RunawayFixer @ RunawayFixer @lemmy.world

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Deragotory language, generalization & stigmatization. It is hate speech against all liberal minded people, there is nothing kind or reasonable about it.

Someone else already commented how tankies got their name.

Tankies in the comments can generally be recognized by:

• Anything that a liberal democratic country does is bad.
• Authoritarian regimes such as China, Venezuela, Russia, North-Korea, ... are somehow the good guys, no matter how well documented their transgressions against human rights are. Tankies defend Russia's invasion of Ukraine for example.
• Because tankies want to present some atrocious regimes and people as the good guys, they have to twist the truth a lot. So they constantly lie and misrepresent/omit facts to push their false narrative.
• Since they're not interested in an actual discussion or non tankie viewpoints, they employ non-constructive discussion techniques to score points and "win" arguments. And this last bullet point is mostly why everyone else hates them.

There's 7 featured posts, which I assume are stickies made by the moderators. The 3rd post after that, so the 3rd actual popular post, is "fucking libs are still making excuses in the comments". Such kindness and reason ...

Where I live I mostly see this done to support the narrative that immigrants are bad, that you can't trust traditional media, and that you should be voting for the local fascist party.

Afaik the place names and date are not changed here, I suspect because that would make the perpetrators criminally liable. Instead they work by omission: take a many years old crime, don't mention the date but instead post it on facebook as if it only recently happened, in that post question why the media isn't mentioning this event or how the non-fascist politicians could let things get this much out of control, and then boost the post with help from others in the telegram group so that it reaches a wider audience.

It definitely is unfortunately. Source: not an American.

Why do people hate Lenovo and Razer? From what I've read in the past early Razer laptops had a battery problem, but that was it. I can't recall systemic laptop design issues. And Lenovo has a malignant bloatware problem, but that's not a problem at all if going for Linux. So I'm out of the loop on what's supposedly wrong with these 2.

For good graphics performance in a smallish package, I like Lenovo Legion.

If graphics aren't a concern, then I have no more specific recommendation, too much choice. I like flip style laptops, but I don't know if those have proper Linux support. I'd also look for a screen larger than 14", but with thin bezels.

The worst build laptop that I've ever held in my hands was from MSI. Cooling problems that made the fans work almost permanently at full blast (even after repasting by the shop), underperforming for the specs, a chassis with too much flex and a broken screen hinge after slightly more than 2 years (just out of warranty). When I looked up the screen hinge problem, it turned out to be an old recurring problem that MSI never bothered to fix when releasing new models, like they couldn't be arsed to give a fuck.

This laptop was bought in about 2017 or 2018 after which I put MSI on the do not buy list. It's possible that they've improved their quality since then, but I doubt it, given that I can find the same complaints in forum posts from 2024:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threads/are-hinge-issues-still-a-thing.343279/page-5

LTT is entertainment, I wouldn't expect in depth reporting from them. They don't have that anal retentive attention to details/all angles that Gamer's Nexus or Louis Rossman have. If LTT made videos where they attack stuff that they think is wrong, then I'd expect them to go on their face more often than not. And attacking large companies with a poorly constructed case, would always come back to bite them in the ass.

Very few people can do the kind of repeated reporting that Gamer's Nexus and Louis Rossman do + stay in business. I can't blame LTT for sticking to what they're good at (superficial entertainment).

"That might make me look advertiser unfriendly!” Not what I was saying at all. I said that in the context of the time it might have made them look unnecessarily greedy to the public + provide free advertising + extra users for Honey.

I don't enjoy watching ltt anymore since a good few years, but I'm still going to come to their defence :)

They discussed dropping Honey on their forum in march 2022: "We ended the partnership with Honey due to the way their service interacted with affiliate links. Essentially, if someone clicked on a affiliate link (For example, one of ours below in the video description on YouTube), and then if they "use honey" and search for a deal, Honey will override that tracking link even if they don't find you a deal. ".

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1415146-weekly-sponsorship-suggestioncomplaint-thread-feb-28-2022/

When they defended themselves against the recent accusations, that they didn't make enough noise when dropping Honey in 2022, their defence was that they thought that only creators were disadvantaged (a few 100 people?). They claim to have been unaware that the users of Honey (the hundreds of thousands of LTT viewers) were being disadvantaged as well. They also seemed to be unaware that Honey's behaviour is likely illegal, at least LTT made no mention on the legality of it. https://therecenttimes.com/news/linustechtips-addresses-megalags-honey-allegations-defends-transparency Which checks out with their 2022 post.

