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octopus_ink ,

And? I’m not a tankie and not a marxist. Hell, I’m not even a socialist. Hell, I identify as a leftist, but I bet lots of folks would tell me I’m nothing of the sort. But I’d rather be on an instance with folks to the left of me than to the right (to the very, very minimal degree that I care about who else is on my instance). I don’t remember why I didn’t sign up for .world, but at the end of the day does it really matter?

The only impact I’ve seen are smear posts like this one, and folks who dismiss opinions if they see a user is from .ml. shrug If that’s as far as folks can look, I’m not interested in talking with them anyway.

I have hexbear blocked in my own settings; if folks want to block .ml that’s no skin off my nose. Ain’t respecting user freedoms great?

Dessalines AKA “parentis_shotgun” on Reddit, is the main Lemmy dev,

So I see you are on a Lemmy instance. If we’re going to smear instances based on the politics of their devs, I’d think you wouldn’t want to use ANY Lemmy instance.

octopus_ink ,

No D next to his name, and they are pretty sure he’ll hurt only the right people, so they are cool with it.

octopus_ink ,

As someone living in the UK, I almost want him to get in to see what happens.

This was a reasonable 2016 viewpoint. I’d prefer not to hasten my country’s descent into an authoritarian nightmare, please.

octopus_ink ,

It’s almost like they are trying to shoehorn AI into anything and everything regardless of whether it is a good fit, and regardless of whether the technology is ready, and regardless of the outcome. Like blockchain. And IoT. And Angry Birds. (j/k on that last one. Kinda.)

But that’s none of my business, I’m just a puppet frog drinking tea.

octopus_ink ,

Take an article from a reputable publisher, an article for a subject that you are expert in.

Read it and make note of facts they got right and got wrong.

This is what got me to shake free of some podcasters I placed far too much faith in at one point in the past. When I realized how slanted and fucked their opinion was on things I knew about, it put all their other opinions in a much different light.

octopus_ink ,

I wish I could just go 10 minutes without using terminal.

As someone who prefers using the terminal for many common tasks, it’s hard for me to imagine what is forcing you to the terminal that often.

octopus_ink ,

In reply to the same comment you replied to: lemmy.ml/post/16506777/11480556

octopus_ink ,

I’ve got a bad feeling that a Governor’s pardon doesn’t have a legal avenue for being reversed. I hope I’m wrong, and IANAL, but I have a suspicion that even though this was absolute horseshit we’re going to be stuck with it.

octopus_ink , (edited )

I guess that’s technically accountability. Doesn’t sound like much of a punishment.

And this is damn near a unicorn. (and likely would have been swept under the rug without cam footage - just like every other case where cops see justice) Just like one black president didn’t signal the end of racism, a small percentage of cases where someone OTHER THAN taxpayers are on the hook for police misbehavior doesn’t signal the end of a need for reform, it signals a nearly imperceptible change to the status quo. I’m grateful for the change, but it’s barely a start.

octopus_ink OP ,

Imagine if everyone going to bullshit meetings actually did something productive for society, or did something that they themselves found fulfilling.

At some point I’ve decided this is at least 25% of the point of most of the Star Trek storylines, and I’m here for it, sadness and all.

octopus_ink OP ,

Like even accepting the premise that this works (which I don’t really), there would be any number of ads to be made about how Copilot can attend meetings for you, and you can just keep working instead and not have to be bothered with it. But no somebody made the ad thinking that increasing the meetings was the part that people are gonna get excited about.

I feel like this is the same guy who told the Kellogg’s CEO to suggest that folks struggling to pay higher prices for basics should try cereal for some meals.

octopus_ink OP ,

That really doesn’t lessen my horror.

octopus_ink OP ,

it was never about making anything better for you.

And that’s why it’s posted here.

octopus_ink OP ,

Remember, you’ve already got the generation of folks who watched the transition to computers that were supposed to make their lives “easier” become instead “you are expected to do far more with your workday because we made it easier for you.”

