cosmic_slate @ cosmic_slate @dmv.social

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This is an endemic problem on Lemmy and is part of why I'm mostly done with it (I'm just lurking around right now to keep an eye on my instance I'm decommissioning).

There's no point in trying to build a community with a very hostile environment for anything that doesn't align with the very odd hostile-against-everything-not-OSS zeitgeist.

Take a look at !tesla@lemmy.world. The folks downvoting don't even own EVs and just spam bad takes on News and Politics communities.

Ironically Reddit is a healthier place.

I’ve been on this rock long enough to know this will carry on for more than just during the primaries.

It’s going to be a long 6 months, for sure.

On the other hand, the phone just works, upgrades between devices are seamless, and the phone retains value after 4 years.

Plus, the backup restoration is insane. If you stole my phone, I’d be back to where I was within an hour or two — all of which is driving to Apple and waiting on a sales clerk to pull an iPhone from the back, then going to a store owned by my cell carrier to register the device on their network. No device re-customization at all in the equation. There is nothing like it on Android.

5GB is a lame amount for a base tier of storage in 2024 but it’s hardly abuse.

There’s just some really salty people who browse /All.

I’ve banned a couple of people who’ve been downvoting random things in my instance because they don’t even live near where my region targets (based on their post history).

For fun, look at the Tesla communities, it’s littered of random downvotes from salty people.

I’d eventually like to see a feature to limit voting to communities someone is subscribed to. Sure it can be worked around but it would take a smidge of effort. But there are probably a trillion more important things in the backlog.

Sounds like they are going to transition to just video content because they can make more licensing videos than publishing content online and relying on ad/stream revenue.

Challenging when mail is valid is very bad for elections, but the second-order effects of this are going to be crazy if these cases are cited for other matters.

1. election related, but this screws over a number of service members
2. federal tax deadlines are going to get exciting for everyone who doesn’t e-file and waits for the last few weeks
3. anything involving a mail notice period would require more time for the notice to be mailed out and provide a longer period for the notice to be responded to.
4. filing an insurance claim? Postmark date matters. Change the precedent and you might not have your claim be processed until after coverage lapses if your mail goes missing for a bit of time

Really, no business dealing with mail and regulatory deadlines should support this, it seems like it will introduce an insane amount of risk

Thanks for typing out a well thought-out, well-reasoned response! Much nicer than a trite one-liner. I am in full agreement.

I can't help that people are spending more time typing than reading.

TIL stating a fact means I support it.

Did I open the wrong app this morning on my phone? Is this Lemmy/Kbin or Reddit?

It takes all of 45 seconds to respond in a civil manner without throwing up strawmen.

Have you seen how the Supreme Court has been ruling on the Second Amendment over the last decade-and-change?

Where did I say it’s right that cops get a pass?

This isn’t Reddit.

What you’re saying doesn’t make any sense at all.

Cops are extremely difficult to sue directly. Your city/town pays for the settlement. They already have insurance: you as the taxpayer.

This kind of reaction-driven response does nothing to help countering police misconduct or information around it but whatever’s good for the upvotes I guess.

Edit: And yeah, the bill seems to target some police on this matter, but I really, really doubt it's going to do much about issues related to police brutality.

The DNC needs to embrace the Progress Action Fund style. But the DNC is too weak or they really just like having Republicans be elected.

https://youtu.be/RvWQ4K5vwSk

https://youtu.be/oHSXrtv_1RI

There’s only one LoL and a lot of its players like it specifically for its gameplay. If I’m going to be preachy to my friends, I’ll save it for something that matters.

If you’re convinced you’re saving the world, by all means do as you desire.

I’ve been using it for months and maybe popped back over to Google only a handful of times.

DDG is okay but it’s miserable in comparison. I haven’t tried Ecosia long enough to form a proper opinion but my first impressions weren’t great.

The only people who actively rail against it seem to be the standard group of Fediverse who are… a bit too online 😉

Ironically this comment is upvoted and my original one is downvoted lol.

I just don’t trust games targeting Windows and it’s far easier to throw stuff on a second PC, put that on my guest VLAN, and not worry about what happens anymore. If it’s not a root kit, it’s installing some persistent game loader or other crap that doesn’t need to run 24/7 on the same machine I do my taxes.

End of the day, if friends want to play something, I'll happily join them. We only have ~80 years on this planet and I'm not spending them being forever upset at things I cannot change about the world that have no real significance.

Valorant already has 25 million active gamers who don't care enough to ditch the game for the anti-cheat. All 500 players who decide to uninstall LoL over this simply won't matter to Riot.

I think it's only reasonable to maintain a separate computer for gaming at this point. Yeah, I get it, it's expensive to maintain two computers, my point stands.

These kinds of blobs aren't going away. A lot of game studios put their developers under an insane amount of pressure so I'm skeptical that security is given the attention it deserves...

Wow that article pointed out a lot I didn’t know about Oregon. Thanks history classes that skip this!

Thanks for sharing it.