I think it still needs to grow and get more stable. I find any browsing all that there isn't enough there for me to use it in the same way I used reddit.
For the first month or so, I would say it was about 40% of my SNS usage, now it's probably about 20-30%. Hopefully as more and more people use it, we get more users and more stable instances.
Not just living in the US. I’m thinking they’re on some legacy plan where just using mobile hotspots were extra.
On my kind of old t-mobile plan, I can use hotspot. And when I was a grandfathered Verizon plan I could use it too. Same with the MVNO I played around with a few months ago.
There are limits though, which is BS. But just using it to get through a temporary residential internet outage is included in a lot of plans in the US.
I already cancelled my Disney+ subscription earlier in the year. I'm just letting it ride out. After that, I will either do the subscription hopping thing where I only sub when something I want is airing, or just add Marvel stuff to my piracy rotation.
We disagree on this point, I think the news orgs are the good guys.
Facebook brings traffic to these sites. News does not bring traffic to Facebook. There's only one side profiting from sites like Facebook sending them traffic and it isn't Facebook. There's a reason why most (I want to say all, but I can't swear to that) countries that pulled similar moves weren't just OK with Facebook and Google just not serving news. They know they get their traffic from social media sites now, they just also want to be paid on top of that for some reason.
I would never consider sending a .7z unless I had no choice. It's like sending a .ODT instead of a .DOCX. There's just no reason to make things more complicated.
If anything, that is low. Cable bills can get truly outrageous depending on what you add. You get an NFL or MLB subscription, a few premiums like HBO and you can have a $200/month cable bill.
This is the best way, but it doesn't work in every scenario. At my last apartment, I was basically unable to get OTA channels. Too much of the sky was blocked, and I think radio interference from a nearby military base didn't help.
In my current condo it works mostly well, but I do get some skipping and drops that can be annoying during a long game.
Biden won because black women liked him and they actually go out and vote in the primaries, unlike the louts in this thread who are literally talking about how they won’t vote.
I think that goes with him being uncontroversial. Black people in America are fairly conservative, and politically they like to go for people who can win that aren't too radical. Biden was that candidate.
IMO, Biden was nominated because he was a fairly uncontroversial (by mainstream sensibilities anyway) white male candidate who also isn’t that attached to many positions that would threaten the powers that be.
Biden is a weather vane that swings in accordance to the winds. Which is all that was needed to beat a historically unpopular candidate like Trump. Thankfully, Trump is such a bad option that even Biden can be a palatable candidate.
Why this fossil didn’t bend the knee and allow another younger, more exciting candidate step up for 2024 is beyond me though. But I guess seeing the average age and mental capability of Congress, it shouldn’t be surprising. IMO, everyone over the age of 65 should be ineligible for elected office. They are at retirement age, and have no real, justifiable stake in the future. They should retire with the knowledge they won life and can live out the rest of their days in comfort and leave running the country to people who have skin in the game and the energy/mental faculties to actually play it.
But those same people don’t work in office either, they just walk around and bullshit all day.
I am way more productive at home than I am in office. Partly purposefully out of spite, and partly because my home work space is better in every way than my office environment. Quieter, more comfortable, better equipment, better internet, even better resilience because of my UPSes.
It is obviously. Just look at what Lemmy and Mastadon are. The whole concept of the fediverse is trying to get back to old school, smaller and less controlled services like message boards, IRC, etc.
Most younger, less tech savvy people don’t care about those principles. They just want a cool place with a bunch of people.
Hopefully the balance will shift a little bit to get more diversity and more users in general. In the last few days, stability issues and lack of content have lowered my engagement. It’s early days still though, so hopefully the people developing and hosting these sites keep plugging away and more people come to make it worthwhile.
Yeah, that’s what I mean. There have been small changes, but nothing major and if the other poster was right, even minor changes haven’t been made since 2004.
Meanwhile Apple has come out with APFS and *nix variants have multiple file systems, each more modern than NTFS.
It is weird to me. Here’s hoping reFS or some other file system comes out.
Can you explain more, because the way this is written I'm not sure how they would do that technically.
Assuming this is Google, I could maybe see it with things like Gmail. Text is easy to scan and ads in things like Youtube videos are dynamic so they could be doing that. Same with something like Microsoft and Outlook.com.
But listening to actual conversations (as in phone calls) at a large scale and then using that to put dynamic ads in videos or search results seems impossible to do at scale.
Yeah, I definitely was. I think that gave them PTSD or something because they haven't even tried to make moderate changes to NTFS since. And besides ReFS which I hadn't heard about until this thread, they haven't even done something as minor as give you an option to use different file systems like ext4.
It is weird to me that Microsoft hasn't updated the file system in so long. They were going to with Longhorn/VIsta but that failed and it seems like they've been gunshy ever since.
This is all his supporters. The fact that so many of them believe the COVID vaccines are bio weapons killing everyone who has died of a heart attack in the last few years, but they still support the guy who supported their creation under his administration should tell the tale.
I think it still needs to grow and get more stable. I find any browsing all that there isn't enough there for me to use it in the same way I used reddit.
For the first month or so, I would say it was about 40% of my SNS usage, now it's probably about 20-30%. Hopefully as more and more people use it, we get more users and more stable instances.