Right now it looks like “wow it will lighten my workload” but what it will look like in the end is “now we can expect more productivity per the same unit time from our workers.”

I’d love to be wrong, but 1% gonna 1%.

octopus_ink ,

This looks like one of those cases where being a country of written laws can lead to weird outcomes. Yes, the right to vote should be universal. But, if the law, as written, doesn’t say that, then that’s not really the law.

Without looking deeper I all but guarantee that these are relics of Jim Crow or earlier. They are a disgusting stain on our country, but not nearly as disgusting as those who would try to leverage them in the modern era for the sake of dragging us back to that era.

octopus_ink ,

Why would they ever stop with their ridiculous bullshit? As far as I can tell they get no pushback from users because the masses just roll blissfully along, and the tech-knowledgeable who still use Windows just find out how to disable the things they don’t like, shrug, and move along.

It’s really clear by now that you are nothing but a datamine for MS if you are a home user, right?

octopus_ink ,

46MM Galaxy Watch here and I can get 24H or sometimes a bit more provided I switch it to night mode when I’m sleeping. Still using AOD, cont HR monitor etc. Yeah, this old thing is getting long in the tooth, but I came to it from WearOS, really don’t want to go back.

Not a lot is appealing to me in the smartwatch market currently. Good for my wallet, I suppose.

octopus_ink ,

To a degree it depends on settings. But consider that I’ve been using this watch for 5 years or so, and I have all my settings more or less “maxed out” regarding consumption. I don’t even have auto-brightness on because I always found it annoying for it to adjust when I flicked my wrist - I just have it locked at about 80%.

But yeah, most smartwatches that I’ve ever been familiar with are getting a couple days when new unless you turn off features. (Bear in mind the newest thing I have first-hand experience with is my original Galaxy Watch, and which I am currently still wearing) I want to say I was making it 48h + when new, but that was so long ago…

For typical smartwatches when I see impressive claims regarding battery life much longer than that, it usually turns out that the person has turned off one thing or another that I don’t want to turn off.

Look at Hybrid smartwatches in general, and in particular some of the Garmin models (pack a lunch, there are a LOT of Garmin models, some very similar to each other) for super long battery life, I think.

All this is just IME, and I don’t pay really close attention to smartwatch tech except peeking every couple years to see if there’s anything that might convince me to move on from my Galaxy Watch. I do like some of the Garmin hybrid models, but I’m not sure I’d like them longterm.

octopus_ink , (edited )

Plus WOS is just better than tizen, hands down.

It’s changed a lot since I moved off my Huawei then. And the primary reasons I went Tizen when I did were the glacial pace of software improvements and the shitty “upgrade” they announced to the SoC all the WearOS devices were using at the time. I don’t recall the details of the crappy qualcomm “upgrade” aside from remembering that it really wasn’t one in practice, and solved neither the battery life nor performance problems of WearOS at the time. (not even sure they were calling it WearOS then, IIRC they changed it from the original name around that time)

A used watch 5 pro (or just buy a new one) can be had for like $160. I can leave all my stuff turned on and I always get over 48 hours.

I’m not surprised a watch several gens newer is going to get better battery life than my original GW, but I don’t find I’m fussed enough about anything about it to spend money on an upgrade currently.

octopus_ink OP ,

The Dropkick Murphys albums This machine still kills fascists and Okema Rising are both great modern albums with Woody Guthrie inspiration/lyrics.

