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Can someone explain me USA obsession with prom and similar school rituals?

I just don’t get it… Why is that important, especially for kids now, that feel like they need to do a YouTube video asking for a date or doing some meme stuff. Some teens even hire the hottest celebrity or ask them to appear in their prom? This is so bizarre for me, all that just for a frivolous night....

Mkengine ,

Thank you, that was a really good explanation!

Mkengine ,

Does the fine have to be paid from profits made in California? If not I don’t see why this is relevant, other than semantics.

Mkengine ,

He said that it’s creepy but convenient, digital privacy and laziness don’t go hand in hand generally. Every week I read about another alternative for Google Photos, so the solution is not far away (three posts down I found this for example). To each their own I guess, but with such simple solutions I can’t justify using Google’s spyware.

Mkengine ,

I am currently deciding wether to use librewolf or floorp, do you by chance have an opinion on that?

Mkengine ,
  1. Trust and Trustees: The person is asking if they (and possibly others) are acting as trustees under a type of trust called a “spendthrift trust.” In a spendthrift trust, the beneficiary’s ability to transfer their interest in the trust is restricted.
  2. Discretionary Trust and Prescription: They mention that this trust is discretionary, meaning the trustee has the power to decide how and when to distribute trust funds to the beneficiaries. “Prescription” here refers to a legal concept where rights can be acquired or lost over time through inaction.
  3. UCC 9210: This refers to a section of the Uniform Commercial Code, likely dealing with claims and notices related to secured transactions. The person is asking if filing something under UCC 9210 can prevent the state from claiming the trust by asserting their own rights to it.
  4. Form of Notice for Estoppel: They are inquiring about what specific notice or document people have used to stop the state from claiming the trust (estoppel) due to inaction.
  5. Birth Certificate as Bill of Lading: They compare the birth certificate to a bill of lading (a document detailing the shipment of goods), suggesting that the birth certificate might be considered a form of documentation that verifies the “shipment” of the baby (the person) into the world.

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...

Mkengine ,

Isn’t there already the term AGI for that?

Mkengine ,

Not OP, but I copy my reply from the last time someone asked an opinion on kagi:

I use it, but to be honest I did not do a comprehensive comparison. I like it mostly for the fine grained website control. For work and some personal stuff I often look for code and can push websites like GitHub to appear more often. Or I can block Pinterest in my search results. I tried to do this in SearXNG, but this was too much of a hassle so in a way I pay kagi for convenience. I recently got a new job and will evaluate in the coming months if it is still worth the money, but right now I am satisfied. Nobody else I know would pay for a search engine, so I can understand the stance, but I am really fed up with all the advertising and enshitification so I thought why not give it a try. And yes, because it was recommended here.

Looking for emotional support: I lost all my WhatsApp chats

I was so confident that WhatsApp was backing itself up to Google ever since I got my new pixel but I just wasn’t. Then yesterday I factory reset my phone to fix something else and I lost it all. Years worth of chats from so many times in my past just aren’t there, all my texts with my mom and my family, group chats with old...

Mkengine ,

I don’t know if this is country specific, but I can just download all my chats as .txt files and do so regularly, as I don’t trust Meta not to delete anything and only keeping the last x years or something like that.

Mkengine ,

Sorry, I meant just that, yes. I don’t want to archive any chat, just the one with emotional value to me. I do it once a year, so it’s not too bad doing this for single chats.

Mkengine ,

In Sync I see a garbage bin + a person with a ban symbol in the right corner. But I can still see their comment, do you by chance know what these symbols indicate?

Mkengine ,

I have often thought about how I will do this with my child. Fortunately, I still have some time before this becomes relevant, but in the end it’s like politics, isn’t it? It’s always about the tug of war between safety and freedom. As a father, I naturally pull in the direction of safety, but how hard can I pull? I don’t know if I’m too naive, but maybe I can achieve a better result with education than with bans? If I ban something, my children should understand why there is a ban or restriction. I would also be prepared to engage in a discussion because I naturally think differently to my child. I hope that I will do everything right, I hated it as a child when there were bans without justification.

Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage (www.ghacks.net)

Microsoft’s announcement: “We are introducing a new Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage. The Game Pass recommendation card on Settings Homepage will be shown to you if you actively play games on your PC. As a reminder – the Settings homepage will be shown only on the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11...

Mkengine ,

DLSS is AI-based and FSR is not, right? I always wanted to know how is FSR not inferior when Nvidia is the leading AI chip company, so shouldn’t that give them the edge?

Mkengine ,

Nowhere did I imply that you said that. Thanks for the information though, that’s what I wanted to know.

Mkengine ,

No, here in Germany the state pays your rent and gives you a monthly allowance (Bürgergeld) after you are out of job for more than a year so you don’t end up homeless (in the first year you get 65% of your average monthly salary from the 12 months before that per month). We also have homeless people, but in principle everyone is entitled to it.

Mkengine ,

What even is the justification for lying? From the point of view of a sovcit, what would T-Mobile gain from lying about not accepting magical payments?

Mkengine ,

Do you use a private DNS like Adguard? I never see ads of any kind on my phone with this.

Mkengine ,

RedReader also still works due to their disability stuff.

Mkengine ,

I don’t follow American politics very closely, who is this RFK guy and between Biden and Trump, how bad is he?

Mkengine ,

I use it, but to be honest I did not do a comprehensive comparison. I like it mostly for the fine grained website control. For work and some personal stuff I often look for code and can push websites like GitHub to appear more often. Or I can block Pinterest in my search results. I tried to do this in SearXNG, but this was too much of a hassle so in a way I pay kagi for convenience. I recently got a new job and will evaluate in the coming months if it is still worth the money, but right now I am satisfied. Nobody else I know would pay for a search engine, so I can understand the stance, but I am really fed up with all the advertising and enshitification so I thought why not give it a try. And yes, because it was recommended here.

Mkengine ,

This was me with Reddit, my worst days were 8 hours a day. Now I spent 30 mins per day at most on Lemmy.

Mkengine ,

I’m curious, what exactly are you sending SMS for nowadays? I can’t remember sending and SMS since at least 10 years, I only receive them for some services.

Mkengine ,

I already know I will never play this game, could you elaborate for me?

Mkengine ,

This is the first result when I search with Kagi, so maybe you should switch your search engine. With Google’s degrading performance you hear more and more about alternative engines, for example Qwant and Metager are based in the EU and care a bit more about your privacy than their profit in comparison to Google.

Can you live without YouTube ?

Today in a Privacy community a post about YouTube. No word about privacy but all about which software or settings are needed to watch videos and the money needed to host videos. It made me wonder whether some of you can lead a meaningful life without YouTube. Or will a cold turkey bring the worst out of you ?

Mkengine ,

I only watch movie and game trailers on YouTube, so yes, it would not bother me if they would be bankrupt tomorrow.

Mkengine ,

Here in Germany I currently would get 1.297 gallons for $10.

I figured out how to make IPTV as easy as using Netflix so you dont have to (lemmy.myserv.one)

Disclaimer: Obviously this is for educational purposes only. I would personally never use my internet connection for anything illegal at all. I simply tested the below setup then deleted everything out of pure interest to understand how things worked and do not use any IPTV service. I love paying Netflix and other streaming...

Mkengine ,

You can pay them with Paysafecard you bought with cash somewhere though.

Mkengine ,

Which server are you on?

Mkengine ,

I have ADHD and finishing my PhD right now. My doctoral supervisor practically gave me free rein and I was able to let my creativity run free. This resulted in a new method in the field of ML that we now even have patented. But let me tell you, everything around it was hell. The teaching was exhausting, the lectures were exhausting and the publishing was exhausting. I’m glad it’s over, all those boring tasks are really getting on my nerves and I’m looking forward to working in the industry soon. So if you really consider this, don’t rush this decision.

