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- Comment on Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free 5 days ago:
It is incredibly frustrating to see for example Ursula Von der Leyen preaching “EU STRONG” stuff on fucking shitter. Really? This is your way of showing how strong the EU is and we shouldn’t or can’t rely on USA? By posting your I’m strong message on the precise platform the US chief nazification officer owns? FFS.
If all EU governments together decide to ditch shitter and move to mastodon instances, media follows. It’s a pretty cheap measure to implement, too.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 1 week ago:
Many people don’t turn the hood on until food itself is creating a lot of vapor because they are usually so noisy. Meaning the hood often helps very little in practice, although in theory you are right.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 week ago:
Audiobookshelf is absolutely awesome for audiobooks. Tho it’s possible, Jellyfin isn’t really very audiobook friendly imo. Just run both.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 weeks ago:
It’s still a shitty situation. Really what’s a shitty situation with an extra 20 kg of coffee in your basement, but still a shitty situation? The prepper fortress is a very unrealistic thing to try to strive for anyhow for anyone living in a city, majority of people. It’s the widespread doomsday mentality and the downward spiral of the conspiracy nutheads that got the USA where it is today anyhow… Good luck hanging on in your basement for 10 years. That’s easily how long it can take if it goes full fascist. Even then, hard to compare, the implosion of a nuclear armed superpower has only happened once before in history (Soviet Union), and that shit ain’t over yet either, Ukraine is a direct continuation of the process. So they’re like 35-ish years in, where USA seems to be heading now. Abandoning NATO is the equivalent of the implosion of the Warsaw Pact.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 3 weeks ago:
But no sound, that was one of the advantages of hdmi over vga
- Comment on ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off 3 weeks ago:
Usually not uglier than the balcony itself.
- Comment on Coincidence of 2 album suggestions next to eachother 4 weeks ago:
Usually involves scarcely clothed women on cover. The music itself is usually some quite loungy slow towards jazz music thing or very light electro. King of erotic lounge for me is Fausto Papetti, bonus points for lots of Saxophone… I got like 8 LPs from him out of which 6 have topless women on the cover
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 4 weeks ago:
You should teach your teachers.
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- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 4 weeks ago:
Because they learned nothing
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 6 months ago:
Was very satisfying for a few months for me. Space Exploration mod looks tempting, but I think it’s just too much and too big
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 6 months ago:
Pikuniku , it’s on sale on steam
- Comment on And they don't fold well either 7 months ago:
Exactly what I’m looking for! I’ld like back sleeping but with a slightly tilted, side supported head. Lean head all the way = neck pain. Head straight = can’t fall asleep. I’ve tried stuff with backsleeping+ side support for leaning the head, but the extra pillow on the head side isn’t strong enough (doesn’t last) and it all gets too hot around the head.
- Comment on Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service 7 months ago:
I dislike the fact even more then the idea.
Called a bank recently.
They: "please say in a word the subject your call is about so we can immediately connect you to the right department "
Me: “LOAN”
They: you said “limits on your cards”, 1 for yes 2 for no
I tried 3 times, gave up. They won, I guess.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution? 8 months ago:
Money isn’t gone, resources are gone.
- Comment on Google Search Ranks AI Spam Above Original Reporting in News Results 8 months ago:
Been using searx a bit recently and it often is the 1 thing I’m looking for as the top result.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals 8 months ago:
Played it pirated years ago. Not really looking to play again tbh because it’s so sad, but I’ll buy it discounted for supporting, I back then liked the very original angle of playing with trapped victims instead of army.
- Comment on Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route 9 months ago:
So… just making sure I am understanding this properly: centralized service monopoly by one government backed provider…? Doesn’t that got quite a communist ring to it?
I don’t think you’re very sincere, but I’ll try to explain how this is not communism and how this works in many countries.
