Professorozone
@Professorozone@lemmy.world
- Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims 3 days ago:
Wouldn’t the phone have to have your fingerprint stored in order to compare it to the one scanned?
- Comment on Is it generally safe to walk through a field of cows? 5 days ago:
Don’t know anything about this from personal experience, but I thought I heard a report a while back about a fairly large number of hikers in the UK injured or killed by cows. So I’m guessing, not as dangerous as crocodiles but still best to be careful.
- Comment on Objectivity 1 week ago:
I meant there definition in graphic from the OP.
- Comment on Objectivity 1 week ago:
That’s not how I define science.
- Comment on Tesla’s in its flop era 2 months ago:
Gotcha.
- Comment on Tesla’s in its flop era 2 months ago:
How do you know it’s a first year-over-year sales drop without first having a second year of drops? Isn’t that what year-over-year means?
- Comment on Can you un-smart a smart tv? 3 months ago:
They are called loads or alternately terminations, but technically you would specify which termination, for instance a 50 ohm termination to distinguish it from a short or open.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I wasn’t actually replying to you, at least not intentionally. However I do see what might be considered a flaw. I can see some part time jobs only paying say $15k a year. In your scenario the employer would only have to pay those workers $3k a year. This would be great for the employer, cheap labor and it would be easy to kick someone to the curb because he only has to cough up say $4k a year to attract a new employee. It sounds like this would reduce his social security outlay too, unless your suggesting employers have to pay a base SS tax on $1k a month?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I own a house. I don’t think $12k is going to keep me from starving or more importantly, I’m no more likely to walk out on a job once I reach a certain income because it just isn’t enough. It may work if your flipping burgers.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Not sure I really understand that. So I’m working and making a decent wage, say $100k/yr. Now for some reason I can easily tell my employer to take a hike because $12k of it is guaranteed? How does this suddenly make $110k jobs available to switch to?
- Comment on Lucid Motors drops the price of its cheapest EV by more than $8,000 4 months ago:
What are you talking about? Didn’t you see? It’s down $8k. We can ALL afford one now. Hell, I’m gettin’ two of them.
- Comment on A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years 5 months ago:
Like a phone would last 50 years.
- Comment on GM dealer chatbot agrees to sell 2024 Chevrolet Tahoe for $1 6 months ago:
Actually where I live, tax would be $0.06. Registration would be around $300 (guessing). There would be a few other fees and then a boatload for insurance, but not $50k. But I get what you’re saying.
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 6 months ago:
Wait, they care about what we want? That doesn’t sound right.
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 6 months ago:
Every Monday when I game with a buddy online.
- Comment on Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where 'machines can make all the food and stuff' isn't a bad idea 7 months ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on What makes a bicycle so expensive? 7 months ago:
In a nut shell, I had an older but better built bike at work I used to get around campus. Someone borrowed it and did not bring it back. Eventually it was found in a work area where it was destroyed by a steal beam they dropped on it. The construction supervisor gave me $100 to buy a new one, so I went to Walmart. It appeared that they were all built the same. I noticed the warning sticker on the bikes were identical between makes leading me to believe they were just the same cheap bikes with different brands. So I bought the one that did not have coaster brakes. I hate coaster brakes. I still have it and use it as a spare bike. It’s trash, despite being the most expensive bike I’ve ever bought. My current bike was given to me by a friend who was not using it. She said it was a $400 bike. Anyway, I digress, but that’s why I bought such a cheap bike. The circumstances were just right. Don’t want an expensive one just sitting outside at work. Plus I could use a company truck to go get it during lunch, instead of shopping around for a better used one.
- Comment on What makes a bicycle so expensive? 7 months ago:
To be fair, the OP did say “some brands” not ALL bikes. Also, I have one of those Walmart bikes and I pity the foo who owns one. On my very first ride, my pants tore the chain guard off. Pretty sure it was there to protect my pants. Then when I came to a stop, the seat exploded. Springs, nuts, bolts and washers went flying. I had to gather them up again and try to piece it back together to keep the seat usable. It’s ridiculously heavy too. If you can’t afford a nice new bike, I recommend buying a decent used one at a garage sale or something. I don’t agree that they will serve the vast majority of people just fine.
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 7 months ago:
It’s probably a combination of many factors already mentioned. If like to add to it the idea that our food supply has changed.
- Comment on Of course it was 7 months ago:
Was having blood drawn and the phlebotomist, who was obviously Christian, was so happy to have found out that men actually had one less rib than women because, you know, Adam’s rib became Eve. I was not about to correct her as she had a needle in my arm at that moment.
- Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers. 8 months ago:
Well there are a few things to say about your comment. First, YouTube DOES pay content providers. However, most earn money from multiple sources like YouTube, Patreon, sponsors and merchandise sales. Out of those sources youtube is probably the most fickle. Their rules about canceling a channel or removing monetization are arbitrarily enforced and difficult or impossible to appeal.
