Just say, “Thanks, a lot,” as enthusiastically as possible so that it’s uncomfortably enthusiastic. That’s what I used to do to make a mockery of the mandatory greetings policy back in my service industry days.

I’ve found that my local roasters are decent but not “specialty” per se. Locally, the best light roast, specialty shop imports beans from across Canada and around the world.

What flavour notes did the coffee have?

What’s your method for roasting? I have some green beans that a roaster game be and a Whirley Pop, but I only expect to get something drinkable out of it, not anything that would compete with my specialty-roasted, light roasts.

It’s amazing how homogenized phones became: Apple or Google flavoured slabs with a 6" or 6.5" display. That’s starting to change with foldable displays and it looks like 2026 might be a comeback year for hardware keyboards, so I’m optimistic about mobile devices being more than just social media consumption machines.

Fifteen years ago you could get portrait sliders and landscape sliders and flip phones and BlackBerry style phones and phones that had game controls, and 4" slabs and 6" slabs (called “phablets” back then). There was so much more choice and it was so much more fun. Five years ago you couldn’t even get a modern phone that’s less than 6" so it fits easily in your pocket.

I loved my Passport but the Titan 2 just looked frumpy in a way that the Passport didn’t. It’s not looks that keeps me from buying it though; it’s the complete lack of security updates which would prevent me from using it for work. Unihertz has promised better support starting with Titan 2. If that turns out to be true, then the upcoming Titan Elite will be an attractive competitor to the Clicks Communicator, which has promised 5 years of security updates.

By “inadequate” I don’t mean having room for improvement. I mean: lacking, weak, light-handed. By that definition, SO’s moderation is if anything, overdone, not inadequate. Personally, I love it as a technical resource, even if contributions are difficult to make in line with moderation policies.

I’m just using it as an example of what a Q&A site with inadequate moderation looks like. If you can’t see that then I don’t think we’re going to see eye to eye no matter how long this discussion continues.

Of course there’s a middle ground, that’s much closer in my ideal world to StackOverflow than it is to Yahoo Answers or Quora.

Lemmy isn’t a Q&A application in the way that the others I mentioned are.

If Stack Overflow is a 3/10 then Quora is a 1/10 and Yahoo Answers is -5/10.

If the alternative is the cesspit that is Yahoo Answers and Quora, I’ll take the heavy-handed moderation of StackOverflow.

What about tuna?

Loads of people wash, peel, and eat raw carrots, though. It’s not unhygienic at all.

Second. I’d really think thrice to pick up washed on the shore bananas, or just about anything edible. Basic hygiene to me.

What do you think of potatoes, then, which grow in a mixture of soil and manure? Or carrots?

First of all it hasn’t been economically viable to build a pc since Covid. Graphics card prices and now ram. In a few years it’ll be something else.

I wonder what the break-even cost is if you factor in the monthly subscription fee for online pay. How long do you need to use your PC and play online with it for the PC, even with elevated hardware prices, for it to be the more economical option.

I mean… the official Reddit app was so bad that they had to charge for API access in order to get real market share.

Keyboard is critical to me. I can work on a MacBook keyboard short term but something like a Glove80 or at least an Ergodox is critical for me in the long term.

Also OS X Unix is nix enough for me.

Also:

1. People move near a racetrack.
2. People complain about the racetrack.
3. Racetrack gets shut down.
4. People complain about all of the lunatics racing on public roads.

I loved BB10. It had gesture-based navigation years ahead of its time, the Hub was the best notification system I’ve ever used, and it could run Android apps alongside BB10-native apps. It helped that I liked the form factor of the devices with physical keyboards, too.

Nowadays can choose between a large, glass rectangle, and an extra-large, glass rectangle in one of two flavours: Apple and Android. It’s no coincidence that Android has become more restrictive in terms of control over your own device, as the competition has dwindled and thinned.