First rule about compulsive liars: There is always a bigger lie. Especially when your last lie is exposed.

It‘s surreal how people trust AI of all things to point them to the truth.

It‘s a two sided blade, but I get what you mean.

On one hand monetization is the thing that ruins platforms for me because it invites grifters and even decent people are becoming obsessed with numbers. Most people see content creation only as a career path and not something to do for fun anymore. I find that depressing at times.

On the other hand we currently live in a capitalist world and have to play by those rules to some extend. I learned most of the things I do for a living from Youtube because professionals do Blender tutorials as a side gig or even for a living. There probably wouldn‘t be nearly as much knowledge out there without this motivator. Or at least not in this form that is easy to understand for me. The official Blender documentation usually isn‘t the first place I‘m searching through when I have a problem.

So I see where you‘re coming from but it‘s a fine line between helpful and loathsome.

Because the current management have no idea about the identity of the brand. They just want to make money quick but all they accomplish is losing market share.

The Haribo brand has been going downhill rapidly since hired managers took over leadership. It has been run by the same family for generations but the latest heirs had no interest in a leadership role. So it‘s run by random business people now who only make short term decisions based on numbers. When they moved their headquarters from Bonn (the town part of the company‘s name is based on. It‘s part of it‘s very DNA) to a tax haven state to save cost, everyone knew it was over. That company is just a Brand name with no identity now.

It‘s squeaky clean. I think it has more to do with either preference or you severely underestimate the noise of 10 year old gaming hardware.

My old PC and laptop are too loud to use for anything really. It‘s unfortunate but the noise is too much.

Thank you!

Another body for the Google graveyard.

The nuclear power withdrawal has been completely overblown with the help of Russian propaganda against Germany in an attempt to split the EU. It‘s really renewables that have their triumphal march right now. It‘s the cheapest way of generating energy there is (while nuclear is still the most expensive). They can‘t be stopped even though our ignorant government of millionaires tries. The same politicians who keep ‚alarming‘ us about how we haven‘t fully figured out storage yet keep throwing money at air taxis. Tells you everything you need to know about them.

Still using Memmy even though it‘s a broken pile of rust now. The UI is still the best for me.

Is it possible to show downvotes? I wonder why so few apps have it.

Same thing I asked about Voyager: How do I enable seeing downvotes weighted against upvotes? It‘s a dealbreaker if I can‘t.

Maybe you should use something else in order to see the larger picture. It‘s hard to know what you really want when you don‘t compare.

How do I enable seeing downvotes weighted against upvotes in it? It doesn‘t do it on iOS on default which is weird.

Like everyone else the ISS is learning that Putin isn‘t a reliable partner the hard way. It‘s astonishing how reluctant we are to learn and adapt.

It was estimated 40 thousand people would show up but it‘s nearly 100k now! Insanely strong performance 💪

Unfortunately they went on their knees to suck off the orange already.

As a German I really really really hope other EU countries don‘t give in. This is stupid. Our current government is stupid. Don‘t listen to Germany. We don‘t know what we‘re doing right now.

Germany has a surprisingly large amount of space tech startups that have been complaining about their dependencies on SpaceX. Many things they produce are for the ESA but they all go up with Musk‘s rockets. It would be fantastic if there was an alternative but I won‘t hold my breath just yet.