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Is everything the worst?

I’m 43, almost 44, years old and went through a bought of alcoholism during the early part of the pandemic. I went through treatment and have been fine since. However, I can’t help but feel that all the news in the last few months is just the worst. Between the AI bullshit, the wars, the effects of capitalism, and the...

Bongles ,

Is the statement they’re quoting incorrect?

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To people thinking of joining Nebula because their marketing team/shills are currently spamming this thread, see peertube (federated like lemmy, open source)

Peertube is fine, but like lemmy (but worse), there’s barely anything there. Nebula at least got creators from YouTube to make ad-free versions for Nebula. If the channels that a person are subscribed to don’t exist in Peertube, that’s not an appealing alternative for them.

Bongles ,

I bought affinity because I’m tired of subscriptions so… hopefully they don’t do that too.

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Don’t worry, they were already bought by Canva. It’s just early and we’re waiting to see if/what that changes.

Bongles ,

That’s the meme

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So…

Windows 10: the “last” windows version

Release Windows 11, requires specific hardware that you can’t realistically add to your existing PC. But Windows 10 will keep being updated

Windows 10 is not getting anymore updates

Love it, no notes.

Bongles ,

Personal experience, I can also attest to noticing the issue about 2019-2020.

Bongles ,

Why would I be able to talk to other locals about a third option from my toilet but not about ranked voting from my toilet?

Bongles ,

“Good vehicle” is always subjective. It’s always going to be an opinion and will always have people who disagree.

Do we need to create increasingly more children for a stable economy?

So in the whole anti-natalism/pro-natalism conversation (which I’m mostly agnostic/undecided on, currently), my friend who is a pro-natalist, argued that the success/stability of our world economy is dependent on procreating more children each year than the previous year, so that we not only replace the numbers of the people...

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I’m not sure what we’re referring to when we say pay back the debts, but as far as a societal collapse due to constant population growth - is that not just the basis of nature? If resources become scarce, population will decline since you can’t provide for everyone’s needs at that point. If resources are plenty, population can grow. I don’t see how a decline in population leads to societal collapse. Some countries are facing declining populations now, for other reasons, and they’re not collapsing. It’s a potential problem that would need to be faced, but collapse seems extreme to me.

Bongles ,

Probably why it’s not listed on those store pages.

Bongles ,

Get your routine cleaning. If you have a cavity they’ll tell you and you don’t have to get it filled right away.

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Bongles ,

It was updated last week.

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If you care enough too you should submit it as a bug (if you haven’t). It’s for sure not a dead project.

Bongles ,

I’m a follower, I don’t post, reply, like, or anything. I just want to see what the people I follow have to say, and they haven’t moved anywhere else.

Bongles ,

Thank you for your input.

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also not a fan of my search results being logged against me

What do you mean? That you have an account so your searches are “linked” to you?

Bongles ,

Out of context you’re right, but most of the time when you open a weather app you’ll get a more detailed view where you can see, in this example, that 29 is the high and 16 is the low for the day with 13 being the current temperature. Once you look at that one time you would know what these numbers are in this shortened view.

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Did you post this just to fight with everyone?

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I have it for the shipping otherwise I’d cancel. I’m certainly not watching the stuff on there with ads.

Bongles ,

My Vizio has never done this.

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I bought a physical book, but I like reading from my Kindle better so I pirated a copy of it as well.

Bongles ,

I bought a physical book, but I like reading from my Kindle better so I pirated a copy of it as well.

Bongles ,

That’s ending relatively soon because of the EU though, so I guess it’s fine.

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So what happens to, for example, the HP reverb g2?

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Early or late, they’re hardly ever on time anymore. It also feels like they’re going the way of Google and starting to abandon projects.

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It can, and it looks quite good. It doesn’t have the finger tracking that valve’s has but it still plays fine.

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I think it’s nerds. /s

I think a lot of the lemmy userbase are at least somewhat techy (also see the Linux communities), and a lot of techy people like Star Trek.

