@RyanGosling What is your contingency plan if you find out that someone you know really well outside Fedi is actually on Fedi, is a meme Fedi character like bot and you had no idea that it's him/her — this person you used to think you know relatively well? @kirby
@kaia@fzer0 Using ChatGPT to write your emails is nothing to be ashamed of — many a young person experiment with it in college, but few stick with it, most move on with their normal lives :marseysmug2:
@kaia My time has value of course — but I'm also often able to do a much better job even when it comes to something like UI design, better than those who get paid for that, but give you something that looks like what a highschool student could come up with on his/her spare time :marseyraging:
@kaia@lavacat The hardware my instance runs on is much weaker than an average modern midrange phone. It has 1,5 GHz single-core CPU and a gigabyte of RAM for example. It might sound surprising, but Pleroma (and Akkoma by extension) do work on this kind of hardware. You wouldn't be able to have many users on such hardware though. Mine even gets overwhelmed by incoming traffic sometimes, even though I'm the only one using it.
@kirby@MK2boogaloo I don't think it does: it's code — not some text with different styles that you might want to use a GUI text editor for. Terminal doesn't look any different than a GUI application using a monospaced font and should not be an issue 🤷🏿
@kirby@MK2boogaloo This one's really cool: https://micro-editor.github.io/ It's like pico-nano, without modes and unusual keyboard shortcuts, but has everything one might want in a text editor: syntax highlighting, color schemes, commenting out and indenting blocks of code… And it's single binary! If I didn't have Vim up and running on all of my computers with all my shit, I'd probably use it myself.
@dcc True, but it makes the text less accessible — I might not be in the mood for something long myself, even though I might agree with it in the end. When there's no limit, I often go for more spacious expressions and repeat myself — this can be eliminated with brief editing, but doing this for posts on a federated microblogging network seems like going into too much trouble. I was attempting to write something fun for my gemlog and decided to describe a fun thing that had just happened to me — which was installing a program and finding out that it works differently compared to what I was expecting — turned out that it was in fact a different utility that had an identical name. I ended up writing a three hundred word piece (!) only to realize that I'm not even remotely close to the punchline in that story — which could be summarized in one sentence. So I decided to stop halfway. I do have to exercise some moderation in this regard 😅
@p@Hyolobrika Damn, I do need to enforce a character limit on this instance — I've made a reply on such a trivial topic a ~800 character post :marseyfacepalm:
@Tony@Dudebro@tyler Exactly — and when you want to blame the other guy for something, bringing out the fact that he looks different is the first thing that comes to mind, people like simple things — even if they are wrong. But we don't even have to theorize in layman's terms, I'm not making this up — there are plenty of researches into this, heterogeneous communities perform better economically. There are other good reasons for multiculturalism (or whatever), but economic performance was never one of them — this is just an outright false claim.