It happens :)
Something that would be said in person in a way that makes it obvious as a joke doesn’t scan as well in text. Add in the divergent thinking so that even the text is different than what a neurotypical person would think of as a dark joke, and things can fall flat (or worse).
Keep at it though, humor is the only thing getting a lot of folks through life, even when it’s dark
Yeah, it’ll be a while yet
So it goes
Kinda depends on what features in sync made you like it.
Overall, boost, connect, thunder and summit each get close to parity, but only close. But, you could say that in reverse, (that sync only gets close to parity with any of them) it isn’t a slight against any of them.
Eternity is another one that I’ve had good use of, but development on that seems to be stopped as well, so I dunno if that’s a useful option.
Past those, you get less similarity in ux and ui than would make sense to compare. Like, the apps that mimic voyager (or whatever the popular iOS reddit app was called), things are laid out so different that if you used sync as a primary, you aren’t likely to enjoy that ui.
On a phone, I kinda favor connect over sync, despite it looking very unlike it compared to boost or eternity. But on a tablet, nothing else does double columns in portrait worth a damn for me, and aren’t great in landscape either. But boost and eternity come the closest to the visual ease sync has.
that’s sync
I was going to include screen shots of the ones I have on this tablet, but uploads shit the bed and are being weird after that one. So no promises that I can do them all
boost
eternity
connect
and interstellar since it does piefed better than anything else I’ve tried, and still does lemmy just fine.
Decided to install thunder and summit long enough to give a visual
thunder
annnd summit
As you can tell, everyone has a slightly different approach to the UI. But they’re even more variable in what settings are available, little niceties, etc. Theming is all over the place from a bare bones light/dark/oled to the relative broad visual options of boost and sync. None of them are bad at all. They’re reliable, work even on older devices without bogging them down, and are all easy enough to get going with.
One problem
Batteries.
I’ve used old devices as many things: security cameras, a form of intercom, digital picture frames, etc. The real problem is that the batteries eventually go bad, and become dangerous.
For the few devices that have realistically replaceable batteries, that’s no big deal, but how many of those are left now?
No thanks to the potential fire, I’ll pass. The few devices I have left that I can swap batteries out are becoming harder to find new batteries for as well, so that’s an issue beyond their anemic hardware (I’m talking really old tablets at this point)
Alex Steele is bloody awesome
Horse shit, there’s a few regular commentors that do their best with every question they can, and even more that contribute irregularly but in good faith, even if they fall short of accuracy.
Did you comment in the wrong place?
Your comment is talking about resolution, and the post is about YouTube throttling speeds, not resolution of videos.
I suspect you were trying to respond to a comment instead of making your own top level comment, though I’m not certain.
In any case, if the comment is in the wrong place, now you know. If it isn’t, well, it may help to know that it’s out of place thematically.
Edit: I think this comment https://midwest.social/comment/18120563 is where you intended to respond
This is unacceptable.
I have now bitten three different devices hard enough to ruin their screen
Please, no.
He is such a douche bag, and a lot of his fan base is too.
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I mean, us cripples aren’t all united in it being a slur.
To the contrary, there’s a growing number that embrace it because it doesn’t downplay how serious many disabilities can be.
I mean, us cripples aren’t all united in it being a slur.
To the contrary, there’s a growing number that embrace it because it doesn’t downplay how serious many disabilities can be.
Shit, I down voted you for whining about down votes.
Well, how about a cock pic? 
Ngl, I’ve been tempted to find one of those things and use it on a picture of myself just to see how accurate they get.
But it would have to be totally offline, and even then I wouldn’t actually do it
Active vs passive voice. It’s a thing
They are.
They’re certainly not the kind of purely creative art most people think of as ART, and it’s definitely a crossover kind of art. But if memes aren’t art, then pretty much nothing Warhol did was either. Yeah, that’s not only an argument people have made, it’s also an interesting debate about the essence of art. But Warhol did memes. To an extent, Basquiat did too.
All visual art is a form of shared consciousness, and that’s what memes are at the core.
I would even argue that making a good meme, one that actually becomes widely shared because it transmits an idea, is a very difficult form of art. There’s skill involved, and thought. It’s only partially about the format/template (in cases where that’s the expression of the meme rather than it being less formalized). There’s an element of writing to it, some design craft, and you have to find the right audience.
Memes are an art form with a low barrier to entry, but that doesn’t invalidate the form any more than cheap digital cameras invalidate photography as an art form.
It’s also going to be great for people with health issues that impact thermoregulation. And there’s a ton of diseases that do so. Currently, the typical cooling vest is a glorified ice pack holder, and even less comfortable than that sounds