Fairly certain, as I hadn't downloaded anything on my phone when away from my PC that would have produced a notification to mirror. Also, sorry, I should have mentioned from the start that I typically run my phone in Do Not Disturb and Silent to minimize any notifications whatsoever.

On further digging I did notice that it looks as though the files mentioned in the notifications may have been downloads, but from literally years ago in, I think, every case (e.g. from 2018!). I don't think I even had Connect installed back then to have caught those notifications. 🤨

Sorry, question's long, but the tl;dr of it was do you take more time on: name or appearance?

Is this ever noted in any of the documentation, outside of some fine print, with the printer to let someone know that it's being done? If your product is secretly leaving indicators for anyone aware of the indicators to track your actions in some way, that's problematic in my opinion.

Given a printer is arguably a lesser issue anymore, but the same idea applies with other tech.

Would this require feeding it batteries like a triggerhappy machine gunner?

Supposing it's not a throwaway to look into stuff, I get amusingly stuck on avatars/appearances sometimes. Like do I use some character I like from something for an avatar/reference, or do I toss something together that's kinda silly?

Lot of times it's just vibes

if you primarily watch videos with your smartphone, couldn't you call it a pocket tv?

They appear to be back, at least on my end, so thanks admins!

Was that too ELI5?

No, but it did reaffirm my sense of sympathy for biologists trying to research natural ecosystems. 😂

I feel less conflicted about talking up community-built things than business-built things, since the former can use the attention and typically lacks any sort of marketing or other means of promoting themselves. Businesses don't need any more of either given they often literally have marketing divisions or can afford to hire marketing firms.

But the fact that you feel like you’re an ad suggests that maybe you’re doing it too often.

It's not that I feel like that, as I don't talk much about these things, and I don't because even the little I might sometimes feels that way. It's more of a conflicted feeling than feeling outright like an ad, as in that it can come across as promotional even if it may simply be talking about a good experience.

Honestly I'd only thought of pets after the fact and thought the question was already pretty longwinded, so decided to leave it out. The rest of what you cover is on track with what I was wondering about though!

I was also thinking in terms of a more "natural", for lack of a better word, coexistence when asking without making them livestock. Less planned interactions, more as they come and go sort of interactions.

Is Lemmy World's default when signed in local? Or is this a consequence of many more active communities being there?

Thanks!

Isn't this simply a contrivance to uphold a questionable system?

What's a CLA?

I just hope this pointless move won’t bring down the wayback machine.

What was the pointless move you're referring to?

Your last sentence gets at part of what I was thinking in writing this question. I see where others are coming from when talking among friends or not awkwardly dropping in products/titles, but it's that limbo space when either talking among acquaintances or online with strangers where it gets murkier to me.

I think some of this also comes from the posting culture you see if you browse microblogging platforms, even apart from influencer-types, which I think comes from the constraints of a lower character count to some degree.

What sets IceShrimp apart from the other Misskey forks in your opinion?

This is mostly a symptom of being online too much and seeing enough ads to think critically about them.

Would this apply even in the case of an avid ad-blocking person? At least that's my situation, so what I'm seeing is less the ad-ridden web and more what remains, which is still a lot of discussion of commercial stuff.

I guess I'm thinking along the lines of the "What the hell is water?" story in a way.

The two communities you listed seem more adequate to promote existing communities, I’ve done it in the past when reviving a community.

The newcommunities one in particular didn't take issue with it? That was part of why I was asking, as I didn't think they would appreciate posts about existing communities, but if they don't mind then I take it it's a non-issue.

On the last part, it may not hurt to see if different AskLemmy communities would be up for including them in their sidebars, and maybe featured posts with pointers to Lemmyverse and !lemmy411@lemmy.ca if they don't have them already.