johnnyjayjay

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Is the fairphone really worth it? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] johnnyjayjay@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

The new one is definitely too expensive for me. I have a phone that I'm not really happy with, but I'm keeping it for as long as possible. After that, I'm probably going to look for a used fairphone. I don't see myself going with another completely unrepairable device.

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[–] johnnyjayjay@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never claimed that 2^20 is the same as 10^6. In fact, I explicitly said that they are different. But if I use M on purpose, it is not a correction to just replace it with Mi, for that same reason.

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[–] johnnyjayjay@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is no contradiction. But there is also nothing contradictory or wrong with the unit MB. If I say "this is 100MB", maybe I just... mean that? No reason to correct me.

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[–] johnnyjayjay@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

No. "Mi" is just a different prefix than "M" and it doesn't matter what units you attach them to. Why would it? It's just a multiplication with 2^20 or 10^6, respectively.

The German Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament has ditched X (Twitter) in favour of open-source decentralised Mastodon in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] johnnyjayjay@feddit.de 103 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The more important thing: anyone can see their posts now. This is rather crucial for a government institution's feed and not true on Twitter anymore.

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Zoom CEO says Zoom meetings hinder innovation and debate, wants employees back in the office (www.zdnet.com)
 

Zoom, the videoconferencing platform that profited substantially from remote work during the pandemic, is now asking employees to return to the office. Its CEO, Eric Yuan, claims Zoom meetings don't let people build trust or be innovative.

[...]

Yuan explained that trust is essential "for everything," and he finds it hard to build not only that but also innovation and debates over Zoom.

"Quite often, you come up with great ideas, but when we are all on Zoom, it's really hard," Yuan said, according to Insider. "We cannot have a great conversation. We cannot debate each other well because everyone tends to be very friendly when you join a Zoom call."

When rule fly in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] johnnyjayjay@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Not ours! Not ours!"

AGCAB

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Want to have your genes tested? It might be genetic (arstechnica.com)
 

People in a genetic database have segments of DNA in common unexpectedly often.

gotdamn in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] johnnyjayjay@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US is uniquely fucked. What the rest of the west shows though is that the housing crisis exists even without the idiocy that is American suburbanism. The consistent factor across the board is housing-as-profit.

gotdamn in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] johnnyjayjay@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's speculative investments, housing as assets instead of, well, housing. In almost every major city in the west there is an astonishing number of empty apartments. In my hometown of Berlin there is essentially one large corporation that owns most of the city as investment. Also, new housing is constantly being built - but not for (average) people to live in it.

You may also recall that the whole thing came crashing down in 2008? Or have we just forgotten what happened there and the effects it has to this day.

gotdamn in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] johnnyjayjay@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

You have to be a complete moron (and pretty ignorant) to believe housing prices are so high because "there is simply not enough supply". Have you lot slept through the last decades? Do you know anything that's happening?

Not a racist but... in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
[–] johnnyjayjay@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the explanation, but that's not where my confusion is. What is the context? Why is this posted in mildlyinfuriating? This is just some person saying stuff™

Not a racist but... in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
[–] johnnyjayjay@feddit.de 38 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Again... what?

Toast your animal friends in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] johnnyjayjay@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Time for some ranch !!!

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What are some of the bands you recently discovered or who are active today? (feddit.de)
 

I want to get a thread of contemporary punk bands going! There is so much good stuff out there today that perhaps not everybody has heard of.

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Surveillance advertising in Europe: The adtech industry tracks most of what you do on the Internet. This file shows just how much. (netzpolitik.org)
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Is it just me, or is the Lemmy search interface not... great? (feddit.de)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by johnnyjayjay@feddit.de to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I've been on the Fediverse for a little while now, but I'm only getting into Lemmy now. I've noticed that it is very cumbersome to follow communities from other instances. You have to click on search, select "Communities", enter the name (but without the instance), find the correct one in the list if there's multiple and then subscribe.

Why can't I just... enter the fully qualified name somewhere and it sends me to the community directly? Why is there no search that works for unique IDs (like in Mastodon, where you can search for any global object ID (URL) to navigate there directly)? Or does that exist and I haven't found it yet?

Another thing, is there an existing effort for browser extensions that allow interactions when viewing foreign communities through their own interface instead of your home instances? This exists for Mastodon for example and is really convenient (I can like, boost, follow on other instances as long as I'm logged in on my home instance).

Edit: The regular search seems to be working with fully qualified names/IDs for me now. Dunno if it was just a fluke before or a problem with the instance I was looking up.

Edit 2: Searching IDs (such as https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse) work (although it takes a while to load), whereas searching "names" like !fediverse@lemmy.world doesn't. I don't know if it's because of my instance or not.

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