bearboiblake
@bearboiblake@pawb.social
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 1 week ago:
because seven ate nine through twenty-thres
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 2 weeks ago:
wait so the people doing the work don’t get paid and the people who get paid steal from others?
that is just so uncharacteristic of capitalism, what a surprise
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 2 weeks ago:
you can get a raspberry pi and install something called pihole on it, it’s a DNS server with ad-blocking. basically, it converts a domain name like example.com into an IP address, but rather than just faithfully supply DNS, it also effectively blocks some adverts by acting like the domain names don’t exist for servers that run ads
once it’s set up it’ll just work, and it should protect everyone on your network/wifi from some ads
- Comment on Was the supreme court wrong to assess that because america is a capitalist society money is a form of speach? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. I’d highly recommend checking out the 5-4 Podcast episode about Citizen’s United
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 2 weeks ago:
even if people were mega geniuses it wouldn’t matter, money talks, and it talks a lot louder than people
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
The solution is for the state to guarantee that everyone must have a place to live. Shelter is a human necessity, it should not be conditional.
- Comment on Brother denies using firmware updates to brick printers with third-party ink 3 weeks ago:
you’re adding way too much into this. who said that someone would guilt you? normally when you make someone sad they don’t say anything about it, they just feel a bit worse and continue with their lives
i’m just explaining to you, there’s no way to rationalize your way out of this. you are in complete control over what you say, unless you have verbal tics. and people will understand if you accidentally say something offensive from a tic. do you not understand this? it’s just about responsibility.
take some responsibility for what you say. that’s all.
- Comment on Brother denies using firmware updates to brick printers with third-party ink 3 weeks ago:
so you think other people should take responsibility for something they can’t control, but you should have no responsibility for something you can control?
you can’t stop yourself from feeling sad, but you can stop yourself from doing something that makes someone else sad
having no concern for the feelings of others is just really irrational and selfish imo
- Comment on Brother denies using firmware updates to brick printers with third-party ink 4 weeks ago:
feelings are important, though? if i can avoid hurting someone and all it costs me is saying blocklist instead of blacklist, that seems like an obvious slam dunk
- Comment on The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
i hate trump probably as much or more than you do. please re-read my comment as i actually wrote it, because i meant what i wrote. i did not mean what you imagined i might be secretly thinking or whatever. please don’t jump to conclusions :(
- Comment on The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
don’t get me wrong, i would have voted harris. (im not american) but she wouldn’t have been good. she wouldn’t have even been ok. but she was better than trump.
- Comment on The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
she still would have supported genocide in gaza, and her term would have pushed people further towards fascism. there was really no real choice in that election, sadly. the usa was already too firmly controlled by the ruling class.