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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great"⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
We are way beyond finding allies. Call it what it is.

Does Walmart actively distort your news, your information, your opinions? Does it select what you see for an agenda?

I have a distaste for people shopping at wallmart, but this is beyond that.

Remeber, there is nothing Facebook provides that anyone needs. It is a choice.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

there need to be a lot more stuff

but that is just the thing, you need to make the stuff. That is how it grows.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great"⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah the people become awful on it. But then there is also the data collect, the active political manipulation by the platform itself. Not to mention directly funding Zuckerberg and his plans.

I never was on Facebook, I saw it as a bad idea when it came out. But I understand how many people including friends or family use it. I am pretty blunt: they support Trump, they support billionaires, they support fascism. There is no mincing of words on this, particularly now. Fortunately people are beginning to see that they are getting less of what they asked for (friends and family updates) and that seems to be annoying them enough to at least consider other options. Its harder for them to understand how much of their information had been slanted or even hidden from them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great"⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Not even remotely the same. Being on Facebook actively funds fascism there is no other way to look at it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great"⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
So… If you think that wonder what you could do about it? If only there was somewhat to get involved and make a difference…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great"⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
She’s not very progressive if she uses Facebook.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
So make artificial limits on your playlist then.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
No there were math errors. Was it using statistical functions? I can’t recall, I just know we had to double check everything.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
They already did that with visual basic and excel.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
How is it any different than making a playlist? You said a long shot, that’s not true.

I am not talking about Spotify, I never use it, but unless you are talking about the level of effort to make the tape, then what’s the difference?

Records are bulky, heavy, and horribly environmentally bad. Cassettes aren’t as bad but are really inconvenient.

I got rid of all of those years ago and I am so glad I did.

I still have a music collection, I don’t use streaming services though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neil Young Leaves Facebook & Instagram Over “Unconscionable” Policies for AI Chatbot Conversations With Children⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I still cant understand how people got onto there in the first place. When it came out it was obviously a bad idea.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neil Young Leaves Facebook & Instagram Over “Unconscionable” Policies for AI Chatbot Conversations With Children⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
If a business uses Facebook only, I boycott them.

Facebook and Instagram won’t let me view any of it anyways, but a business should have principles.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neil Young Leaves Facebook & Instagram Over “Unconscionable” Policies for AI Chatbot Conversations With Children⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Why did it take this long? Facebook and Instagram use signals support of facism.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
XP was when they jumped the shark, moved away and to Linux then. It is waaaay too late to give a shit what Microsoft does.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I work on a day to day basis with Microsoft products and services, including cloud environments, SQL databases, Azure lakes, etc.

I do it ALL from Linux, and if I have to I will remote into windows machines. I do it because I don’t have time for Windows nonsense. I need my machine to work, so I can work and get paid. Linux is easy to set up and has very few surprises. It just works.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
i’m not gonna manually search for things…

OK you wont find things then. A lot of communities I like are not going to show up in ALL. I seek them out and sub to them. Why be so lazy, it only takes a few minutes? Or simply search for your interests.

I mean if what you are looking for is where people are the loudest and places that are the busiest then by all means stay looking at all.

Lemmy doesn’t have that many users and it also can have multiple subs that are the same category. So discovering those and choosing one, or both is up to you.

So precisely:
1. use the reddit to Lemmy sub finder if you are coming from reddit
2. search for things you are interested in using the community search - flyfishing for example.
3. click “browse communities” and you will get a list of all of them, glance through them and check the box to sub
Not that hard.

Also, use Scaled as sort occasionally. It will let smaller subs rise to the top of you list.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I get it. For what it is worth, I find contributing to the subs I care about does help spur conversation. Some people even seem grateful to have the ice broken and get people engaged. Small communities stay that way if you don’t nudge them along.

Also, every now and then I just browse all the communities (not the content or comments) just communities to see if there is anything I should add to my subscriptions.

But I get that the easiest way is just click “all” and go.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
You are confusing seeing other instances with “ALL”. I just don’t want to see what I am not subscribed to. Curation of all this crap just makes it so much better. And focused for that matter.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I just go to my subscriptions. Then sort by scaled.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
People use All?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
You can upgrade to 11, nothibgs stopping you.

But it is far smarter to quit with the abusive, and spying, environment.

Linux is easy and works.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
When you grow up and become an adult we can talk. You clearly have no idea.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft will kill the Lens PDF scanner app for iOS, Android⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t even know what that is. Microsoft software on my mobile devices? No thank you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I think what you posted is great and should be read by people on the fence.

But conversly, I quit windows when XP came out becausei wanted to stop playing Microsoft’s games. There were enshittifying back then and it only has got worse.

I even admin Microsoft systems for a living, have access to nearly every product that make for free, and I still will never use windows at home. Even managing azure or SQL databases or having to use products that are windows only I do it through a Linux machine. Sometimes by pushing commands, sometimes with remote desktop. But I do it because Linux just works, I can count on it. Not so much windows or Microsoft.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You are proving my point. Thanks.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They did say completely. Ban it all they said.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Ban AI. Completely.

That is really short sighted. We all know it is not AI. The marketing is such bullshit.

But we also know that predictive algorithms can be useful. For instance: digitizing a property line, or identifying features in a lidar cloud, or discovering anomalies in blood cells. Then there are prediction tests and what if scenarios.

Seems like this is the same argument people had about computers in general. Ban all computers they said. Who knows maybe this guy in 1968 was right all along. and computers are the problem.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI slop is ruining all of our favorite places to scroll⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The article says it’s ruining Pinterest?

Finally a good use for AI.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Bitcoin specifically was never meant as a currency.

Sure it was, look at the name of Satoshi’s paper: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
In the past: Redhat, then Mostly Debian or Debian derivatives. Mepis was great for the time it was a thing (2003 - 2005). Also Gentoo for awhile.

Nowdays: Arch and Fedora mostly. I put Fedora on a laptop a couple of years ago while trying to see what would work with it and I have been extremely surprised by it. Packages are really up to date, I have gone through a major revision upgrade with no problem at all. Arch is great, but you have to pay attention and deal with change. Fedora is just as up to date but I don’t have to manage the changes.

And Fedora recently added KDE as an official release instead of a “spin” which is all the better. I hope they keep going, I read that they are not a big team and one of them just left.