I was just thinking I needed to post a couple from This Machine Still Kills Fascists. I’m not familiar with the other album though, I will check it out thank you!!

octopus_ink ,

I have been on the firefox train since it was new. I witnessed the rise of Chrome and Chromium, and never really felt the pull, and worried about everyone targeting the same platform. Figured I’d stay on FF until I had no choice. Don’t see myself leaving.

octopus_ink ,

Sure it is. Everyone starts trying to be sure things render correctly on Chromium based browsers and nothing else. Next thing you know people say “Wow Chromium based browsers render pages more reliably than everything else” and then you end up somewhere not too differently from where we were heading. Everything that’s not based on Chromium starts getting tossed aside.

octopus_ink OP ,

Yeah, it’s an unexpectedly wholesome song. 🙂

octopus_ink OP ,

New bit of trivia for me too! LOL.

octopus_ink ,

This has bothered me for years. It’s a really strange thing to be telling younger relatives about how you legitimately could not drive any substantial distance without windshield cleaner at certain times of year. I remember them being plastered across the front edge of the hood and against the radiator after a long trip.

It’s one of the most visibly different things about the world today, IMO, and it’s a little eerie.

Trump supporters try to doxx jurors and post violent threats after his conviction (t.co)

“We need to identify each juror. Then make them miserable. Maybe even suicidal,” wrote another user on the same forum. “1,000,000 men (armed) need to go to washington and hang everyone. That’s the only solution,” wrote another user. “This s— is out of control.”...

octopus_ink ,

There will just be another quote from RATM to take its place. Been listening to them a lot lately - there are so damn many relevant quotes in their music…

You’ll never get away! mwuhuhuhuh

octopus_ink ,

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/30f23952-aec6-48f4-aaeb-9a82c51b6632.jpeg

octopus_ink ,

Well, we do know what kept those things nourished so they could grow so big.

Clearly it was the pencil rain.

octopus_ink ,

shockedpikachu.jpg

octopus_ink ,

This piece of shit.

The footage shows at least one officer chasing Sterling on foot into a Burger King parking lot when a large grey SUV veers into the lot and hits Sterling, appearing to pin him against the restaurant wall.

After the SUV reverses away from him, several officers converge on Sterling and order him to put his hands behind his back. Sterling repeatedly screams, “My back,” and groans in pain. After his hands are cuffed in front of him, Sterling continues to complain that his back and entire body hurt.

…

“The case will hinge on several factors: Would a reasonable person with Keely’s police training believe that hitting Sterling with the car would have a likelihood of causing serious injury or death? Was that use of force reasonable under the circumstances?” he said.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/cb789a48-ce5d-4064-b14c-2e2f53b1f6ca.jpeg

octopus_ink ,

Is this an app, a website? I need to start finding those woke businesses so I can be sure to buy from them.

octopus_ink ,

Thank you!

octopus_ink ,

Their DEI link is to Rick Astley. (bottom of the page) Hardee har motherfuckers

They handily provide a link that ONLY shows you the woke brands - I will be moving as many of my purchases as possible to those brands. Thanks buywokefree.com!

octopus_ink ,

The Rickroll at the DEI link does make me wonder if I’m being too credulous.

octopus_ink ,

Well I’ve got some news for you…

octopus_ink ,

Time after time maga proves to be as bad as any seemingly hyperbolic comments made about them by others.

Basket of deplorables indeed.

octopus_ink ,

Seriously the cybertruck stories have really made me question how much regulation there really is regarding car safety.

How are we, the public, watching this soup sandwich play out in realtime and there’s nothing actionable there for regulators?

One more aspect of my faith in our governmental systems starting to take a beating on this one.

octopus_ink ,

Yes, but when the next one has radioactive waste or a biohazard in it…

octopus_ink ,

Dear Netanyahu,

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e6862f63-1750-4841-8f06-699934996f54.png

Sincerely, Everyone

octopus_ink OP ,

Even this video ends with police escalation and instigation of physical conflict. That was a very threatening cardboard sign, I guess.

octopus_ink ,

Ah, I misunderstood the point you were making, I apologize for my assumptions.

Much as I hate ads (and especially targeted ads which involve datamining by corporations), I’m still not convinced this is something that can win in court, but I do see the distinction you are drawing.

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