LifeInMultipleChoice
@LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 14 hours ago:
Someone trying to sell you a job, that’s interesting. I wonder if they do that at certain times of the year places. I imagine you need a lot more Uber drivers in specific areas for events. Like if Comicon is happening, you suddenly have hundreds of thousands of people coming to the area that will spike the number of people needing rides. I assume the same happens with the Superbowl, Mardi Gras, soon to be the World Cup, etc.
- Comment on My glasses 15 hours ago:
White? Or is it the background for the time left in the quarter you meant? The scores appear to be white on blue and white on black. Not sure why they did the WNBA logo to be on orange though. The shot clock being on red makes sense to me as it is the “imminent danger”.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 16 hours ago:
I don’t even know what regulations they are skirting. You can’t just sign up to become a driver without submitting information just like any other job. Background checks are required, licenses and what not. People are also supposed to leave feedback if they had a bad experience so I could only imagine what the complaints would be surrounding the idea that Uber isn’t following up on the feedback enough. That said it 500 people ride with that driver and rate them well, and 1 person says they were a perv, and Uber looks at it and finds that person has called several male drivers pervs while they get good ratings from everyone else, there could be a problem that those people have a type, or Uber could be thinking the issue is the rider at that point
- Comment on US state laws push age checks into the operating system 2 days ago:
Well the way I view it is it’s all useless. If a 10 year old goes to buy a phone, they can’t do so without getting money from an adult who therefore approved of it. If a 15 year old buys a cell phone they can’t… Because they need an adult to have a credit card/bank that allows monthly payments. Only offered to an adult. If you are a minor you can only get one with an adults co-sign. Thus the idea that a child has access to the Internet without an adults consent is just untrue 99.9 percent of the time. schools monitor the traffic . So every situation comes down to negligence on the parent. Who will sign their account in, or their credit card on the kids phone… bypassing all reason for the laws
- Comment on US state laws push age checks into the operating system 2 days ago:
I hate the idea of age checks, but OS is the next best thing if they don’t share the information beyond. In truth it is pointless other than tracking people.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 days ago:
Look, instant messages were instant, but getting the computer to boot up, connecting to the Internet and logging in were not.
I’m on the younger end but I remember so Many people having routines like prep the coffee machine the night before, when the alarm went off you would get up youd hit the power button on the computer, turn on the coffee machine, them hop in the shower. When you got out of the shower you would log in, and go grab a cup of coffee, then come back and connect to the Internet. Drink your coffee and you could check the 2 items and emails you needed before running out the door
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 5 days ago:
damn, I knew there was an alterior motive to the knee pads, no one liked those things.
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 5 days ago:
Yeah meanwhile I was over in the corner trying to figure out how all my laces are tangled in the Velcro of my roller blades. I swear whoever designed Velcro and laces to exist on the same contraption was just trying to be a dick
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 5 days ago:
I have to deduct a merit for myself, as I now see I spelled meritable with a typo.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Someone could point out where I am wrong but essentially it is the same as a standard email in that there is a plain text copy stored in both the send and receive instance. Maybe it is easier to think of as just another comment where instead of @domain.xyz has read access, just the specified user@domain.xyz has read access. The server admins could still see them if they wanted to, just like Yahoo, Google, etc can in plain text (which is how SPAM filters often, as of the email was actually encrypted they wouldnt know the content inside it to try to filter it out.
More end to end options are coming to the fediverse, (Matrix has been around, I saw something last week another was coming) but really most people don’t ever encrypt data they send to others, and don’t care usually.
See: Epsteins emails being accessible not without decrypting anything. There were people who supposedly found his password in the released files, and just logged into outlook or whatever with it. End to end encryption should have required them to have s/mime the handshake performed on that specific device to see the emails, so it would have all been garbledegook.
- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 6 days ago:
Which cleanup tool do you use, I’ve got 10 things flashing hundreds of dollars in subscriptions I’m fairly certain someone got access to all my accounts after the last person I called asked to do a screen share when he sent me a text saying all my photos would be deleted!?
- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 6 days ago:
The fact that 01/01/01 is old enough to rent a car without an issue now does make that date seem nice.
