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Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising
  • Microsoft is so confident in its desktop marketshare that they allow themselves to push the overton window on what users will tolerate.

    The only competitor they can lose users to is Apple. And even then not everyone can afford an Apple computer, especially in the rest of the world

  • Pixel 8a joins the LineageOS 21 build roster
  • LineageOS kinda dead these last years they only do pixel phones. While the hoards of people using android are buying Samsung's and Xioami's budget phones

    Edit: after reading the comments. I checked again and was surprised they have updated the list with newer models they weren't on the list a few months ago

  • Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.
  • We need help communities on Lemmy. That's what is going to make it rank in SEO and fly. Communities like software help (office, adobe creative products, etc), financial help and advice. And ask docs communities.

    Memes won't help SEO rank.

  • People who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?
  • You do you. And you have to take into consideration what your goal is by learning Arabic.

    Dialects are definitely easier to learn and more rewarding as it allows you to converse with people and test your advancements. But you won't be able to easily transition to another dialect. Because MSA is the glue that make the intelligible.

    Learning MSA will take you triple the time. And I imagine your teacher is both proud of his dialect. But also doesn't want you to drop learning if you were to have chosen MSA

  • People who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?
  • We only refer to MSA when talking about Arabic. Most Arab speakers consider dialects side languages to Classical Arabic. They have never had a transcription throughoutout history. People started writing in their dialects only recently with the arrival of SMS and the internet.

    I get that as a new comer to Arabic you probably have come across learning materials for dialects like Egyptian and levantine. But in reality you won't find uni courses for those dialects because academics don't consider them to be proper languages with clear grammar and an established vocabulary.

  • People who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?
  • Languages with phonetic writing in the modern day likely achieved that through a language standardization process that included spelling reforms.

    Not Arabic. It is pronounced as it is written. Except a handful of words that have a different transcription to make them easily distinguishable.

  • TikTok will not be sold, Chinese parent ByteDance tells US
  • This makes sense as there still billions of other potential users around the world. Add to that the fact that other nations like content of their own cultures in their own languages. It means even if they will feel the change the platform won't collapse because it is missing US users. Now If other countries follow in the US footsteps then it becomes a different story.

  • Has community engagement dropped off suddenly?
  • The problem with Lemmy and with reddit too. Is that conversations Die off or stale too quickly. Reason being most engagement happens with older more upvoted comments. And newer contributions don't benefit from the same exposure. Which doesn't give much incentives for people to comment. Which in return deplets the platform of its userbase. Lemmy apps should ship with viewing newer comments by default to combat this. And Lemmy users should also change this setting in their apps.

  • Problem with federation! Comments from lemm.ee seem to not federate

    Any news on why this is happening with this instance ? it might be harder to check if upvotes and downvotes federate to the outside lemmyverse .

    other instances seem to federate better.

    Don't the instance owners use it ?

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    Do you ever get scared of being eating up by a community for reporting problems.

    Have you ever been scared or hesitant about reporting flaws or bugs to a community with a strong staunch fanbase ??

    Obviously there are different ways of reporting and starting discussions, but I brought up the courage to report a flaw on a subreddit (not to be named) that I knew is very sensitive to criticisme, and I was flooded with downvotes and even was subject to gaslighting, so I gave up on that software and became even more hesitant about reporting problems on other FOSS communities .

    Is this mindset very prevalent among all open source communities? have you faced something similar ?

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