One of three countries. I imagine it’s the one that created Sputnik. I have a couple of friends from there and have heard about the restrictions on the internet, but like the Great Firewall of China many people know how to bypass it.

Do you live in North Korea or something?

Banned from a sub Reddit, but you wouldn’t be banned from Reddit site wide - unless you off the scale heinous.

As much as I dislike Reddit’s direction and have had site wide temporary bans myself, i find it hard to believe you were properly banned for what you described. I was temporary banned because I was flaunting that I wasn’t abiding by Reddit’s rules, and even then, it was only a 2 week ban on a single account.

What you describe is the main reason that’s stopping me from 100% leaving Reddit. There isn’t enough variety and there isn’t enough activity in communities that isn’t in the few popular ones. At the moment it feels like +80% of current users fit into a specific demographic.

I think that says more about the channels you watch and your viewing habits. I enjoy STEM and STEM related channels; I don’t experience the same as what you’ve described.

You still have to believe the author and the peer reviewers did the correct thing through the process. You have to believe the results presented are real and accurate. Etc, etc.

For example, one of the many scandals of recent times is Franchesca Gino at Harvard publishing false research papers that present false data. People believed it was all real and genuine until a group of people started to do a deep dive into her research.

I’ve never clocked on that the colors are in the order of the rainbow. Mind blown that it’s taken your comment to highlight this for me.

I also like that the colors surrounding are shades of lightness… cough cough let’s ignore the brown.

The racist term I was taught when I was a young person

(Color of darkness) (fatherless children) (coerced non-consensual reproduction activities) our (new people to the world) (XX people) but (pure people) go without.

I hate reading resistor color codes because which is the correct orientation for the resistor. Band gaps and positions on real world resistors don’t stand out as much as what the theoretical charts show - so I always meter them anyway.

I think i might be ND just going off what your wrote as I can relate to most of it… sheet.

At least normal European people are locked into a platform that doesn’t care what device you’re using, unlike iMessage - so it’s not all bad

We just sent the code, provide the phone number we sent it to

If it’s a website use a website preview online service.

The internet is not always available for at least some people.

I generally have already decided what to purchase before I load Amazon’s website. I also rarely purchase cheap white label products, and so Amazon’s reviews are mostly irrelevant to me. I’ve rarely needed to return items too and recently they were all my fault anyway, eg, not quite the dimensions I thought I needed.

I’ve never heard of anyone use a shop’s reviews to decide what product to purchase, so you’re literally the first to me.

If I want a product that I have no idea about then I’ll go to forums, YouTube channels, etc about that type of thing and see what they say about it all. They’ll be people who’ve done product reviews and comparisons. And so they’re the people with the knowledge and their the people that care.

So in your example of wanting a guitar pedal I’d be visiting music and electric guitar places on the internet to gather knowledge on the product range.

Once I hit the online store, I’ve already decided what I want to purchase. And so the store reviews are more about the seller themselves and whether the product is genuine/fake, or a good/bad version of the white label item.

Fakespot has always felt inaccurate to me. Once every 6 months or so I gave it a go to see if any of the updates have improved it but it never felt like it did to me.

Furthermore, I don’t see the point in Fakespot since Amazon bends over backwards to accept returns for any reason.

The only issue with projects like LineageOS is that the camera usually sucks because the full fat camera driver isn’t released to the public, it’s only the basic driver. The camera can still take photos but all of the features you’ve become accustomed to are not there. This was my experience and what the LineageOS team said during the Samsung S5-S8 days.

For some people TeamSpeak didn’t go anywhere. I’ve been using TeamSpeak for the past 5 years as I started communicating with people who never gave it up.

Killed it, as in they were awesome and won, or as in unalived. The quote by itself could mean either.

I pulled some data off some old Samsung 1TB SSDs that werent powered for 3-4 years without an issue either. I guess they were SLC based on what others are saying.

I guess it’s a your mileage may vary situation depending on the exact drive you purchase and probably other factors too.