People still have to pay for using the service. Depending on how often they ride, how far they go, etc. A fair, yet subsidised price. What the government does is create a “scenario”, a map if you like, with dots and lines and wishes and logical connections on which likely many people travel often. They identify which cities, which services, etc they want connected, and basically write out a TENDER to which many PRIVATE COMPANIES can participate. Sometimes, it’s a 1 take it or leave it big package deal. Sometimes, it’s split into a “main network” which will be run by a state controlled company, and local and regional networks, for which tenders are created and for which different companies can participate. They usually “win” a tender for quite many years at once, because it costs a lot of effort and money to get services started. It is quite far away from communism. But is does force a private company to not only exploit the few very most profitable connections, and ignoring all the others. Which is exactly what Uber is aiming for: only the profitable lines, 0 others. In a point of view from a society as a whole standpoint: it is still valuable to have more people use the bus instead of there own car, for many reasons, even on lines that are not profitable but require subsidies, for example also because it is still a lot more economical. It’s a hell of a lot cheaper for 20% of people using the bus, than to build yet even more highways and lanes and force people to buy their own vehicles. On top of that, it is the governments’ job to deliver basic services to all people. That is what we pay taxes for. What good is a hospital, a library, a school, if the people who very much need it, for example people to impaired too drive a vehicle and too poor to pay uber, can’t reach these services? Busses make sense, subsidised busses often make sense (not always, some places overdo it running empty busses too often), Uber is for sure not in it for providing a service to society, they are in it for destroying the service system for all and only taking the profit from some and fuck other people.
- Comment on Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route 9 months ago:
Uber will only cherry pick profitable routes for profitable customers, stealing them from public transport which will become more expensive as a result. Public transport is a public service available to everyone for a fair price. Uber is not public transport. Uber starting busservice somehow signals they want to move into that space, but they will never be servicing the poorest towns. Parts of PT being privatised by uber probably is bad news for bus passengers on less popular routes.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 9 months ago:
rustbelting makes voters transition from democrat to republican. you could argue that they actually benefit from declining industry, so of course they’re going for it
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 9 months ago:
You don’t have a tax for owning “abandoned” housing (inhabited by noone)? There should be.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 9 months ago:
google controls the portals through which many people search. Defaults will always be google when people are using android and or chrome. Yahoo, infoseek or altavista never had anywhere near a grip on people like google does today. It takes effort to change now, while in the olden days you just had to change your 1 start page on the browser, things are a lot more embedded and thus customers locked in. Thinking it will switch over to a better alternative like it did back then, purely because it is a lot better, is a bit naive I think, unfortunately.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 9 months ago:
chatGPT and in apps integrated AI search is stealing it.
- Comment on The increasing distrust many Americans have in modern medical advances is probably mostly due to our failing Healthcare system. 10 months ago:
Not the reason. Lots of distrust in Europe too, where you can buy a box of paracetamol for just a few euro.
- Comment on But how would they be able to live on that? 10 months ago:
Exactly this. Any random billionaire has the same Good vs bad argument against them, but without transparency and without accountability… It shouldn’t be 1 white rich guy’s decision how to spend billions of wealth, how society’s wealth is spent should be the result of democratic process, because creating the wealth is an effort in which (nearly) everyone participates too!
- Comment on Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon 10 months ago:
I have to work with power automate often (doing that gives me money, don’t judge). They recently did a make-over of the interface where you can make and adjust the flows. They made it even shittier. Didn’t fix any of the obvious super annoying issues with connections and them randomly being broken and stuff. Added copilot tho. Why? Now you can type “i’ld like it to send an e-mail!” instead of selecting the “send an e-mail” action, while taking up a fifth of the screen. Jesus fucking christ wrong priorities.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
it could all begin with a dualboot…
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 11 months ago:
Jesus christ no. They’re bombarding adds on sidewalks AND putting some extra PFAS shit in the environment? Is this even legal?
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 11 months ago:
Maybe try jamming something in too so it stays forever pressed and muted
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 11 months ago:
Imagine a world where talented engineers would put their minds to work for solving big problems instead of … I’m not sure wtf this is.
