The other important part here is that inflation is lower this year than last. So the extra high raises last year may have helped keep up but aren’t needed as much.

As far as I can tell there’s no direct relationship between iPhone sales and the change in raises. If anything I’d expect low sales to lead to layoffs or closing stores.

The process to open a link on your home instance is just way too complicated right now. Some sort of browser presence could help redirect users to the right places.

Having worked on HMD optical designs, lenses can be designed to tolerate a wide variation of users with some degradation that isn’t too bad, but if you want to maximize stuff like field of view and brightness and other things, you can end up with a tiny spot that the eyes need to be in. If they’ve decided to do a more optimized lens design, they might have more strict eye box requirements.

Some of these issues can be Apple and Google’s fault since they control subscriptions if you buy through the app, but the company that makes the app controls your subscription if you subscribed outside of it. So it might be against the App Store terms of service to allow you to unsubscribe from inside the app. There’s a hidden setting on iOS to control all subscriptions which can be better or worse depending on your perspective.

What if they accidentally click yes there too? Do you need a double sure confirmation? And a triple sure for that one? And so on?

As someone who plays WoW, “looking for group” team seems redundant.

I’d love to see some more clear tracking of where all the posts are. Not sure how best to find it. Seems like I just go to every instance and have to look through their list of communities to see it.

Wasn’t the face scan a part of the original announcement? And appointments make sense at first the same way the early Apple Watch purchases required an appointment to make sure the bad was fit right and stuff.

Honestly, getting the fit on head right is probably super important to this product experience, and they won’t want to risk it.

I think that’s more a solution to figure if out who you are than a solution to figuring out what things are reflected off your eyes.

Couldn’t any instance or app do this already? Like #peertube does videos in a way that isn’t necessarily fully federated with #mastodon. We get partial functionality everywhere and some places will have some extra things. If it is popular enough, then add it to the standard and let everyone who wants it add the functionality.

I think those requirements make sense. The point of the list is to give people places where they can sign up that will have some activity. 5 active users is something and federated with another active instance means more content. Once they’re on the list, I bet other instances will want to federate with them and then users get even wider reach.

There’s many ways these communities could end up gathering over time given the features of the platform we have. The most likely in my opinion is that certain communities on certain instances will take off and gradually people will focus on those instead of the many duplicates on other instances. It’ll probably be quite a while before enough critical mass builds up.

It’s already laggy and unstable. Maybe more hardware and improved software will help, but it might just be hard for lemmy to grow.

Do you mean to tell me that a website called “boing boing” isn’t only written by the utmost professional of journalists?