Or worse: it’s in telephone mode now, so obviously you only want the sound from the “call” because there’s no other reasons the microphone could be on.

A solid chunk of Philip K Dick’s output worked better as movies/TV than as books.

There’s definitely something there, but the books feel somewhat unfinished/unpolished. Which makes sense, his books weren’t popular in English until after the release of Blade Runner, which coincided with his death. Maybe the popularity of the movie would’ve given him more time and resources to revise future works.

A Scanner Darkly is the only one where both the book and the movie felt about the same quality.

The decision to use Adobe suite is more likely to be a company wide decision. Part of Adobe suite lock-in is also familiarity making things faster. By promoting others, that may help future generations avoid at least part of the problem.

Google services may be much more piecemeal. Even if the boss personally happens to think there’s a productivity benefit to using a given search engine, it would be unusual to block others.

Practicing what you preach is sometimes important, but I’m not sure how much it bears on these issues. A single company eschewing either won’t make a difference. Getting the public to slowly consider alternatives may.

Maybe folks just like symmetry.

If your comments are going to gum up the thread with a segment that they don’t think will have any effect, what’s a few more to match?

It’s still not loading for me unless I open it externally

There may be an earlier version, but I know this as an old Emo Phillips joke

I’ve run into it when interacting with folks who grew up in the south. It seems moderately common there. With folks who grew up in the northeast, I haven’t seen this be a thing.

Yes! The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum were both great. If you’ve read more of his work and have a recommendation for where to go next I’d love to hear it.

On the topic of Italian authors, I loved Italo Calvino’s “If on a winter’s night a traveler” as well. I didn’t really expect it to pay off as a cohesive work. I was mostly along for the ride and was pleasantly surprised.

Cheerios and Bugles (each separately). Nothing in either item should make them smell like death. But every flavor of either I’ve encountered always has. They’re not even the same kind of grain.

I’ll eat most ingredients in a wide variety of contexts. It’s pretty rare that I’ll find something that I don’t like, and can’t eventually find a way to like.

I’m not expecting them to be amazing, but them being substantially worse than bland and boring is still a surprise.

That does sound great! Ham isn’t necessarily a bad ingredient, it’s just unusually difficult to tell if it’ll be good or it’ll suit your tastes, especially with more inexpensive kinds.

It’s hard to see where I’d choose it over another topping, but I imagine with most pizzas I don’t really care about ham’s failings.

Pineapple and anchovies might be the two stanard toppings that are really build-arounds. Most other standard pizza toppings seem closer to “do whatever, it’ll be fine”

The ham used on pizzas around here (northeast US), usually isn’t salty enough to work on a Hawaiian pizza. It’s often deli ham, which runs the risk of being sweet, but otherwise flavorless.

Bacon or pepperoni work better. Jalapeno also helps.

Slightly hotter, but still quite tame take:

Ham is the problem with Hawaiian pizza. Pineapple is innocent.

I’m not sure I’d say it’s exact, but some of the political norms you’re describing appear to have been extremely short-lived. That’s not to say we shouldn’t try to get them back or rue their loss.

Machine politics with power structures like in Tammany hall seem to have been popular for quite a while.

It’s a good feature, and probably makes sense to default to on. But I know I’ll find it more distracting than useful, so I’ll turn it off.

Large tooltips on mouseover are usually distracting. Facicons, text, and additional windows do enough to remind me what my tabs are.

New features often aren’t helpful to each and every user, but as long as I can turn off the ones that are actively unhelpful to me, I’m perfectly happy to see them.

I didn’t see you mention these authors, but maybe because your cutoff date looks to be around 1989:

• Wild Seed- Octavia E Butler
• The Left Hand of Darkness- Ursula K LeGuin
• Dhalgren- Samuel Delaney
• Book of the New Sun- Gene Wolfe
• A Scanner Darkly- Philip K Dick
• Cat’s Cradle- Kurt Vonnegut

Not exactly always considered sci fi, but maybe sci fi adjacent:

• The Terror- Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, seems to be free of his politics
• The Yiddish Policemen’s Union- Michael Chabon
• Gravity’s Rainbow- Thomas Pynchon
• Fictions- Jorge Luis Borges
• Machine of Death- collection of short stories from various authors
• Infinite Jest- David Foster Wallace

Microwaves still cook from the outside in, but yes, mostly only excite water.

I believe this came up in another ATK thing, but can’t track it down at the moment.

I thought I understood your comment until I got to the emoji. I’m not sure if they work terribly well

Flagged isn’t very useful until Lemmy has filtering tools that can act on the flags built in.

Even the mobile apps which support filtering wouldn’t be able to react sensibly to an AI tag for posts within this community.

Yes. But it’s a duel, so they’re just trying to stay behind one person.

You’re not allowed to stop, so you try and creep forward really slowly by doing bike stands until the last lap.

I dunno exactly what sandbagging looks like in Mario Cart, but I kind of doubt it looks this silly.