fuzzzerd

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How your showerhead and fridge got roped into the culture wars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Since the flow regulators became standard issue in the 90s, showers are not as good as they were. While the specific messaging may or may not have another meaning related to us politics, it seems like they stand for better showers while using less water, and that seems like a good mission to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does Google make money from Gmail, the google calendar, drive or other services when used with third party front ends?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Check the privacy policy. It’s about all you can do these days, and hope it doesn’t change post fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord plans to roll out third-party ads on its mobile apps, starting with a mobile pilot for Video Quests, video ads that let users earn rewards, in June 2025.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate ads too, but almost no normies are willing to pay for services, so I’m glad they have nitro to reduce ads in my face. It’d be nice if it wasn’t that way but that’s not my choice that’s the choice of the collective to take ads for free stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think most places have a senior freeze, so once you qualify it doesn’t go up anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see how running high beams held you see when there is oncoming cars with brighter lights. Maybe it has more to do with the fact that older cars are smaller and lower?

  I am not disputing new cars have higher brightness on regular lights, that absolutely is true. Though running high beams throws light both forward and up toward the oncoming drivers eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a load of cars with headlights that are overly bright, but there is an even bigger epidemic of idiots driving around with high beams on as part of regular course.

  In the city there is no need for those, ever. Let alone always being on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s being too generous. Some may not fully understand, but many do and simply don’t care. Not sure if better or worse, but its not entirely lack of understanding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The average user will go to join Lemmy and abort, because they can’t grasp the idea that joining one server gets them into other servers. They worry about server selection, have analysis paralysis, and nope out. That’s why they’re asking for a bluesky reddit and not a mastodon reddit.

  Normie’s want centralization because they don’t understand how else it can work and while some can learn and have it explained many will give up before giving it a chance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 publishers think PC is of "increasing" importance in 2025, but still won't announce the magic date⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s good to hear, the few I’d read about made it seem more common than not. Especially games with multiplayer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 publishers think PC is of "increasing" importance in 2025, but still won't announce the magic date⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux compatibility would be fantastic. Not sure how to judge the likelihood of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Is Now Going After YouTube Accounts Which Show Its Games Being Emulated⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Should is the key word here. You pay a lawyer to find out, which probably isn’t worth it.