Mkengine ,

Maybe try consentomatic?

Mkengine ,

I also have a steam deck, don’t like to play without buttons, so phone is a no go and the steam deck screen is too big for such pixelated games, so I got myself a RG35XX for 50€ from AliExpress and am super happy with it. It plays anything up to the PS1.

Mkengine ,

Meat intake reduction is my main target as well as the meanings of the labels have not as big an impact one would hope for, but at least it’s not a complete scam. I have to make sure I eat a balanced diet anyway because otherwise I get intestinal problems, so it’s best for me to eat vegetarian or vegan more often.

Mkengine ,

The most annoying thing for me is that Firefox is reloading the current tab if I switch apps and then back to Firefox. Why is this not saved somehow and needs to reload the whole page?

Mkengine ,

I have been looking for a job for 4 months now and have never used LinkedIn to search. I had very good experiences with Google for Jobs, where I could set up alerts for certain search terms and the radius in which I was searching, whereby you can also exclude cities if necessary. This meant I didn’t have to use another job board, I only used it for forwarding. Since the last rework, Google for Jobs almost always finds the company websites with the job advertisments directly, so I no longer have to look at job boards at all, a very pleasant experience. I used LinkedIn once to test it and all that came up was generic crap, it’s unbelievable how a site that’s supposed to be about professional life can be so sub-par at finding jobs. And just to conclude this post, I successfully found a job with this method.

Mkengine ,

Why do I see this online so often? Is it an educational thing? Is it an auto correct thing? Or something other? I am not a native speaker, so I have no clue how this happens.

Mkengine ,

Is there a good reason they won’t get acceptance?

Sweeping EU rules for tech giants take effect today. Here’s what’s changing | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)

Europeans using Apple, Google and other major tech platforms woke to a new reality Thursday as a landmark law imposed tough new competition rules on the companies — changing European Union citizens’ experience with phones, apps, browsers and more....

Mkengine ,

Would it be technically impossible to implement such a feature if both companies would work together or is it just too much hassle?

Mkengine ,

I never used the ingredient list to determine sugar content, since there also is a table on the back with g sugar / 100 g product. Is that not printed on the products package where you live?

Mkengine ,

Which App do you use for recording?

Mkengine ,

Until then you can use ZlUDA

Mkengine ,

Do you mean I can search for mastodon posts from a Lemmy app?

Mkengine ,

Could you elaborate on that for someone who has no clue about stock market stuff?

Mkengine ,

Not the answer you are looking for, but I use Harmonic to browse Hacker News on Android, in case the posts don’t resume.

Mkengine ,

What does poisoning DNS queries mean?

Mkengine ,

65.24% of the eligible voters to be exact, if you add the eligible voters who did not vote in the referendum to the leave voters [1].

Mkengine ,

I can’t give you an answer to the legality question, but some additional information I heard in a podcast: The acquisitions came at a time when money was cheap and people were playing a lot more video games because of the pandemic. Unfortunately, they miscalculated because money is now much more expensive again and the gaming industry has not been able to retain these players across the board. Only 4 games that have come out since then have brought in much more than the production costs, which then had to finance the remaining ~15 (all from my memory, but it should be in the order of magnitude). That didn’t work out and so now cuts have to be made to avoid burning even more money.

If you understand German, I can send you a link to the podcast, if you’re interested.

Mkengine ,

Yeah, I feel sorry for the people who are now losing their jobs over something like this as well as my personal hopes for some of the franchises.

Und hier der link :)

Mkengine ,

Use this Site, Go to method 2 -> Android and set up your DNS manually. That’s it, no more ads on Android.

Mkengine ,

And this is also only the official list, there are unofficial ports for much newer Samsung devices like the Samsung S20 FE

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