on many communities and instances

Bingo!

We have no ambition of being more lenient than Reddit, it’s just less centralized. If people want to be bigots they can find themselves an instance and a community for that, and other people can choose not to be exposed to their bullshit. That’s the whole point.

Also, the UKSC judgment is a pseudo-scientific piece of junk. Agreeing with it is a big-ass red flag.

What is it like?

For me, it’s my favourite thing in the world. I feel more at home when I’m in the middle of the mountains not having seen people for days than when I’m in any building I’ve ever lived in. We evolved for these conditions, and at least for some of us it resonates with our souls - much like the ocean calls to others.

The experience of hiking is a bit like running, just dragged out over days. In the beginning you have energy. At some point you get tired, and you might want to stop for a while and you’re worried if you’re going to make it. And then you push through, and suddenly your body is in walking mode. So don’t get too worried if you start feeling tired early in the hike.

As for the tent, the experience varies a lot. Is it raining? Are there lots of mosquitoes or midges? Is it cold? Are you walking until sunset, or do you have time at the camp site? What is the terrain you put your tent on?

You generally don’t have the answer to those questions. I have had a wide variety of experiences in tents - crazy tent pole-breaking winds, thunderstorms beyond anything I believed was possible, floods, cows trying to graze underneath the tent in the middle of the night. Most of the time though the biggest event is waking up to the view, or going out to take a leak at night and enjoying the night sky.

The important thing is to always be flexible and open to improvise. When you’re in up there you’re at the mercy of the mountain, and you adjust your plans accordingly. Many mountain folks believe that the mountain has a will of its own that needs to be respected, and I don’t hink it’s too far from reality. Following from that is that the experience is never completely predictable, which is part of what makes its appeal infinite.

Enjoy!

It, uhm, predicts tokens?

If calling it a word predictor is oversimplifying, I mean.

How do you do, fellow humans 🤖🛹

Nice four seconds video, I guess? Very smooth how it cuts off mid-sentence, not weird at all.

I like how we can feel completely confident that no valuable context is lost, and that it allows us to quickly reach our conclusions and move on with our lives. Whoever has an attention span greater than four seconds these days anyway.

The Android keyboard always worked well for me, but I don’t trust them one bit. So I changed my phone keyboard into something that is worse at guessing what I’m trying to say, but I’m somewhat confident I am not being surveilled through it.

I started using it a month or two ago, and ever since I have started making a billion typos when writing on mobile.

Also, I guess the demography of the communities you’re in matters. I think quite a few of us over here are not native speakers. Sometimes I’ll also write with my keyboard set to the wrong language by accident, “leasing to all mines” of freaky autocorrects.

Especially if they don’t take themselves oversly seriously.

Be your goofy self, if people are turned off by that you would never be happy with them anyway.

Edit: That said, this logic only applies if you do it for yourselves because it’s fun. If it’s something you do as a dating strategy it is, indeed, doomed.

One criticism is that in some models the manual release of the back seat doors is near impossible to find, rendering them a death trap.

What an amazing site.

We won’t ask why you would want to glue ceramic and leather together - we just give gluing info.

• Make car out of stainless steel
• Glue it together

It’s farmland, you see the plowmarks in front and in the back there are fields.

It has clearly been used as farmland already. And in most places where farming is common we could traditionally rely on rain, though I guess climate change is making everything funky.

There’s no following of users in PieFed, so in that sense it’s more like Lemmy.

Referring to the song Sweetheart Like You:

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king

Yeah, I was being a bit cheeky - I wouldn’t step on any jet plane that hasn’t had access to official spare parts for a few years.

I just found it amusing F-14s were bought in the mid-70s, which I guess is around the time many would say the quality of American cars also began dropping.

Turns out America’s greateast weapoin in its fight against terrorism is the quality of its engineering.

I guess the scammers are also in the process of figuring out how to use the Fediverse. Give them time. :)

There are good replies here already, but I just want to emphasize the role of bragging. It seems boasting about yourself is quite accepted and sometimes perhaps even expected in the US. In Europe it is not at all, and we tend to react strongly to it.

Whenever I’ve found Americans to be insufferable they’ve always been bragging or taking themselves too seriously.

Not all Americans obviously. And I guess a lot of Americans can’t stand these people either. But it’s still a common American trait that very few Europeans will have patience for. Even our narcissists have learned to pretend to be humble.

I guess it depends on the art style. But generally, if you want to do it the hard way:

1. Get a drawing tablet. The ones where you draw directly on a screen are the best, but they are also way more expensive.
2. Get some powerful software that can imitate brushes. Krita is good.
3. Practice, experiment, watch videos and gather knowledge on both the art style and your software of choice. Copy pieces of art in the style you want to reproduce until you master it.

With an emphasis on the third point. Digital art done manually is not so different from traditional art - it takes practice.

Of course there are also styles you can reproduce using filters in GIMP or whatever. And you can do the above by drawing over pictures you’ve taken or borrowed for the purpose. It’s really a question with an unlimited number of potential answers.

Lemmy does not display microblogs, which is what Threads is.

The only way we’d see content from Threads here is if someone on Threads somehow stumbles over content from here (for example if it’s boosted by a Mastodon user they follow), and leaves a comment.

That, or if Threads users tag a community, in the same way Mastodon uses can do.

Basically it expands the theoretical reach of the comment section, but in practice it’s unlikely to have a huge effect.