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  • Nice, right now I use Shizuku and an app called Darq to force some apps dark. This would save me that effort!

  • People can follow and comment to my WordPress from the fediverse. My posts are long enough that they don't really look right on Mastodon (and images all show up as attachments rather than inline), but nice for shorter format blogs

  • I do the same, but I've run into a bottleneck where Joplin syncs encrypted notes really, really slowly to local storage. So looking to switch to hosted Joplin server

  • I find the average atheist seems to be more familiar with the messages of the Bible than many of these people who claim to spend their Sundays studying it.

  • The perplexing thing is that unlike Thunderbird, I have never seen them ask for donations

  • Or I ask to go to Costco, and where Assistant previously would route me to the nearest one, Gemini sends me to one 80 miles away

  • Fortunately, at the farmers market, you can usually look up the farmer. Eg, visit once or twice just observing, seeing who gets visited by regulars, Google the farm name to look up details and reviews, etc

  • It is depressing, but I try not to forget we are seeing a sort of survivorship bias of stupidity on the former Twitter at this point. The cohort of remaining posting accounts is dumber and dumber on average. And this dynamic is magnified in the replies, because they are paid blue accounts at the top. Eg, self-selected losers. (The top account has likely just hidden their checkmark)

    Edit: PS, are you still using Nitter? I thought it had died?

  • Many supermarkets are enshittifying/rent seeking too though

  • Yes, this is the problem. Not much choice, and most of the corporate ones are moving to various shitty practices. Oddly enough, many of the big corporate chains are now closing locations en masse, such as Rite Aid

  • Some stores have started requiring the app to get your prescription. Happened to me. They actually made me install the app before they would fill my Rx. I stopped using that store and went to another neighborhood.

  • This is interesting timing! I was considering trading in my Pebble Time, since Samsung was running one of their "trade in any smartwatch, any condition" deals. But I couldn't do it. I found myself reconnecting the watch and setting it up to connect to the third party Rebble servers and putting apps on it like the old days. It's remarkable how well this device aged, and its interface is still so much more fun and endearing than anything WearOS can offer. So I wish them the best!

  • Yeah, the article discusses it. It was unique here, though, that everyday Subaru employees have a way to see at least a year of location history for all customers, with no restrictions

  • Andy Greenberg is a great security journalist and Wired is not a rag. It's a legendary technology magazine with a lot of great coverage. Journalists deserve to get paid. The article has a lot of broader context and interviews with the security researchers, Subaru and other experts. Plus, it's not even a hard paywall. Delete your cookies or find one of the myriad other ways to read it such as the link above. Or don't. Your loss

  • They want a raise. I expect they also want more headcount. Go to a Costco warehouse in a major city and it's absolutely wild how overrun they are. People are buying from Costco because buying in bulk is the only way to make it with current food prices.

  • There was a point in time in OG Facebook, maybe the early 2010s, when they let you have really granular control of the timeline. Like they allowed any post to be clicked and you could change the amount you saw from that person or page on a sliding scale, and it actually worked! They of course got rid of it

  • Which is amusing, because the UX for Facebook, X and TikTok are horrendous also. So much stuff buried under layers of settings

  • It's just another mask he wears, and I think even the gullible trumpers aren't really buying it (yet)

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    science @lemmy.world

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    Mike Johnson, new US House Speaker, has close professional and personal ties to the Creation Museum

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