dantheclamman @ dantheclamman @lemmy.world

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I appreciate everything the .world admins do. As a mod of a community here, I also agree with the general concept of letting the community downvote posts that aren't actually harmful in terms of hate/abuse. That being said, I think it would be wise to reformulate and reduce down this post to a straightforward announcement: what events precipitated this policy change, what are going to be permitted kinds of content, and what is not allowed. This post is just a kind of wandering philosophy right now.

https://youtu.be/Gy0ylOts1tI

It's my right to say it's shitty behavior and I look down on it

I have a 2018 XPS 15. I really like the machine but have also had more problems than any other laptop I've owned. The chassis fell apart spontaneously because an internal screw mount snapped. 1 month repair. Had to redo the CPU thermal paste to resolve overheating issues. Had driver issues with audio coming back from sleep that took me a year to figure out. Had to turn off Thunderbolt to get USB-C back functioning. Memory card reader keeps unmounting itself. Doesn't have TPU, so I had to jump through hoops to get W11, which I need for some work stuff. Just a lot of drama. The screen is still wonderful to this day, and it has a nice keyboard, weight, and performance with 32 gb ram and faster SSD, but I don't think I'll get a new Dell. If I'm going to spend so much time tinkering with the laptop, I'd rather have a Framework that's fully designed for tinkering

They seem to pathologically not be able to help themselves, even with products that don't need to be promoted that way. I used Outlook for Android for years because it was actually quite good. Had a multi account inbox view, true dark mode, Galaxy Watch compatibility when those were all rather unusual features. But then they started trying to put Bing search in my long press menu system wide, using Outlook as the Trojan horse to do so, and I just found that too obnoxious

I could see the strategy making sense to release something as the current cycle dies down. His previous expose of the color blind glasses happened over several months

MegaLag has other videos coming. I would assume Honey is also selling a shit ton of purchasing behavior data

I did a double take at first- PiHole, how could you!!

Yes, as mentioned in the first sentence of the article

That seems to be this guy's MO, judging from Honey. Sell an invasive browser add-on via intensive youtube ads and convince gullible people they'll get free money from it

Most people don't think of that. Out of sight, out of mind. Our minds are better adapted to react to immediate, visceral threats (such as a garage full of exhaust that can be smelled, maybe seen). We need education to be able to understand threats that are diffuse over a large area or take long periods of time to manifest. Even with education, most won't react as strongly to a threat which has a high chance of reducing our lifespan by five to ten years, as we will to a threat which has a small chance of killing us immediately.

That's definitely true. Didn't think about inflation. I still think $70 is a lot more than the many other ways to play, including inexpensive older games, Steam sales, Epic/Amazon giveaways, etc, all of which have "good enough" graphics for me

No, Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit owning a for profit corporation also called Mozilla. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation

The NYT article doesn't mention that new AAA console games often cost $70. I have not bought a brand new game in years because I just can't justify that cost. I have such a huge backlog between PS4 and PC, that there is just no reason to buy new games

The recently former CEO, Mitchell Baker, made almost 7 million! It had increased exponentially in recent years

DDG i's a private company. Mozilla is nominally a nonprofit but clearly is not running itself like one

They could have been exposed to legal liability to report on a business partner like that.

The drones doing airstrikes might!

The headline says hospitals. And they would be forced by this bill to administer ivermectin