phillaholic
@phillaholic@lemm.ee
- Comment on Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars 8 months ago:
Japan did it. Korea did it. China is doing it.
- Comment on Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars 8 months ago:
“Labor unions” are the workers, so it’s everyone.
- Comment on Frozen embryos are “children,” according to Alabama’s Supreme Court 8 months ago:
Pretty sure that’s expensive as hell
- Comment on Schools in America apparently have their own army recruiter 8 months ago:
Funny, because the generation who last went to war to fight communism was drafted into it.
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 8 months ago:
I just installed windows 11 in 15 mins on a 5 year old laptop for donation. The one with Linux had an unusable trackpad with no sensitivity setting, and some sort of flat pack installer system that I gave up on mostly because of the trackpad not allowing me to scroll more than a page and a half at a time. U until was easier 15 years ago.
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 8 months ago:
I had to take a typing class in college. They can teach basics. It doesn’t take long to go over file systems.
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 9 months ago:
I don’t really agree with that conclusion. Linux is as old as windows and it had ample time to gain market share. Most people don’t want to tinker. I’ve posted recently about trying Linux for the first time in over a decade and how much worse the Ubuntu experience was than a decade ago. Meanwhile windows has gotten far easier to install and get going.
- Comment on Fox show hosts said Taylor Swift "should be conservative" given her background, because to them it's an identity. 9 months ago:
“Leftists” aren’t in control of the Democrat party. They have no power. It’s irrelevant.
- Comment on DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses 9 months ago:
If the US government wants to spy on you, they have boots on the ground. Russia has been involved with ransomeware campaigns.
- Comment on DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses 9 months ago:
The country you live in.
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 9 months ago:
Maybe a hot take, but this goes for everyone. I see older people that can’t stay off their phones, and have little to no ability to multitask while doing it.
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 9 months ago:
Is it that important? All technology gets better to the point of it just working, and when it rarely doesn’t, you contact someone who does. My grandfather could build cars from parts alone. My father could do most maintenance repairs and knew enough to understand what the mechanic was telling him. I know what video games and entertainment have told me about cars, but have no clue about it in real life. It hasn’t mattered. Cars are so reliable, I can just have AAA if I get in a bind.
- Comment on Cisco to lay off more than 4,000 employees to focus on artificial intelligence 9 months ago:
From time to time Teams doesn’t show me a teams meeting that I have on my outlook calendar, so I’d believe it.
- Comment on Cisco to lay off more than 4,000 employees to focus on artificial intelligence 9 months ago:
That’s my bad. I was trying to say it was so not useful. Poor wording on my part.
- Comment on Fox show hosts said Taylor Swift "should be conservative" given her background, because to them it's an identity. 9 months ago:
It is what it is. The Democratic primaries are the real elections in my mind where you can vote for the person you like the best. In the general it’s about stopping the cult from gaining power and taking away more of our rights. I dislike people spreading apathy like they did in 2016, because we see the result. The cult can do whatever it wants and their members will still vote for them. Democrats are held to a much higher standard comparatively. Does it suck? Absolutely. It is what it is.
- Comment on Fox show hosts said Taylor Swift "should be conservative" given her background, because to them it's an identity. 9 months ago:
When a lot of people that like that certain people are getting hurt and also don’t believe they won’t become the targets later.
- Comment on Fox show hosts said Taylor Swift "should be conservative" given her background, because to them it's an identity. 9 months ago:
YouTube videos by randos aren’t sources. Liberals are not against cochlear implants. Some in the deaf community are against them.
- Comment on Fox show hosts said Taylor Swift "should be conservative" given her background, because to them it's an identity. 9 months ago:
Where are you getting your information from? Teenagers on TikTok or Tucker Carlson’s Twitter account?
- Comment on Fox show hosts said Taylor Swift "should be conservative" given her background, because to them it's an identity. 9 months ago:
There aren’t two party platforms anymore. There’s one political party, and one cult. The cult doesn’t have policy. They make decisions to make the richest in the country richer, and keep their voting block scared over fabricated issues or issues they don’t care that much about. They had 12 years since 2002 to build a border wall, why is it always an issue? Is it because it’s just a grift to pay out construction companies? Maybe. They can’t win democratically so they go after votings rights and make sure the wrong people can’t vote. They exploit the very undemocratic nature of the electoral college and senate to hold a majority of the power with a minority of the overall popular vote. And when that all fails they don’t abandon their bastardized conservatism, they abandon democracy.
- Comment on Fox show hosts said Taylor Swift "should be conservative" given her background, because to them it's an identity. 9 months ago:
There is no conservatism. It’s grifting and using identity politics to keep grifting. Everyone should be insufferable against grifting. It’s a big con. You’re being conned. Their figure head would be the poster child for everything they claim to hate if he decided to be a Democrat. East coast elitist, divorced, paid a porn star for sex, insults military heroes, checks off a laundry list of warning signs of the Antichrist. It’s downright comical.
- Comment on Cisco to lay off more than 4,000 employees to focus on artificial intelligence 9 months ago:
I don’t know, but Microsoft’s free copilot stuff is so useful that it doesn’t make me feel the need to pay them for the business product
- Comment on Closing the Data Broker Loophole - Congress must pass legislation that prohibits government agencies from buying its way around the Fourth Amendment and other legal privacy protections. 9 months ago:
New strategy: convince them this data collection includes information about their guns, and these third parties are collecting it in order to take them away.
- Comment on Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV 9 months ago:
Write your congress person to enact a GDPR-like Bill. Short of that, as you’ve said, idk how sites are going to make money. The current situation is majorly self-inflicted. We don’t want to pay, so they have ads. We don’t want to see ads, so they collect and sell data. Now that VC money has dried up, it’s going to get worse and there’s no other answer.
- Comment on Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV 9 months ago:
Oh, thanks for reminding me; Also people who misrepresent your position and write it off in one sentence. You have no idea what I’m talking about.
- Comment on Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges 9 months ago:
It’s naivety all around. You can’t have a completely open anything. These libertarian-esk principals don’t exist in regular society for good reasons.
- Comment on Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV 9 months ago:
You may be right about the last point. My feed is full of posts from three days ago, talk of cutting off parts of the fediverse that seems to be the antithesis of federation, and other evangelical stances that are abandoned the second consequences come up. It was amusing at first, but it’s starting to seem like a waste of time. Idk.
- Comment on Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV 9 months ago:
Overall I’m just tired of hearing how _____ is going to ruin the web, or how evangelical people get about not doing something on principle. Sites that “login-wall” their content aren’t going to succeed, but people refusing to create an account acting all doom and gloom are getting to be insufferable.
- Comment on Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV 9 months ago:
The data collection is wide open here, which is my point.
- Comment on Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV 9 months ago:
You can make all those up, no one’s checking. (Yet, but that’s a different topic)
- Comment on Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV 9 months ago:
Did I? You signed up for an account where data collection is wide open to everyone.