Wenn man ganz still ist, kann man leise Linus Neumann weinen hören.

I live near the A7, a North/South directed highway in Germany going all the way from DK to AT and I also live near a motorcycle hotspot/meetup point.
In the summer, there are so many Scandinavians doing just that, making long distance travels with motorcycles, sometimes even with these small motorcycle trailers attached. They go camping in my town and continue the next day further south (or back up north respectively).

I don’t have a bike nor do I like camping, but I love seeing these guys every time :D

It was always the same. They came in saying they’re looking for a small device. I showed them the small devices. They played around with them a bit, then slowly moved on to the bigger devices. No reason given, they just said they liked the smaller ones more and yet still bought the bigger ones.

Around 10 years ago I worked in an electronics store. You know, when actual small smartphones were still a thing (think S4 Mini and stuff like that).
Every day people came looking for a small phone. Always were very interested in the smaller devices. And yet most never bought one, they eventually decided for a larger one. For each new Samsung series during that time, I’d guess it was about ~50% of people interested in the Mini series, but only ~5% of our actual sales were the Minis.

It’s crazy and I learned a lot about people and their purchasing behavior back then. People often think they want something and never buy it and vice versa. It’s interesting, from a psychological view. In my current business it’s the same - people keep asking for stuff, and once you offer it, nobody cares about it.

That’s probably why Samsung kept on making these Minis until the S5 despite them not seeling. Customers kept just giving them feedback that didn’t reflect their behavior.

Kommt halt aufs Land und die jeweiligen Gegebenheiten dort an.
In Tschechien wirst Du eher betrogen, wenn Du es so handhabst wie beschrieben, und bist sicherer dran, wenn Du sie einfach über die offizielle Seite vorher kaufst. Man kann nicht für jedes Land die best practice im Kopf haben.

Unabhängig von jeglichen Betrugsversuchen finde ich den Onlinekauf aber eigentlich auch weniger kompliziert als erst irgendwo hin zu müssen. Je mehr ich Zuhause vor Fahrtantritt erledigen kann, desto weniger muss ich bei der Fahrt aufm Schirm haben, wenn’s soweit ist.

Kommt natürlich auch drauf an, wie viel digitale Kompetenz man hat. Das Szenario im Artikel klingt extrem nach “Betrüger haben sich Adslots gekauft und Opfer hat draufgeklickt”. Nie im Leben war die Fakeseite das erste richtige Suchergebnis.
Ich würde daher mal behaupten, ein einigermaßen technisch versierter Mensch klickt gar nicht auf die Anzeigen oder blockiert sie ohnehin. Ist man das nicht, ist man vermutlich tatsächlich besser damit bedient, sie lokal zu kaufen.

Same. I worked in an electronics store. This was one of the manufacturers where products broke so often we had a separate bin for their broken products.

But it was also one of the “refund anytime, no questions asked” manufacturers where we could just say how many value of products we got returned and they would just refund the amount to us. No pesky RMA process, no repairs, just take it back whenever the customer is unhappy and throw it away.

Everyone’s saying the need to sleep. That goes a bit too far IMO. Who knows it would work out as we think it to be? Maybe the 33% we sleep will just be reduced off our lifespan with nothing won.
Also, honestly, even if that wouldn’t be the case - I wouldn’t want to not sleep at all. It’s like a regular break from life. Even if employers wouldn’t exploit this, I don’t want to be awake forever.

Now, here’s my proposal: We still need to sleep, but we can control falling asleep and waking up like it’s a muscle. Lay in bed and fall asleep anytime. No more falling-asleep issues for anyone, no more sleepless nights.
And also, we’d have a perfect inner clock and the ability to choose when we wake up. Fall asleep at 11 PM, have to get up at 7? Great, you know exactly when 8hrs are over and are able to just wake up, no alarm needed.

Yeah that or aliens.

Huh. Thanks for answering. But this kind of breaks the intentions of a federated construct, doesn’t it?

