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- Comment on The Circle of iLife 1 hour ago:
if apple managed to create a custom audio transfer standard that supports significantly longer buffering (minutes to hours perhaps) I could see this gimmick being useful, I doubt they would though
- Comment on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome 1 day ago:
specialization of labor is still a good thing, it’s just that having enough knowledge to fix basic around the house problems (like a sink) is helpful and, at least where I’ve lived, it takes less time to learn how to fix a sink than to find a plumber. For larger or more complicated problems, like a toilet or shower, professionals are almost always the better choice.
- Comment on Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class' 1 day ago:
and in the narrow band where you neither need to work nor have the wealth to rule is the middle class.
- Comment on Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class' 1 day ago:
20 yards is still a nice number, but it is weird to not just go a bit further and hit the 25m distance of a standard competitive pool
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 1 day ago:
and sex workers work on the sex
- Comment on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome 1 day ago:
if you don’t know how to fix a sink: learn how and put a bucket under it in the meantime.
paying people to fix your problems develops helplessness and an over-reliance on societal function.
- Comment on With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster 2 days ago:
yes, however avoiding that has been part of the training process of many machine learning models for years as a convenient way of preventing overfitting to the training dara.
- Comment on This is real 5 days ago:
and failed to to develop maturity and independence in middle school?…
- Comment on YouTube Music wants me to verify my age. 6 days ago:
the song with the English translated title of “ruru’s suicide show on a livestream” is age restricted.
- Comment on New Jersey Sues Messaging App “Discord” for Unlawful Practices That Expose Kids to Child Predators and Violent, Sexual Content 6 days ago:
looks like Discord is just going to continue to get worse.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
assuming it supports 5g calling and 5g lasts as long as 3g did it will still function for calls, MMS, SMS, and email at a minimum (assuming encryption doesn’t change too much)
- Comment on The worst part of all this political nonsense is that porn never makes it to my homepage anymore 1 week ago:
don’t worry, they already exist on federated social media, hopefully they continue to choose ones that aren’t federated with too much of the mainstream ones.
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 1 week ago:
did the moderators violate the law though?
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 week ago:
there are people who still collect items with asbestos, mostly because it’s still the cheapest form of high temperature insulation (assuming no fines or harm compensation).
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 week ago:
they do make it significantly harder to grab items from the back seats when at red lights, especially if they are the bs locking type.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 1 week ago:
check some of the other chans and you will find a catbox.moe link to it.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 1 week ago:
security theater is a quite effective deterrent at times.
- Comment on can't beat the classics 1 week ago:
fluid dynamics are quite effective at that. And there seem to only be a few main talking points that they bring up (environmental, energy, training data, art, job loss, personal dislike, wealth concentration (probably better to just say economic, but it’s pretty much just this), ill fitting usages, or not understanding how the model works at a fundamental level), unless people think about something a lot they generally come up with similar arguments.
- Comment on Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey Call For Abolition Of All Intellectual Property Laws, Arguing There Are 'Much Greater Models To Pay Creators' 1 week ago:
interesting, I do wonder how movie studios /streaming services will survive that. Some independent creators already mostly survive off commissions so would potentially be able to survive. Microsoft, Nintendo, adobe and Sony can get fucked.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
yes, even some that never mention the radio have one (n10 5g us model).
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
having only one battery that needs to be charged, one way to get the headphones disconnected (unplugging), and the greatly reduced battery drain by not needing Bluetooth on should be good enough reasons for 3.5mm jacks to stay.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 week ago:
consider: some us states have no information about Roundabouts in their entire driver manuals let alone their tests.
- Comment on Smartphones and computers are now exempt from Trump’s latest tariffs. 1 week ago:
if they reduce the tariff on their product and charge the same post tariff price they could make more profit even with higher manufacturing costs.
- Comment on Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’ 1 week ago:
and the ones that are their kids they can prevent from accessing their platform to a better degree than most broke technically illiterate parents could dream of doing.
- Comment on Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’ 1 week ago:
so it served its purpose well
- Comment on Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’ 1 week ago:
Lemmy is far from normal, it is not profitable as a social media platform and is reliant on donations and generosity.
Google AdSense does similar things to meta, as does amazon. This is far from a misuse, of the technology as that implies that this isn’t accomplishing the intended goal, which, aside from laws trying to differentiate children from adults, it does.
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 1 week ago:
famously both android and ios have (default to iirc?) a “feature” which dials the emergency number by repeatedly pressing the power button.
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 1 week ago:
I don’t know why they care about population …wikipedia.org/…/List_of_largest_cities_by_area clearly land is more important because land votes not people.
- Comment on How a false X post about pausing tariffs led to multi-trillion-dollar market swings. 2 weeks ago:
consider that profiting off volitility and lazyness is generally a good strategy.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
finally, a way to save on burial costs and diesel at the same time.