That’s quite a strong endorsement for Signal.

Mastodon has a lot of work to do to catch up to Bluesky, but I hope they do it.

Well Reddit wouldn’t be the juggernaut it is now if Digg hadn’t done similarly stupid things and paid the ultimate price. Social media sites do fall, and Lemmy grows a little every time this happens. I honestly don’t care. I like Lemmy how it is now.

It may have to do with spending more of the die on NPU and GPU features? Some of these new integrated processors have massive GPU cores on them.

No doubt there are many superior codecs. Opus is amazing, we use it for voice and video over IP. But I doubt anything will ever be as universally playable as MP3.

It’s still my preferred format. Everything can play it. At 256kbit or better it sounds fine for usual listening.

Oh yeah, I’m never buying a subscription. I’m still on the trial, it’s been more than 6 months already. But I would pay them something for occasional use of their search engine if they’d let me do that.

Yes I use DDG which gives me similar results for most things. When I can’t find it there I go to Kagi. It has sometimes surprised me with much better results, but the cases are rare. I’d happily pay them 10 cents a search or something for those cases where I need to try it.

I need per search pricing. Their plan includes way too many searches and is way too expensive. I use it like 2-3 times a month.

The CEO is too busy playing social media edgelord. I guess when you blow up a company to the point where it will pop, you have to go into politics to change the laws to make it more profitable.

I’m subscribed to block lists and at least what I see looks pretty bot free.

Lemmit takes posts from Reddit and imports them into Lemmy. I cross-posted one of those posts here. I do that when there’s an interesting one I think more people would like.

Got me there.

What bot?

It’s an error, I’m sure. They will just change the algorithm in the background, nothing so blatant as this.

I’ve played enough of them that I’m kinda bored of them. I probably only did 10% of the last one. They can ask whatever they want, but I won’t be buying until it’s probably around $20-$30.

MS Surface with OneNote does this.

This would be really useful with a personal translator device to avoid the awkwardness of saying something and waiting for the translator to repeat it in the other language. You could be wearing glasses or headphones and typing on this and having a totally natural 2 way conversation in a language you can’t speak.

Why try to hype this as a trend?

It’s funny how all trends extrapolated out lead to the plot of Idiocracy.