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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • If you’re interested in finding out, why don’t you buy one and try for yourself? They’re not that expensive (at least the non-electronic ones)… I hear some people like it. And I mean if you’re not fond of the current situation, you should switch up things and try something different anyways.

    (Edit: I’d get a cheap one, see if I like it and the either throw it in the trash or have learned something and then decide if I want some $250 device with all the bells and whistles and buttplug.io integration. But YMMV on that.)



  • I think what you mean is compound words vs other words?

    Wikipedia says there are lots of compound words in English.

    Plaintiff is borrowed from Old French. Litigation from Latin…

    I suppose it boils down to when and under what circumstances a term was needed to describe something. Sometimes there was a word from another language available. Or the whole subject came from a different culture. And sometimes they just described it with a compound of what it resembles. And how to make up terms probably also depends on what is en vogue at the time.


  • My summary is oversimplified. I still think it’s the correct answer to OP’s question: is there physical evidence. Because there isn’t anything physical. But there are written records from a bit later, suggesting that somebody with that name must have existed. Glad someone else thinks I picked the correct article. Seems it’s not that easy to find good information. The English speaking internet is filled with low quality efforts to portray the facts in a way they’d like to have them.

    I have a few good books though. Back when I was young (and became an atheist,) I used to read a lot about philosophy, the political message of the New Testament. And what life was like in that time.






  • I think most people here have went through the 5 stages of grief. And at this point they don’t care anymore. At least not to the degree they used to. It’s been a year. Life goes on. Don’t waste your time on being negative and spamming someone who once let you down. Look forward and spend your time on something useful. At least that’s my opinion.

    But yeah, it’s a question. I just think other people think it’s pointless and they don’t care. And some of them are going to downvote you for that even in No stupid questions. And lots of other people aren’t going to upvote something like this. Hence resulting in that ratio.



  • Plug it into a computer and see what the computer says.

    I usually use Linux for that because it offers good error messages and I know the tools. But other operating systems might help, too.

    And if you start writing to the card or executing recovery tools, make a backup / image first.

    If the files are very important, maybe don’t tamper with it and ask for help. Like a repair shop, your local Linux community or any trustworthy computer expert friend.

    The biggest enemy is probably encryption, if it’s encrypted. The files are definitely still there if you just ripped it out. In the old days you could just run a recovery program and get everything back.







  • Yeah, I agree. And I appreciate your perspective.

    I don’t think growing Lemmy and funnelling in users works out. We don’t grow. We’re somewhere between 40k and 50k active users and there is no trend in either direction.

    Last year, I despised beehaw for doing their own thing and not respecting how federation is supposed to work. That is connecting people and not being a patchwork of small spaces that don’t talk to each other because of small minds/perspectives… I think I changed my mind a bit. Their way of doing things turned out to foster better behaviour than on other instances. It’s still detrimental to the idea of a federated platform, but still… The effects aren’t just negative.

    I think we have lots of issues here. The culture is a bit different from what I’d like it to be. It’s a tiny bit above Reddit in atmosphere, but on the downside it lacks the (niche) experts. It’s more average people here and just the most predominant opinions. Furthermore, it’s too much discussing the news and not much else that’d be meaningful for my life. It’s too small for lots of things that this place could excel in and that you won’t find anywhere else.

    And the technology really isn’t that good. Progress is super slow, they don’t implement the things the users need and wish for. And it doesn’t foster growth or nice behaviour.

    And I think that’s the main issue. We’d need a solid basis to build something upon. It needs to be shiny, have excellent moderation tools and user-facing features. All of this has been requested but except for things like instance blocking by the user, that doesn’t even block their users, we didn’t get much.

    My personal wish is that new approaches like PieFed will go ahead and provide that to us. I think I’d like to host an instance with that and then invite some people. As of now I didn’t advertise for Lemmy because I think neither the software, nor the atmosphere/community, nor the content here is worth convincing anyone to join. At this point I’m just waiting for one of the three to get anywhere. But I think I’d also like to defederate from a few people. And force them to be nice, upvote replies, not just dump any random links but provide some text in a post, and have some niche interest communities, because just dumping links to news and posting memes isn’t cutting it. We already have X and Mastodon for that…

    And a little disclaimer: I’m being negative in this comment. But that’s not all there is to it. There is a reason why I’m here. I regularly have nice interactions, learn new things and have good conversations. It’s just that it’s far between and I see lots of potential for more. And I’d really like that to become reality.




  • Yeah, the internet is an echo chamber. You get lots of bad advice here. And urban myths are regularly being upvoted to no end. Especially here on Lemmy.

    Usually a doctor should know things, they studied medicine for years.

    And there are people with certain attitudes… People who only respond well to arguments of authority… And people who have a different perspective on subjectivity/objectivity and the factual world. Lots of people just want to believe something. And they’ll search for any fake news supporting them or letting them believe whatever supports what they’re set on.

    I’d say if you’re intelligent and know how to do research, and have the time to do so, look up things and learn things. If you can’t do that: Stick with authority.

    And most importantly: Don’t ask on Lemmy or Reddit if you don’t want to talk to random people and listen to them.