GreyEyedGhost

I honestly like everything about this except the no browser and small screen choices. I get the idea, but I’m happy with my addiction, thanks, I just want the privacy and control. And SailfishOS looks interesting, but I cant find a way to try it, except as a VM.

I get what you’re saying, but you still haven’t shown any reason why a different system, built around fallible people, wouldn’t also send innocent people to death row. Trusting people’s intuition won’t change that, although it might change the mix of innocent people sent to death row.

This affects much more than Lemmy, and frankly the screen keyboard is only a little slower for me than a keyboard (the keyboard is way more convenient, though). Having an app that reduces friction for crafting Lemmy posts certainly helps.

And I would love for more open and secure smartphone OSes to be available, Graphene or otherwise.

There are about 6 billion smartphone users and close to 8 billion smartphones in 2026. Meanwhile, there are about 2 billion pcs in use in 2025. Smartphones aren’t the whole world, but they are most of it.

Among other things, it sounds like you’re conflating instances and communities. The instance is the server you connect to, the community is the group of posts you read, often on a number of different instances. You only need one person to make an instance, communities usually require more, unless you’re using Lemmy/Piefed to make a blog connected to a user base.

I don’t know if I enjoy your questions to raise engagement strategy, but don’t stop just because of me. If I decide I don’t enjoy it, at worst I’ll simply block you and hope you continue to succeed with whatever you’re hoping to achieve.

There have been a number of posts on Lemmy about how to get it to work with non-Steam games, particularly if you also have Steam installed. This may be easier on Linux than on Windows.

I heard a story from a friend in the Canadian military. One of his friends was celebrating Canada’s 125 anniversary in a British pub. The bartender laughed and said their thatched roof was older than that.

In Europe 100 miles is far. In North America 100 years is old. If we built (and maintained) better, our houses would last longer.

Your comment is the ultimate response to the situation. You’ve personally experienced the problem with imperfect witnesses and malicious actors compounded with incomplete knowledge, yet still insist these very human problems can be solved if you throw a big enough bureaucracy at them. And in your cases, you were perfectly innocent. Imagine if you had been less so. Exactly how do you propose we do that, given that many of these people are less than perfect paragon of legality, with a solution that can’t be reversed? And now you want there to be no mistakes made before the death penalty, as well!

I understand your frustration. There are horrible things in this world. Some of them happen in the halls of justice. Making those horrible things irreversible will not improve it.

I think the airplane version of Airplane would be 90 seconds long.

4% of Americans on death row, with it’s admittedly low bar compared to the rest of developed countries, are innocent. So how many people who haven’t committed horrific crimes are you okay with killing so you can kill the people who have committed horrific crimes? And given that we already spend vast amounts to reduce that amount to 4%, often more than life imprisonment would cost, only to continue to have that 4% innocence rate, how much more are you willing to spend so we can kill less innocent people? Or do you think we should just spend less on confirming their innocence so we can save some money on killing those people who committed horrific crimes, thus ensuring we have more innocent people being killed, as well?