How many are bots?

Its like facebook. Engagement is up, audience is increased, but, its likely by a small number of people. I started noticing that in the Aussie subs, that every week, near the weekend (right before night), there were obvious lobbyist posts, which suddenly shot up (stuff like pro guns, pro- one nation etc). At this point, our local racism party was clearly doing heavy lobbying on the platform (despite losing 30 years of elections, based on reddit, you’d think they were #1).

Like facebook, a lot of people are switching off now, and trying to find alternatives.

Moderation has also gotten really bad recently. I had an account for 14+ years, never got banned. Made a new account, and within a few months, I got a temp ban for apparently being racist (despite the fact, I spent a lot of time arguing AGAINST racism).

On facebook in fact, on the heatpump posts, I actually noticed 1 or 2 names pop up on almost all the adverts saying they were an engineer, and that heatpumps don’t work, etc (with bad info). Reddit allows infinite accounts, and no doubt, it is not much better there

Sailfish is also a great option too

I hate trackpads in general.

Their first gen of touchpad however was the worst I ever saw

It was on the last PowerBook pro (I think)

And it was just yet another example of bad hardware apple released, but few people talk about, and Steve was in charge when it happened

Or is it similar to covid, where Trump simply stopped counting properly? And nobody bothers reporting anymore because Trump will release them anyway

That’s unfortunately pretty standard.

Whereas, on Facebook, nobody gets banned. I’ve literally reported people inciting violence towards others. However, it seems permitted by community standards these days

I’ve been trying (like everyone else) for steam controller.

My sidewinder was awesome. Actually forgot all about it

I mean, check their puck mouse lol.

Go find a mighty mouse and use the right mouse button every day

Try to find me 2 worse designed mice.

Or, tell me the good thing about those 2 mice

The most basic benefit (ease of use) isn’t even good. Because the buttons on the mighty mouse isn’t obvious, I saw a lot of elderly people struggle to Click consistently. And if they wanted to do a right click, it wasn’t going to happen

It might be subjective, but you’ll struggle to find anyone defending these two products

And you definitely will struggle to find anyone who will say that the best spot for a USB port is on the bottom 😂

It would be… Sold them for years… But, its informed bias. Owned a Powermac, Mac Pro, and various other gear.

And, the things that people whine about in Apple forums weren’t even the most common issues

Every bit of gear I owned was overpriced considering the issues with the hardware itself.

In fact, I watched as Apple’s market grew as people walked in believing Mac’s can’t get viruses and don’t crash (and this was whilst iLife was super buggy, I was constantly fixing preferences).

Each is entitled to their own opinion, but the only good thing I can credit MacOS for these days, is IOS support built in, and not being as much a clusterfuck as Windows.

In practice, if it wasn’t for IOS support, Linux has basically caught up I feel.

I really wish Jolla got their crap together honestly

I was actually selling Apple gear when they released the Mighty mouse. It sounded AWESOME. We were so excited. On their ads, it sounded like we’d get a product with touchpad buttons basically that killed their previous (worse) puck mice.

What we got, was an overpriced mouse which was near-damned impossible to click the right button (you got RSI every time you tried) and which was physical click.

Microsoft’s super cheap basic mice we sold 10x faster (at least), and were 1/3rd the price

The reality is, they really f*** up most of their products, but people make excuses for them. Even the iPod shuffle, there were good cheap alternatives (I had one), and mine even had a display. OSX 10 used to have corrupt preferences regularly, SMB was crap until at least OSX 10.5, etc. One release, there was a bug where the network broke completely after a few minutes (there is no way anyone couldn’t have noticed during testing)

My Mac Studio M2 was the only computer I have ever had that had compatibility issues with some USB-C cables (and, it was a few of them from differing brands). Antenna gate, and they tried to water down the problems, by comparing to other manufacturers and said “if you hold them in this totally unrealistic way, you have similar issues”

Apple is incapable of making a good mouse.

You guys need to switch to preferential voting and an independent election authority like here in Australia.

Our local racists specifically want to get rid of preferential voting specifically to gain power

If you’re not shadow banned

I suspect they shadow banned me first for a few days, and probably pissed off a few racists who kept watching my account.

I had an account for 10+ years before deleting it and creating a new one. My old account never even got banned from a subreddit once in all that time. And I had other accounts Before that, so I suspect I was targeted on the last account I bothered with

You keep saying I’m weird or whatever. But, if you said this stuff in person, people would find you weird.

It’s literally the kind of thing our local racist here in Australia says.

It’s not bad for anyone. It’s just some weird power move

I’m blocking you now. Good bye

Probably not. There used to be shitty subs like the Donald and fat people hate too.

Yeah. And they were apparently “never going to win in SA either”. Everyone was happy with that result. SA is happy they lost, and ON supporters were somehow happy with being absolute failures too 😂

Elther that, or sometimes there is no benefit to swearing. And it’s fairly clear in not doing it to satisfy a machine.

But ok Mr gatekeeper. I don’t think ignorant means what you think it does

I prefer normal people who don’t give a sh** about stupid stuff like this. So agree to disagree. Not responding again

Go bully someone else instead

The Australian Subreddits got overrun by extremist right wing people who tend to be 20x louder than anyone else, and exaggerate everything.

One even reported me for being racist (successfully) despite the fact that the entire time I was fighting back against the racism

Even worse, you now need to log in to even see it at all in a mobile browser. So f that

The guy painting it is his mate. It’s not his money, so he probably doesn’t care this time.

He only generally won’t pay people who aren’t direct mates, and when its his money.

It would also run Bitcoin mining, and send the money to Pauline, and then pretend it’s doing you a favour and saving taxpayer money