I feel like your preference makes sense when aligned from the perspective of a conventional forum-like platform. However I’d argue that that’s missing a core part of what kbin is/was – and by extension what Mbin is – which is the microblog integration alongside the forum-like stuff. With that context in mind, boosts (or whatever term you want to use for “retweet”) make sense to integrate imo.

Whether or not you think Mbin should try to integrate the microblog side of things is of course a subjective - I personally think it’s a cool idea to try at least, but with how dominant lemmy has become it can be difficult to reconcile differences and incompatibilities between it and other software like Mbin.

Mbin has a specific and different meaning for the term “post” as used in the OP, so it’s one place where translating from lemmy or other “generic internet forum” jargon doesn’t work. It’s for microblog posts associated with a magazine that are independent of threads in that magazine.

E.g.: https://fedia.io/m/firefox/microblog has “posts” in Mbin terminology – though if I had to guess I think most Mbin users will use the qualified “microblog post” or similar if they actually mean to reference the Mbin meaning of the term.

What’s up with the android beef? I hadn’t heard about that one 😅

The premise of the article’s headline is immediately contradicted by one of its first quotes:

I’m not sure I follow what the contradiction is?

While I agree, how would you use such sticks?

Play fighting, I guess? It’s been a while since I had a good stick in hand now that I think about it

Couldn’t your store them on, let’s say, a wall?

I guess, it just feels like they’re show pieces when presented like this. My first thought was to either just stick them (haha) in a pile on the floor, or to put them in like those cylindrical umbrella holders like a huge sheath!

To be honest, this doesn’t really do it for me? The beauty of the good sticks is in using them, which you can’t really do while they’re stuck on the wall :(

“Comma-la” unfortunately doesn’t help much for people without US accents lol (though of course people in the US are who the question and answer are most relevant to). On first reading – without the accent or something close to it – it implies “kom-uh-luh”, whereas with the accent it implies something more like “kah-muh-luh”, just based on how people pronounce “comma” differently.

An invented creation used to segment regions of the Earth in homebrew RPG campaigns :P

I guess it could be used in many different ways, but when I read it I thought of it in the context of a homebrew campaign’s lore (maybe ttrpg memes have corrupted my mind?)

Region code 0 (“Worldwide”) discs work in all regions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code

Post: https://fedi.underscore.world/objects/ce9986b6-50f7-4daa-921a-df7175f18420

Cool idea, though I was surprised by the level of fidelity loss in the fountain example. I would’ve expected that to be a good case scenario for noise cancellation so maybe it just needs some more time to iterate and improve on its level of “false positive” removal.

SO comments are already CC-BY licensed (granted not -NC licensed, but still), but it doesn’t seem to have helped much.

That is indeed the very first criteria listed in the sidebar, despite you being showered in downvotes for saying it.

Excluding Piledriver (?) to Zen, wouldn’t 30% be the highest inter-generational IPC increase in Intel/AMD CPUs in at least 15 years? The article’s original title also included quotes around “ABSURD”, as the term is being re-used from the source’s clickbait YouTube title lol.

Archive Options Failing

This one worked for me, useful if wanting to share the story elsewhere:

https://archive.is/20231224184755/https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-openai-protected-by-silicon-valley-friends-f3efcf68

Fwiw I also had ongoing issues with the ZF9 pocket-dialing. Ymmv of course, but I haven’t had it happen ever since changing its position in my pocket from [up facing up and screen facing me] to [up facing up and screen facing away from me]. It’s been at least several months since I made the change, so maybe it will help some of the people having the issue?

Zenfone did have its 3.5mm jack and optical stabilization as relatively unique in its class (though I don’t personally know much about how well EIS does vs OIS these days).