In the worst case, I’d just block people from that instance, but not defederate it. That way my users could still interact with their community but their users couldn’t disrupt my instance.

Many smaller instances have defederated from lemmy.world, for example

Why?

Idk if hangovers are more intensive for me or if I’m just overly sensitive, but I’ve stopped getting drunk simply because of hangovers. I’m just past the point where the upsides of drinking alcohol aren’t worth the intensity of the hangover after it. It’s just not fun anymore.

And I don’t understand how people the same age as me or older still get wasted and just shrug at the hangover, if they even have one. I still drink alcohol rarely, but probably never get wasted at memory-loss level ever again.

I use it because otherwise I’d use ublock anyways. So it either does it thing and if not, it’s the same result as ublock.

This feels like reverse psychology on a little kid.

“That’s it, I’m not tracking you anymore! >:(”
“Oooh nooo, what have I done! Oh how much I would wish to be tracked :(”
“No, you won’t convince me to change my mind >:(”
“Oh well, guess I’ll have to live without being tracked, what a shame that is.”

In the short term, I would think so.

In the long run, it makes it less appealing for companies to advertise, because they would have larger costs while having less sales. That, in return, hurts Google as advertisers don’t want to pay as much anymore. If 80% of all users used this extension, advertisers would have to pay more than ever, while having only 20% of all users can be reached (simplified, of course).

Or in short, it’s designed to hurt the system as a whole, not specific companies.

I give donations, but way less than I’d like (less in terms of quantity of recipients, not the total financial quantity).

What I’d love (not only for FOSS, but also stuff like podcasts and other things I’m donating to regularly) would be a service where I can set a budget and select the software and tools I use and it splits it up automatically.

I don’t mind donating, but I hate managing it, having dozens of small transactions for it, and I feel like I’m forgetting to donate to like 90+% of the stuff I’m using. Also, with payment provider’s fees it’s often not worth it to donate <1€ a month, so bundling transactions would be way more effective - for me as the user as well as the recipients who’d get one transaction once a month from said service rather than hundreds of small ones.

I never really understood why e.g. Patreon doesn’t offer this. You can’t expect perks with this because the perks probably will start higher than what’s the breakdown of each recipient woild be at a reasonable budget, but the advantage would be that (mostly) everyone would get a piece of your cake, rather than like 5 of the 500 different creators/developers/… you’re using content/software of. Also, you could reduce or increase the monthly budget depending on your financial situation, rather than cancelling or modifying dozens of small subscriptions.

Bei www.ldi.nrw.de bin ich nicht fündig geworden

Nach 2-3 Klicks habe ich das hier gefunden. Ist das nicht schon das, wonach Du suchst? Ausfüllen und per Email schicken. Zu meiner Überraschung sogar mit PGP möglich.

It usually relies on honesty.
If the vast majority of users is honest (which I would assume is the case in communities like this, because what big interest would men have in impersonating a woman just for answering to women’s topics) then you can have rules that you cannot really enforce. And you still benefit from them, I think there’s a lot less men posting with that rule than without it.

I admit that I just assumed that this rule would be in a place where you have to be able to see it before posting.

Now after your comment I’ve looked for it and the rule has only been announced in a pinned post. I agree that this is too hard to find; not everyone reads through every post in a community in case there are any rules for posting hidden in them (espefially when that post doesn’t even mention the words rules in its title). So I agree that this one’s on the community, thank you for clearing that up.

Inclusive doesn’t mean they let everybody in regardless

It does. I mean, if they not let everybody participate it’s by definition an exclusive community. In this case exclusive to women. Which is fine, but it is not universally inclusive (as the word “inclusive” without any further definition implies).

I get what they probably want to say - they include every woman, regardless of age/nationality, if it’s a MTF trans woman etc. But they could have expressed this better - i.e. “inclusive community for women” or something.

On the other hand, you’re supposed to read the rules when you post in a community the first time so this confusion could’ve been avoided by both sides.