obvs

@obvs@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Your neighbors pay your salary. The more money in your community the more there will be for your salary.

  Sometimes you’re likely to want to get groceries.

  Sometimes you’re likely to want to go to restaurants.

  Sometimes you’re likely to need to get housewares.

  Sometimes you’re likely to need services from plumbers or mechanics or electricians.

  If you choose your local community, that money stays in your community, and it’s likely to make it back to you.

  So next time you’re buying a burger and fries, check out your local restaurants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Google offered Workspace free to individuals. I set that up and used it for my family, and then BAM! After a decade or so of using it, they removed the free plan, once we were using it for logins for a bunch of sites and for our emails. Went from free to $50 per month. It took a LOT of effort to get my family off of that. Never again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Governments continue losing efforts to gain backdoor access to secure communications⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For the entire time I have lived on this planet, I’ve been pretty confident that my daily activities would generally be considered legal, and that the Federal Government had literally zero reason to be interested in me or anything I did.

  Now, though, I am aware that the government can disappear me and rendition me to a death camp, without trial and even without habeas corpus.

  As far as I can tell, if I’m being arrested I no longer have anything to lose. I am aware of that, and should it come to that, I understand why people are saying to act accordingly.

  That is as far as I am going to say in this conversation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not being fair to the new owners.

  It’s the company buyer’s responsibility to make sure they know about and honor existing contracts with the existing company, and it’s the company’s responsibility to provide that information to the buyer.

  It is not ANYONE else’s responsibility to make them follow that. If something like this happens, the company(whether before or after the purchase) was in the wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually comments like this which will scare people the hell away from trying Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Frostwire is still available and it actually works better than Limewire ever did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is real⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The New York Times should publish this as its front page tomorrow, with malicious edits and all, and address it below.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨El Salvador's Bukele rules out returning US deportee⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither has the power to bring him back in the same way that neither has the power to bring back Anne Frank.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genius⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Vagina

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What international alternatives exist for YouTube? And I understand RedNote as an alternative for TikTok, but YouTube fills a little bit of a different niche.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Parrots can mimic humans too, but they don’t understand what we’re saying the way we do.

  It’s interesting how humanity thinks that humans are smarter than animals, but that the benchmark it uses for animals’ intelligence is how well they do an imitation of an animal with a different type of brain.

  As if humanity succeeds in imitating other animals and communicating in their languages or about the subjects that they find important.