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HughJanus ,

So sad. I got into argument just a few days ago and they used ifixit’s repairability score as justification for their nonsense.

HughJanus ,

Do you really think that replacing FaceID suddenly gives thieves unfettered access to your phone?

HughJanus ,

I’m assuming this is supposed to be metaphorical but you don’t seem to understand that it is not analogous because replacing FaceID doesn’t suddenly give you access to the device.

HughJanus ,

“Okay, so get this: we make like…like a Xbox, but it’s round”

😮😮😮😮😮

HughJanus ,

Haha there was a reference to that in the beginning of the gamers Nexus video

HughJanus ,

Not a single actual quote from Elon in this article. Does anyone know what he actually said? Because the title states it as a definitive while the excerpts sound more like he was just floating the idea out loud.

HughJanus ,

The beauty of the Fediverse is that many tasks like this can be done by the client, as opposed to the actual base software.

For instance, Lemmy can’t actually block instances or “subs” (or whatever the equivalent is) on an individual level, but Voyager can.

On another point, as much as I hate hearing about Musk and Twitter, they are both very powerful, and both have an impact on the world. Especially if Twitter were to become an “everything app” (AKA Superapp)(which it hopefully won’t).

HughJanus ,

I mean specifically the bit about “X will…” as if it is a fact.

HughJanus ,

Well it’s really not that simple. I assume you’re referring to things like climate change and privacy concerns and general de-evolution of government.

Just to boil down a very complex subject into a lazy comment:

Let’s take climate change for instance. Do corporations and government do almost nothing to curb climate change? Yes. Do they actively lie to people about climate change? Yes.

Does the public still know that climate change is a real thing? At least some of them.

Do a ridiculous proportion of people still buy gas-guzzling SUVs and plastic water bottles and use plastic bags at the grocery store unnecessarily? Yes.

Do some people have full access to the information to educate themselves very quickly on the science, and yet choose to ignore that and instead actually actively promote what they want to believe instead? Absolutely

The reality is that “blame” is seldom simple and we all carry some amount of responsibility.

Personally I view this as a sliding scale. And while I do take personal responsibility in driving an efficient vehicle and refusing plastic bags and bottles (even though people look at me like some kind of crazy hippie and mock me accordingly), I also refuse to live in a yurt in the forest. When more people move down the scale toward me, it will make it easier for me to move even further down the scale.

HughJanus ,

Only those with the power to shift opinion can be held responsible in 2023

We all have that power.

You missed the forest for the trees in OPs sentiment imho.

I didn’t miss anything, I just disagree.

HughJanus ,

People doing the ‘well actually’ thing for individual climate impacts are inadvertently being patsies for corporations to continue to deflect scrutiny

No one is doing that. I could very easily just say that you’re just doing the opposite. That is, deflecting personal responsibility from individuals and just blaming corporations. It’s very easy to just lean back and blame corporations for your choices but the reality is that they simply couldn’t sell this bullshit if individuals weren’t buying them.

HughJanus ,

I require the ability to move those groceries from the shop to my car to my house, but if no one produces an environmentally friendly way to do so then I’m at the mercy of the plastic bags, bottles, containers, and wrapping I’ve been provided.

Bruh have you never heard of reusable bags? Made of cloth? Or even just bringing your plastic bags back to the store?

You’re right about most of these things, but those aren’t the types of things I’m referring to.

HughJanus ,

Sorry to say, but many can barely afford rent and the bills, let alone even imagine trying to go out of their way to fix the climate.

There are many things you can do to “fix the climate” while not spending more money. Often times it even costs less money.

Buy an electric car you say?

No I did not say. But you could buy something that’s NOT unnecessarily large and inefficient, and it would SAVE you money, but many poor people still seem to find money for gas guzzling trucks and SUVs.

You could also ride a bike or ebikes or any number of new e-mobility solutions, or even use the 2 feet you were born with (depending on your exact circumstances).

HughJanus ,

those aren’t the types of things I’m referring to.

HughJanus ,

Except that they clearly don’t, or they wouldn’t say such absurd things.

HughJanus ,

Then maybe say what you mean instead of telling people who are responsible that they aren’t.

HughJanus ,

That’s good. Blame other people for not asking questions when you say the opposite of what you mean. You’re so dark and mysterious.

HughJanus ,

They don’t get it or you wouldn’t be saying it.

You’re like those “antiwork” morons that claim they want to work and then act like victims when people laugh in the face of their preposterous positions and don’t understand why their intentions are being misinterpreted.

And those “defund the police” morons who are equally confused as to why no one understands them.

