Average day for me.
If I ever see hundreds Iโll be worried.
โWindows is a good OSโ
Honestly, Iโve tried dual booting Linux lately. Iโm on mint. Even after weeks of setting things up, Iโm constantly running into issues. Particularly with drivers and such. Also, the gaming has come a long way, but the games I play donโt run as well on my current linux setup.
I havenโt given up on it yet. Even though all the bs I put up with in windows, it works better for me at the moment.
Now hold on, are you talking about Windows 7 and 10, or 11? These are very different things!
I usually know if something I say will get a bunch of replies, plus I normally use Lemmy most actively in the morning and at night so it happens regularly.
How do I post a photo in comments? New here due to Reddit ban.
Youโre asking the wrong person. Due either to my client, or my instance, I get, like, a 20% success rate on attaching images. Most of the time I get an error.
On my client, thereโs a little picture icon. When I click that, it lets me select a picture and, if the wind is blowing in the right direction and the stars align, the picture is embedded. Otherwise, I upload to catbox.moe and manually embed the URL. The markdown syntax for an embedded image is:
If youโre using voyager you can just copy and paste and it will handle it, usually, assuming your instance has image uploads enabled.
I know mlem just got a new update, so I canโt comment on that BUT I can say that always come back to voyager.
Itโs as close to the Apollo Reddit client as there is (as far as Iโm aware)
I use Jerboa client on Android. It feels very much like the Reddit is Fun app.
There are rich text buttons at the bottom of the new post field. One is a photo icon, click that and it takes you to your photo/file browser to select a pic.
Hereโs a pic I took of Earthโs bff, la Luna.
i usually just have the picture in my clipboard and then ctrl+v. it should be uploaded and the markdown link added for you
A bunch are usually people disagreeing and making up situations to make themselves rightโฆ i.e., you posit that the sky appeared blue when you went outside today, the replies are: not if itโs night, not during cloudy days, etc. and at least one that sounds like they disagree but are reiterating what you just said.
Iโve made this observation before, but the funniest thing about Lemmy is that !ShowerThoughts posts elicit more controversy than !UnpopularOpinion. Like, someone posts โI love pineapple on pizzaโ in !ShowerThoughts, and itโs downvoted to hell with people writing long essays about how pineapple on pizza is justification for bringing back shock treatment. The same thing posted to !UnpopularOpinion brings out a mob of people saying how not unpopular an opinion that is, quoting statistics about how Hawaiian Pizza is the most popular pizza in America. Itโs absolutely hilarious, and one of the few areas where the Lemmy community is truly contrarian just for contrarianโs sake.
With the exception of populations of some instances which I wonโt hex by bearishly naming, and a few individually excessive dicks (or trolls, but I think most are really just assholes), the Lemmy community tends to argue in good faith, admit when theyโre wrong or have had their minds changed, and are generally polite netizens in most exchanges. But !ShowerThoughts and !UnpopularOpinion just being out the contrarian in people, for some reason.
Unpopular opinion is just posting things that plenty of people actually agree with. Like pineapple pizza. An actual unpopular opinion would be something like agreeing with restricting abortion or something difficult that elicits very strong feelings.
But do we really believe the posters think what theyโre posting is a popular opinion? Maybe they really think itโs unpopular, because of their IRL experiences, or what they see online.
I think itโs because people know whatโs unpopular, but the heavy stuff, they donโt want to be associated with. So they choose milquetoast unpopular opinions, which arenโt really unpopular as much as maybe a minority. Like, a majority of voters voted for Trump, but thinking Kamala would have been better isnโt unpopular, it was just the minority opinion among people who got their fat assess out and voted.
Now, saying โonly white, biologically born males should be allowed to voteโ would be a truly unpopular opinion, but although there are absolutely more than zero people on Lemmy who believe this, no way in hell theyโre going to post that.
So people stay with โsafeโ unpopular opinions, likeโฆ โNYC is the ugliest city Iโve ever seen.โ Sure, youโll learn some new insults from the responses, but nobodyโs going to troll through your post history and throw it in your face in every argument, or follow you around and downvote everything you post because of it. Ok, maybe some New Yorkers will do the latter, but you know what I mean.
Consequently, because theyโre just minority and not truly unpopular, all of the people who agree come out of the woodwork, incensed that this entirely reasonable opinion would be posted a being โunpopular.โ
Thank you for coming to my Ted-L talk.
