your particular instance (jlai.lu) has defederated from lemmynsfw (though oddly not pornlemmy.com); so you won't see any communities, posts, or comments from their users

you can check the federated and defederated instances before you sign up by clicking the "instances" link at the bottom of the page, then scrolling all the way down to the "blocked" section

as to why you can't sign into your lemmynsfw acct.: i don't know. possibly because they're running a patched backend? it may be worth a bug report

fairphone would be so good if it had a headphone jack. but it seems really weird to me to launch a "sustainable phone" without a jack

i'm not even sure it's worth having an option. i don't think i'd even have noticed a difference, apart from the menu button being in a slightly different place to every other gnome app. it's fine; but it wasn't worth the development time

nakoichi, i don't care. i'm not taking sides in an argument between you and randint: i'm saying that i like hexbear and i dont't want to defed them, and if randint doesn't like you i'm advising him in how not to get drawn into an argument

oh hi aktion. you know you're being talked about?

and yeah, that's mostly my experience on hexbear lemmyspheres, although i must admit i don't do a lot of shitposting

really? just people posting their thoughts on your instance? what's the point?

this seems like something best solved with a bookmarklet

let me see if i can knock one up quickly

okay, i got a bit distracted, sorry it took so long

javascript:(function() {window.location="https://duckduckgo.com/?"+window.location.toString().match(/q=.*?(\&|$)/g);})()

javascript:(function() {window.location="https://duckduckgo.com/?"+window.location.toString().match(/q=.*?(\&|$)/g);})()

just drag that into your bookmarks bar, then click it when you're on a google search page (please message me with any questions or bugs, i wrote this in five minutes with an online regex tester)

also, thank you for this post - i'd never thought of doing this, but it's a good idea

edit 2: okay, lemmy-ui currently has a bug with ampersands. please replace & in the script with just an "&"

i've no mobility issues, but i can't stand that back gesture. it interferes with the ability to open drawers; and i can't spam it quickly to get out of a "deep" page in an app

gestures do have pros (for instance, the ability to hold and scroll through recents) but the back gesture just seems straight up worse to me

pirating photoshop is a well-understood part of many peoples' workflows. that doesn't make it legal or condoned by adobe

libpng refused to accept it

mozilla made it because it suited their needs; and libpng (the organisation behind png, and who make the standard png decoder[^1]) refused to add compatibility, insisting on mng instead. mng was bad, so nobody used it; and apng was great, but require mozillas version of the decoder so systems couldn't use both the official version and the apng supporting version together

[^1]: and have a fantastic website

just going to copy here something i wrote on reddit ~~a few months~~ almost a year ago^[context]

i've been using telegram since it was released and ...i don't think i'll be recommending it to new users anymore

it's not just this announcement, but in general they seem to be really pushing the web3/blockchain/nft angle; along with sign in with telegram, payments through telegram, they feel like they're trying to become the western wechat

but as for this in particular; obviously all of those usernames are going to be bought by scammers. why would a user trust them if they're being bought and sold all the time? and why would a legitimate business buy them if most users won't trust them? businesses want consistent branding, not ephemeral minutiæ

nobody is thinking "oh yeah, my bank is the best, it's @bank on telegram" or "i think i'll switch to a new bank, but i don't know which. i guess i'll just message @bank and see what happens" or "i just got a message from @gift! i must have won the lottery!"

plus, according to these messages, they're taking usernames off users that already used them

most of my contacts are on telegram now, so i'm going to continue using it. but even aside from the encryption and privacy issues, i wouldn't encourage anyone to switch to telegram

the qt one is much better. on kde i can use a portal to make gtk apps use it; i don't know if there's a way to do that on cinnamon, but it may be worth looking into