ERPAdvocate

@ERPAdvocate@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We are in the minority, its pushed so much because it works.

  There are some people who are outright influenced, but other times even shoving visuals at the user is enough to subliminally influence to a degree, advertising is all psychology.

  That’s why when I remember this when considering compromising and using something with ads. Its never worth the sacrifice, starting to apply the same philosophy to services who subsidize their cost of operating using data. Sure it costs me more but realistically that’s how it should be, there’s no free lunch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that the recommended daily fiber intake is 25g for women and 38g for men in the USA. 95% of the country does not meet this amount.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, right? Let me help you out with that.

  A ton is 907 kg approximately, and the weight of a cup of blueberries, while varying, is around 148 g or 0.148 kg.

  That means the above recipe calls for around 6128 cups of blueberries. And at 3.6 g per cup of blueberries that’s ~22000 g of fiber or 628 times your recommended daily intake for men, or 880 for women!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been searching for a solution to this exact problem. My partner sends links occasionally and I always ignore because of how the web interface is blatantly hostile. Tried routing the links through MPV on android but no dice.

  If anyone has a solution please share.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GM Reverses All-In EV Strategy to Bring Back Plug-In Hybrids⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After a lot of research I went with a gen 1 Volt and couldn’t agree more, just enough battery to keep me from getting gas! The car was clearly designed with a lot of thought, and really sound engineering decisions all around, making ownership pain free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Making Awesome 166 - Bambu Lab, Segment about Bambu and decrypted Bambu Logs.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man you guys think this is bad? My partner bought a Cricut because they thought it would be good for quilting (fancy vinyl cutter) and its a locked down nightmare.

  Proprietary software with no alternative, cloud upload required to print anything, even over USB connection… Oh and repair-ability, total nightmare with very little access to replacement parts, with Cricut regularly bricking older models as they reach EoL.

  Sorry rant over lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Close to half of American adults favor TikTok ban, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I might be a little paranoid here so feel free to lmk, but a few uses for the data gathered by a foreign government/keeping people addicted:

  The most obvious: Propaganda to push people to distrust their government

  The less reasonable but still possible: Time wasting, people spend less time trying new things due to the lack of instant gratification, decreasing productivity/capability of the users. We’ve seen China begin to address this domestically with new laws limiting usage, what the US would consider overreach (unless it effects the bottom line perhaps?)

  The downright unreasonable: Profile building using accounts as a digital fingerprint to determine military capability, it’s amazing what people will advertise about themselves online, TikTok occasionally tells people what illness (mental or physical) before even they are formally diagnosed. Imagine leveraging that information in a ‘unethical’ way, the possibilities are endless.