Efwis
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- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 8 months ago:
I’d stay home that way I’m not adding to societal problems.
Seriously though, the ONLY stipulations that should be put on UBI are:
1.) do you make over $100,000/year? This info is easily obtained from your W-2 that you are given every year for taxes.
2.) do you own a business? Once again easily obtained via public record and filing of your taxes via 1099 forms.
3.) are you over the age of 18? Once again easily verified through birth certificate dates via public record based on your social security number/resident green card (after 5 years of documented residency in the country. )
All this info is in government databases so there would be no concern of undocumented immigrants able to receive said funds or people getting more money because of having minors in there home.
You shouldn’t have to apply for it, hence the term universal.
- Comment on 1 year ago:
It appears that has been corrected. As of 0810 central daylight savings time U.S.
- Comment on Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them 1 year ago:
I’ve been on Linux for 20+ years and have never had to rely on paid for support. The paid for support is really geared towards professional big business work stations and server stacks. If you need support for Linux you can find free support on their forums 99% of the time. It’s the IT departments with lazy techs that rely on Linux paid support.
You are right about the Micro$uck hate though. Why should I pay to use an operating system on a computer I buy and use until it’s reached it’s EOL when I can use Linux to do everything you do on windows and I don’t have to pay for the software? In today’s economy, it makes sense to use Linux.
- Comment on Youtube’s Anti-adblock and uBlock Origin 1 year ago:
The creators are making money from the ads, they probably won’t abandon ship at yt unless they stop making revenue. A lot of the creators on yt rely on the ads to be worthwhile in creating the content.
I agree, yt is getting stupid with their ads, from what I understand they are now including ads in the yt premium subscription aervice, which is supposed to be ad free mind you.
As long as greed dictates content, creators won’t abandon ship, unless they can have ads on the alternatives to make money on.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Of course it’s going to affect it. These oil tycoons love wars in the Middle East, that way they can stick it to us all at the pump and everywhere else they can put their dirty fingers in.
- Comment on The price gap between renting and buying has hit the widest point since 2000 1 year ago:
Right, the problem is The rich egomaniacs don’t care that they’re cutting their noses of to spite their faces. Personally I hope they all crash and burn so they can feel the pain they have inflicted over the years
- Comment on The price gap between renting and buying has hit the widest point since 2000 1 year ago:
Then we will end up with more people living on the streets as homeless as the cost far exceeds the income margin unless you are lucky enough to have a 6 figure income, which a lot of people don’t have.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip's 3 Month Anniversary (and Survey!) 1 year ago:
The log system on IoS is very rudimentary and doesn’t show anything useful. For the most part it is only activated upon a crash.
As for using m.lemmy.zip the results are the same as well as with v.lemmy.zip. But, iirc, both front ends were originally designed for android based systems.
The only other mobile browser I have is chrome which I try to use as little as possible due to their data collection policies.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip's 3 Month Anniversary (and Survey!) 1 year ago:
Unfortunately this is t a cache issue. Firefox mobile has been broken since we moved to version 18.3 for me on Firefox. I posted a bug report to the lemmy devs but nothing has been done about it yet.
As for safari I have never gotten it to work on my iPhone with lemmy. Unfortunately the only mobile browser I have gotten to work on the iPhone is chrome and I really hate using that browser.
- Comment on Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance 1 year ago:
This is true, yet no one wants to listen to reality
- Comment on Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance 1 year ago:
True. I try to stay anonymous. But that doesn’t work on all social medias. Take Facebook for example, they show all that info in your profile allowing haters to hate
- Comment on Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance 1 year ago:
This is true, just like I have an ml account too. But I wouldn’t put past someone to create another account on another instance with efwis and start some shit because I hurt their feelings. So far that hasn’t been an issue but there is a first time. Especially since the username doesn’t show what instance your’re on on the feeds
- Comment on Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance 1 year ago:
The only bad part about the fediverse, imho, it’s hard to be the only one with your username. What makes it bad is a malicious user, that you may have pissed off somehow, start using your username in a smear campaign to hurt your reputation.
- Comment on Is this even legal? 1 year ago:
I looked it up and corrected my post. Had to change Vivaldi also as it is opera fork.
I honestly thought you were talking about the “opera is owned by china” fud
- Comment on Is this even legal? 1 year ago:
I keep hearing this but can’t find any basis for this
- Comment on Is this even legal? 1 year ago:
I forgot about that one. But a lot of people on the web won’t use it since it’s not as “innovative as the others” to them.
- Comment on Is this even legal? 1 year ago:
I remember those days. For that matter I remember when the internet didn’t exist. You wanted to talk to more than one person we had party lines on the landline phones and you had to know who you were talking to in order to call or add them to it.
- Comment on Is this even legal? 1 year ago:
Well that leaves opera, Vivaldi, Firefox (and it’s forks, too many to list) and safari to choose from.
Chrome, brave, edge and a few more I can’t remember are based on chromium
- Comment on We're monsters 1 year ago:
Lol, I can see it now.
“Im going to sit here for 8-12 hours and watch where this snail goes today.”
Sorry couldn’t resist.
- Comment on We're monsters 1 year ago:
My question is, how do they know what a snail is thinking or remembers? Last I knew snails didn’t talk.
- Comment on Annoucement: Upcoming vote on defederation 1 year ago:
If you are worried about the “sensitive users” calling something hate speech just to defederate an instance, rest assured the admin here looks at everything from all angles before making a decision on what to do. This is discussed in on the matrix channel quite a bit before the admins of lemmy.zip make their decisions on what to do.
Demigodrick and Sami listen to information provided and research it before even starting to think about to decide what to do. And like he posted, he does not want to defederate unless absolutely necessary based on his local laws since he is in the UK.
- Comment on How do you wrap your head around large established software projects in order to contribute to them? 1 year ago:
That kinda follows the same question of why use windows. Some people that’s all they know, others still believe in the myth that GNU/Linux is only for geeks that want to be or are power users. Then there is the other faction that goes along the lines that there is no compatible alternative to what they use/ used to. A lot of alt programs still have a learning curve that is mostly caused by work flow muscle memory.
- Comment on It's done! 1 year ago:
Thanks everyone that helped do this it was fun, hopefully they will do another one and more of us can join in.
- Comment on It’s happening 1 year ago:
We are almost there everyone. let’s sign in and finish it off, WE CAN DO IT!!!
- Comment on Is Web Environment Integrity a risk to the accessibility of the Internet? 1 year ago:
What makes ads a blight on websites is rather simple when you look at the scheme of things. I understand websites are reliant on monetary factors to keep running such as server costs etc. However, the caveat is balance. A user shouldn’t be inundated by huge amounts of ads. Some of the sites I go to you have pop up windows that show up randomly in the middle of an article as you’re reading, and hard to close without clicking on the ad. Kind of reminds me of back in the day when you would go to a page and the content was overshadowed by those glaring ads that would draw you to them away from the content you were Looking for. As a designer you should not have more ads than you do content. For example, when I left Reddit I was seeing ads on my feed at a rate of almost 1 ad for every 2 posts. That’s overkill. You only need 1 ad every 7 - 10 posts
