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Cake day: January 10th, 2021

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  • The best thing would be if Reddit goes the way of Digg.

    Well, it has already. The only reason it hasn’t fully imploded & all the users deserted for another site, is because there wasn’t an equivalent place to go to.

    They were sort of parallel in development but digg blew up and Reddit didn’t then Digg took a quick hard turn towards enshitification.

    Reddit has done the enshitification but like a parasitic infected spider, it’s wandering about and most of the users haven’t realised yet that it’s an empty shell.

    It’s slow demise would be better in the long run than a quick collapse like Diggs so it’s now putrid culture is not transmitted with an enmass exodus.


  • Tangentism@lemmy.mlto> Greentext@lemmy.mlIkea
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    In the UK before Ikea, it was MFI (colloquially known as ‘Made For Idiots’) that was even lower quality chipboard horrible furniture.

    Yes, Ikea isnt some handcrafted solid wood furniture but until most people can afford that stuff, it will do.



  • Tangentism@lemmy.mlto> Greentext@lemmy.mlAnon hates Pepsi
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    There’s a funny anecdote from Professor Ian Roberts that he tells at the launch for his book “The Energy Glut”.

    He was approached by coca cola to carry out a study for them and they even suggested they would write the proposal for him so they could work together.

    He suggested his own proposal that he research the road deaths and injuries attributed to transporting their nutritionally valueless sugary drink around the world.

    He didn’t hear back from them!

    Sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjPA_dlXoVM


  • Wish I could figure out why clicking on my downloads in the download list doesn’t open them, though (I’m on KDE Neon).

    Not sure if the UI is exactly the same but are you clicking on the magnifying glass icon next to the name or the filename itself?

    If you click the name on the OS versions I’ve used, it opens the file or in the case of a zip, unpacks it.