That sucks. I noticed our Lidl did the same (maybe other supermarkets, too, haven’t paid attention), but people still return the carts. This is in Austria.

Same in Austria. Noticed our Lidl removed the coin/token slot recently.

So, a relative of my partner’s is an influencer. I thought they had a glamorous life, because they travel all around the world. Turns out they don’t even technically get paid to promote products. Their trip expenses are covered, but that’s about it. Which I find bizarre, but I guess as long as they’re young and pretty it works.

Mojeek was a huge miss for me. Search results were mostly irrelevant to my search queries. I’ve yet to find any search engine that isn’t trash, though.

The main thing I encountered has been gatekeeping the OS itself. I.e. you have to be a Linux nerd/expert to be allowed to use Linux. I personally haven’t seen that type of gatekeeping for other OSes. It’s literally just an OS. There are dozens of distros one can choose from. There’s something for everyone. I’m sure it’s just a vocal minority, but they do exist.

Duality of Linux community. On the one hand people can be extremely helpful and nice; I’m way more likely to find a solution to a problem, niche or otherwise, for a Linux system than Windows. On the other hand the community can be unbearably toxic and gatekeep like no other.

I’m not so sure. They do like to have weddings in Venice and spend time on their mega yachts. Being stuck in a hole eventually gets to a person, no matter the amount of entertainment, virtual or otherwise. These people want to have it all. Self-made prison is still a self-made prison.

The hilariously sad thing is they need us wage slaves to do their bidding. They love living their lives in luxury. They’d very quickly realize living in a bunker sucks ass.

I initially thought so, too, but I checked in browser and another Android client to confirm it’s a Boost bug.

No, but according to the other comments here, seems to be specific to Piefed login.

Here’s an example. 28 comments total, but only 11 are visible to me in Boost.

No. They’re simply not visible.

I don’t know how anyone can have kids in good conscience in this day and age. Even us Millennials are going to get affected badly, let alone younger gens who are in for a total ecological collapse.

I’m kind of in charge of printers at work. There’s this annoying bug in M$ Office where sometimes their dumb apps override default printer choice and there doesn’t seem to be any sane fix out there. I keep getting a few annoyed admin people complain about this, and I’m like wtf am I supposedtl to do here??, I’m not an M$ dev. God, I hate working with M$ products.

I occasionally have wet dreams, but I don’t have a penis, so it isn’t a problem. What is a problem is my unconscious mind picking partners for me. Those choises are either highly questionable or absolutely gross.

And that’s definitely a big hurdle many people don’t want to get over to join a rather niche platform. Most people just want things to work and not think about it any further. The older I am, the more I understand the sentiment.

We shouldn’t need to spend hours of our free time just to find out where it is “safe” to post memes and share silly stuff. Sure, if we had to do that only for lemmy (or fediverse in general), it wouldn’t be a big deal. But there are so many things in life we use, it’s impossible to devote enough time to research every single one of them. Especially when there are more important things in life to spend time on. It’s exhausting.

I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but I feel this is one of the reasons lemmy/fediverse will remain niche. Maybe this changes in the future.

We’re supposed to introduce confused normies to the fediverse by telling them to just pick any instance, because it’s all the same. And then shit like this happens, lol.

I typed in “o” or “oz” in the win11 start menu to search for an app. Instead, the menu gave me internet results, with the first one being “ozempic”… This was on my work machine, lol.

Time for some Horizon: Zero Dawn style Vantage points.

Hah, I’m pretty sure this was the deciding factor I got my IT job.