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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 an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] duckCityComplex@lemmy.world 47 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Similar story for clothes dryers:

My parents' dryer had 2 knobs for temperature and run time, and a start button. Ran forever and dried clothes.

My dryer has like a dozen programmed cycles that rely on a moisture sensor that doesn't work and leaves clothes damp unless you use the manual time & temp settings, which takes several capacitive button presses on a circuit board that is likely to die before any of the actual mechanical components of the dryer. Also for some reason it has Wi-Fi.

[–] Idontevenknowanymore@mander.xyz 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"And for some reason it has Wi-Fi ." will be the last line in humanity's epitaph.

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 7 months ago

The latest xkcd has one of my favorite hover texts of all time:

It's important for devices to have internet connectivity so the manufacturer can patch remote exploits.

[–] rustyricotta@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

I can confirm, I only use the manual time on my dryer because it's the only way to reliably get it dry.

[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

Wifi is there to avoid pressing the capacitive buttons.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

I assume they have some better mode options if you get the app and connect it and all…

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