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Metallibus , to politics in Mega Thread - Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud the United States in Arraignment - Washington DC

Should Trump be convicted, I think it will alienate a group of voters into full disbelief of the existing system.

Good? Our existing systems across the board are entirely fucked. Straight white men generally benefit the most from these systems and have generally continued to turn a blind eye to these problems, as it’s easy when you’re in the “winning” position. If this somehow wakes them up, maybe we can actually fix something.

Metallibus , to android in Turn your phone into a powerful Bluetooth keyboard and mouse (no servers needed)

The official one doesn’t. I’ve used a couple others that didn’t.

Metallibus , to android in Turn your phone into a powerful Bluetooth keyboard and mouse (no servers needed)

Ahh, that’s where that went… I couldn’t find it in my apps and figured I’d removed it.

Metallibus , (edited ) to android in Turn your phone into a powerful Bluetooth keyboard and mouse (no servers needed)

There are a slew of Android TV remote apps that do all this and more, like including home/back buttons, integrated search etc. They also pair easier. The first party Google TV app covers this smoother than a BT keyboard/mouse app.

Metallibus , to assholedesign in The Xbox Series X doesn't support bluetooth, while all smartphone companies are removing the 3.5mm jack

Sony’s claim is that standard Bluetooth isn’t fast enough to stay in sync with the screen and your control inputs, so they have their own bespoke wireless (but not Bluetooth) headset.

To be fair, this is kind of true… Most Bluetooth latency is fucking atrocious.

Metallibus , to assholedesign in Netflix is a Nickle & Dime Outfit

This is the sad truth. I’ll continue watching their shows on a family account as long as I can. The second that’s gone, I’m done with their garbage.

Metallibus , to assholedesign in Netflix is a Nickle & Dime Outfit

Yeah, I used to happily subscribe to Netflix because anything I could want was there. Now I use it on a family plan on occasion since it already existed, but there’s no way I’d pay for it so I could watch like 2 shows and 4 comedy specials a year, and have to find everything else somewhere else.

I was happy with YouTube and just purchased things there but recently you can’t watch beyond 480p in any browser except for Safari. So fuck that too.

Metallibus , to assholedesign in Netflix is a Nickle & Dime Outfit

They captured this off the TV using a cell phone camera and uploaded to Lemmy and the difference is noticeable. It’s not a dynamic range problem.

Metallibus , (edited ) to assholedesign in Netflix is a Nickle & Dime Outfit

They also increased the saturation/contrast too.

Metallibus , to technology in If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now

Google is dead as a company now that AI is taking over the search process

That’s some copium right there. The company has been doing AI for years and they are synonymous with search. Their primary income is advertising where they’re basically unrivaled. You’re kidding yourself if you think they’re going anywhere.

Metallibus , to technology in If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now

As someone pursuing a career in health care I became more and more concerned because some store patient files and notes in unsecured text files/apps like notion, google docs and even excel.

This is just the beginning - the medical space is notoriously awful and also a place where you probably really care about privacy. But using secure alternatives is too annoying for most medical staff and they just see it as ankther hurdle. Actually getting people to use secure software that’s not the software they’re already used to is way harder than it should be.

People just don’t understand or don’t care. Convenience is way more important to people than anything else.

Metallibus , to technology in If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now

How is Apple “independent”? You’re just trading one mega corporation for another.

It’s not Chromium specifically, but it has basically the same issues.

Metallibus , to technology in If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now

IMO the thing is that people don’t care about their privacy. Sure, some people around here do, but your average person owns an Alexa, has a FB/Instagram account and constantly posts their location, uses the same password on many sites, uses TikTok, doesn’t block cookies, etc etc etc.

Most people don’t actually care. Some claim they do, but then can’t even be bothered to stop using Instagram etc because of the “inconvenience”… So do they really care?

Some companies (Apple, etc) push their products under a narrative around safety and security, and people will repeat that point as a way to justify a decision they already made, but if they actually cared, they would be doing other things too. But they don’t.

The number of us who do actually care about privacy and security is actually very small.

Metallibus , to technology in Twitter now blocking all DMs from non-Twitter Blue subscribers by default

I’ve seen YouTubers also say “nothing else has any users”. I think this is generally the public sentiment and the reason people stick around. I would say that even if there’s no alternative, just leave but… Unfortunately people feel like they “need” Twitter.

And people say social media isn’t addicting.

Metallibus , to world in ‘I’ve never seen heat this bad. It’s not normal’: Italy struggles as temperature tops 40C 118f

My point is these are just making you feel better at best. Even a perfectly efficient split system running off a perfectly efficient power source which was manufactured out of thin air without having any effect on climate change is still moving heat around. None of these address the core problem with the climate. Even at perfect efficiency they’re just building you a small bubble to feel better in.

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