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[–] aleph@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Is there any evidence that Hamas has taken new hostages since October 7th? Because AFAIK there isn't.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you talking about Lemmy.ml specifically or Lemmy in general?

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That hasn't stopped Republicans in ten states from pushing that extreme position into law, though.

https://www.cnn.com/us/abortion-access-restrictions-bans-us-dg/index.html

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Those sound like extremely edge cases and are not a good reason to not justify not reporting anything.

Moderators are volunteers and most of them simply want to make their communities better, so they do take these reports seriously. Plus at this stage Lemmy lacks robust tools to help them accomplish this. The very least general users can do is flag problem comments and accounts to help them out.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I looked up the supported bands and it appears that the Fairphone 5 is compatible with T-Mobile's 5G network, barring mmwave. So if you're not fussed by >6GHz connection speeds in built-up areas, you'll be fine.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Technically, Endeavour does have its own repos but they only contain a relatively small number of non-essential packages. But yeah, other than that it's basically pre-configured Arch with great defaults.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Having said that, yes, the description does seem like the dystopian tellyscreens in nineteen-eighty-four. But they were mandatory for everyone, which is the main difference.

This is actually closer to Brave New World than Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the former, citizens voluntarily buy huge TVs to adorn their living room walls because their whole society is built around pleasure-seeking and entertainment. These displays are then used by the powers that be to distract and pacify the population, prevent critical thinking and reduce political unrest.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Lol omg. I tried long pressing everywhere except the page number icon, which I only tapped, and nothing happened. I'm clearly having one of those days.

That's cool, though. I haven't been able to find any FOSS app that has this feature before.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, that does look nifty, but unfortunately I was thinking specifically for Android.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I know. I was disappointed that certain key scenes that I loved in the books were either cut or dramatically cut down, but I understand why they did it.

My guess is that going into this series, the producers/director were not confident that they could get three movies out of it and keep the studio happy and so decided to squeeze it into two. Remember that while most critics and sci-fi fans loved Blade Runner 2049, it was considered a commercial flop and many accused it of being "too slow" . Perhaps it was felt that three Dune movies would have suffered the same fate?

Personally, I would have vastly preferred it had they gone the Lord of the Rings route and released 3hr30 minute extended editions of Dune Part One and Two, but apparently that's not the way they wanted to do things. Either way, under the circumstances, I think they did a decent job with the constraints they had.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just figured that out, thanks!

From what I can see, there's no way to rearrange the order of pages, though, right?

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