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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Create an account so you can do anything with your purchased device? That's just plain abusive. How about: thank you for using your hard-earned, post-tax funds and choosing our product. Let's get you going as fast and easily as possible, then go as far as we can to make things work before having you stop and create an account?

Only reason to create one is so you can save a persistent context for multiple types of interaction. Support multiple users, or different mobile devices, maybe groups of devices. But for a single device, out of the box, no sign up should EVER be needed.

Unless the company's priority is to hoover all your usage data, analyze it to death, invade your privacy, and sell it for profit.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And your last point is moot because that is the exact priority. Sell product which in turn makes customer into product.

[–] 4lan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

look into home assistant. you can unlink almost every device from their cloud and run them locally. No internet connection needed.

I use it for WAY more than lights. I can monitor and control my 3D printer and weed grow, remotely. Now I have ONE app for all my IOT devices

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I luckily dont really have any IOT devices

[–] 4lan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I love that my lights turn off 15 minutes after I leave home, and turn on as I enter. I don't touch light switches ever.

also they all dim according to the sun setting and rising, so they are always the perfect brightness. And helps my sleep schedule.

When I walk into a friends place at night and the lights are all searingly bright white I cringe

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I mean you do you. I will not be changing all my lights and such. I have thought of putting home assistant on my little server but I literally have nothing to connect to it except maybe my raspberry pi running octoprint.

[–] 4lan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I love being connected to my printer's remotely through home assistant. I can cancel a job if I see it is failing