Your mouse movement and keyboard events are available to webpages that you’ve loaded, when the browser window is focused.

This isn’t nefarious - it allows websites to build nice UIs that most people enjoy using, most of the time.

There’s lots of shady stuff going on in browsers, this isn’t really one of them.

A place for teenagers to go on dates.

The invocation is complete.

Reddit’s /all is about 70% US politics right now. Much of it feels like astroturfing. I’ve been able to read around it until now, but the saturation is too much and it feels too fake.

Canada’s Ever Given.

Now that I think about it, every phone I’ve owned has had significant issues: lousy camera (HTC), overheating (LG), poor battery life (Samsung, Google, HTC), steadily degrading performance (Samsung), boot looping (LG), weird colour handling on photos (HTC, Google), etc. So I guess they’re all bad?

I wouldn’t say “favourite”. I’ve bought two Pixels because I like the photos they produce.

My current phone (P8P) has the fewest issues so far. It’s only a year old, so I’m sure they’ll appear.

You have my sword.

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I hadn’t thought of that, but you’re right. When I was growing up, incandescent bulbs and massive short-lived batteries made flashlights suck. Now flashlights are tiny, throw a tonne of light, and last a really long time.

I’ll give it a shot, thanks!

I really need to work on that.

At this point I start with a big “I agree” and state something about it, so we have some common ground. Then, if I have further questions/disagreement then I mention it.

Not a single comma. Tch tch tch.

Ditto. I enjoy some of the hobby/local communities on Reddit.

In my experience the lack of downvotes does make for a better instance.

I think we need to consider the norms Lemmites enforce. From what I’ve experienced: it’s often nitpicks (“I think one thing you said is wrong”), or mild insults when an opinion is outside our slightly-left-of-centre POV. Disagreement is rarely friendly, gentle, or constructive.

From what I’ve seen, we’re great at getting the big stuff right - people react quickly against child porn or overt racism/insults. But we reply with the same anger if someone has an opinion different from ours.

I have a better time in small Reddit communities because people have more shared interests. Here our prime commonality is that we like FOSS and dislike Reddit.

It’s friendliness of the community and willingness to treat randos with respect. Responses here seem to fit a general pattern of “I agree and…”, or “you’re wrong and stupid”.

I generally have a better experience on Reddit. I’m less likely to get responses, but I get fewer downvotes there and the responses are usually nicer.

Gboard is pretty good. I switched off Swiftkey because Gboard has the lil space bar cursor thing. Swipe typing is pretty great, and the predictions are fine.

I would prefer a non-Google keyboard, but I haven’t found one that’s easy to install and works the way I want it to.

I viscerally dislike some people on meeting them. There’s no good reason, that’s just how it is. I bet there are people who feel the same way about me. That’s life.

I try to treat everyone well so we can get along. For the most part, other people seem to do the same for me.

Vacuum cleaner with a wand or a powerful portable vac. You just get the nozzle near the fly and they get sucked in.