You can pop out threads with a command click in Slack, but I don’t know if you can change that to the default behaviour.

In case anyone reading this didn’t know: direct sunlight can cause your VR headset lenses to act like a magnifying glass, burning your precious LCD in a moment, if the light hits it right.

Just say, “Thanks, a lot,” as enthusiastically as possible so that it’s uncomfortably enthusiastic. That’s what I used to do to make a mockery of the mandatory greetings policy back in my service industry days.

It also wasn’t common but there was a Samsung Folder which was a flip phone and a Motorola Flipout which was a swivel phone. My point is, you could buy all kinds of wacky devices.

Check out Sidephone.

HTC Desire Z had swinging action which was pretty slick. Grit couldn’t get stuck in those sliders and it snapped open with a satisfying clack.

A QWERTY flip phone would actually be sweet. Are there any examples from history, from the era when phones were fun?

It’s amazing how homogenized phones became: Apple or Google flavoured slabs with a 6" or 6.5" display. That’s starting to change with foldable displays and it looks like 2026 might be a comeback year for hardware keyboards, so I’m optimistic about mobile devices being more than just social media consumption machines.

Fifteen years ago you could get portrait sliders and landscape sliders and flip phones and BlackBerry style phones and phones that had game controls, and 4" slabs and 6" slabs (called “phablets” back then). There was so much more choice and it was so much more fun. Five years ago you couldn’t even get a modern phone that’s less than 6" so it fits easily in your pocket.

I loved my Passport but the Titan 2 just looked frumpy in a way that the Passport didn’t. It’s not looks that keeps me from buying it though; it’s the complete lack of security updates which would prevent me from using it for work. Unihertz has promised better support starting with Titan 2. If that turns out to be true, then the upcoming Titan Elite will be an attractive competitor to the Clicks Communicator, which has promised 5 years of security updates.

By “inadequate” I don’t mean having room for improvement. I mean: lacking, weak, light-handed. By that definition, SO’s moderation is if anything, overdone, not inadequate. Personally, I love it as a technical resource, even if contributions are difficult to make in line with moderation policies.

I’m just using it as an example of what a Q&A site with inadequate moderation looks like. If you can’t see that then I don’t think we’re going to see eye to eye no matter how long this discussion continues.

Of course there’s a middle ground, that’s much closer in my ideal world to StackOverflow than it is to Yahoo Answers or Quora.

Lemmy isn’t a Q&A application in the way that the others I mentioned are.

If Stack Overflow is a 3/10 then Quora is a 1/10 and Yahoo Answers is -5/10.

If the alternative is the cesspit that is Yahoo Answers and Quora, I’ll take the heavy-handed moderation of StackOverflow.

Why?

That used to be what Microsoft (Internet Explorer) was famous for. I guess Chrome has lived long enough to be the villain, but Firefox is still the hero to me.

I mean… the official Reddit app was so bad that they had to charge for API access in order to get real market share.

M CPUs make me a believer in ARM and other non-x86 chips, but preferably RISC-V in the long term.

Keyboard is critical to me. I can work on a MacBook keyboard short term but something like a Glove80 or at least an Ergodox is critical for me in the long term.

Also OS X Unix is nix enough for me.