Nima

what “bad guys”? Whatever the server owner feels is appropriate for levels of validation is up to them. ya know?

on quite a number of servers that are 18+, higher verification usually sounds a little bit more safe. But then on most of the servers I run or moderate, we tend to have our own in-house verification methods instead of the built levels for discord.

the idea of the verification levels is attractive, however. anything to keep the kids out. though I’m not sure I’d go as far as requiring a phone number, I might consider it for future.

it depends on how the server is going to be used. why a gaming server should be highest level, I don’t know. I would think “high” is enough.

Sodium isn’t rare in the slightest. according to Wikipedia, “Sodium is the sixth most abundant element in the Earth’s crust and exists in numerous minerals such as feldspars, sodalite, and halite (NaCl).”

salt isn’t going anywhere. no need to fret.

I try to follow most asmr-nsfw content creators I enjoy on other platforms. But reddit is sadly where a lot of engagement happens.

I absolutely avoid reddit at all costs, though.

I was having a conversation with a friend about this just the other day, in fact. I feel that it would make a lot of things better, but a lot of things worse.

Privacy would essentially boil down to normal internet users, and then the illegal ones. I feel a subset for illegally obtained identities would probably be par for the course. So how to actually enforce this seems really hard to conceptualize. At least for me.

On one hand, I think trolls would either scamper away for fear of actually being held accountable for the things they say, or they’d double down and be even more bold.

It would also enable stalking/harassment/potential violence towards those that are just going about their day.

So I think it would absolutely make terrible people be held personally accountable for all they write/post online. But unfortunately, it would absolutely endanger those that don’t want to cause chaos and be trolls and join hate groups and stuff.

Lots of good. But way too much danger to those that just want to talk about their favorite anime or whatever.

oh my goodness yes. I couldn’t imagine buying a disposable every time I ran out.

that would possibly be just as expensive as smoking regular cigarettes.

I just use a little pod system that has replaceable coil heads. it was maybe 60 total because I bought two batteries. but I’ve not needed a replacement battery for my personal vape yet. Just have been replacing (or reusing) my coil heads.

of course they are. it’s why I always encourage people not to buy them. they’re awful for the environment, they’re wasteful and they are lower quality than you’d get with most standard rechargeable e-cigarette kits.

thank you! I will check it out.

I’m sure this isn’t the right place to ask this, but does anyone have a website they use for apks that is pretty solid?

I’m trying to de-google my life and the play store is the last holdover for me. I already use F-droid but that is more for open source software.

apologies if this was the wrong place to ask.

oh I understand yeah. certainly. but surely it’s not difficult to explain it to most users.

them understanding or caring about the issue is another problem. brand loyalty is a thing. but then there’s users for whom brand loyalty isn’t really a choice, it’s just what they’re used to or they’re not skilled enough to understand what the difference is.

i feel that’s a much stronger problem here. that particular subset of people don’t understand the device they are using. they’re basically angry because the green people in their messages don’t look right or don’t load right. that makes it “bad” if you don’t understand why.

basic understanding of the technology you carry in your pocket is lacking for a huge user base. but apple… kind of relies on people not understanding. it makes it easier for apple to go “Green text bad! hate people with that!” and still keep it’s users that might not understand in the dark.

I’m not either. considering that over 70% of the world is on android, you’d think the compatibility problem would be laid on Apple and not 3rd party applications.

“The source declined to identify the foreign governments involved in making the requests but described them as democracies allied to the United States.”

Speak up, now. There’s a lot of democracies and “democracies” to go off that description.

I’m not taking it personally. you’re saying less is more. I’m disagreeing. that’s all.

I am a new user and I appreciate the breakdown of each one. I am the theoretical “new user” you’re talking about. And I like how it’s set up. So there you go. you have one new user who finds it useful.

I think it’s nice to learn stuff. I’m not so simple minded that more choices is going to “scare me away”. this isn’t life or death, it’s just an OS.

I am very new to linux. this is actually great for me because of how detailed the results are. it doesn’t just say “this one.”

it gives pros and cons based on the things you want to do with your install. which is very nice when this is all new and you’re not sure what they all are really for.

it means I can learn a little about every distro, not just the ones that might be right for my needs at the time, but maybe later if I want to use a different one for something else.

more distros means more for me to shop around for. it’s nice to have more options, not less.

same. I just use foobar and a bluetooth radio adapter. easy as pie.

I’m on android. I got the app from fdroid. it’s working fine.

some of the comments here are downright scary. women can’t have a single thing, it seems.

I knew that Nissan Sentra was the kiss-and-tell type. never should have slept with that car.

The reason is because you assume the common stereotype of every American being the same.

there’s so many of us so widely spread out. it is laughable when people say “Americans” and assume every single American is the same person.

there is a lot of tiresome “Americans this, Americans that.” and most of us are looking around going “… who?”