was purely the message, and that gets across perfectly fine.

If you’re having trouble with proprietary hardware networking and bluetooth, I wonder if the some USB hardware from ThinkPenguin would help you with that. Namely the wireless dongle and the bluetooth one, both of which don’t rely on proprietary blobs and work with fully free systems out of the box. Not exactly the cheapest thing to outfit on inherited, old systems at ~$50 each, however.

That’s a traditional familiar form‽ Any witches out there hiring?

Can confirm, that fox is fire.

Sure I’ll be your friend, but without the ‘fri’ part.

Get ready, wake your fever up Mob! Get ready! 🎶

Yeah, giving Google unfettered access to your attention span with their algorithm (or any giant corporation) is just a disaster waiting to happen. None of them are interested in your well being or helping you in any way, only to keep you engaging, and to try pushing narratives to the masses. These very same algorithms also determine how creators act and what they post, since disobeying the nebulous ‘algorithm’ results in having your video cratered.

As for PeerTube, I will tell you right out of the gate it won’t be a major supplement to offset something like YouTube watch time. You will find some fun though, it’s quite cool watching super indie stuff you end up enjoying, think like 2005 tier YT where people just kinda post stuff for fun. If you are a creative (e.g. artist, musician, maker, tech reviewer) and have the rights to your videos, MakerTube is the instance I’m on, and they would be happy to have you (my channel). If you aren’t a maker, you can browse the instance list and try to pick a server you’re comfortable with (all of them have an info page which shows their rules and what you can do). I know that’s tedious and overwhelming though, so I spent a little bit mulling for something I’d consider acceptable as a starting point and found Peertube.wtf. They seem to be open signups, allow video uploads with a high limit, non-US, a proper no bigotry policy, looks good at a glance anyway!

Adding to say I have the same experience. Not banned, never used a TPA, but downloaded RIF Is Fun when people were writing up a storm just to see what was even going on. When the blackouts happened, I saw the more and more unhinged shit the Reddit administration was doing to stifle the protests and decided to make my blackout permanent from then onward. My exposure to the Fediverse has entirely changed how I interact with megacorps and software now. If it’s not FOSS or DRM free stuff on my device, I don’t want anything to do with it. Obviously getting to 100% on that is a very tall order, but I’ve been making a lot of headway since 2023.

Even in spite of the vast disparity in quantity of content, I would vastly prefer Lemmy to current Reddit without contest. Even aside from the massive brain drain the blackout had, and all the ad related enshittification, imagine being punished for even upvoting awesome things like Luigi Mangione? Now instead of the countless years I spent leaving my art and constant comments to boost some boneheaded corporation, I can post them here and be involved with a movement controlled by individuals. A movement made for and funded by each other, instead of lining greedy pockets.