Funny example of how a person can „create facts“ nowadays. It’s all about the amount of times a certain thing is being used. Like, when humans started to use bowls back then, eventually bowls became an essential tool. Same with language. It starts to change because people use new words or different words in their normal language. We learn: even Wikipedia can change the language.
Not a direct answer to your question, but a story why I do not want special cars anymore.
I named my first car „Wilson“, after the beachvolleyball that Tom Hanks had in the movie „Cast Away“. That car was old, rusty and slow, but I really liked it. It meant freedom and another step growing up. I felt responsible and was so proud of it too!
One night someone crashed into Wilson while it was parked. The police woke me up by ringing the bell early in the morning and asked me to come downstairs. I was still sleepy and panicked, only managed to grab a short pants and a t-Shirt. It was autumn, cold wind was blowing leaves along the empty street and I saw my Wilson crashed against a wall. The metal crumbled, the lights were broken, most of the windows shattered.
They made me fetch my belongings from the car, then it was already put onto a tow truck. I stood on the street, a box of car utensils and my sunglasses in my hands and stared at Wilson while it was being towed away. I was heartbroken. When the tow truck drove off, I felt like Wilson was crying.
Since then I never went into a „relationship“ with a car again. They don’t receive names, everything they get is a bit of decoration, maybe. It showed to be a good decision because the same thing happened with the next car, again the police rang my bell…
I‘m from Germany, we more or less stick to the driving rules. One day I had to drive through Paris around the Arc de Triomphe with its eight lanes, in a foreign car which was bigger than I was used to, with three other people in it and a broken second gear. So it was either first or third gear. Stop and go for hours, and the French don’t care much about overtaking rules, any driving rules to be exact. In hindsight it was fun, but in that moment I was drenched in sweat.
That article is disturbing.
I am using the Mlem beta and while it is getting better with every update, it’s still far away from being usable by „the normies“ (i.e. every non-early-adopter). Plus, we need more than one good app, because taste is different. Lemmy moderation tools seem to be no so mature as well. it just seems like Lemmy would need a few more years, in my opinion.
No, we are not there yet. I believe it only makes sense once there are a bunch of mobile apps available.
That took a turn! And what did people think about you then?
It found a feed in my target subreddit, but the newest article is from January 2021. In /r/museum the newest article is from Dec 2020.
This gets weirder and weirder.
From what I read here, I am already fed up with it. I prefer reading a book than getting angry at this greedy unfriendly person.
Yeah, that’s a lot of money as well. His business might have paid quite well. Buuuut it comes with a risk, which he took, knowing his whole business relies on those APIs. Well shit, it turns out the deciders at Reddit are assholes. I don’t blame Reddit for charging for the service, I blame them for how they announce it. It’s just inhumane.
Sorry for the babbling. I’m just so angry 😅
It’s NetNewsWire, on both Mac and iPhone it didn’t work. What I don’t understand is that with some other subreddits it works, but not all of them. I want to know why 😂
My first thought: “oh, that guy is rich now”, but then I started calculating. Around $40.000 per month seems like a lot, but he had to pay some services for API access (not the reddit one, if I understand it correctly, but others), and servers for push messages and stuff. And then, since he probably was self-employed I would add costs for insurances, maybe a mortgage, normal stuff. It might have been kinda decent, but he did not earn millions by now, even with the income of his other apps.
I am so annoyed now 😆
As a boy I was allowed to watch the movie „The fearless vampire killers“ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fearless_Vampire_Killers) but I didn’t understand that this was comedy. The movie scared the soul out of me, I couldn’t sleep that night and have trouble falling asleep with my neck not covered since then.
About 20 years later I talked about that movie with a colleague and she was like „yeah, that’s funny“ and I was „no, that’s a horror movie“. She convinced me to rewatch it and I realized how funny it is and that it’s not scary at all.
But I hate vampires now. Forever.
But the idea is great! Thanks for it, I might find some other subreddits to “subscribe” this way.
That does not work either. Maybe mods can switch rss off.
Okay, that is very weird. With your link it worked now. I am using NetNewsWire and would like to add https://www.reddit.com/r/dayoneapp to the feed. But with https://www.reddit.com/r/dayoneapp.rss I get an error message that the feed would not exist. https://www.reddit.com/r/beebutts.rss does not work either, https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA.rss works. I am starting to feel stupid.
Hmm, that’s a good idea! I tried that, even with your museum-example, and it didn’t work though.
I‘m using Due on the iPhone. It can be purchased per one-time payment and won’t get new features added then (bugfixes are still coming) but that’s fine since there are not so many new features. Plus, it syncs to the Mac (additional purchase needed).