My RSS reader! I use NetNewsWire.

It’s from a clip where Trump is showing the price changes for the items everyday Americans purchase, there were more tables with toilet paper, bread, milk, cheese, etc. He was saying that Kamala Harris was responsible for how expensive everything got and that it would continue if she wins.

It is free and open source, it’s my main RSS app on Mac / iOS, and I downloaded Feeder from F-Droid for Android

I’ll be checking it out, thanks!

This is kind of embarrassing because I feel like I’m out of touch with video games but I actually have the opposite concern…

How do I play games that allow me to talk to people while playing?

I have a an iPhone, an Android tablet and a Nintendo Switch.

I know I’m limited by my devices but are there any games I could play that have that feature?

Looking more for the social aspect than the gameplay tbh.

Roberto Bolaño has been most influential in my life, I first read him as a teenager and many trips, career decisions and lifestyle choices during my early 20s were directly influenced by two of his books: The Savage Detectives and Last Evenings on Earth.

He's been my favorite author for a long time and certainly the writer I've read and re-read most often, but I think I've outgrown him a bit during the past year. I'm glad he's been part of my life for so long though, and I look forward to finding my next favorite author.

Thank you so much for sharing this, wow!! You must have so many great stories from that time, the fact that internet communities were small yet distinct enough to remain separate from our real world identity is (sadly) fascinating to me.

We must be around the same age haha because those were staples for me too, I was obsessed with motherload on minclip, RuneScape and age of empires lol

Truthfully, never, I’m always honest, but I’m also an advocate for data poisoning and obfuscation. One of these sentences is false.

Scented candles in my office. Makes my work feel much more cozy and less stressful.

Just the man who prompted this question

LOL I don’t see why not!

MacOS Sonoma, released Fall 2023, is available on iMac Pro, released in 2017. That’s the oldest they support, but even the lower-tier MacBook Air and Mac Mini models are supported back to the 2018 models. That’s six and five years.

Fuck Apple and their greedy business tactics, but let’s not just spread false information either.

https://www.apple.com/macos/sonoma/

Most Americans. And it’s not SMS, it’s messages through iMessage. More people use iPhones in America, and installing another app to talk to one or two people with Androids is not something people want to do. I use signal to talk to two close friends because one of them has an android. Otherwise, we’d just use iMessage and not install another app. Everyone else in my life has an iPhone. And this is the same for my age group (younger than 35).

Where did people use to share their emails to be contacted by strangers?

This is exactly the advice in Voltaire’s Candide. Cultivate your own garden, OP.

Real

A collection of Kafka short stories

This is super helpful, thank you very much.

It was actually easy to create it (I’m on lemm.ee instance) the hard part is I think just being able to maintain engagement.

Agreed! I started a community a couple days ago and I also browsed through the descriptions of other communities to get an idea of what we should put in one (I have no experience moderating subreddits or anything like that) and I found that many had little to nothing in the sidebar.

Is Android a valid answer? Maybe not Google's monstrosity but AOSP (although I feel as though it's hard to extricate one from the other save for projects like GrapheneOS).

I had a crush on a girl during the last few months of my last semester in undergrad (we were both going to grad school in different states). Beautiful and smart, we talked a lot during class discussions, we texted each other once in a while. This girl had me daydreaming while driving and cheesing hard while singing to pop songs with the windows rolled down. So I decide to ask her out. We meet up at a coffee shop, turns out the coffee shop is closed but we walk over to an ice-cream shop and talk and flirt for hours. We hug goodbye and I'm beaming on my way back home. We continue texting back and forth for a few days and I decide to ask her out once again. I ask if Saturday works for her and she replies that she's going to be celebrating her third anniversary with her boyfriend on Saturday but maybe Sunday would work. I had no idea she had a boyfriend, so needless to say, that went nowhere. Or rather, we both went our separate ways and I'm still considering reaching out once I'm done with grad school.

They absolutely do! I don't understand the snobbery against audiobooks. When Borges lost his sight he had to have books read to him, and just consider the amazing stories he came up with (and the literary devices he developed) to make up for his blindness.

Last year I was on a road trip and we stopped by a convenience store in the middle of nowhere. Bought so many Fujifilm 200 rolls since they were like $2 each. No clue why they were so cheap, they were even 36-negative rolls.

The complacency with the direction the site took, which is natural, as on Reddit you’re only a user at the mercy of admin decisions, while it seems, at least at this stage, that Lemmy instance admins actively seek out the opinions of the community regarding both development and content matters.

I was recently reading Scalzi too! His blog is great too.

I have not, but I’ll check it out. Thanks!

Not familiar with royal road, what’s that?

I do for niche communities, especially those for reading / books / literature. There’s fewer of those here on Lemmy, and the ones in languages other than English are nonexistent.

That little cactus looks awesome

Yeah here you go! It was actually this article that sent me down the rabbit hole that prompted the TIL. Been reading about the Panama Papers since I posted this LOL

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23793428/microsoft-aptos-new-default-font-office-365

This is amazing, I'm sharing this in the group chat with the boys LOL thank you!

Ooh that's a cool read and exactly what I was looking for! Thank you very much, I'm going to add it to /c/vignettes as well.

Great attitude.

This artist’s work is extremely visually pleasing lol thanks for sharing!

My experience was exactly like you describe, I see we even ended up using the same instance. Only reason I chose this one was because it was the top option in the Memmy app.