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Rice, salsa, cheese, sour cream, wing it from there with seasonings and proteins like beans or meat.

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As opposed to: Hello 🥺🥵🫦

Bongles ,

You won’t die from it.

Are any self-cleaning cat litter boxes any good, or worth the money?

Does anyone have any experience with self-cleaning cat litter boxes? I’m curious if any particular model of self-cleaning litter box is any good. We now have 4 cats and it would be nice to not have to clean litter boxes manually 1-2 times every day....

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Hey now, it’s only $700 where I am.

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Mine was like that, make sure you check for firmware updates.

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I tried ttv pro lol yesterday and it seemed to work for me as well.

YSK: You can search (most of?) lemmy as a search engine

Due to the nature of fediverse, you can’t just do a “site:lemmy” search as you’d do with reddit (site:reddit.com). I was searching for ways to do it on my firefox browsers and I came to a solution that searches 21 different instances simultaneously, which I consider to be a big part of lemmy (I also include kbin...

Bongles ,

I’m a fan so far myself. It’s not always perfect but you can take your search to any of the other popular search engines right from Kagi if you need to.

It’s got a quick answer button which is using one of them new fangled AIs to pull an answer for your search out of the results, and then lists the sources for each bit it’s telling you. You can also “summarize a page” for any of the results.

You have these lenses that people were mentioning and one of the default ones that I use all the time is “forums”. So if my results are a bunch of shitty articles I click that and it shows me only sites like reddit instead.

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Do you truly think anyone desires that?

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I used it until boost released and it was perfectly fine. Losing boost was why I left reddit to begin with though.

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Normally sure, but maybe Microsoft shouldn’t have tried saying windows 10 was the last windows version, to then release a new version that a lot of people can’t even upgrade their current PCs to.

Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time?

On every single professional sports game I’ve ever seen, every single show, every single channel. Isn’t this our fucking money you’re meant to give out should, god forbid, something happen?...

Bongles ,

You know I used to process claims at a health insurance company in the US and while the general public consensus is that they hate that company, I’ve never seen the really scummy things people mention online about insurance. There were never incentives to deny claims or find loopholes or whatever. They just had the benefits listed, and various guidelines written out and you were just supposed to accurately process it to those guidelines, deny or pay, whatever.

I’m sure it happens, and there endless other issues, but it makes me wonder what company would risk that stuff if the one I was at didn’t.

Has Windows startup repair or a troubleshooter ever fixed your issue even once?

Yeah, basically that. I’m back at work in Windows land on a Monday morning, and pondering what sadist at Microsoft included these features. It’s not hyperbole to say that the startup repair, and the troubleshooters in settings, have never fixed an issue I’ve encountered with Windows. Not even once. Is this typical?...

Bongles ,

I’ve never needed the startup repair, but the troubleshooter does occasionally fix network or audio related things. I don’t do enough to need it very often anymore.

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My app only has the plus currently. I think it’s a dumb change. The type of change you make because you need to change something. Nobody that is competent enough to use a smart phone app would see any benefit from it being changed to a plus and as others have pointed out… it’s a music app, plus and minus are usually associated with volume.

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But that’s the only benefit of premium (on YouTube itself). I guess there are still YouTube originals but that kind of died as far as I can tell.

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What we need is something like fediverse, but for online videos

That’s Peertube right? I haven’t used it.

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Suicide/murder is not even top 10 based on what I’m seeing.

Admittedly I only quickly googled them and skimmed for the stats.

I think you’re underestimating the effect of painkillers given when you’re going to die. Otherwise, yeah, fatal car crashes can be painful, or you can die instantly and I have no idea what the ratio is on either.

Bongles ,

My vizio also starts on the last input. So it only goes to the smart TV stuff when I want it too. It’s older (E50x or something like that) but it’s been getting updates so I’m assuming it’s the same on newer ones still.

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I also drink these. I like the chocolate flavor.

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Unless it’s something particularly tasty, then I probably want to see that post more.

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