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- Comment on How streaming changed the way you watch TV 3 days ago:
Yeah that was exactly my thought.
I don’t miss commercials at all (and am annoyed they appear to be creeping back) but I do miss the mono culture quite a bit.
- Comment on It is what it is 4 days ago:
It does have that, but don’t for a minute think they actually control chromium. If Google wanted to they could make life very difficult for brave.
Currently brave still has support for manifest v2 but that will eventually be removed and the more brave diverges from the upstream the more work is required to keep it going.
- Comment on Aging is fun 4 days ago:
You just need to hydrate a bunch. I drink Gatorade or a ton of water after any alcohol. Obviously if you go out and drink a 12 pack that won’t help you but 3 beers in a night should definitely not leave you feeling like crap the next morning.
Actually even if you don’t drink you should stay hydrated.
- Comment on Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads Per Hour 2 weeks ago:
The average person doesn’t even have a proper computer anymore. I guess you’re can still torrent on your phone but I’ve not tried it.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 2 weeks ago:
So funny thing about Aylo, which used to be called mind geek, they own quite a lot of porn sites. Probably 5 or 6 of the top ten.
- Comment on Ke$he's Quantum Party 2 weeks ago:
No
- Comment on Correct Grindr Response 3 weeks ago:
That is implied
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 3 weeks ago:
The hacker community it’s very focused on Linux since most servers in the world run it. The fly by night script kiddies and botnet creators definitely prefer end user systems though.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 4 weeks ago:
You can still mangle a Robbie of you have the wrong size but you do have to work at it.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 weeks ago:
The disagree is for soft walking things. They give you the choice so people feel like they have one and don’t complain, then in the future they will continue to ask everything anything changes and if you accidentally agree they will never ask you again.
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 4 weeks ago:
Sure but it is sorta a treating the symptom and not the disease. Blackrock is right to sue them as a shareholder but companies should not be involved in people’s health care to begin with.
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 4 weeks ago:
As much as people harp on blackrock and vanguard they hold a ton of people’s retirement funds.
This is a vicious thing to do of course but they are protecting a lot of people’s nest egg.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 5 weeks ago:
It really depends on what Trump means by " built in the US". It won’t be that big of a jump if Apple is just assembling them there. If every component has to come from the US it’s likely impossible.
Apple is vertically integrated in a way many companies are not. It would be bad for them for sure but they already have really high profit margins. They could eat the cost and assemble in the US, but they won’t because they are already a velban good.
- Comment on Every toddler becomes a hackerman when they find a tablet 5 weeks ago:
This says less about toddlers than it does about what Apple knows the public requires to use a computer.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Lol home of the free, what a shit hole
- Comment on How dare you 5 weeks ago:
I don’t needs a little more jpeg if you ask me.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 1 month ago:
As much as people complain about electron (some valid, some not) Linux has benefited quite a bit to the cross platform availability of local applications.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 1 month ago:
Let me give you a bit of the outside of the story as well.
For sure tiktok and meta and Google want you in their walled Garden for all the obvious reasons. However, and it’s gotten even worse as of late, if you have any kind of computationally expensive but desirable content/data the crawlers/scrapers/scripters will pummel your site. Despite how annoying you find the captchas and bot detection a computer doesn’t give too shits about it and at this point they basically serve as a rate limit or effort to make your content too computationally expensive to scrape and be worth it.
While accounts don’t necessarily solve this problem they do help as another impediment.
- Comment on Someone give me money so I can find out 1 month ago:
Those are not usually real gold though.
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 1 month ago:
The reality is that there is no tax break large enough to make up the difference in costs for a lot of things. Even with tariffs China is still cheaper.
- Comment on Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google senior executives told employees to destroy messages 1 month ago:
I mean they were built to make money, the fact that you can send them a national security letter is just a happy accident that keeps the NSA from having to run more datacenters.
- Comment on People in the office who don't take used K-Cups out of the machine are the new equivalent "you kill it, you fill it" 2 months ago:
Honestly in an office situation there is no excuse not to have a super automatic espresso machine. They cost like 1500 dollars and you don’t need to buy the damn kcups.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 2 months ago:
Those people have never seen someone who has been hit by an air bag. It’s not a gentle pillow it’s a punch to the face and if you aren’t strapped in you’re probably gonna bounce around a bit off the interior.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 2 months ago:
That actually sounds like it might be an improvement…
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 2 months ago:
Smokers can never smell themselves so they don’t think it’s a big deal.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 2 months ago:
Is that giving a donkey an enema or preforming an enema with a donkey or is it utilizing a donkey to perform an enema…
- Comment on Switch 2 preorders delayed over Trump tariff uncertainty 2 months ago:
No no those other countries will pay the tariffs.
- Comment on Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries 2 months ago:
The Internet has always been like that even before the AI stuff got up to stream. If you expose anything to the public Internet it takes about 5s for things to start port scanning if they can it try WordPress/Drupal exploits.
- Comment on Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries 2 months ago:
Did you not pay your protection money to CloudFlare?
- Comment on GoneWild was once about people feeling wild and posting pictures of it. Now it's just OnlyFans sale 4 months ago:
It’s a reference to a specific Internet connected adult toy called a lush3. Cam Girls and only fans people connect them to their chats so the fans can control how much it vibrates. Since it’s Wi-Fi connected it has a tail that sticks out to improve the connection.