HughJanus ,

I can read just fine, honey. You can’t write the opposite of what you mean and then expect your readers to “context and nuance” their way into your brain to read your mind.

ajsadauskas , to technology
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I wonder how Google's plans to develop a messaging and communications platform it consistently supports are coming along...

Oh wait...

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/18/23878449/google-nest-hub-max-end-support-meet-zoom

@technology

HughJanus ,

They’re probably going to replace it with Google Duo. Oh wait.

Maybe they’ll replace Google Meet with Google Meet again.

HughJanus ,

Planned Parenthood is a US institution, and a registered 501c3 non-profit charity, as defined by the IRS.

Though I can’t blame anyone for not wanting to dip their toes into the absolute shitstorm that is modern partisan politics in the US.

HughJanus ,

The list of games I can’t buy is too damn long. Like anything else in the modern age you’re forced to support unethical business practices or withdraw from the industry altogether (if you even can).

Can buy games from EA or Activision/Blizzard/Microsoft/Xbox or Ubisoft, or anything made with Unity, or anything with Denuvo, or anything with anti-cheat, or anything that’s online-only. Did I leave anything out?

Steam Deck + boring indie games is what we’re left with until gamers get together and collectively stop supporting the atrocity that is modern gaming.

HughJanus ,

That’s as non-political as you can get.

Well you simply couldn’t be more wrong about that. The NFL was a charity not too long ago. I’m sure there are Christian conversion therapy “charities”, too. “Charity” is nothing more than a tax status. You can make a charity for anything, so long as you keep your finances appropriately.

HughJanus ,

The political quandary does not come from the tax status, it comes from the service they provide. If you think abortion is not a political topic then you need to dig your head out of the sand.

HughJanus ,

It’s probably entirely due to the political shitstorm that would certainly follow.

HughJanus ,

I don’t think you can consider denying their tax exempt status on the same level of political shit-flinging as actively funding their work.

HughJanus ,

That doesn’t even resemble what I said.

HughJanus ,

Why would they do that?

HughJanus ,

Does it support Stories?

HughJanus ,

Nice, thanks!

HughJanus ,

I find it absolutely hilarious that deleting contacts is listed as a feature. Like why is that so hard for Signal to do?

HughJanus ,

Yeah it’s pretty much the only form of private social media there is.

HughJanus ,

They import from your phone contacts but if you delete someone from your phone contacts, they stay in the app.

You also can’t delete group messages from the app.

HughJanus ,

People these days pay more for bike tires than car tires these days already. There are $10k bikes now. Seems there’s no amount of money some people won’t pay for bike parts these days.

HughJanus ,

uBlock isn’t going to block pop-ups that are from the website you’re visiting.

HughJanus ,

I use AdNauseum. It has uBlock built in but also clicks ads in the background, costing advertisers money, and poisoning your web profile.

HughJanus ,

They said he was a role model

HughJanus ,

The occasional slip up and forced rape is just a minor character flaw then

HughJanus ,

Reddit, Twitter, Google, Twitch, Meta, you name it, they’re all having to find new ways to make money now that the decade-long bullrun of low interest rates and endless VC money is over.

HughJanus ,

Revenue is not profit

HughJanus ,

I mean you’re not wrong but also that’s already done for us by the Wayback Machine.

But yeah this is major ignorant corporate Streisand-effecting. Basically openly admitting they don’t care about the ethics of their company.

Can Pirate's Bay be considered "safe" if it is used only for non-executable multimedia content?

Basically I want to download a serie in a specific language and absolutely nowhere I can find it and recently I saw that the serie is available in the language I want in The Pirate’s Bay but I know the bad reputation of the site and I have never used it....

HughJanus ,

You can check justwatch.com to see if it’s available anywhere for streaming or purchase. I dunno how they do it but they’re amazing at tracking this sort of thing.

HughJanus ,

Those devices are very slow at transferring heat, unlike the microwave.

HughJanus ,

iOS has always been this platform that has all of these crazy advanced features and hardware but just completely fumbles the basics.

The tech industry as a whole seems to have this ridiculous idea that everyone has a perfect internet connection everywhere they go so it’s totally cool to have all this software that’s entirely dependent on an internet connection and fails to function entirely when that connection is lost.

HughJanus ,

Ugh, “defund the police” is a terrible phrase if you actually want the movement to succeed.

I feel like these are probably astroturfed movements. Because you can say the same thing about the “antiwork” movement, whose proponents claim to actually want to work.

The designation of your movement is kind of important.

HughJanus ,

this inelegant phrase was seized as a weapon by the right

Were “the right” the ones at protests holding up hundreds of signs that said “defund the police”?

HughJanus ,

There are a couple. Namely the Zenfone 8.

HughJanus ,

The software is actually really good but it’ll probably only get 1-2 updates.

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