lone_faerie @ lone_faerie @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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No, it's when people realized it's a scam

The tech bros had to find an excuse to use all the GPUs they got for crypto after they bled that dry

I've been leaning more and more towards using fdroid just to find apps and then using Obtainium to install them directly from source.

Over time I've curated the list of creators I watch, so my recommendations are pretty good at feeding me what I like, though I do usually have to scroll through a lot of junk. And when the recommendations aren't doing it, I'll just manually go to a channel I like and find something and the algorithm will quickly adjust.

Patreon takes a cut of your money and gives the rest to the creator. Youtube does the same thing with Premium, plus creators receive a higher rpm from Premium viewers than they do from ads. And people left Reddit because they stopped supporting 3rd party apps. Youtube never supported 3rd party apps, plus there's no suitable alternative to leave Youtube for.

Also, I'm not completely fine with Youtube Premium, but the pros outweigh the cons enough for me to justify paying for it.

Do I hate giving money to Google? Yes. Do I watch 6+ hours of Youtube a day? Also yes. I almost always have something playing in the background throughout my day, so it's the one service I'm ok paying for and I don't have to worry about it breaking like I would with other frontends.

It's because when banks make loans, they sell of the debt, but nobody has wanted to buy the debt for Musk's loans. My understanding of this is essentially, if someone takes out a loan of $100 million, the bank will sell that debt to an investor for $101 million, and the investor will make back $102 million once the loan is paid off due to interest. But no investors are confident enough that Musk will pay back his loan so no one is ponying up the dough to buy it.

I'll bet every dollar to my name that Ken Paxton will attempt to overturn this

Isn't that ideally what the government is supposed to be? We can't all individually fight for ourselves, so we vote for people to represent us and work to protect our interests. That is, if politicians actual represented their constituents and not the highest bidder.

Trump's handlers

I love how this makes him sound like the zoo animal he is

And she's there to give them a voice. The people who are against Nazis don't want to be spoken for by a Nazi

This is exactly why we should have 4 day work weeks. Especially when you replace "shop" with "doctor's office"

I used to find stuff like this fascinating. Like if collecting my data can help me, why not? But technology has gotten to a point that it's just straight up creepy how our every single waking moment can be tracked and collected, even if it's me collecting it. It's like watching every dystopian sci-fi story come to life in real time.

Can we stop making everything digital? I can't see a single benefit of turning my license plate into a screen

The recent Disney lawsuit reminded me of this. In order to get those deals, McDonald's makes you use their app, and part of signing up for the app is agreeing to their ToS which has an arbitration clause

Shokugeki no Soma

They're already laying the groundwork for claiming the election was stolen

Bbbbut... cOmMuNiSm

Tasker is the reason Android is so much better than iOS

This reminds me of Flexplay, which was a DVD that had a coating which made the disk unreadable after 48 hours. Technology Connections did a wonderful video about it.