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Myrbolg ,

I’m worried that after years of layoffs, they have become a custom. It feels like companies were deliberating laying off people for longer before that, avoiding bad news. Nowadays, ‘everyone’ is doing it. And nothing prevents them from over hiring and firing in large amounts over and over again.

A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology (www.businessinsider.com)

A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology::A photo shared on Reddit showed one of the vending machines with an error code suggesting it used facial recognition tech.

Myrbolg ,

That’s my assumption as well. Man in a suit checks out the machine? Bump it up. Couple checks out? Bump it up.

Myrbolg ,

It really does offer a lot for the very low price of 1000€, astonishing.

Myrbolg ,

Couldn’t agree more. I went from a Google fan boy to a Google skeptic during his reign.

Myrbolg ,

Yep, same thing for ClickUp, a competitor. Pretty much the only thing they talk about and seem to work on is AI, which comes at a high price and does not really add much benefit.

Myrbolg ,

So posts are going up, users go down. I know that millions have been purged, but the loss looks much more organic.

Myrbolg ,

Interesting, I joined recently, followed a couple of people and hashtags, posted and got responses which I didn’t expect as I was there for a day.

Myrbolg ,

Or simply that prices have become insane. Good phones used to be around 400, taking me a few days to think about it and say yes. Now they are beyond 1000, so I will do my best to avoid having to upgrade and go with custom ROMs again. In the meanwhile, we also lost exchangeable batteries, external SD cards, and microphone jack, and we gained more Google spyware and bloat.

Myrbolg ,

For Search I use Duckduckgo (free).

For Mail, Calendar and Contacts I use Fastmail (free or paid, I use the paid version).

For file storage there’s plenty of alternatives (Dropbox etc.)

For browser I use Edge, but it is also built on Chromium. I will make my choice once the recent Web Environment Integrity topic has become more clear.

Myrbolg ,

Really? They proclaim to free the world from pay walls, the just take the money? Hypocrites.

CHROME (google) is planing to implement DRM (kinda) into their browser (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

looks like rendering adblockers extensions obsolete with manifest-v3 was not enough so now they try to implement DRM into the browser giving the ability to any website to refuse traffic to you if you don’t run a complaint browser ( cough…firefox )...

Myrbolg ,

I moved to Fastmail a couple of months ago and it is fantastic. Much prefer it to Google Mail, besides the privacy improvements.

Myrbolg ,

Ha, that brings back memories! Had a few of those. Amazing they are still in use.

Myrbolg ,

Thanks for that, looks pretty nice. Though I’m concerned now trading Google might block your account for using it.

TIL Alice Walton (Walmart heir) killed a pedestrian in a driving accident and was never charged. She has also been arrested for DUI twice but never charged. (en.wikipedia.org)

The sketchy part is not her not getting convicted. It’s that no charges were even filed. I also enjoyed this bit of info from one of the sources regarding the other DUI incident. Prosecutors in Texas have dropped a 2011 drunken driving citation against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. heiress Alice Walton.

Myrbolg ,

Yes and no. At billionaire level I expect they have other people taking care of who is available, and with that a mint of money you can easily keep a backup available as well.

Myrbolg ,

Too bad as I just found it a week ago, but totally understandable.

Myrbolg ,

God damnit. I though Samsung got better.

Myrbolg ,

Ha, yeah. That’s what’s holding me back the most. Somehow it worked with Twitter.

Email self-hosting

As the title reads, I really want to begin hosting my own email server again. I’m sick of the poor quality of the service providers out there. Damnit all I want/need is a reliable IMAP/SMTP provider. I spent 3 hours getting off of Hostinger and on to Zoho. I just hope Zoho won’t suck. It’s great for now but we’ll see....

Myrbolg ,

Fastmail is king.

Myrbolg ,

As someone signing up for lemmy.world, my reasons were:

  • It sounds official or at least less obscure than “.ml” or "sh.itjust.works"
  • It sounded inclusive (we’re all part of the world, so to speak)
  • It was in the list of default instances of Connect for Lemmy

Otherwise, I didn’t give much though to which instance to pick.

Myrbolg ,

Honestly, once apps are improving (though current ones are actually pretty nice) and more users are here - what would I be missing from reddit? Nothing. When I need old content I use Google to get it from reddit, but for anything new there is not a single feature I miss dearly (might be different for moderators).

Myrbolg ,

For me it is lack of commercial interests (ads hidden in post), lack of bots, and lack of "funny meme and jokes’ posts.

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