I think you’re right then, and honestly I can’t say I’ve noticed.

I’ve never heard of sugarcoating pills, is it a US thing maybe?

Posting from a Beehaw account I think does have a psychological effect on me that causes me to naturally tone things down a bit. I think it’s been good for me.

Beehaw is a quieter experience than most because it has narrower federation, but you do tend to get a better signal to noise ratio since you miss the spammier instances - I like it.

Beehaw also doesn’t federate downvotes which I think is an improvement.

Saluton!

For power users, I recommend to use a plugin like NoScript though, to block Google/CookieLaw’s hidden JS spyware on the site (they’re on 2/3th of the web tho).

https://noscript.net

Beware, NoScript will break some sites, and will require you to manually enable/whitelist JS (JavaScript) sources for sites + CDNs to fix this again.

Can you not use uBlock Origin to block 3rd party scripts? Enable advanced mode and add * * 3p-script block to My Rules.

I ask because I want to keep the number of extensions to a minimum.

I was playing a degree of devil’s advocacy there because I was interested in how the person I replied to would respond.

I don’t think it needs to be as intensive as that, I think a small amount of education would go a long way. Like teaching school classes how to install an operating system on a blank machine as a basic entry point - that would do wonders for gaining a basic appreciation for ownership over computing.

Given the importance of computers in our time, isn’t it only proportionally justified to spend an enormous amount of time and dedication in teaching it properly?

I guess I just unsubscribe from communities where there are a lot of low-effort memes?

But seeing it here is fine, it’s started some discussion.

Completely agree. Now my hot take for this thread:

If governments some time in the 90s had decided from the start to ban computer hardware from being sold with pre-installed software then we wouldn’t have this problem. If everyone had to install their own operating system from scratch, which like you say isn’t hard if it’s taught, it would have killed the mystery around computing and people would feel ownership over their computers and computing.

It’s the first time I’ve seen it.

That’s not true of all of the rest of the world though, you will get great tea in other tea-consuming areas, France is quite low down on that list.

I think steeping is the American English for what in Britain we would call brewing. (S)he is saying you’re brewing it too long.

Hákarl, the Icelandic fermented shark - while not exactly pleasant the first time, it’s nowhere near as bad as people make out.

Ostrich - looks like it would taste like beef, but actually it’s more of a strong chicken-like flavour which makes sense really.

I guess you could say horse, but that’s common in a lot of places in Europe. Like beef but less flavour, too lean, I’m not a fan.

Set calendar alerts for routine tasks that need to be done less frequently than once a week.

Things like washing the vacuum cleaner filters, descaling the kettle, replacing the water filter (I’m in a hard-water area), servicing various appliances, cleaning all the things that need cleaning but don’t need cleaning every week. All small things. It removes a lot of cognitive effort and makes sure those things actually get done.

That wasn’t the direct reason for the fork if I recall, but yes the RIAA thing and the backlash, including from a number of YouTubers, is one of the main reasons I think YouTube aren’t going to try it themselves.

Jes

Well for one thing many creators use them. In general too much of a risk of backlash for too small of a gain, and probably a lot of effort.

I think without breaking tools like yt-dlp they can’t, and I don’t really think YouTube wants to go there or else they would have already. Most users aren’t tech-savvy, so if they can persuade the majority of people to turn off their “adblockers” that’s enough of a win for them. Hopefully, anyway.

Take it with a pinch of salt like all regional stereotypes, but Norfolk, England tends to have this one in the UK (Norwich, which others have mentioned, is in Norfolk).