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All the ones I mentioned? It's not tied to your real identity or IRL friend/social circles.

In your example sure, Lemmy uses the community to vote things up or down to assist in curation, but I don't look at WHO voted things up or down (I know the data is technically available). And the logins/profiles are random names to me, I don't know or have relationships with any of these people, so again they are meaningless. This is why it feels like a platform, but not social media. We used web forums and bullitenboards before the word "social media" was coined and we see big differences between tbe two today.

So while I agree Lemmy has social elements, it's used completely differently then something like Facebook. YouTube has all those elements as well, but I use it to watch infotainment/explainers etc. I have Nebula as well which has none of the social elements and it feels identical because I don't use any of them.

I guess the difference is are the social elements intregal to the platform, or tacked on and optional, and what kind of weight do they have.

I don't really consider Lemmy to be social media, nor do I YouTube. I suppose that's against the norm, but I don't comment on either too often, and when I do it doesn't replace conversations with my friends. I also don't pay attention to people's usernames (apart from blocking Tankies) or expect to build any relationship. They are just news/current events/video sources.

I don't deny they have social elements built in, but social media to me was something like Facebook where you had your real name and real friends following you and you posted about yourself anf each others lives. Maybe that's Social Media and this is Social Media Lite?

I've seen a few videos on these and the benifits of european plug design. My only gripe with it is the size. I know it would be a pain because everything is already built for the the current standard, but an updated "micro" plug would be a lot better.

In fact, why doesn't the whole world collaborate on a new plug design that takes the best from both and combines into a 110/220 auto sensing plug. Sadly i don't see that happening any time soon. It's much more likely that USB-C continues to gain ground and becomes the defacto DC power standard for consumers.

I was originally against this because I hate it when language is reconstituted and made murkey, but I looked it up and you're right.

I'm still not sure this is the same as poison, but it can certainly be harmful so it's not that big a stretch.

The built in GPU of any sem-modern Intel CPU can do that for you no problem. Probably even the older ones in those corporate computers. Just check for QuickSync support. If you want something seriously low wattage that can still do one or two 4K streams, get one of those mini PCs with an Intel N100 for cheap.

I don't think you can say there is a "most common" unit for the general public. People probably shop for storage more than they do service providers, so I guess MB?

However I don't think spelling it makes it any easier. If people aren't noticing a capital B or a lowercase b, will they notice or understand bytes vs bits when spelled?

I think it's a case of it just kinda sucks we have similar sounding and spelled words, but the general public is not getting too caught up on it because they're largely oblivious. So long as manufacturers and sales use the appropriate term on the appropriate product, everything should work out. I've never seen a hard drive marketed in bit capacity, so I think this is really a non issue.

Just chalk it up to something you now understand better.

I see what you mean, but what do you propose? The units already exist and they are the industry standard. Should new units of measure be made up just for consumers, or should all numbers but on consumer devices be locked to using only one of them? Who decides what's consumer packaging and what's not?

It's a sticky situation. I think while it may be confusing, the vast majority of people aren't paying much attention and it's probably not a big enough deal to do anything about it. The units are most often used correctly as in I can't imagine an ISP or a router advertising their speeds in Bytes, likewise I don't see any RAM or storage advertised in bits, so it's usually an apples to apples comparison anyway.

See that's where I think you're still missing it. These are technical terms used by technical people. They were not designed to confuse people, they were designed to clarify the units IT people use in their work.

You might say this is confusing to the general public, and you may be right, but the people making this stuff weren't thinking about average people at all. The idea these numbers would be plastered all over ISPs and SSDs weren't even a consideration.

So it's not bullshit, it's not designed to confuse, it's just a technical unit that is not well understood by most people, yet we live in a time when tech-specs are marketed by companies to average people.

Ah, I see the confusion, and it's understandable. Look for if the "B" is capitalized or not.

Mb, Gb, etc = bits

MB, GB, etc = bytes

Think the larger letter is the larger size.

You've actually got that a bit twisted. Not saying the bigger number doesn't benifit the ISPs, but it actually is the industry standard to use bits per second when measuring throughput. This is because data transfer is a continuous stream, whereas data at rest is chunked so when talking about storage we use bytes. It's a bit weird but you get used to it.

I don't think you can compare a park/field to a manicured putting green. You can't see the ground through the grass. Either way, play it if you like, to each their own.

Lawn darts was a dangerous game to begin with, so I'm not too shaken up about losing it, but I disagree that the bouncing is part of the game. No ground is perfectly even, and you can't see imperfections from where you throw. It just creates randomness and makes it not worth playing. These aren't issues in the other examples you cited. My opinion, obviously.