MrMcGasion

@MrMcGasion@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Odin 2 Maker Ayn To Join Anbernic In Pausing US Shipments⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine (early LCD model) has “Made in China” on the label, which even if most of the parts are made elsewhere, if final assembly is in China, that’s the tariff rate that will apply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Odin 2 Maker Ayn To Join Anbernic In Pausing US Shipments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if the SteamDeck doubles or triples in price before long. We already knew Valve wasn’t making much, if anything, on them, and with a 245% tariff, I kinda doubt they’ll just eat that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK police chiefs call for ban on social media for under-16s⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But what qualifies as social media? We can all probably agree that Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Reddit, etc. count, but what about say Discord or WhatsApp? How about browsing older forums (like open ones where you don’t need an account to read them)? What about news articles or blogs with a comment section? Is a wiki social media? Depending on how you define it, the majority of the internet could be considered social media.

  Plus there are plenty of sites that just won’t ever bother to try to comply. For example, I live in one of the more stupid states in the US that has required age verification for porn sites, PornHub has complied by just blocking their site in the state with a notice that they won’t implement a system like that for privacy reasons. But they and their sister sites are the only ones I’ve seen that have bothered to make any changes. The same will inevitably happen with social media. You’re just going to push kids to shadier corners of the internet that don’t care about laws, and they’re gonna end up radicalized by nazis, or taken advantage of in worse ways.

  The whole problem is parents who don’t want to be parents and tell their kids they can’t have a smartphone. And I get that the dumbphone market is kinda limited, and that some parents just don’t care what their kids are exposed to. But trying to fix this problem by changing the internet is never going to work. The only way to fix the problem is to have a spine and make appropriate changes IRL - like banning smartphones for underaged kids in school, or show your full distopian side and prosecute parents who let their kids use social media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developing a self-hosted alternative to Google Keep⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, check lists in Notes could really use some improvement for sure. Honestly, just now looking through the Github for the Android Nextcloud Notes app it looks like there’s a good deal of technical debt that has been stacking up over time from trying to bring more modern features to what started as a minimal text-only notes app.

  There is a way to enable “grid view” in the app settings for the more post-it view that shows the first part of the contents, but doesn’t seem to show on notes with markdown formatting, so anything with a list doesn’t show a preview.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the tune I thought of (apologies for linking a YT short, but it was the only version I could find)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developing a self-hosted alternative to Google Keep⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Nextcloud Notes app for Android does have a couple of widgets (note list and an individual note), is there widget that is missing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unshittification: 3 tech companies that recently made my life… better⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on their current management model of “desks on wheels” they’d probably be most comfortable becoming a worker-owned coop. I know I’m in dreamland, but it would be amazing if they could go that direction when Gabe is gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad they clarified. To me the “selling data being defined broadly” argument made sense in the context of Google paying them to be included as a search provider. Because there is an argument that Google paying Firefox, and then the user entering a search and that being sent to Google’s servers could be legally seen as Mozilla selling data to Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I first got a Bluesky account, back when it was invite-only a whole bunch of the Physicists and Astronomers I used to follow on Twitter were already there. If anything it seemed like scientists were early adopters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little know fact⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even as a straight, young boy I was disappointed for her. I vividly remember announcing “but he’s MORE ugly now!” Somehow, none of the conservative, Christian adults in the room liked me saying that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fire your CEO.

  Out of a canon, through some flaming rings, and into an empty bucket of water. If I have to watch a clown-show, at least make it entertaining.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to get around the US TikTok ban | Tom's Guide⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, you can supposedly make a new account through a browser and using an email (or an international phone # if you have one). But I’ve heard from someone living in Korea, who no longer have a US phone # on their account who is now unable to access their account, because at one time it was associated with a US phone number.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA | Fed chair says he will not resign even if pressured by Trump as interest rate cut⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the stated goals of Project 2025 is dismantling the Federal Reserve, they won’t need to bother with “accidents” if they just shut the whole thing down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing Android app discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using Syncthing-Fork (on F-Droid) for the extra features it has. I wonder if that developer will be able to continue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s part of it. Unions also made a difference for a while, until the propaganda machine convinced a bunch of people that Unions were bad. When in reality, Unions are a benefit to everyone, they protect workers from bad bosses, and historically they also protected bosses from getting the shit beat out of them by their employees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the media print rags to riches stories?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have had someone tell me that they’d rather live in an economic system “like we have in America” where people have a chance at rags to riches, than a system “like Germany, where the social safety net means the average person doesn’t have a chance at making it big.”

  If anyone ever tells you wealthy people are intelligent, don’t believe them.