Didn’t even know this was a thing, and since I live by multiple monitors, this makes me glad I’ve held off.

And that’s where the term “clicker” came from, as opposed to the more modern “remote”.

Bold move to assume they’ll take cash. Many places gave up on cash during the pandemic and many of those haven’t gone back to taking cash.

I used to hate the “convince” fee companies charged for using a credit card, but when it’s reframed as a cash discount, it’s not as aggravating.

That said, plenty of places are electronic payment only these days. Scary times, given the payment processor monopoly and their ability to determine what you can and can’t buy.

I believe programming.dev is the main instance for all programming related communities that left reddit.

Which is why all browsers cross identify as other browsers. This would make it easier for sites to block and harder for browsers to work around.

After Google approval, what is the size of the tester pool?

Had the same thought. Glad it’s not just me.

You can install the kbin interface as a PWA on mobile, and it works pretty well. There are some kinks for sure, but it’s 100% usable and better than lemmy.

Maybe they care, maybe they don’t, but they definitely value convince over privacy.

Claiming there’s savings just isn’t true in reality. If they came out and said it’s to help reduce energy consumption to save the planet I’d be all in, and I’m still in for this, but it just makes it hard to fully support with the gaslighting as you aptly put.