refurbishedrefurbisher
@refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android 1 day ago:
The vast majority of users exclusively stick to defaults.
Microsoft got in a lot of trouble in the 90s for simply including Internet Explorer in Windows, as it disincentivized people from installing a different web browser such as Netscape.
- Comment on Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android 1 day ago:
Whenever you try to install an apk with sideloading disabled, Android will prompt you with a popup that will take you directly to the setting you need to toggle to allow sideloading.
- Comment on EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis 1 day ago:
What is legally defined as personal data in this case? Public usernames, public posts, or private messages to another instance, which states clearly that messages aren’t private and to use Matrix instead? Or is there something else.
- Comment on Google Says iPhone Adoption Of RCS Has Led Users To Share 'More Than A Billion' Messages Daily, Yet SMS/MMS Still Reign Supreme In The U.S. 1 day ago:
Well no. How is Google supposed to feed all your text messages into their AI for profit if they allow a choice?
- Comment on EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis 1 day ago:
How? I just read the full text of that website, and I couldn’t find any language in there that would harm the fediverse.
- Comment on The emotional support dunkies 2 days ago:
Or the front seat of a volkswagen?
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 6 days ago:
Always has been unless you count modding to remove this kind of shitty DRM.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 6 days ago:
Or Nintendo.
- Comment on Inflation markers 6 days ago:
You can fake it by setting your oven to the lowest temperature and leaving the oven door slightly cracked. I did it last winter with some flank steak and it turned out great.
- Comment on wait until you see the bbc 1 week ago:
Because fucking with time travel can affect your existence, but meanwhile, present actions only affect people in the future.
It’s the standard “I only care when it affects me personally” thought process.
- Comment on Silent Hill 2 (remake) now on GOG 1 week ago:
You can fix that with a mod that disables Nanite.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 1 week ago:
The CIA
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 1 week ago:
“Yeah, I spent that time driving Uber/Doordash/whatever.”
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 1 week ago:
Still used today for FLACs
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 1 week ago:
I originally started with eMule
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 1 week ago:
AIO and AITAH are so obviously just AI posting. It’s all just a massive circlejerk of AI and people who don’t know they’re talking to AI agreeing with each other.
- Comment on xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object 1 week ago:
Do you think Randall has watched every YouTube video that exists?
Yes.
- Comment on US criticizes Germany for labeling AfD 'extremist' 1 week ago:
Oh, we’re well aware. If you look at leftists specifically, we’ve known since at least the Vietnam War.
- Comment on It's Friday night, fellas 1 week ago:
Idk, sounds pretty metal
- Comment on I repurposed an old phone into a portable Atari 2600 for my mom 1 week ago:
The controller is almost certainly an HID compatible controller that will work with any application that supports controllers.
As for a stand, I recommend a pop socket-style thing, as it permenantly attaches to the phone.
- Comment on Tattoos 2 weeks ago:
He’s lying. He’s stupid, but he’s not literally that stupid.
Yas Trump ever been known to admit that he was wrong about literally anything in his life?
- Comment on Tattoos 2 weeks ago:
No he doesn’t. He knows it’s fake, but he’s lying on purpose so that he can further his agenda to deport anyone he doesn’t like to a concentration/death camp.
- Comment on 'Starter homes' cost at least $1 million in over 200 U.S. cities, Zillow data finds 2 weeks ago:
Exactly, and trying to fix the problem with regulations is only a temporary bandage to a problem that looks a whole lot like a shotgun wound.
The thing about social democracy (regulated capitalism) is that it is a system that leaves the wealthy in charge of everything. This will inevitably lead to corruption solely because of the fact that corruption is possible to begin with.
It’s like putting a box of matches next to a campfire expecting it to never light on fire when there’s a bucket of water next to it that you can dunk it in, except the bucket is behind you and everyone keeps telling you to not look behind you because it’s dangerous.
- Comment on Math is amazing! 2 weeks ago:
It’s like the least convenient form of time travel.
- Comment on 'Starter homes' cost at least $1 million in over 200 U.S. cities, Zillow data finds 2 weeks ago:
Why not guarantee the basic necessities to all citizens? They pay taxes, after all; it’s just that those tax dollars mostly go to bombing people overseas, funding multiple genocides, overmilitarization of police, corporate subsidies and bailouts, etc.
We can very easilly redirect at least some of those tax dollars to pay for everyones’ basic needs, including, but not limited to: housing, healthcare, food, water, waste, high speed internet, public transit (like a bus/train pass).
And if we still don’t have enough tax dollars for that, we can very easilly make more than enough by taxing billionaires and corporations at their appropriate rate, getting rid of all loopholes by ensuring there is a tax floor that all corporations have to pay.
Now, the system I am actually in favor of expands upon this idea of social democracy that I described above by forcing all corporations to become worker-owned coops after splitting them up into small businesses (by city, county, or rural region depending on what the locals prefer). I would also like a hard wealth cap of $50 million tied to inflation. Nobody needs more than $50 million to have more than a happy retirement, regardless of age.
I believe that money = power, and power leads to inevitable corruption. Therefore, the only logical way to prevent corruption is to prevent people from ever being able to have that kind of power.
- Comment on 'Starter homes' cost at least $1 million in over 200 U.S. cities, Zillow data finds 2 weeks ago:
The real issue is the commodification of housing. Houses shouldn’t make people money; they are supposed to be homes to live in.
- Comment on Trump Signs Executive Orders to Militarize Police, Punish Sanctuary Cities and Refugees 2 weeks ago:
I think it was Mao Zedong who said “political power grows out of the ballot box.” or something like that.
- Comment on Trump Signs Executive Orders to Militarize Police, Punish Sanctuary Cities and Refugees 2 weeks ago:
Well, you see, those people that the American military murders on a regular basis are brown people in a faraway country, so they don’t count or something.
- Comment on I'm jealous 2 weeks ago:
I wonder just how tone deaf you have to be to install water fixtures designed to provide comfort at fucking Auschwitz of all places
- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 2 weeks ago:
That’s actually not a bad idea, but who would hold that money? Elon and Ron DeSantis showed that anyone can just waltz into a government office and steal all their money.