The same can be said for the way viewers are treated. YouTube is a “free” service. They decided to operate this way, not us. Instead of, for instance, offering the streaming service as a paid subscription, they chose to essentially destroy the product and then ask for payment to fix it ( the so called poison pill). And don’t forget the notion that if you are not paying for the product, you ARE the product. I’m pretty sure that YouTube is collecting our information and profiting from it. And if they aren’t the parent company absolutely is. When you couple this with the thought that “suggested” content is designed to profit youtube, its easy to make the argument that it wasn’t actually free to begin with.
So bottom line is, I think people are fed up with relentless marketing and the form of marketing YouTube has chosen is the worst possible kind of marketing. This leaves those who have been users for a while and want to continue, with the choice of fighting this invasive advertising with ad blockers or paying for the service. The latter of which feels a lot like a reward for reprehensible behavior on the part of youtube.
In short, I think the chief complaint here is HOW youtube has gone about this. Anyway, that’s the way I see it. I use a lot of “free” services and youtube is by far the worst type of cost. Pandora, plays ads I have to listen to as the cost for that service but they aren’t nearly as bad about it and they never do it in the middle of a song, for instance. I use Wikipedia and they don’t market at all, just ask for a donation every now and then. I gave up and just paid for youtube premium. But I have to say it feels a bit like I was extorted, because I feel like I have seen enough ads for one lifetime. If at any point youtube starts showing ads with their paid service I will absolutely drop them like a hot potato, which would be a shame since, like you, I enjoy a lot of the content.
- Comment on Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers. 8 months ago:
Well, for one, if you don’t want something stolen then you shouldn’t put it on your front lawn for everyone to take. There are plenty of services that require payment before you get access.
Two, they are essentially stealing our private data and selling it without our permission, so ads aren’t the only source of payment.
At no point was I informed by youtube that watching ads was a requirement for service. In fact until just now YouTube necessary even told be that using an ad- blocker was not allowed. Technically this is not the same thing. Otherwise I would be stealing every time I left the room when an ad was playing.
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 8 months ago:
Yeah, I feel real bad for them. Google made $13.9B last quarter. Perhaps if the greed wasn’t absolutely bottomless I’d be willing to pay a small fee. But wait, aren’t they selling all my private information? I thought that’s how it works. If you don’t pay for a product, you are the product. No?
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 8 months ago:
Thank you for mentioning the overlay blocker. Never heard of it. I was just on YouTube today and haven’t seen this. Are you in the US? I feared this day would come. Not sure what I’ll do.
- Comment on Major airline faces backlash after using ‘ghost flights’ to exploit a legal loophole: ‘They weren’t even selling tickets’ 8 months ago:
On all planes?
- Comment on Major airline faces backlash after using ‘ghost flights’ to exploit a legal loophole: ‘They weren’t even selling tickets’ 8 months ago:
The airlines always complain about the cost of fuel, I’m surprised they can tolerate this. 18,000 ghost flights for Lufthansa? Just last month I sat in a 100 degree cabin for about 45 minutes before take- off because the APU needed to be turned on by a ground unit. The pilot said he called for the truck. It never came. Later I asked a pilot friend of mine and he said they can power that unit themselves but it uses fuel and the airline probably has a policy against it. Screw you Virgin Atlantic!
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 8 months ago:
What they did to me was:
When I went to watch a movie I had purchased, a message came up saying that it was no longer available on Amazon prime and to watch it I had to download an app and watch it on another service. The app was free and I didn’t have to pay anything to watch it but I want to say there was something else wrong with it, like the service was free or it had commercials or something. Not sure.
- Comment on Solar power and storage prices have dropped almost 90% 8 months ago:
Where I live, power companies successfully lobbied to charge a minimum fee to people using a grid-tied system (as opposed to off-grid). So now a bill that might have been lowered to $9.00 will cost the minimum fee of $30.00 (actual example). You might say, that $30.00 is still a very low power bill but how long will it take before that starts going up? They are also lobbying to buy power from homeowners for less than they charge homeowners. This was a huge turn-off for me considering the high cost of installation. When I asked the solar installer about off-grid installations, he said they weren’t allowed to offer those. Not sure why but got the impression it was a government thing and not a company thing. Not sure.
- Comment on Why is there always that one part of an urban neighborhood where the 5G cell coverage suddenly ceases to exist, even though you can clearly see a tower nearby? 9 months ago:
Antenna engineer here. You are correct. Also there is something called multipath. Because urban environment was mentioned…This is where signals bounce off of objects and combine constructively or constructively creating dead spots. There are many more reasons but most of them have been covers by others.
- Comment on Battle of the Helmsmen will now commence. 8 pilots enter. 1 pilot leaves. 10 months ago:
Sulu FTW!