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[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 18 points 2 years ago

OP, I just wanted to say thank you for writing such a good title. It's rare to get such an informative, clickbait-free title these days.

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 4 points 2 years ago

The other exception is performance. If you register on a very overloaded server, or one that has insufficient resources, you're going to have a bad time.

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 6 points 2 years ago

I bet it got triggered by your comments link. This is a stupid bot anyway. Direct URLs work fine for other instances.

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Putting any piece of meat on the grill at 700° is going to leave good marks.

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Relax. I was checking because I had a whole slew of problems with my user that other people on my instance didn't have following the upgrade to 0.18.1. Not everything has to be a confrontation.

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 5 points 2 years ago

No, your instance is Lemmy.world, which is using 0.18.1.

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Every once in a while, a post from a service employee would surface on r/popular on Reddit, and you'd get a glimpse of how they really feel about tips and people who tip badly or don't tip. They absolutely will retaliate against people they know don't tip up to their expectations, but they will never share their expectations with their customers.

Granted, this is a slice of the total population of service workers who are complaining on a public forum. Still, would you risk your hair, or your food, or your time to someone who decides you're not keeping up your end of the social contract? Not me! If I go to a place regularly, I tip even if the service is bad, because I won't take the chance of being retaliated against.

It sucks.

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 30 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Those of us who are of a certain age have seen this happen before. Back in the late 80s and early 90s, some big companies like Compuserve and Prodigy and AOL became service providers and offered customers access to their own content, as well as a "gateway" to the internet. They weren't the only service providers, but they made access to the internet much easier for less technical people, and they had reach. AOL is infamous for its mail marketing campaign where they blasted copies of their software to everyone on CDs.

That brought a whole new segment of the population onto the internet who didn't have the same culture or capabilities or interest in building a high-quality community. Usenet forums were particularly impacted. Longtime users coined a term that is still used today to describe this phenomenon: Eternal September. Why September? Because prior to all of this, the only time the forums had to deal with inexperienced, uncouth users was in September, when a new batch of first-year college students got access to the internet and found their way to Usenet.

Right now Lemmy is peopled with the high-quality user base that wants to improve the community. Threads threatens to (and will) open the floodgates of people who may not share those interests.

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

That's brave! I would never cut my own hair. Well, I guess I would shave my own head. But I'd still be nervous about missing something.

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, and yes. I did this with an iphone 8, I think, which basically gave it a few more years of functionality before the advances to cameras and processors became too great to ignore. I used a kit from iFixit which was pretty easy to use.

FYI: I think the way to gauge your battery is to look up the number of charging cycles it has had. If it's over 1,000, that battery is past its operational lifetime.

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 10 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Everyone expects 20% no matter what. Especially those stylists who are working as independent contractors for a large company like Great Clips. Prices went up kind of fast in 2020, so I asked my wife to learn how to cut my hair during the lockdown, and I haven't gone back to a professional since.

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 2 points 2 years ago

Yep, I think that's where this is going. Everybody else died before they even got to the hill, but now she has the opportunity to walk to the other silos, which must have cameras, too. How will they react when she shows up and waves at them?

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