cerothem @ Cerothen @lemmy.ca

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I think the issue here is more that interacting with certain companies or services is unavoidable. As an Android user I often will have to interact with iPhone users and the impact of their vendor lock-in techniques is that the experience of those interactions is worse on both sides.

I can't convince every person to stop using an iPhone, or even just just a different messaging app, most people can't even agree what to have for dinner...

So users that take it upon themselves to try and improve the experience by trying things like beeper or beeper mini are actually trying to help others maintain their choices and preferences without the degraded experience.

So sometimes a person voting with their dollars isn't enough, since it's others choices that still have an impact

I agree, for the lay person the steamos experience in the deck is great and has no issues it installs things it plays things, most people won't need to open the desktop experience at all

Won't be long until my ai model can produce it's very own Linux distro complete with 7 fingered keyboard layouts

In GTA my insurance provider is Smith and Wesson

Yep, vote however you want, I don't care, just go and vote.

So it doesn't affect me at all but may I ask why you wouldn't decide to vote for an independent, or the republican party.

Really you should vote for whomever most closely aligns with your governing preferences. Ultimately if you dislike the platform of every party, then it should be a decision about which most closely aligns with what you're looking for.

If you were deciding what to eat it doesn't really matter if you don't like the options, eventually you have to choose something or someone else will choose for you.

Again I'm not endorsing any party or platform, I don't care about how you choose to cast your vote. I just think that everyone should vote, even if it doesn't align with my preferences or voting choices, which again I'm not saying I endorse any party specifically.

The public selects the representation every few years, the public votes them out that's a form of being held accountable. If people ignore their right to vote then that can let people abuse their positions or cause people to pander only to people who actually vote since those are the people keeping them in. D

Respectfully, I think you're misunderstanding my comments. It's anyone's right to hate how or who anyone else voted for. But not voting at all and getting upset with the outcome is your own fault.

Any person should be encouraging every other person that they know to exercise their right to select an official. Ignoring that right because you feel it's futile or because your super sure what you want will happen is a breakdown in democracy.

I don't really care who or how anyone votes but they all should be doing it.

Regardless of how you feel about the candidates the important thing is to actually vote. Going around and saying "well they both suck" doesn't help anyone.

Not voting then getting the greater of two evils from your perspective is your own fault.

Always vote, even if the news or anyone else tells you the candidate you want is a sure thing, vote even if the candidate you don't want seems like a shoe-in.

I think there's an important distinction as to which meal, a lazy breakfast is a raw bagel, a lazy lunch is bread and deli meat (or microwaved single meal), dinner is frozen pizza or some rice and meatballs

https://www.androidpolice.com/install-add-on-extension-mozilla-firefox-android/

The option to install any extension has always been possible it's just a tad more work to get setup.

I did this ages ago, I just add the extensions I want to the list and then they appear to let me install them

I feel like hourly with a fixed sale bonus would be fine for buyers.

$50/h at the location (maybe a travel fee for places far away from their normal location), and $5000 for a successfully closed deal. All buyer paid, that would mean that the realtor gets paid for work done, and but the closing bonus means that they don't have as much of an incentive to keep taking the customers to crappy places to keep the hourly going.

Selling Realtors should really negotiate a fixed figure and a bonus that goes down the longer it takes to sell, this could encourage them to suggest lower prices on homes I guess, but it's ultimately the owners decision to pick a price and the Realtors choice if it's worth the effort to sell at that price

This doesn't make a lot of sense in context, sure Texas has twice the land of Germany, but Germany has 2.5 times the population of Texas.

Though I agree Texas is likely not representative of all the USA.

You can write off an electric car in the same way you can write off a jet. It's a company expense and required to perform your role in that company.

See the following steps to write anything at all off, note poor people may not have the prerequisite assets to make buying more assets tax free.

Step 1, create marketing company Step 2, assign income to that company from your other companies (you do have other companies right?) Step 3, do fun shit with stuff you bought Step 4 have accountant write it all off as marketing delivery expenses and client schmoozing.

This is exactly my sentient.

Canada mid 30s. A car is essentially required outside of a major city but after my first two cars were manual the incredible inconvenience of crawling traffic got to me and my current car is an automatic.

I found I had to constantly hug the car in front which meant always feathering the clutch, if I didn't and the gap grew just large enough for a car to fit someone always jumped lanes into the gap.

Dennis, are we going to hurt these girls?

I work in a role that's 12h shift. With an average of 2.8 shifts a week when stat and holidays are accounted for.

I dread the day that I can't do the nights anymore and have to move into a 4 or 5 day a week role. With the nights sometimes it doesn't even feel like I lost the whole day on each end of a set.

I do this now for services in using, overall pretty straightforward once you have a basic understanding of doing one they are all pretty easy.

I think that there is a misunderstanding about the purpose Beeper is trying to solve. It's about consolidating all your chat services together into one place. Google messages is SMS/MMS/RCS. Beeper or by extension the whole matrix platform with bridges can roll almost all your services together, gchat, sms, mms, RCS, Facebook, iMessage, discord, WhatsApp, signal, telegram, slack, instagram, etc.

It's like fight club, and we follow the rules