So many assumptions based on so little information.

Conservatives (with a lowercase ‘c’, I’m not talking about Republicans) prefer a series of small incremental changes over a longer period of time while progressives believe in big leaps. Both are valid viewpoints depending on the issue, sometimes we should take things slowly but other times we needed that change yesterday.

Asking titles has been around for a long time so conservatives are ok with it. It also conforms to their existing ideas about gender and roles in society.

Asking for pronouns is a relatively new thing and the whole debate around them is a big and sudden change (at least as far as they see), and it turns everything they believed in on its head.

Of course, there are people who are just plain hateful but I think there’s more nuance to it than that most of the time.

It’s worth noting that a huge part of their manufacturing takes place outside of Germany where salaries are way lower and regulations aren’t as strict.

I see. If your concern is unfinished features, I don’t think you have to worry about that anymore.

What you could do is spin up a virtual machine and test it out there. Here’s the official guide on how to do it.

Depends on what you mean by decent.

For privacy it’s shit, it collects a bunch of data that’s sent to MS. It also serves text ads on the lock screen, which might annoy you.

They also push their own products too much, like Bing AI and Edge, and sometimes an update can mess with the default apps, wich is annoying.

If you don’t care about those things it’s fine, doesn’t get too much in the way of you doing what you want to do most of the time. I use it mainly because of gaming, but I can’t tell you much about its performance because I have a powerful PC so everything runs just fine.

The start menu was dumbed down recently to a poor KDE clone, but I personally don’t mind since I wasn’t using it anyway.

The search field uses javascript

There are many youtube channels that aim at beginners. Find recipes there that are easy (no advanced techniques required) and require few ingredients that are easy to prepare.

The advantage of youtube is that you actually see how the food is made, how it should look, how much salt “to taste” means etc.

Stay away from short videos with titles like “most delicious meal with only 5 ingredients, I make this every week”. They’re mostly made to farm views and don’t actually teach the basics. Not to mention they’re mostly unhealthy.

Look for stews, soups, casseroles and oven cooked meat. They’re the easiest to make in my opinion, you prepare everything and wait until it’s done, maybe you stir every 10-15 minutes. Eastern European recipes are generally easy to make, cheap and taste very good. Simple Italian pastas are also great for the same reason.

Pay attention to the heat level, wash your ingredients, follow the instructions to the letter for the first several recipes and don’t worry if your first few meals are too salty/spicy or tastes bland. Take it as a learning experience, you’ll do better next time.

The EU introduced a limitation to how much power electric devices can consume in off or standby mode.

0.5 watt normally, 1 watt if they have a status display and 2-8 watts if they’re connected to a network.

On a yearly basis this saves as much electricity as one of the member states (Romania) used in a year.

My point is that small things add up to huge numbers.

The whole progression is fucked. As you get close to the end game your character gets WEAKER, not stronger.

I drink carbonated water almost exclusively, it’s the same water, just with some carbon dioxide to make it sparkle.

It has no downsides afaik, it’s a bit more acidy but not as much as sodas, and it might make you burp, but that’s it.

I find it to be an interesting solution looking for a problem. There could be many applications but I’ve yet to see one that blockchain could solve better than anything else that we already have, outside of crypto currencies.

Web3 is an interesting thought experiment but I don’t see how it would work in real life. It would be extremely slow, data loss would be a daily occurrence and it would be a privacy/security nightmare.

X-Men are secred confederate agents confirmed

Same. My subscription feed is a curated list of creators whose videos I look forward to and probably watch on release. If I notice that I consistently don’t watch the new videos anymore I unsub.

I thought everyone used YT like this.

What languages do you know already? What’s you experience with programming? What kind of game do you want to make?

The way I understand from what I’ve seen and read is that these are mostly people who were banned, shunned or chased away from other platforms. While Reddit can ban you, you can just spin up an instance of Lemmy, Mastodon or whatever yourself and play by your own rules.

Interestingly, on Reddit there were tons of trans related posts and comments, but what I see here (and other fedi platforms) is trans people posting whatever interests them, and not about being trans. It’s like they can just be themselves without people constantly talking about or questioning their identity.

Also, a man crossdressing as a woman is the manliest thing he can do because women can only regularlydress as a woman.

Not gay, but you literally want to be in the body of a woman. Can’t tell me that’s not LGBT.

I dislike Mastodon for the same reason I dislike Twitter. It seems to me like it’s more centered around individual people and what they share rather than building multiple communities around multiple things that interests me.

Sure, I can craft my own community, but then I have a feed where I only encounter posts from the same people, and chances are, opinions that I already agree with. It’s not as easy to switch from a tv show to programming, for example. Yes, hashtags exist but they don’t even come close to communities on Lemmy.

The worst part are the types of posts that only reiterate how stupid “the other side” is without seriously trying to understand their arguments. This is not only true about politics but many other topics as well.

If you’re not 100% sure that you’ll be able to comfortably pay that $350 each month for the remaining 3 years then pay it off now. Otherwise keep the loan.