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 6 days ago:
I think it is just supposed to be Samsung DeX
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 6 days ago:
I consider my phone to be a PC, and my work phone not to be, because one is clearly a personal computer, and the other a work computer.
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 6 days ago:
JTskulk, it is only your Pixel that can not. It works for older Pixels as well, but they specifically tied a few kill switches to your commonly known geo-locations and anyone who ties their shoelaces in a fashion deemed less mertiable.
- Comment on What if it's actually pronounced "Arstralia," and we never realized because of the accent? 1 week ago:
I’m imagining that some English explorer came by a land mass, went ashore and his accent immediately changed forever. Sailed back to England and they were well his voice is different innit’
- Comment on Honk 1 week ago:
Emu
- Comment on Is there any reason not to charge my laptop with a USB C phone charger? 1 week ago:
You think that, but every iPhone and Android phone says otherwise that has a lithium ion battery. It’s built in their OS as a feature to ensure longer battery duration long term. Unless Apple, Samsung, Google are all doing it for a myth… I have my doubts. They essentially set it to go to 80% then slow charge to 100 the last bit before you wake so it won’t sit trying to restart charging from 99% to 100% for hours
- Comment on Is there any reason not to charge my laptop with a USB C phone charger? 1 week ago:
Some of it is the cord, but usually the limiter is the AC DC adapter. “The brick” some would call it. The battery should be fine as far as my limited knowledge goes. Stay at 80% and below and you should keep the life of a lithium ion battery long
- Comment on Game over 1 week ago:
I would say McDonald’s, Burger King, and every other restaurant that advertises 100% real beef, while still being bad quality is better than taco bells meat. The Bell doesnt claim it because it isnt even all beef. So while the 100% beef claim doesn’t mean much for quality, Taco Bell is a sin for the soul which is why it goes down so well drunk. (Sadly delicious) But I think quality wise it is something like Taco Bell < Arby’s < Burger King< McDonald’s< Wendys < Culvers/Five guys/ and shit like in and out because their stuff isn’t frozen in the last group. I’m sure I missed many, they are just off the top of the dome memories
- Comment on Game over 1 week ago:
Taco bell gets grade D ground meat in a bag that was precooked and they set it in hot/warm water or w.e to get it ready for use.
Chipotle suis vide’s their steak and ships it in those bags, then they break the seal and sear it on a grill to get it ready.
I’m hoping we consider the second more than a step above the first, but idk
- Comment on Game over 1 week ago:
Well from late 2001 food network viewership spiked like mad. Now things like YouTube have high viewership for all kinds of food things. I don’t know what kids watch now, but if my spouses tik tok has food all over it I imagine they can’t fully avoid it
- Comment on Game over 1 week ago:
From the right perspective they do two things, relatively.
- Comment on Game over 1 week ago:
Still not all that sure but it’s got way to much fuckin’ mayo!
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- Comment on Better do it anyway, though 🤔 1 week ago:
True, but really no person would have known what the fuck he was on about either. It’s just a job that was better off not being done at all
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 1 week ago:
If you did want to nitpick Bezos hasn’t run Amazon since 2021, so we’d have to check when they were being accused of doing so.
5 years on and most of us think Bezos everytime we hear Amazon still
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 2 weeks ago:
A couple years ago I was back in Florida visiting my parents and I forgot how weird shit was there sometimes. About 75+ degrees outside and out of nowhere sudden hail/downpour. Hail of all different sized, one piece was like half a soft ball. Went on for maybe 60 seconds. Was long enough for me to open the door, acknowledge I could no longer see shit, and then pick up that giant piece of ice and the storm cloud passed. A bit over 2-3" of rain I emptied out of the rain gauge.
Everywhere has weird weather moments, but that one will always stand out to me.
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it was a joke. People appear to have had a hard time with catching that though, lol
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 2 weeks ago:
Maybe 29% of people can’t imagine owning a car, so they assumed the would be going there to wash someone elses car
- Comment on Expecto patronum my ass! 2 weeks ago:
Step one would to be a wizard I guess, otherwise you’ll never even find the castle and forgot what you were doing so you are just back to trying to find someone wanting to play corn hole
