refurbishedrefurbisher
@refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Nintendo whenever anyone posts anything about anything related to Nintendo products online 21 hours ago:
There are lots of companies like that. EA, Nvidia, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Walmart, Amazon, HP.
I could go on.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 21 hours ago:
I think we should ask Chuck Schumer. He’s really good at getting things done.
- Comment on Could You Prove You’re a US Citizen? 22 hours ago:
Not just that, but you’re also an open anarchist/leftist.
“First, they came for the communists…”
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 1 day ago:
We need better than that. We need a pinky promise.
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 4 days ago:
Not everyone on the internet understands sarcasm unless you put a “/s” unfortunately.
- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 5 days ago:
As Louis Rossmann likes to say, this is a rapist mentality.
Ask for forgiveness instead of permission.
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 6 days ago:
In capitalist America, laws decide you!
- Comment on T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful. 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s possible with something like Shizuku. scrcpy works via adb, so something similar could work on-device.
- Comment on TIL: UnitedHealthcare Caught Paying Off Nursing Homes to Let Seniors Die Because Hospital Transfers were “Too Expensive” 1 week ago:
Capitalism be like that
- Comment on Call to defederate from feddit.org over zionism 2 weeks ago:
What I meant to ask was if there was any historical evidence of a violent rebel group actually giving up power when they win.
- Comment on Call to defederate from feddit.org over zionism 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough
- Comment on Call to defederate from feddit.org over zionism 2 weeks ago:
I believe if Palestine was granted statehood and equal rights, Hamas would cease operating.
Do you have evidence to support that hypothesis?
- Comment on Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Or Nintendo.
- Comment on Inflation markers 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
You can fix that with a mod that disables Nanite.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 4 weeks ago:
The CIA
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 4 weeks ago:
“Yeah, I spent that time driving Uber/Doordash/whatever.”
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 4 weeks ago:
Still used today for FLACs
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Do you think Randall has watched every YouTube video that exists?
Yes.
- Comment on US criticizes Germany for labeling AfD 'extremist' 4 weeks ago:
Oh, we’re well aware. If you look at leftists specifically, we’ve known since at least the Vietnam War.