than type in a number, if that’s what you’re referring to.
It is, and also don't most generic remotes still have keypads? 🤨
That's the part that probably gets me the most here. You used to, and with certain services still, have to directly enter in a channel number to go to that channel...So the basic setup is all there, but...Pretty much exclusively used for channel navigation because ???
Ooh, I see now. It wasn't clear from the previous comments that you were wanting to use it apart from your phone, which is why I asked. I've helped someone with a Garmin watch before and I definitely agree that their software could be improved from the little I experienced of it.
I'm confused, and I suspect it's from limited understanding here, but smartwatches are typically paired with a phone, so wouldn't it make more sense to offload dataset handling like you're describing to the smartphone than any onboard storage/memory in the watch?
Or is that part of the odd jank of some smartwatch systems atm that they don't interoperate like that?
Whoa! Thanks a ton for the additional breakdown and links! Saved this post and am still reading over it, and wanted to give you a quick reply letting you know I've seen it, appreciate it, and am in fact reading it all.
I gotcha. Fwiw I kind of agree, even beyond Lemmy I've been a little surprised some of these sites/instances haven't done more to tailor themselves to accommodate more folks or focus on specific demographics.
That's supposed to be one of the big perks of the federation approach, being able to create more distinct communities, but outside of a few, they largely seem to run the software as-is, maybe with some backend adjustments to help reduce the costs of operation or the like.
Have you checked out !lemmy411@lemmy.ca? For some reason I don't see it mentioned or linked to much, but it's basically that, which I think would feel much more approachable to new people than pointing them to tools like Lemmyverse (as much as I do really appreciate it).
Another good one for sharing communities you've stumbled across would be !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca.
Have you continued exploring, or found yourself settling in more?
For me any place stagnates when I start settling into it, so I try to find a new angle, a new question to ask of it, and eventually something gives way to something exciting and fascinating that was right around the corner the whole time.
I honestly think we need to revive many communities related to questions, interesting topics, and overall “lets-have-a-chat-on-something” (preferably not related to what I mentioned above, or at least that touches a broader audience).
Have you subbed to the various AskLemmy/Ask[instance]/NoStupidQuestions/Out of the Loop communities across here?
To my own amusement, I found sh.itjust.works has several question communities that I tossed some posts to here & there.
Think they were:
!askshit@sh.itjust.works
!randomquestions@sh.itjust.works
And of course, the obligatory:
!asklemmy@sh.itjust.works
But besides those and the big AskLemmy communities on World and Lemmy.ml, there's:
!nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
!nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca
Also although I haven't sorted out what I might want to post in them, there's these chat communities for other discussing other topics besides those you highlight getting plenty enough discussion:
!casualconversation@lemmy.world
!chatter@lemmy.ca
!chat@beehaw.org
!general@lemmy.world
Have you seen the shitpost communities? Cleverness isn't required, and in fact I think in those communities it's somewhat frowned upon, 'cause c'mon, no polishing shit!
While I don't entirely disagree, I'm a little confused by your description of the front page of lemm.ee, which we're both on. My front page when viewing All here is mostly memes/shitposts/news/technology when set to Active sort, is yours not?
I've admittedly blocked a fair amount and have show NSFW/bot posts disabled, but the communities you mention aren't affected by that.
Have you checked if the source sites of the articles being shared have RSS feeds? That would be a more optimal way to aggregate articles from a few sites than communities, depending on what you're after.
Although, amusingly enough, you could also follow the RSS feeds of the news communities instead of doing that, but then there wouldn't have been much of a point to making an account. 😅
I probably should have adjusted the examples as like metalbulletins.org to better describe what I was trying to ask.
It's not strictly the explicit software as part of the address that I've found odd, so much as the blending of the software in the names, but I think generally it comes down to the same basic point being made in the different comments concerning domain registration and management.