It was better than clicking "Next" every second for 45 minutes trying to check out, and then failing to get one. Nothing can truly stop scalpers except the original seller doing the scalping themselves with a silent auction.
What I mean
I'm not suggesting this is a good system. Hence I'm hiding it in a spoiler.
Imagine if Valve launched the sale, and everyone names their own price (with a minimum price). Everyone bids their maximum amount, and Valve just picks the top N people to get one. The rich idiots who just have to have one buy it for whatever price, and more normal people buy it for less, but probably more than the minimum.
Would you have bid $50 more than the min to get one right away? I might have. I dunno. Do people with more money deserve a machine more? Well, no, but that's the world we live in. The lottery is the best alternative we have.
Matt Demon
You don't speak for all of us. I appreciated the summary.
Also, you're being a real dick about it. "Mentally incapable"? Maybe you need to break from the internet.
The lottery idea is also genius. That's how all scarce goods should be sold, like concert tickets.
You can always replace the storage yourself. A 2TB NVMe doesnt even cost $300 (most are around $250), and if you swapped it yourself, you'd have a 512 GB one to stick into an enclosure and use as a portable hard drive.
And you don't even have to do that immediately. 512 GB is plenty to start. Especially since not everyone plays enormous AAA games with hundreds of mods. You can upgrade at any time.
oauth only passes back a "login successful" reply and an identifier to associate an account with
Right, it's a unique login token the website or app uses to ID you, and it keeps you logged in as long as you don't delete the associated cookie. In addition, it can be revoked by you at any time, essentially logging you out (including anyone who may have stolen your cookie and is using it to impersonate you).
It's better than using the same password everywhere, but not as good as using a password manager with unique passwords for every app and website.
Hey, at least you can play in your room where there was no probably TV, or in the living room if your parents were watching a show.
Update: Turns out this is caused by viewing a large image and then zooming in. At a certain zoom level the app goes into fullscreen, hiding the navigation buttons and top bar. It then never exits this mode until you quit the app.
v0.9.0-3 Pixel 7 Pro Android 16
[I edited my screenshot to add the border and the word "SCREENSHOT" because the full size preview was making it very confusing to view the post in the app. 😅]
Korean has a perfectly phonetic written language. It was invented by King Sejong and his scholars in 1444 specifically to be phonetic. Koreans probably use "Tyranasaurus" and "tiramisu" pronounced as-is, and the translator app translated the portmanteau phonetically to English.
That's my hypothesis.
Update: It's caused by the "Show Text Post Indicator" setting being on in Compact mode.
Version v0.9.0-1
I forgot I installed Thunder via Obtanium, so I get very quick updates. I guess I shouldn't be surprised no one else has seen it. It also turns out it's caused by a non-default setting.
Is this happening to anyone else? It started after an update.
I already submitted it to GitHub: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/issues/2070
I can't tell you how many times I've accidentally pasted random private stuff from that goddamn middle click into WEB PAGES! Things that can read whatever text you type without having to explicitly submit anything. It's a horrible thing for a new user to discover by accident. It's such an unexpected feature to new users, and no one gets told about it, ever. You simply discover it by accident.
This is a good change, not having it on by default.
To all the haters of this idea, god forbid we make Linux less weird by default for people migrating from Windows.
All that said, I have learned to love select-to-copy and middle-click paste. Especially in the terminal.
Version v0.8.1. Android 16. Pixel 7 Pro.
After scrolling a couple pages (endless scrolling is on) I start seeing "Instance of 'LemmyApiException'". Once it starts, the tiniest amount of scrolling—even upwards—causes the error. I can make a bunch of rapid, itty bitty scrolls, and each one will hide and reshow the error.
What is Thunder doing with the API on every single scroll? Even up? Makes no sense.
I don't have "mark read on scroll" enabled, or anything odd. I haven't changed any settings in weeks, and this started happening just a few days ago. It might only be happening on my home instance. I could test with an alt.
Update: I can't reproduce this using a lemmy.world account
By viewing this post you are infected, and all future clocks you attempt to make will fail to render, too.
If not, can you please add a setting to disable it? It's just not for me. At best it's a distraction while I wait for the image to load. At worst, it blocks part of the image.
I woke up one day and Fennec wouldn't browse any web page. Like, if I do a search, which goes to DuckDuckGo, I get a loading bar that never goes anywhere. (See screenshot).
If I disable all of my extensions, it'll work again. Then, if I enable them one by one to try to find the culprit that was making Fennec not work, it doesn't break! Until it does, randomly. I basically can't easily reproduce it working or not working.
I switched to IronFox, and installed all the same extensions, and have had no problems for two days.
Extensions:
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