How did you prepare the ribeyes. Looks good. I might do something similar for our anniversary this weekend if I can find some pork chops

It was good! Thanks for the compliments. I agree with some of the other comments that the heavy dairy based sauce was a bit too much. I’d probably make it again with a lighter sauce and maybe pico or fajita veggies instead

How is this more useful than just posting to an rss feed? Not trying to be snarky, just curious about the design

Not interested in any AI that doesn’t run on device. I just don’t see how it makes sense for Apple unless they have dummy small caps for tokens. Or their models aren’t very capable, which at that point they should just run on device.

Apple knows better than to waste a bunch of money in the AI race

I am casually optimistic but this really gives me a lot of the legend of Spyro vibes of taking the existing characters from Spyro and trying to fit them into a new genre. Hopefully the trailer is just showing a new type of level and the focus is still on collectathon 3d platforming.

Pretty nervous that gems, the charge or flame attacks, and sparks weren’t shown off in the trailer at all.

I think that just being exposed to other points of view is productive. I’ve had enjoyable back and forths about plenty of media I enjoy and others have enjoyed.

I think it has helped me have a more well rounded worldview. I consider myself more conservative that the average poster on the fediverse. I still dont think that I’ve moved that leftward but I’ve evolved from hating the term enshittification and not really seeing it as a big deal to be all in on the resistance to it.

I just enjoy being here and the conversations I have here.

You bring up a really good point about how Facebook once provided a really good and convenient service. Being able to have automated reminders and a place to send well wishes for birthdays is convenient. The same for having a central place to share photos with contacts rather than having to maintain a personal webpage or print slides and gather everyone over for a viewing party with a slide projector. It’s easier to say “follow my Facebook/Instagram/Twitter page” than it is to say “subscribe to my mailing list” and then maintain it.

That’s why the platforms became so popular in the first place. If that was still the primary function we’d probably still be there. But instead we have the choice to make. Whether we will put up with the enshittification in order to maintain access the neglected vestiges of what of what once made these platforms great; or if we maintain our freedom and go back to the old less convenient ways.

The fediverse won’t ever really be a replacement for those functions, the network effect is a filter for that. But it’s also not really designed to be, it’s meant to be pseudo-anonymous, decentralized, distributed, and portable and ephemeral. Great for being able to make arbitrary posts to a small network, easy to pick up your things and leave. It’s not great for putting your personal details on it and hoping your friends find you (there could be issues with federation keeping them from finding you, there is nothing keeping someone from impersonating you on the network)

I believe the fediverse is healthy for its use case, I don’t believe it will ever fully achieve the use cases of the platforms it’s replacing and that’s ok with me. I (and 1M+ of MAU on the the fediverse) find it perfectly fine for its use case

Edit: I may have misread your point and gone on a huge aside but my point is that I’m ok with the threaded platforms not chasing users to get to critical Reddit mass, I don’t see how mastodon can really be any easier to use, and friendica is more translating the fediverse experience to a familiar Facebook like interface than being a Facebook replacement. I think that maintaining the network is more important than recruiting people outside of it. If it’s a good experience, people will come in their own time.

If someone is looking for a place that has “everyone” then the fediverse is not going to be the place for them.

The important part is that there is enough people here that the network is healthy. Overpopulation is as bad for the network as underpopulation.

If someone is looking to connect with their relatives and close friends… Call them! Send some pics in the group chat. Shoot them a text and ask how they’ve been. The best part of getting off corporate “social” media is actually getting to socialize with your contacts again!

Do they deserve to die? That’s not for me to judge but they deserve to have their excess wealth confiscated and distributed for the betterment of society

Crazy of them to admit they think half the country is functionally illiterate

I can make frozen garlic bread in 10 minutes and still help my kids with their homework/break up any fights/whatever duties I have tonight. Unless your time is worthless homemade isn’t really cheaper. But it is better

Looks like it’s roasted in oil (edit: I see it’s grilled not roasted, still the char looks perfect and I bet it was amazing), they aren’t going for healthy broccoli, they are going for delicious. Personally I think roasted broccoli pairs well with a proper cheeseburger. If anything it’s the tater tots that don’t belong on that plate

I want gaming to be a health business that makes it long term but going after crackheads addicted to gambling, porn, and get rich quick schemes ain’t it

The high point of reddit was The Swamps of Dagoba story and Woody Harrelson’s absolute shit of an AMA.

Let’s talk about Rampart

I had been on Reddit since 2011. This place feels a lot like the Reddit of 2011 but with less rage comics. I didn’t get banned. I left during the API debacle of 2023 when Reddit decided to push to make itself just a TikTok clone with occasional text and link posts and blocked the 3rd party clients using the API. Apollo kept Reddit as it was and without Apollo, I had no reason to use Reddit any more

More ownership over my data. Now I don’t really own anything I post on my Lemmy.world account but they also can’t stop me from exporting my subscription list and moving my account to somewhere else on the fediverse. And if I wanted to, I could port my account to a single user instance and I would actually own my local copy of the data (of course federation means I don’t really own the federated copies since it’s all public.

It’s more relevant on a platform like mastodon where I not only can export my follows but can port my followers to my new account if I move.

I went to the midnight releases of Call of Duty Black Ops, MW3 and Pokemon Black and White 2. I was in college at the time so had a lot more time to play video games on release back then.

I have the same level of intelligence as Jar Jar Binks and have vulnerable masculinity.

Middle class people can only afford to go on a vacation to another continent if they save for a decade. If Mars is ever inhabited it will only be by the wealthy because they killed the planet and left us to die

Yes, especially among those active on the fediverse. That’s why we celebrate no shit november