Zedstrian @ Zedstrian @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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"Look at all this data on your computer taking up space! Let's store it in the cloud to lighten your load (and, more importantly, use it for marketing, tracking, and LLM training)."

-Invasive AI Agent

Something that only it seems to have, versus the others I compared it to, is a "headline" view for the feed. It's essentially an extra compact version of the compact view, putting the post's community name in line with the upvote, downvote, comment counts and post age. Only saves a bit of space compared to the comparison I made a few minutes ago in trying Thunder's compact view, but most of all it makes the feed less cluttered, in my opinion.

Arctic on iOS; prefer it to Voyager, Mlem, and Thunder due to having more customization options.

That's like arresting a criminal for doing something right.

Social issues aside, diversity is profitable, as it minimizes missing business opportunities due to groupthink. Therefore, even for terrible companies like Comcast, it would be financially irresponsible to not implement DEI programs.

Deleted Apple Maps in favor of Organic Maps at the suggestion of another Lemmy user yesterday. Although it lacks live traffic data, given the lack of centralized userbase location tracking, and scrolling on the map could be a bit smoother at times, I'd rather use it than a platform willing to implement fascist place names.

I'm hoping that toll road avoidance also works better with Organic Maps, since Apple Maps oddly seems unable to give non-toll directions if you accidentally get on a toll road and exit to return to a non-toll routing.

Thanks for the recommendation! Can't remember why I hadn't tried Organic Maps when testing alternative options, but already glad to see the Gulf of Mexico keeping its proper name. Going on a roadtrip in a few days, so I'll get a chance to properly test it out then. 👍

Switched from Google Maps to Apple Maps a couple months ago, and I'd like to Switch to an alternative that doesn't implement fascist place names, but navigation with toll road avoidance unfortunately doesn't seem to be a common feature 😕

Alrighty; thanks for the reply 👍

Tragic irony, when it's republicans that are a measles, tuberculosis, and covid risk...

Oops, guess I'm next on the chopping block right after Tom!

To HR office,

Walking into the office this morning, I saw Tom in the parking lot, waved at Tom, and wished Tom a good morning. Tom then asked if I had seen Phil, wondering how "he"(!!!) was doing. I reminded Tom that of the newly-enacted no-pronouns policy and informed Tom that Tom should be careful in the future, or Tom could face consequences for not following policy!

As a good friend of Tom, I know Tom didn't mean to sound too liberal by it, but for Tom's own good I had to remind Tom of his mistake.

Sincerely, -Loyal NASA Employee

/s

He's off to a bad start; announcements like that only serve to increase anti-Christian bias, mine included.

At least in the case of the Hisense TV I got for my grandparents, a "glitch" with accessibility controls (makes directional inputs unresponsive or multi-press at times) just so happens to make remapping the sponsored remote buttons impossible, as well as breaking the most common method of changing the system launcher, so screen size alone isn't everything.

Although Hisense still tries to reinstall sponsored apps after I delete them, using Launcher Manager to set a custom launcher that allows for the hiding of unwanted applications and channels made it much more usable for my grandparents.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to redirect YouTube voice input commands to SmartTube Next, so if I ever replace it, that'll be a factor in my decision too.

Billionaires bought the election; enough propaganda, both via manipulated social media platforms and marketing in swing states, can buy anyone willing to be the stooge of private interests the presidency.

Most Americans don't deserve to suffer at the hands at such corruption.

That's the equivalent of them being thankful for Israeli "investment" in building settlements after killing or displacing Palestinians and stealing their land. How anyone, let alone Arab Americans, could see it any other way, is far beyond me.

Hopefully at least half of them stick around; the MAU count is much more impactful in terms of post frequency and variety than the total number of users in general.

The affordability of a Pokemon game being $120 after factoring in the cost of its two DLCs?

Also deceptive for them to list it on the Play Store as having 500,000,000 "downloads", when the vast majority of those are non-consensual automatic installations.

MKVToolNix Batch Tool should be able to do it automatically, assuming the subtitle format is supported.

"And reduce the surplus population" -Scrooge