Hello world! A long time ago I used to play a game called EVE Online. There are silly little creatures called Fedo there. So when joining the Fediverse, I made a bit of a pun.
I remember installing PC adblock just for Wowhead because even though they have great info (just about all the quests and dailies in WoW) they have so many ads and video popups. Haven’t really looked back since.
I haven’t gotten around to doing adblock for my phone, and so whenever I do visit those sites, I get really annoyed by everything.
Yeah, video ads are the popup ads of our days. Just as intrusive. Money corrupts :(
Heartily recommend this Computerphile video with some history and background about Ethernet and a bit about where the name came from!
The closest I know of is the Sync app developer coming to Lemmy: https://lemmy.world/post/803492
Yeah, Apple spent a lot of investment getting the thing going, but it is certainly still a modern powerhouse. Even if worldwide iOS has a smaller marketshare than Android, Apple is huge in Japan, the US and UK.
There’s definitely something to be said for classic simplicity!
It’s kinda sad how SLI and Crossfire faded away. I used to think multiple GPUs were amazing and wanted my own SLI setup! But technology went a different way. It’s probably better for my wallet though!
I didn’t realise this was a Political Compass thing but the colors of the backgrounds check out