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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  because seven ate nine through twenty-thres

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.