If they had known that the users of Honey were being bamboozled as well, I'm sure that they would have made a video about it. But making a complaint video to basically say that an ex sponsor was stealing some of their marbles, might have given a bad look. + given more publicity to Honey, which LTT probably didn't want to happen.

Trustpilot doesn't have a way to verify if the reviewers are actual product users, so their system is very vulnerable to review bombing. Allowing review bombing can also harm their credibility. It's a catch 22 for them: damned if they suppress review bombs and damned if they don't.

Trustpilot's method and/or communication could probably be better, but what Google is doing is the worst possible way to go about it: On the chrome webstore page there is no indication whatsoever that anything is amiss, Google is just silently removing all recent negative reviews. Atleast Trustpilot tells visitors that they're temporarily not accepting reviews and that it's because of recent news.

Aggregate scores on all sites have become untrustworthy, they're just poor first indicators now, but reading user reviews is still very much worth it imo. It just takes way longer to figure out whether a product is good/bad than it did 10 years ago. Once ai llm catch up with writing credible texts, then that method will be toast as well and then we'll be really screwed when choosing a product.

And I kinda understand why they're blocking new reviews. Trustpilot doesn't have a way to verify if the reviewers are actual product users, so their system is very vulnerable to review bombing. It's a catch 22 for them: damned if they suppress review bombs and damned if they don't.

Trustpilot's method could be better (Fe: they could allow reviewbombs to happen and show 2 scores, with and without), but what Google is doing is probably the worst possible way to go about it: On the chrome webstore page there is no indication whatsoever that anything is amiss. Atleast Trustpilot tells visitors to go check the news.

I actually can't believe that I've been defending Trustpilot, they've always had a repuation of selectively removing reviews, but well, Google is now worse than them.

Honey in the chrome webstore: 4.7 stars. With no clear way to see written reviews, just the aggregated stars are visible.

Honey in the firefox add-ons store: 3.2 stars.

Honey in Trustpilot: 2.7 stars. Closed for new reviews since 4 days, but old reviews and history are still accessible.

Google manages to do worse than trustpilot. Google is once again confirming what a useless company they've become.

Against a dark background

I read a science fiction book from Iain M Banks over the holidays that was set in a rogue star system that was millions of light years away from the nearest galaxy. No matter how advanced that society could get, they would never be able to travel to the nearest star. They were doomed to isolation in their 1 star system basically. Compared to that, a mere 40 light-years at least gives the hope that it might one day be possible to travel there within a few life times (or less) of traveling.

Your 30 seconds search turned up 2 results at the limit of what this family could afford, without including the additional costs such as utilities, parking, ... + all other stuff that the other person mentioned. Which means that those results are significantly outside their budget.

If their budget is 1200 $/month, then they cannot afford an apartment with that list price. My guess would be that they could afford a list price of 800 to 900 $/month, maybe 1000 $/month if a parking spot was included in the rent. But I don't live there, so this is just a bad guess.

And the Palestinian genocide and your other examples aren't "worse" in any metric (yet). The use and misrepresentation of those examples just tells us that you're a tankie who engages in whataboutism and spreads untruths to build a narrative.

I agree with your point but I think the Palestinian genocide is a bad example. Imo better examples from the top of my mind: the Rwandan and Cambodian genocides likely were far worse both in absolute numbers and as a % of the population, and the policies of Maoist China got many more people killed.

That system of vector maps is in popular use atleast since the 1970s, so when Google maps started, they could just collect existing gis (geographic information systems) maps. I wasn't born yet, but I expect that countries/companies started digitizing their old maps in the 1970s and 1980s and that paper prints after that were based on those digital versions. And countries without good maps to start from (too large/remote/administratively weak), probably started their digital mapping projects based on aerial photos. And when Papua New Guinea finally starts with a digital mapping project, they can start straight away from satellite photos :)

Still better than old school linear tv, where you paid to watch things being constantly interrupted by paid commercials.