“Hey baby, are you a compelling new novel? Because I’d love to lose myself in your sheets. Like sheets of paper, you know, pages. I’m sorry, I’ll leave now.”

Really, radio communication is about creating and transmitting those radio waves. Sign language relies on reflected light waves so it’s actually a form of RADAR 😀

So sad that everyone’s talking about the phone calls rather than asking if Gail’s okay.

Oh sorry I totally misunderstood! I’m glad you’re enjoying that colour choice then!

Haha, that colour is configurable in Settings > Appearance.

There’s some UI work on the way that may help with first impressions.

It’s not just you, it’s all of us. But what people really regret when they are facing the end is perhaps different from your fears as expressed here.

Five wishes of the dying:

1. “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”
2. “I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.”
3. “I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.”
4. “I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.”
5. “I wish I had let myself be happier”

From The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing by Bronnie Ware

You never wash your belt? I bet you never wash the poop-knife either.

Sheesh.

IBM buys companies because it wants something the company has and it’s happy to throw away (sorry, divest) the bits it’s not interested in. That’s it. The people in the bought company, or their customers, may feel that the things that they valued and that made them precious have been destroyed, but IBM didn’t value them enough to preserve them.

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Yes, if you don’t tip they will call you a Canadian or worse.

Yes. It’s called a “web browser”.

Seriously though, “fediverse” just means internet plus shared hosting of content. Why would you want a single app to amalgate photos and chat and videos and weather and restaurant reviews and auctions and whatever else people choose to federate?

I may be new in Lemmy years but I’m old in Reddit years, so that’s gonna stay unclicked 😀

The house was horrible enough to start with; a characterless inter-war bungalow with fake timbering and fake leaded glass. The conversion is just differently horrible.

For me it’s the destruction of the garden that warrants it being here. I know it’s the UK so the sun isn’t always available (edit: just seen the Zoopla link, it’s Bolton, so change “always” to “ever”) , but losing shade and shelter like that is a tragedy in any climate.

Every system that can be thought of (and has been suggested here) might sound great but when implemented at scale will no doubt prove to be open to abuse and require an army of mods to oversee. Otherwise every multi-million dollar social media company would have implemented it already.

Upvotes and downvotes and cumulative scores kind of do the job well enough that that’s what we keep ending up with.

That being said though, I would be interested in seeing a system where each downvote you make also counts against your own karma to discourage profligate use of the downvote to mean “I have a different opinion but can’t express it here”.

Mmm, memes and shitposters. It’s like we never left.

It’s crazy isn’t it? Six months in and Mastodon still hasn’t clicked for me, but six days here and I know I’m not going back to Reddit.

Yeah, maybe focusing on comments that actually point people to join-lemmy.org would help.