NutWrench
@NutWrench@lemmy.world
- Comment on In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers 1 month ago:
Once again, “if buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.”
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 1 month ago:
I’m only letting my latest Brother printer connect to my computer through the USB cable. No Internet connection at all.
- Comment on Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 2 months ago:
Reddit is just a bunch of bots, jerking each other purple. They don’t have any content worth locking.
- Comment on Modding the Gulf of Mexico Back 2 months ago:
I also recommend downloading StreetComplete, which lets you contribute to the OpenStreetMaps database.
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 2 months ago:
But AI is the wave of the future! The hot, NEW thing that everyone wants! ** furious jerking off motion **
- Comment on Could Trump Force X To Become The Everything App For Government Payments 2 months ago:
Banks are not willing to shoot themselves in the ass for Trump. They would fight to the end to hold onto that sweet transaction money.
- Comment on Making a Blocklist to Remove Spam from Search Engines 2 months ago:
This. I think the best way to make the Internet less sh*tty is to get away from Google search.
I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not google ranked ones.
It’s also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 5 months ago:
Yeah but mechanical car door handles aren’t “Cool.” You don’t want to have a car that isn’t cool, right?
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 5 months ago:
“Nature has been extraordinary kind to you.”
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 5 months ago:
For the 1000th time Tesla: don’t call it “autopilot” when it’s nothing more than a cruise control that needs constant attention.
- Comment on Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall 5 months ago:
Companies are stealing your computer’s resources (hard disk space, CPU time) to build their own Skynet and charging you for the privilege.
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 5 months ago:
Rich people have special access to the legislative machinery that you and I don’t. Through
bribes“contributions” they can craft laws that let them avoid paying their fair share of the tax burden. They can also “modify” pending legislation to remove the penalties for breaking those laws. It must be nice to live in a consequence-free environment. - Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 5 months ago:
I’m glad I keep backup copies of anything that might be important later on, like the 40 gig MAME Rom library.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Well, you should care about it because that’s how online communities get ruined. Case in point: Twitter has become a propaganda tool for an apartheid-loving fascist since he bought it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
A distributed service is much less vulnerable to being bought up by a single narcissistic billionaire who can ruin the online experience of millions of people at once.
On the other hand, a distributed service like Lemmy is spread out over 600 Instances in countries all over the world. If someone buys the most popular Lemmy Instance and wrecks it, those users can simply move to the same communities on the second or third or fourth most popular Instance and the original Instance will wither and die. This also works for communities with power tripping moderators. You can quickly find out through a search which community is the “real” one by the number of subscribers it has.
- Comment on FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect 5 months ago:
Businesses that knowingly buy fake reviews, procure them from company insiders or disseminate fake reviews will be penalized
Penalized how much? How big are the fines?
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 5 months ago:
Another vote for Linux Mint. I finally switched from Windows 10 months ago and I love it.
I’m really enjoying the learning curve with Linux because I’m not always fighting the operating system. On the other hand, every time I’ve had to go “under the hood” with Windows (edit the Registry, change config files) it’s been to stop Microsoft from doing something sh*tty to me.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 5 months ago:
Dwarf Doc isn’t a medical doctor, that’s just his nickname. He’s a drug connection.
- Comment on Why Choose? 5 months ago:
This link lets you enter a Lemmy instance name and it will tell what other Instances it blocks and who it is blocked BY.
- Comment on Why Choose? 5 months ago:
lemmyNSFW.com
You can also look for Lemmy Instances here: fedi-search.com
- Comment on Honey 5 months ago:
Can you milk a bee? I didn’t think so!
- Comment on [Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse 6 months ago:
I think the best way to make the Internet less sh*tty is to get away from Google search.
I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not google ranked ones.
It’s also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not Google ranked ones.
It’s also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:
- Comment on US couple blocked from suing Uber after crash say daughter agreed to Uber Eats terms 6 months ago:
Well. what are supposed to do? Stop voting for a$$holes? ¯_(ツ)_/¯