I accidently train myself to eat snacks at specific times of day like that all the time. Then I realise what I did and it's too late.

Yes, but cats love routine, and follow it as much as possible, like a clock.

You can train a dog to respond a certain ways to certain signals, but you can't train it to wake you up every day at a certain specific time, unless it can recognise some signal. But cats will train themselves to do that, if they get something out of it, and are by nature well aware of the time of day, with surprising precision.

Of course, if you train your cat to wake you up for work, better be ready to be woken up at the same time on weekends, unless there's some noticeable enough difference (like traffic noise on the street outside) between workdays and holidays and you're lucky to have a sufficiently smart cat who can notice the difference. Cats might be quite adequate clocks, but they're not calendars.

I have an auto-feeder.

It's not the same, though. It tastes better when you do it.

(Bonus points if you "cook" it in the kitchen like you would your food; they're part of the family, after all, they'll appreciate being treated like equals. Or betters.)

Understandable. That's why I leave my drying rack out all the time - if I put it away whenever my clothes were dry, I'd be screaming without pause

I blame the tools. On Lemmy, unless you are using Tesseract, you typically cannot see the alt text unless the image fails to load or you have a specific tool to do so like an actual reader for the blind. For at least the past year I have always put alternative text onto every image I have posted, but using Firefox on Android and I have no easy way to even know if that text is there, e.g. to check spelling. In PieFed this is an active area of development, and e.g. alt text was added 9 months ago to the post creation page (roadmap) but I don't know if Lemmy has any plans to ever show alt text to someone who is not blind (or has some other means to view that text).

And even if it did, not all apps may make use of it. Therefore if these prolific posters can't even see it themselves after they post something, I can well understand why they would feel like it is not worth the bother. The incentivization structure is just all wrong: it's all cost to them and virtually no benefit, at least none that they can see for themselves, immediately. Someone would need to put in the requisite time and effort to make better tools, if we truly wanted this to change. However, I personally have given up on Lemmy every getting better at a reasonable rather than snail's pace.

And similarly Firefox as well. If the developers choose not to care about such issues, it sends a strong message to the users of those tools that the concept is unimportant.

Something that people could do regardless that is an even better workaround than writing up alt text into image posts would be to copy and paste text rather than use screenshots. This offers so many advantages, including the ability to change font sizes and match whatever dark/light mode the user prefers at that moment, and be represented in whatever font face the user chooses, etc.

How do I do it on Voyager?

My dogs have learned that the sound of a knife on the cutting board means there's a chance food of some kind might make it to the floor, so they come running.

Pspspsps is come here, tsktsktsk is get the fuck away from that; the latter sounds like a spray bottle

I grew up yelling out "HEERRRRE KITTYKITTYKITTYKITYY!"

Thanks

Thank you!