For those interested in solving this problem…

Cats generally use furniture because it works better than the alternatives they are provided. Companies aren’t selling your cat a scratching post - they’re selling YOU the scratching post.

If your cat uses a particular piece of furniture, find a post of similar size/shape and place it next to it. IE, if they’re scratching the back corner of the couch, get a 3 foot tall post and place it next to the corner of the couch. If they’re tearing up the rug, get one of the scratchers they stand on, and place it near that spot.

Cats scratch in different ways/angles/shapes to not only sooth their nails, but also to stretch certain muscles. If you can give them a scratcher that is aimed at similar muscles, it’ll be more pleasant to use than the furniture, and they’ll likely use that instead.

The “Amount of Lore” measures across the board are entirely bullshit. Warcraft, LOTR, Star Wars, and Warhammer are all in an entirely different league from the rest of the things here, yet somehow Warcraft is like in the middle? Lol.

RIP Play Music.

But yeah, Drive and YT bundles are basically the one thing I’ll still pay for, and it ends up including YT Music which isn’t bad.

Yeah, this is the one I don’t see happening.

Look at Twitch. Microsoft, Facebook, and (somewhat) Google have attempted to dethrone them and they’ve all failed. Things like Rumble and Kick are still going, and Kick may have a slight chance.

But that’s a much smaller platform, that everyone agrees is absolute garbage and trying to kill itself at every turn. YouTube would be a much bigger challenge.

However, many of the nutrients found in meat are essential for our health. Protein, iron, and B vitamins are just some of the nutrients found in meats.

These nutrients are found in non meat sources as well. Meat doesn’t carry anything unique besides B12 because we wash the fuck out of our vegetables. Plant based diets make it pretty difficult to miss nutrients unless you’re just sitting around eating oreos all day.

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Just wrote a comment but Lemmy choked and I don’t see it showing up so I’m going to rewrite… Sorry if this becomes a dupe.

I haven’t bought this particular chair, but have bought a few in this style for myself and friends, and I have the link handy because I posted it as an example elsewhere in thread:

https://www.amazon.com/PatioMage-Ergonomic-Adjustable-Armrest-Computer/dp/B0BLJLP7FM

These style of chair are very ergonomic, extremely breathable, and very comfortable for long periods of time. I can’t vouch for this specific brand and it’s quality, and the foot rest thing looks a bit gimmicky, but this mesh style chair is generally pretty high up in terms of function and comfort, while still being relatively cheap.

It’s pretty comparable to the sihoo doro mentioned in another comment, but figured I’d point out there are a few similar options on Amazon and I’ve bought multiple in that style directly off Amazon and never had a problem - just check reviews etc.

I highly recommend these over anything with foam/flat bases and backs - your spine and body are curved, and you don’t want to press yourself against flat boards for long periods of time. You get “one point of contact” and that gets uncomfortable. And foam wears out over time. Mesh conforms to your body and supports you evenly across the surface, and is way more comfortable. I’ve had mesh chairs for over 5 years that are still just as comfortable as the day I bought it. The foam armrests tend to be what gives out first.

You can get really good office chairs for 350$.

People just compare everything to Herman Miller because they know the name, but they’re overpriced as fuck.

https://www.amazon.com/PatioMage-Ergonomic-Adjustable-Armrest-Computer/dp/B0BLJLP7FM

Basically more features, cheaper, and more ergonomic. Slightly lower recline angle but beyond the 130 here is something I’ve never seen anyone actually use.

But unfortunately these chairs are great value, you can’t find office chairs with the same comfort features for that cheap.

This is blatantly false. There are tons of options on Amazon alone with better comfort features for the same $400 you listed. I’ve bought multiple for just about that which are on oar with $1200 chairs. Office chairs over $1000 are almost all Herman Miller and those are just overpriced. There are plenty of options if you just search Amazon for “office chair”.

They’re good, but I wouldn’t say “that good”. They cost way more than they should though.

Gaming chairs are basically impersonating race car seats, which are designed to be safe and keep you inside them at high speeds. They are not designed to be comfortable or ergonomic. Companies have started adding weird pads to them to make them seem more legit, but they are still not ergonomic or good for long term sitting.

Office chairs in the other hand, are usually made to be sat in comfortably and properly for long periods of time.

I recommend finding “Herman-Miller-like” chairs, or finding cheap Herman-Millers being sold used etc. I highly recommend mesh backs and bases, as they are way more comfortable than any amount of padding, and they are often pretty ergonomic. They’re also way more breathable than a foam pad.

Look at a side view of a spine/skeleton and note that it’s curvy and s shaped - you don’t want to press that up against flat boards for long periods of time.

Herman-Miller chairs are good, but they’re not $1000+ good. You can find plenty of equivalent or better stuff in the $300-$500 range if you just poke around for decent office chairs.

Yeah, my main problem so far has been finding communities actually worth following/joining/contributing to.

If suddenly tons of average people join, they won’t really find communities, they’ll deem that their analysis of Lemmy, and leave with tiny chances of a second chance. It’ll just boom and bust in it’s current state. Most people aren’t interested in starting or growing a small community.

Meanwhile, if we stay at this size for a while, communities may form/grow, and as people trickle in, they’ll grow bit by bit.

OK, now point me to the place I can give money for the food that doesn’t pollute/throw it all away.

As mentioned in other comments, tracking logic is going to be so negligible at those sizes that it’s not even worth talking about - it’d be like 100kb at worst.

The problem is Meta is extremely inefficient in writing mobile apps. They solve many problems by just chucking libraries at them, but those libraries are “jack of all trades” type libraries. They use React which is abysmally large, and tons of their own monolithic garbage.

When you write an app from scratch, you only use the pieces you need. Meta is an absolute monolith with years and years of code that’s been added over time and it’s easier to just “copy/paste” most stuff they’ve ever written than to start over.

I’m genuinely curious - what do people find confusing about Mastodon? What could be improved?

I was a little confused by Lemmy at first, but downloading and setting up the Mastodon app seemed super simple and straightforward. I’ve never been interested in short form text content like this, and couldn’t find anything I thought was interesting on the platform, but I didn’t feel confused.

Would love to hear what people find annoying/confusing as I’d love to be able to help create content etc for anything that’s holding people up. Twitter owns too much social/mental weight for people and Meta is no better - would love to find a way to help move people towards something like the Fediverse.