MrMcGasion @ MrMcGasion @lemmy.world

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Mine (early LCD model) has "Made in China" on the label, which even if most of the parts are made elsewhere, if final assembly is in China, that's the tariff rate that will apply.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if the SteamDeck doubles or triples in price before long. We already knew Valve wasn't making much, if anything, on them, and with a 245% tariff, I kinda doubt they'll just eat that.

But what qualifies as social media? We can all probably agree that Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Reddit, etc. count, but what about say Discord or WhatsApp? How about browsing older forums (like open ones where you don't need an account to read them)? What about news articles or blogs with a comment section? Is a wiki social media? Depending on how you define it, the majority of the internet could be considered social media.

Plus there are plenty of sites that just won't ever bother to try to comply. For example, I live in one of the more stupid states in the US that has required age verification for porn sites, PornHub has complied by just blocking their site in the state with a notice that they won't implement a system like that for privacy reasons. But they and their sister sites are the only ones I've seen that have bothered to make any changes. The same will inevitably happen with social media. You're just going to push kids to shadier corners of the internet that don't care about laws, and they're gonna end up radicalized by nazis, or taken advantage of in worse ways.

The whole problem is parents who don't want to be parents and tell their kids they can't have a smartphone. And I get that the dumbphone market is kinda limited, and that some parents just don't care what their kids are exposed to. But trying to fix this problem by changing the internet is never going to work. The only way to fix the problem is to have a spine and make appropriate changes IRL - like banning smartphones for underaged kids in school, or show your full distopian side and prosecute parents who let their kids use social media.

Yeah, check lists in Notes could really use some improvement for sure. Honestly, just now looking through the Github for the Android Nextcloud Notes app it looks like there's a good deal of technical debt that has been stacking up over time from trying to bring more modern features to what started as a minimal text-only notes app.

There is a way to enable "grid view" in the app settings for the more post-it view that shows the first part of the contents, but doesn't seem to show on notes with markdown formatting, so anything with a list doesn't show a preview.

This is the tune I thought of (apologies for linking a YT short, but it was the only version I could find)

There's also a longer YT Music version here, but I'm not sure if it's a premium thing or not.

How much do you think we could crowdfund to buy out some foreign prisons and turn them into revolving doors that the US government pays to take prisoners, and then just lets them go. Unfortunately, I'm sure I'm not the first person with this idea, except the others with the idea are human traffickers who want slave labor.

Alternatively, we steal Elon's dumb tunnel digger, and go put a basement door in some foreign prisons now.

The Nextcloud Notes app for Android does have a couple of widgets (note list and an individual note), is there widget that is missing?

Yeah, right after the election, we all had a few days of reckoning with ourselves in realizing what we allowed to happen, and realizing that maybe the US really is just like this. And then a whole bunch of people, turned their own guilt around on trans people, and people who were against funding a genocide, and the concept of "woke," blamed them for the loss, and convinced themselves that they aren't responsible for what happens now.

And to Americans, I know that there are limits to what we can do when Trump has majority support of every branch of our Government, and we're rightfully scared of what they'll try to do to dissenters. I know how strong the temptation is to sit back and smugly watch the FAFO roll in. But we also need to be loudly rejecting this whenever we can, otherwise we're going to normalize it for a generation. I know it's gonna be difficult. I have some family members who are in the cult, and I don't know if I can talk them out of it. But sitting around waiting for my parents and grandparents to wake up on their own, or pass away isn't a good plan either.

Wasn't there a limit on how much of an extension Trump could grant? I'm having difficulty finding articles about the first extension he gave them, but for some reason I was thinking that he legally only had the power to give them 90 total days of extension. Not that Trump cares, and not like he's following any laws about limits on his power.

I do agree that Trump managed to destroy the image of the US in a few months, he's not actually the sole reason. It's the ~33% of the population that voted for him again that really destroyed the image of the US.

The world has known for a while that Americans are dumb, but the fact that we not only let him run for president again, but let him get elected again is the real loss of trust. We (in the broad sense, probably not any of us actually in this thread) voted for a felon, and as far as anyone can tell democratically elected a man who had already made us the laughing stock of the world in the past. They graciously forgave us once, and then not only did we not change, we doubled down on crazy. We're a democracy, we're all also a bit responsible for the destruction of our reputation by allowing this to happen and continue. Even those of us who have never voted for Trump.

Considering USAID was instrumental in the ending of Apartheid, it would not surprise me if that's part of his plan already.

Honestly considering his just-announced 24% tarrifs on Japan right after this price came out, I would not be surprised if we get more of a price jump before release.

Based on their current management model of "desks on wheels" they'd probably be most comfortable becoming a worker-owned coop. I know I'm in dreamland, but it would be amazing if they could go that direction when Gabe is gone.

Fluoride occurs naturally in many plants and if you drink tea you are drinking a similar amount of fluoride to what they add to water. It won't do as much for your teeth if it's sweet tea, and some other aspects of tea can stain teeth. But humans have been drinking fluoride in beverages for thousands of years, it's not some new poision we invented and started adding to the water without being sure it was safe.

Relatively few musicians are counting dollar bills. Publishers are, Spotify and the tech-bros who have inserted themselves between musicians and their fans are. But the musicians writing protest music are busking on TikTok in the evenings after working day jobs to afford rent. I hate to recommend a sinking ship, but unironically, if you are looking for music about the current moment, it's on TikTok. Some of it makes it's way to other platforms, but the average person won't find it because music discovery on the mainstream music platforms is curated by corporations who are out to make money for the big record labels.

When Dodge released the Caliber, the first one I noticed was on a billboard, and from a distance I said "oh that car looks kinda cute" and when we got closer I was able to read that the rest of the billboard said "The all-new Dodge Caliber: It's anything but cute."

Oops.

Couldn't find the exact one I ordered a few months ago, but this type of pressure sensor aliexpress link is apparently a common bed occupancy sensor type used when building medical beds for hospitals and care homes so staff can be alerted when a patient gets out of bed. I'm not sure the specific model I linked is quite right specs-wise, but the idea is that it goes on a slat or other surface between the matress and the frame that doesn't necessarily get the full weight of the occupant, but still gets enough to measure on the sensor.

Dirtier than the ones I've been to within the last couple of years, but I'm also comparing a Wichita KS area Steak-N-Shake to Seward and Columbus Nebraska Amigos/King Classic - so maybe not the most fair comparison.

I bought a silicone soldering mat on ebay a few months ago, deliberately bought it on ebay to avoid Amazon. It was delievered by Amazon, in an Amazon envelope, the ebay seller had just used their Prime to have it delivered to my address, and charged an extra couple dollars over the Amazon price. Wasn't very happy about it, but what a hustle that person is running.

The thing is, I think our attention spans are too cooked to be overwhelmed like that anymore. A new crisis every 20 minutes? I can get through 40+ tiktok videos in that time, and half of them will be about something they are trying to terrify with (trans rights, science defunding, bird flu, racism, palestine, the oligarchy, luigi, etc.)

The old media can't keep up, but I'm in my mid-thirties and even my old brain can handle being pulled in dozens of directions and still think about/remember Luigi, unprompted, multiple times a day.