The thing is… ‘the way things were’ meant Reddit on good mobile apps without ads, spam and tracking.

I don’t want to learn all about a new UI, but I’d have to do that to continue to use Reddit.

Make sure you’re using a type-C cable that actually has the high speed pins wired up.

A lot of cheap type-C cables are only USB 2.0, which works fine for charging phones and the like but can’t do video out.

Deterring very new accounts is still a useful thing to do.

A lot of posts on my country’s COVID sub were removed by the bot with an account too new message, and it was only set to about one week. It doesn’t really slow down new users but it cuts off a lot of spam bots.

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I had to delete the browser bookmark for Reddit or I just open it without thinking.

Only until Reddit tries charging Google for API access.

The more I hear about Windows these last few years, the more it feels like I got out just in time.

Gaming on Linux just keeps getting better, and doing anything on Windows just keeps getting worse.

Network data rates are usually measured in bits while the size of data is measured in bytes.

Probably for historical reasons. Bytes weren’t always exactly 8 bits, so the number of bytes you’d get through a modem in one second varied depending on what byte size / character encoding you were using.

You’re complaining about getting 5 instead of 50, but if you’re actually getting 50 megabits then that would deliver around 6 megabytes per second. Add some TCP overhead and that would mean your results are exactly in line with misreading the units.

Well, he used to have a really good PR team, along with teams at Tesla and SpaceX to prevent him from breaking anything important.

Then he fired the PR team and took direct control of a company that didn’t have a team of handlers.

We’re now seeing the real Musk instead of Musk filtered through teams of competent people.

This. For a lot of people Reddit isn’t reddit.com, it’s Apollo or Relay or Sync or Reddit Is Fun.

After the apps stop working, they won’t be able to keep using the thing they’re used to. They can’t just go back, they’ll have to switch to something different.