My last experience with gopro was many years ago trying to get a firmware update for one of my hero 3’s. The download links for the firmware was there, but broken. It needed the attention of someone on their web management team.

I tried to get support via email but was told I had to go to the community forums for the issue. I found a thread of dozens of other users also pinging support and complaining of a broken link.

That thread went unanswered by support for months if not a year or two. I think it eventually got fixed, but it put such a bad taste in my mouth that so many people reported that their site was broken and they just ignored it. It was probably something simple like a bad character in the page code somewhere. I decided I wasn’t going to support this sort of behavior and have not spent any additional money with the company since then.

It’s no surprise to hear they’re struggling financially. When you cater to the premium market space, you have to provide premium service.

That’s sort of what /all is. Unless you mean something like having a /lemmy community that discusses lemmy meta in general. Reddit actually had no communities / subreddits when it first started. That eventually turned into the /reddit subreddit as one of the many meta communties, which was then eventually set to read only, if memory serves.

I think this style platform has better engagement when a community has focus and direction, which is why you see smaller communities stay active and on topic here.

I don’t think there’s anything stopping anyone from undertaking the task of starting a general topic community, but on the same token, you need some direction and focus, otherwise it’s probably going to be a challenging mess, both in terms of content and engagement. This is where reddit subreddits, and ergo, lemmy communities, originally came from. Prior to subreddits, it was just one big posting board like /all, which eventually led to issues like spillage and brigading and private communities.

An attempt to make him accountable like every other president’s published tax returns before him. He does not let himself be held accountable for anything whatsoever.

I keep buying motorolas because they’re rugged as fuck. I get a new one every 3-5 years. They’re all the same-ish these days, and rarely come with any sort of incentive or discount, so it doesn’t make sense to refesh too often. I try to get my money’s worth from my devices.

Can’t tell you how many samsungs my kids have broken, but both of their motos still work.

Every single one of my machines is set up to run metric so I don’t have to constantly convert 64’s and 8’s and thou’s fractional units between denominators, which is exactly why I’d rather type .0254mm than 1/1000. I absolutely cannot stand using different fractional denominators or that a foot is divided by 12, but everything else isn’t. You’ve probably used it for years and are used to it, but approaching it with a rational mind seems like unnecessary work and risk of miscalculation.

Every number I use can easily be interchanged for another unit.

I really want everyone to use the metric system. Imperial is just awful to use for most design and machine purposes.

I need to go squatchin’ with Mulder

Warm boat is warm

This. NTFS is still the gold standard for stability. ReFS is meant for data ops, and while it’s fairly stable, and offers a lot of advantages, it’s not perfect and can suffer greatly if used incorrectly. Until the quirks are gone, users are probably better off with NTFS for a lot of reasons.

sheeps got heats

A bill

Since when does the pentagon tell everyone their plans before doing them

oh right, never

My kids used to call the play place with all of the inflatable bounce houses “the bouncy store”.

My eldest couldn’t remember the name for bagpipes and called them “autotuned hornbags” which is one of my favorites, and I still use it.

In relation to mario kart, we had no idea what the superhorn was called, we always called in “The Honkerbanger”. Likewise we didn’t understand what the drafting sprites were in MK on the wii, it looked like the person in front of you was sweating big droplets of water. We’d say we were “getting sweat”.

On a similar note I’ll mention Dendrocnide moroides better known as the gympie gympie tree.

“Revoked a scientific finding” is as smart as saying “water not wet anymore”.

Ha, yeah. Snap-On sells a 400$ tool that takes 30$ consumable rubber wheels. Or you could use a 99 cent pink pencil eraser.

A good rubber eraser also takes sticker adhesive right off of most surfaces, safely.

Yeah they are, I noticed it get really, really bad this week. It’s an awful experience. But they’ll leave my browser before my adblocker does.

And this year :)

Telegram added stories not too long ago and I feel the same way about that. It’s UI pollution we don’t want, and that we didn’t ask for, and that serves no real purpose.