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I don't think that's the case they probably have had at least a small team working on this before the Steam deck was announced. I don't think the audiences overlap that much to be honest and the two devices have different use cases.

The steam deck is just a powerful hand held computer (relative to other gaming hardware is pretty weak though) that runs PC games with all the ups and downs that come with that. I think there are number of steam deck buyer that are not that familiar with the underlying hardware that are going to be disappointed when new games are not going to run acceptably on it. Where as for the switch/switch 2 games will at least run acceptably

He lacks the understanding on how WeChat was able to get were it is. Ignoring any Chinese government help they were the default chat app for China therefore on every phone and were in a market without strong electronic payment system. All the other services that WeChat has come from the success of chat and payments.

North America and Europe for better or worse have had credit cards as the standard for electronic payments for decades now. North America uses SMS/iMessage as the default chat service and Europe uses WhatsApp. Twitter is used less than Facebook messager in both ot those markets.

Personally I would prefer if we didn't use "Lemmy" for everything. I really like programming.dev as a software development based instances. Also makes it less confusing if an instance decides to change to kbin or a future compatible server.

Hey you get to decide between neovim and vim

I just want a text only app for Lemmy/kbin. No thumbnails, profile pictures, in app preview of posts, or inline comment images.

I just want post titles, self posts text, and comments.

People overstate how bad Twitter's financial situation was prior to Elons takeover. They lost 500 million but had 5 billion in revenue. While not great with strategic cost cuts and a little investment in improving the ad platform they probably could have become profitable. Probably not enough to satisfy their investors but profitable.

Elon saddled them with so much debt and has become hostile to advertisers I doubt that they will ever be profitable now.

Thermostats (for inside) in Celsius usually use half degree granularity.

I find it is hit or miss if a thermostat gives 0.5C or 1C for granularity. Even when the do have half degree increments I always just use whole degrees.

This seems to be a very pedantic argument where you are using the word housing to mean exclusively single family housing were are the author of the article is pretty clearly using the term to mean all forms of housing including condos and apartments.

Yeah just a short delay and the area has decent alternative for the time being and a lot of the developments are still being built

Two things Lemmy needs to get done asap is fixing the constant stream of new post on the page and a.more aggressive hot algorithm that doesn't leave the same posts on the front page for days. I know they are aware and worked but I needs to be done asap.

People think "oh it's like email, well I know Gmail is pretty good so I'll make an account there. Whatever decisions Google makes is by extension my decision

This is why I think email analogy is very useful to get the basics of how Lemmy/kbin work on a technical level but falls flat on a practical and social level

You have what I would call federation idealists that feel that is should be just like email you should be able to contact anyone. This ignores the fact that email is private communication tool vs a public facing forum.

The argument that instances should be utilities with no "politics" or "culture" just ignores the reality.

I think I would be helpful for instances to have more control over federation than turning on or of for there instances. Ideally I think giving lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works read only access to Beehaw would have been the best option while we wait for better moderation tools. Until those options exist though they didn't really have much other choice.