Rentlar
@Rentlar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Why isn't Mbin more popular? 3 days ago:
I want a basic app that has no frills, is snappy, and does its job well. Lemmy fits that, and is no more or less than I need. I have a separate masto account.
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 5 days ago:
Well, I guess the prerogative is on the rest of us non-Americans to break unjust American IP laws to counteract the lack of lack of enforcement of anti-trust laws, or make laws in other countries that better enforce competition laws on American companies.
I have a glimmer of hope that Europe is getting in gear somewhat for that.
I do Cory’s overall point about needing to think more of solidarity than individual choices, but I disagree on discounting them completely, those choices do carry a certain degree of importance as well in effecting systemic change. Saying, “well, society isn’t changing, enshittification isn’t going anywhere so I shouldn’t bother changing my habits” won’t get us anywhere. It has had real effects.
Things that start in the margins have the ability to get noticed by big players and then bring about change. A couple examples: Linux gaming is in a viable state that was unimaginable 8 years ago. The Canadian boycott of US products and travel has had a very measurable affect on US tourism and select industries, and has spread to other countries. Valve nor the Canadian government started either of those efforts, but they helped signal-boost and take concrete supportive actions when they see that even a small group of people independently have supported that change already.
- Comment on Dropbox is shutting down its password manager 6 days ago:
Lol. Up until a few months ago Dropbox was begging me to use that feature.
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 1 week ago:
It is channel-based, using Pre-Shared Keys (PSK).
There is a public line where you can message pretty much everyone with the blank PSK.
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 1 week ago:
meshtastic.org/docs/configuration/radio/device/
SENSOR is one of the defined device roles. And whether for personal automation or public information, it is a reasonable use case for the network.
- Comment on Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
A huge group moved from ich iel subreddit (meirl but almost like 196 in practice)… most german redditors were there. The main German instance was called feddit.de but the frontend and database got very messed up. The main admin was MIA so feddit.org was made instead.
- Comment on YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process 3 weeks ago:
Good catch, seems like an oversight.
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 3 weeks ago:
Even if I would agree with your principles, this kind of comment is what is tiring for moderators to deal with at scale.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 weeks ago:
Can we please have a source for the YSK statement you made in the title and the graph?
I have seen data on not having kids being the biggest choice a person can make to prevent future emissions. You also didn’t mention flying less often, or not flying when a reasonable alternative exists. What is the relative impact of all of these things compared to dietary changes? Numbers on that would be helpful.
- Comment on Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice 4 weeks ago:
Sure. That is assuming that someone is available on the LibreOffice side to support the ministry for a particular amount, and that the policy related to government procedures can be followed under this agreement.
- Comment on Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice 4 weeks ago:
They could spend 1~2% of the cost of their microsoft licenses to create their own plugins/development to make the UI more usable for their applications and workers, rather than relying on Microsoft themselves or creating plugins on outdated and proprietary frameworks.
- Comment on The State of Consumer AI: AI’s Consumer Tipping Point Has Arrived - Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay for it. 4 weeks ago:
A survey with the takeaways really gussying up AI and how people that don’t use AI haven’t had their aha moment yet.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 4 weeks ago:
Clearly it’s just safety minded individuals acquiring it. This app helps keep communities safe from unmarked armored vehicles filled with masked criminal cop impersonators.
- Comment on Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!! 4 weeks ago:
To address your first point. Yes it applies to other software, this initiative applies to games because the “buying a license to allow them to remove your purchase” practices have been most prevalent in gaming.
Extending the scope too far will bring in more opponents than allies and muddy the discussion. Getting a decisive answer here will inform laws on how other industries should be regulated in separate but parallel legislative processes.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I think the state legislature and governor will be more of a hurdle to clear than council. Since in US and Canada, most municipal powers are rooted in state/provincial legislation, they have the ability to override or veto, sanction or outlaw anything the city tries to implement. Gov. Hochul is an establishment Democrat so I expect some efforts to water down the most radical policies, but aside from her characteristic flip-flopping she won’t try to put herself in the way of city politics.
- Comment on Not for me, tho 5 weeks ago:
I’d think four times: 4:20, 4:35, 7:20, 7:35
- Comment on Air Jordens 5 weeks ago:
Since when were 3 basketballs allowed in the game at once?
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 month ago:
So, Tesla Robitaxis drive like a slightly drunk and confused tourist with asshole driving etiquette.
Those right turns on red were like, “oh you get to go? That’s permission for me to go too!”
- Comment on If one were so inclined, could you take your plot of land, parcel it up into 1-meter-squared (or smaller) sections, and sell each of those sections to different people/companies? 1 month ago:
cardsagainsthumanitystopsthewall.com
C.A.H. did something similar ish, crowdfunded a vacant plot along the wall and hired an eminent domain expert lawyer to stall the process if wall was to be constructed there.
I think contributors were given a recognition that they helped buy 0.00067% of the land, it wasn’t officially subdivided between the contributors nor were they given a share.
- Comment on Just lost internship at general electric 1 month ago:
But those are ouchie fire lamp
- Comment on How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? 1 month ago:
Going backwards in time, they had metal and brass containers, before that they had wooden buckets and barrels, ceramic pots, carved out animal parts or fruit of plants.
Before farming, probably a good portion of the water early people subsisted on was from the food they ate. (Berries and fruit, fish, meat, etc.) Water might pool around rocky areas after rain, even if there was no stream nearby in a pinch.
- Comment on What happens to the content if an Lemmy instance shuts down? 1 month ago:
So if a brand new instance is started, it does not retroactively receive any content from other servers. Only ones that were connected by a link at the time content was posted will have a copy, essentially.
To know which posts will be kept on different servers, look up your own username, e.g. lemmy.ca/u/TrivialKin@lemm.ee
- Comment on RIP Thomas 1 month ago:
The bear known as “The Boss” is up there in animal hall-of-fame: mountainsandtreasures.ca/the-big-boss-bear-of-ban…
- Comment on A receipt printer cured my procrastination [ADHD] 1 month ago:
Oooh cool! I’ll be watching for the release of this software with great interest!
- Comment on Which Lemmy instances use Photon? 1 month ago:
photon.lemmy.ca (among a number of frontends!)
- Comment on AFP photographer shot in face with rubber bullet at LA protest 1 month ago:
Shot not once but twice? First, why are they firing so many rubber bullet and in the direction of people clearly identified as press corps?
- Comment on What peertube channel do you recommend? 1 month ago:
Oh the Urbanity, a Canadian couple discussing housing and transit !urbanism@video.canadiancivil.com
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 month ago:
Some people are addicted to sugar to the point where every beverage must be sweet flavoured.
I have water, but othertimes I am sugar addicted so I want a different beverage.
Also I have had tap water in various places across Canada. Most are decent, some are especially delicious, some have awful after tastes and even smell weird (sulfur or chlorine). If that stuff runs to your home I can understand why people prefer bottled water, tea or soda instead of tap water.
- Comment on If youre bi do you have to prove it? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Australian reporter covering Los Angeles immigration protests hit by rubber bullet on live TV 1 month ago:
More accurate title would be:
Officer turns and shoots Australian reporter covering Los Angeles immigration protests with rubber bullet on live TV.