Have you looked through the Sync settings menu? You can customize A LOT about the UI look and feel, including card type, card information, text size, text font, etc.

Because it leads to measurable difference in empathy response:

A 2008 experiment researched teenagers' perception of epilepsy with respect to people-first language. Teenagers from a summer camp were divided into two groups. One group was asked questions using the term "people with epilepsy", and the other group was asked using the term "epileptics", with questions including "Do you think that people with epilepsy/epileptics have more difficulties at school?" and "Do you have prejudice toward people with epilepsy/epileptics?" The study showed that the teenagers had higher "stigma perception" on the Stigma Scale of Epilepsy when hearing the phrase "epileptics" as opposed to "people with epilepsy".

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01899.x

The human brain is weird and wired wrong for modern life. The best way to master our worst impulses is to try and do small things that nudge it in the right direction.

If you've ever done Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, it's a similar idea. Identify behaviours you can practice that help you think the way you want to think.

How did this get around the recent Supreme Court ruling? I'm curious about the legal mechanism being employed here.

bOtH sIdEs ArE tHe SaMe!!!

Like any creative ever. Gamers will disagree but I find Macs desktop UI much nicer than Windows. I worked in Hollywood editorial for a while and it's ALL Macs there until you get into really high end VFX stations.

The Wacom drivers are also MUCH better on Mac. It's hard to explain, but the stylus just doesn't feel as smooth on Windows. The response curve/time is just better, even with the same settings.

A bunch of small UX things like native column view in finder turn into annoyances on other systems.

Having a UNIX terminal is nice if you're a developer but aren't fond of any of the Linux desktop environments. WSL for windows it's getting better, but getting IDEs to play nicely with it was still touch and go last time I gave it a whirl.

I game on PC and deploy to Linux servers, but Mac is my daily driver for coding and video editing. It just gets out of my way and let's me be productive. I have to do way too much fiddling on Windows and PC for a desktop experience I still like less.

Also -- disregarding the OS, which I do think Apple should be forced to sell as a standalone -- the build quality is leaps and bounds above any other laptop I've had. I've been using a laptop with the M1 Apple Silicone, and it's legitimately the happiest I've ever been with a work computer.

Kbin generally seems to churn faster than Reddit for me, but posts on Lemmy do seem to stay around for a awhile.

Q: why do we need native hosting?

IMO, adding native video support was a huge blunder on Reddit's part, and the expense of it is likely a factor in how desperate they are to squeeze money from their users now.

Let Lemmy and Kbin do what they are good at: aggregating links. Let others be good at hosting videos.

If the Web client can eventually be improved to properly embed Vimeo/YouTube/etc links so they can be played inline, that seems like a good enough experience to me. Making a good video player is hard. Reddit's native player sucks and Lemmy/Kbin are open source with even less resources.

I've never really modded any of Bethesda's games. I play them through once or twice and never feel it lacking.

What the mood support does is give the game legs for decades, and thousands of hours of playtime. Most games that aren't engineering / creative games like Minecraft, no matter how fun, are going to get stale after 100 hours.

Having good mod support means you can keep tweaking the experience to keep it fresh.

I'm not saying it should be illegal to release games for only one console. Obviously not every studio is going to have the bandwidth to develop for every platform, and some games will use special features of some systems.

What I'm saying is that it should be illegal for console makers to give any special incentives or preference to developers to do so artificially.

Voting out mods is a TERRIBLE idea. It means a very active minority can effectively control a large subreddit, and politically oriented / minority spaces are going to have constant campaigns trying to take them over.

Can you imagine what it's going to be like moderating TwoX, lgbt, or egg_irl if this change goes through? What a nightmare.

I want to point out that critical thinking isn't just about putting the dots together yourself. You can never be an expert on every subject.

Logical systems always begin with a set of assumptions you build on top of. In math and formal logic, these are called axioms. Two parallel lines will never meet; the behavior of gravity is constant, etc. Go back far enough and there will be a set of assumptions that we hold to be true because we have to start somewhere.

Often, misinformation is specifically designed to slot seamlessly into critical thinking techniques by being logically sound... if you build on bad assumptions being simultaneously fed to you.

At some point we have to choose what experts we trust and hold their opinions as soft axioms in our own belief system. Misinformation networks get you by propping up fake "experts" to fill this role, then let you feel "smart" by applying logic to a bad set of starting assumptions.

A huge part of real-world critical thinking is the ability to identify trustworthy experts to do the legwork of studying a specialty field for us, since we can't do it all ourselves.

If they're a subreddit it's more about the conversations the images prompt.