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Would you be willing to finish a project or creation instantly, in exchange for losing any experience or materials you'd otherwise have doing it the long way? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] cralex@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good question. I was thinking that the final result would magically be equivalent to whatever you'd actually be able to make yourself, as though you went back in time and handed your past self the finished product.

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Would you be willing to finish a project or creation instantly, in exchange for losing any experience or materials you'd otherwise have doing it the long way? (lemmy.zip)
 

If it's a book, you have the manuscript but no research, notes, or prior revisions. If it's a program, you have the compiled binary but no source code or anything you would've learned writing it. Etc.

National Security in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] cralex@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago

As a longtime Mac user, I remember when my OS became basically bigger iOS.

Ice cream trucks still around? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] cralex@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago

One drove by my house a few weeks ago. Before that? I haven't seen one in the wild in years.

Why is Lemmy so US-centric? The largest instances are in Europe, aren't they? So why does it have to be US news trolling as if it were Reddit? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] cralex@lemmy.zip 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I'd spend time in All and filter out a bunch of US-centric news communities if I was you. I did that with loads of communions I didn't want to see stuff from.

Password manager by Amazon in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] cralex@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago

My handwriting comes with free encryption at rest. Even I might not be able to read it.

What are the forum-like communities that are federated? in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] cralex@lemmy.zip 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Plus PieFed also has a tool to migrate a community from a dying instance to itself. It's not perfect, but it preserves old posts and comments and it's fueled at least some growth.