Engineer and entrepreneur from Barcelona

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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • Excellent memories! I used PC Globe so much when I was in elementary school. I didn’t have an encyclopedia, and when some friend handed me that diskette it opened a new world to me. I ran that software so much that I memorized the world map, with capitals and population orders of magnitude.

    My geography teacher was so impressed, they didn’t know how a small kid could have memorized the world. I even knew some anthems by playing them on the PC Speaker. Over time we all got Encarta, then Wikipedia, but for a brief amount of time, a floppy disk contained the world for many of us.








  • I agree that it can be problematic to see some weird stuff on All, but defederating is a red button that affects everybody in the instance, and I don’t like that. I enjoy seeing new stuff, and people can use the “block” button liberally.

    However it is true that Lemmy still lacks some fine grained controls for users. I am positive that they will be implemented soon, so meanwhile we are living in this very early transition period where random shit can and will appear on our All page and we need to live with it (or use block a lot)