About 300 Arrested in Berlin on New Year's Eve Incidents
Roopappy @ Roopappy @lemmy.ml Posts 0Comments 97Joined 2 yr. ago
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As arch users, we would never need the help of some low-level IT person though. That would be ridiculous.
I remember back in 2017, I didn't really need any big desktop apps anymore. All I used was Salesforce, Netsuite, O365, Postman... I asked my company to just give me a Chromebook. Now I hate Chromebooks and I could very much do my job on a Linux distro mainly using web apps if needed.
My IT dept would never allow it because they can't install security software on it. Obviously I'd be pretty safe from malware, but they'd have to trust that I set up firewalls and password protection because they couldn't enforce a group policy, and their data loss prevention tools wouldn't work.
Yeah, don't do this, and you should be fine.
Never at any time in history in any part of the world has there been affordable spacious housing in a city. This isn't something unique to the modern US nor is it the result of government.
If the average person wants to live in a walkable area, they live in a small place. That's how it works. It's a city. People can even raise a family there. The option exists. It sounds like you don't like that option. That's not anyone else's decision being forced on you.
I don’t want to sound flippant, but there are places to live in the US where you can walk to things. People choose to live outside cities and old town areas because it’s cheaper and bigger.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that this isn’t some nebulous countrywide “It’s everyone else’s fault” thing. People can and do choose to live close to things. We choose what we want.
Oh no!
Anyway...
Kinda. I'm using Elementary OS right now, and I think of it more like a Chromebook... with more options to expand it.
From the Description:
Jan - Google fired 12,000 staff including their head of health and wellbeing
Feb - Google said employees must come back to the office and share desks. Bard (Chat GPT competitor) launches.
March - Google gave data to the police to help prosecute abortion seekers after Roe vs Wade was overturned. And they fired multiple staff after giving birth.
April - Google announces cost-cutting measures including cutting back on staplers. Google, Meta and X propose an alliance to combat misinformation.
May - South Korea fined Google for anti-competitive practices and Google continued to sell climate disinformation ads (after promising to stop).
June - Google replaces it's fired workers with "low-paid foreign workers" and donated to an anti-abortion Republican Committee
July - Google uses our data to train Bard and increases the cost of YouTube Premium.
Aug - Google offers staff an on-campus hotel room for $99 a night. And YouTube ads may have led to the online tracking of children.
Sept - Google Pixel Watches have no parts or repair program and Google Maps led a dad to his death over a collapsed bridge.
Oct - Google's AI consumes as much electricity as Ireland and Alphabet hired an underqualified man (who didn't even apply for the job) over a woman.
Nov - Google backs out of building affordable housing in the Bay Area and spent $26 billion to be your default search engine.
Dec - Google caught putting ads on adult websites 🌽 and McDonalds is using Google AI to test if your fries are fresh.
You joke... but isn't that what Amazon Sidewalk was invented for? And isn't it sort of what AirTags do? They don't connect to the internet... they connect to partner devices in ways that are unseen by the owners to co-opt their internet access.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if Samsung TVs without internet access are using nearby Samsung phones to connect to the internet. Or maybe they partner with the ISP to use those default guest wifi networks. If news broke tomorrow that this was already a thing, it wouldn't surprise me at all.
This may be unpopular to hear... but most of the justifications for not having roommates are like the ones in this thread. People say they can't have roommates because they have social anxiety or other people are just jerks.
To an older person it sounds like "My generation can't have roommates because we don't get along with other people, and they don't get along with us." That's not an economic problem.
It's actually far far more worrying than that. What happens to a generation that has no ability to coexist with other people? What happens to the world when they are in charge of it?
Surprised to not see anyone in here mention Movies with Mikey (on YouTube under FilmJoy). He does really thoughtful movie analysis with great audio and video production. He's one of my favorite creators.
He's also on Nebula for people who'd rather see a video edit that can employ fair use without being taken down automatically.
Maybe he figured out that he's actually being tried in an admiralty court, or that the state is trying his person and not his individuality. That happens a lot, I hear. Most people just don't realize it.
I’m an American and I had a pretty decent job out of college and the idea of moving out of my parents house without roommates was impossible. In fact I don’t know a single person who did it.
Not to pick on you specifically, but I've never understood the modern generations' seeming aversion to housemates.
I had housemates from after college until 7 years later when I had a wife, starting in the mid-90s. My mom had housemates in the 60s after college (my dad had the GI bill, which afforded flexibility, but had other drawbacks).
It seems weird to me that people these days seem to think that's unacceptable. That's how people do it when they are just getting started. Either that, or they live somewhere less desirable, far from cities, small, old, crappy. Personally I did both... housemates in a rural area in a shitty place. :)
In January, I thought I was going to be asked to leave my job. In June they gave me a huge promotion.
I've resisted making an account at Walgreens for years and years. The last time I went in there, the prices for things I wanted were literally double if I didn't give them a rewards number. Fucking ridiculous.
I also just joined in the past month. You're welcome
I did because I was on a different Fediverse link-aggregating forum that was pretty quiet and getting quieter, and all the communities and threads I saw over there came from this instance. It just made sense to join directly so I could post and get proper notifications.
The supernova from Rexxit sent a lot of small pieces flying out everywhere, but things will start to aggregate back down to a few winners over time. I went to Squabbles, Kbin.social, and then Discuit... but now I'm just here and Discuit. I like Discuit's look and feel and users, but it's not super active.
That checks out. I live near a college town where for 2-3 years there was a rash of "college riots" where police tear-gassed everyone in the streets when they felt it was getting out of hand. The solution to keeping the students from rioting ended up being... stop sending cops out there. Everything was fine.