I’m not sure if this is exclusively an ADHD or neurodivergent thing.

Oh. Ok. Should I undo it then?

The world is so much easier to reason about when an entire generation can be explained by a meme though.

Out of curiosity, can I ask what it was that made mastodon click?

I had two or three goes before realising that choosing the right instance can give you an engaging "local" feed. That seems dramatically less important on lemmy though.

I'm a registered tax agent. This isn't really true - but, it's exactly what someone needing a 2-ton codpiece would say.

If you use a passenger vehicle exclusively for work / business, then you can claim depreciation on it's total cost up to a maximum of ~$66k (last year… this limit is indexed each year).

Vehicles with a carrying capacity of > 1 tonne are not subject to this limit as they're "commercial" vehicles rather than passenger vehicles.

So if you had a $100k to spend on a new car, then a landcruiser wagon / SUV will be less tax effective than a RAM ute because you can't claim a deduction for the entire cost of the ute.

That said, no one actually chooses between those types of vehicles on the basis of the tax deduction available - you either want a ute or you don't. The choice is always between a hilux size ute and a ram size ute. Additionally, I don't have a list but I've heard tell that very few of the bigger utes actually have a carrying capacity of > 1 tonne once you subtract the potential weight of passengers.

I shit you not… I saw a cooker waving a Trump 2020 flag last week.

We seem to have been invaded by them in the last 2 years or so. I don't see why regular utes and 4wds have been fine until now, but suddenly every tradesman needs one of these.

A good point well made.

Every online community I've ever seen has it's fieflords.

At least with lemmy, if mods / admins regularly over-step, alternative communities can easily replace them.

No, although there's probably a culture or convention around that.

Originally the idea was that it's a format which can contain fonts and other things so it will be rendered the same way on different devices even if those devices don't have those fonts installed. The only reason it's not commonly editable that I'm aware of is that it's a fairly arcane proprietary spec.

Now we have the openspec odt which can embed all the things, so pdf editing just doesn't really seem to have any support.

The established conventions around pdfs do kind of amaze me. Like contracts get emailed for printing & signing all the time. In many cases it would be trivial to edit the pdf and return your edited copy which the author is unlikely to ever read.

Acrobat Reader is actually great for filling out forms.

Even if the "pdf" is actually just a potato quality photo of what was at some time a form, you can still fill it out in Acrobat Reader.

Generally in windows I prefer sumatra pdf as a reader, but I keep acrobat around for this purpose.

think of it as though pdf is the container - it can contain all sorts of different data. I'd say you got real lucky being able to edit one with Writer without issues.

Yeah no one who’s still there cares at all.

or "/r/dontdeadopeninside

because it’s a fake sign designed to be read wrong.

Perhaps, but all of these points rely on a subjective definition of what a community is, and I think that’s still emerging in the fediverse. A Facebook community is different to a reddit community which is different to a lemmy community.

I can understand your position but I don’t see it that way.

I think lemmy is a fairly early iteration of the fediverse and it’s still finding its own format and associated culture.

For example, maybe more people will start using multiple accounts, or use accounts only for a few months before discarding them.

A lot of redditors treated accounts like some kind of alternate self, to be manicured and maintained indefinitely, which might not be the right move in the fediverse.

Also, a lot of things aren’t really communicated to users on most platforms. The information is there if anyone cares to invest even the briefest moment in understanding the fediverse

It’s always going to come down to trusting someone though right ?

Even with a larger corporation who tells you they don’t sell your data, it would only take 1 employee to see the opportunity to sell 1 billion email addresses or something.

Also in the fediverse your data is pretty much freely available to everyone. Instances need to publish the list of users who have upvoted a given post or comment. Anyone so inclined could build a profile of comments and posts you’ve liked from freely available data.

Lemmy still feels a bit wild - with lots of instances springing up in the last few months and not really any time for admins to demonstrate their attitudes to different issues.

Mastodon is a little more mature though, I’ve been at fosstodon.org for a few years now. The admins there are regular participants in the community. I think I’m on the “Elon” tier in their patreon - $11 a month.

I agree.

I’m a hobbyist. I don’t work on really large or complex projects. I just want to get the most productivity for my spare-time-dabbling and having tried a few times to get into typescript it seemed to create more “extra steps” for me than it saved.

Yeah it’s a weird article. “There’s some misinformation on the internet!”