ThePrivacyPolicy @ ThePrivacyPolicy @lemmy.ca

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Yep. Just like everyone that was going to leave Netflix when they axed account sharing, but then just made their own accounts and went on with life. I'd see a similar thing playing out here for all but the more technical users who may start switching.

A coworkers brother works for a big architectural firm in our city and said they're absolutely slammed with office building conversion projects right now. A lot of office tower tenants have made it clear they aren't renewing leases and the owners are all starting to plan new lives for the buildings in this new world. It'll be interesting to watch things start to happen in the coming years!

I snapped a probe of a bltouch from a forgotten print on the bed :( after that day I added a webcam into my octoprint setup!

On the upside, went crtouch the second time around because if had a shorter metal probe.

Even when I do tip, and tip well, they now add so many other stops in between my food and my house that it still arrives cold anyway. I've largely stopped using them now too. They were convenient during peak pandemic and our newborn phase at home, but running out to grab take out really isn't the end of the world again now.

Former 2012 Forte owner here - first engine made it to 90k, second one was knocking already about 2k in. Basically walked from a freshly paid off vehicle and bought a Toyota.

Huge industries emerging in this field right now for everything from this type of social media moderation to helping fight CSAM more effectively so humans aren't having to be a frontline for that type of material. This is one area I can really, really get behind AI on and see a very valid use case that isn't just marketing hype like so many others. I know there's some great stuff happening just based on my own field of employment and being close to a few things in the works this year.

I downgraded from the top tier to that grandfathered one when they announced it was going away. Not holding my breath it'll be immune to price hikes for long. We haven't watched anything on there in months and will definitely cancel if they hike it.

I feel like with the storage space and bandwidth needed for something like that that anyone with the money to start a true competitor would probably just be another mammoth tech company we all hate just as much :(

I feel like with the storage space and bandwidth needed for something like that that anyone with the money to start a true competitor would probably just be another mammoth tech company we all hate just as much :(

This is incorrect unless you're providing a source. I follow several space nerd sites and they do dedicated launches. Here's an article even showing the payload setup - which fills the cargo bay. https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/02/20/next-spacex-launch-to-deploy-fewer-starlink-satellites-into-higher-orbit/

Here's a source that debunks that claim. This has a picture of the cargo bay for a starlink flight - she full, and full only of their satellites. https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/02/20/next-spacex-launch-to-deploy-fewer-starlink-satellites-into-higher-orbit/

I'm not a public servant and my company uses Canada Life - hands down the absolute WORST company for benefits I've dealt with in my life. They regularly deny things we have coverage for, despite paying regularly for those things for many years. Email and support - forget about it. Every email I've ever sent them has an average response time of 6 WEEKS and it's usually some bullshit response that requires another reply from my side, and another 6 week turnaround for a reply back. I know it'll be several months to resolve any issue I need to email them about. It took us the better part of a full year to get thousands paid for fertility stuff that was fully covered under my plan - we literally did the treatment because the coverage was there and were stuck floating the money while they gave us the runaround. Everyone around our office has horror stories of these guys, HR even jokes about them.

Although I haven't set mine up yet, I feel like RSS is the best way to go. There's lots of news aggregation apps out there, but we need to keep in mind that those are all using some sort of algorithm to determine what surfaces to you, and that if you aren't paying for the app that they need to make money somehow and keep pulling you back in - without knowing how the algorithms work, these could be favoring news that's "engaging" which isn't necessarily an even distribution of everything from the media outlets you like to follow. RSS gives you exactly what you put into it for feeds and you can determine what to read or skip over at least.

Having said that, even my 83 year old father can navigate his way to CBC, CTV and Toronto Star without issue, and he still gets a paper home delivered. He’s only ever gone to FB for family stuff, never news. I’m not sure how much effect Zuck’s hissy fit is going to have on most people.

I recently got a library card with comes with free access to PressReader. To be honest, I've found myself really enjoying reading digital copies of paper newspapers again through it. I can finally just read an article and not have to have it immediately followed by all the bullshit comments that social media and the direct news agency websites have. It felt so simple and fresh.

Something tells me Meta would be a-okay leaving the Canadian market if Trudeau tries to pull something like this.

Nature would finally heal itself. People would rejoice in the streets. I hope social media in it's current form dies off in my lifetime.

Same. With our first kid almost here we're starting to realize this isn't going to be a place that has much of a prosperous future for him. Our politicians want us to be USA Jr. so bad, our polarization is stronger than ever, and most of our main industries are run by a few oligarchs that no parties care to break up. My wife works for an EU company so we've seen and talked first hand with many friends over there and despite their own problems (no country is problem free) it's a region of the world that has a lot more to offer for social benefits and securities for families, and they have much less of a divide that all the far right nut jobs are sewing all over North America in recent years. Considering our options over the next 4 years.