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I know my uBO has saved me from some hostile shit. So yeah it's a part of my browser security. I have it configured to a stricter blocking mode so it's not just blocking ads for me, it gets other stuff that can be a problem.

Anyway I'm aware of the Manifest V3 business and being on Chrome I'm just waiting for the hammer to fall before going to Firefox. If they start adding DRM as well, I'm out of there quick.

Yeah, yeah, I know, just go to Firefox now, but I don't really want to deal with a new browser and all my custom stuff until I have to. I'm old and that shit is super hard to motivate on for me. Not to say I'm inept, I mean I've spent my whole career in tech, but old dogs and all.

Electric boats are not something new. Pre-nuclear military submarines were electric with batteries charged by diesel generators. There are some industrial boats that use electric motors powered by diesel generators. Same for freight trains which have been using that configuration for many years.

A substantial generator is required for a large electric power boat, no way around it. It may not need to run full time if there's a battery, but it would still need to supply the bulk of consumed electrical power. Not really any environmental benefit. Though there are some other benefits in terms of operating costs.

It's possible to go all electric without a combustion powered generator on a sailboat. That's feasible and you don't need a $10M boat to do it, can be done with any sailboat. Though one thing is a boat must have a reliable motor to be seaworthy. You'd still need a generator backup. In that article they state the featured boat does have one. It would have to support the full electrical load of motor, charging, and accessory so I'd expect it to be pretty hefty.

The title of that article is a fallacy really. Sailboats are environmentally friendly anyway. Doesn't matter if they have an internal combustion engine or electric motor. You only use the motor in situations where you can't sail such as tight channels or doldrums. That's infrequent enough to be negligible. Though I have seen people who own sailboats just motor them around all the time. You gotta wonder why buy a sailboat if you're just going to motor everywhere, but people do it.

I spend more time on Lemmy. More interesting content, more commenting on my part.

Yeah I think they're already off the cliff arms flailing.

I won't go out of my way to insult. The best revenge is to just move on and forget. I understand the motivation because some people feel a genuine loss. In my case I only used Reddit for a few years and it was never a big part of my free time activity so it was pretty easy for me to do that.

I think it would take half as long to die as it did to become a monolith. It's almost twenty so ten years. But I don't know, could happen faster. I'd say for sure it's not going to get any bigger. How much growth have the other major media sites seen since the profit mongering started?

Yeah it's crazy when you think you might not be able to tell you're talking to a bot. Just the other day I saw a TV commercial that was using an AI generated narrator. I had to listen close to tell for sure.

Well cost is the main consideration. I mean most would consider cost per kW primarily. Efficiency only counts for something when it's a factor in cost. It's good when solar panels can be smaller, but in utility installations space is usually not a limitation.

I think it's closer to 90%, but 75%, for sure. Livestock farming is hugely more resource intensive than crop farming. And there are good plant based substitutes for the nutrition you get from livestock products.

The environmental impact is what motivates me to eat plant based food over livestock based. Also the cruelty in industrial livestock farming. There are positive health benefits in removing livestock based food from your diet, but that's actually a lesser motivator for me. I'm not strict about it by any means, but I take any opportunity to avoid livestock products when I can.

These gaming companies have no moral bounds in what they'll do to manipulate people into giving them money. It really is criminal, but law is usually ten even twenty years behind tech.

Yeah that always goes well for your company when you replace customer service with bots and outsource labor to cheap markets. But then the customer is always shit, so standard practice.

That's how it is in the USA, an employer can fire an employee for any number of reasons that don't involve a crime.

An employee does not get any guarantee of employment. Getting convicted of a sex crime will definitely get someone fired, but an employer can fire someone simply for being counterproductive. Though most government jobs do require a number of official complaints first.

For contract work common in entertainment there are legal obligations. An employer can break a contract at will, but it may end up in court if not settled privately.

Well I didn't spend all that much time on Reddit, I actually spend more time here because I reply a lot more and find stuff I'm more interested in reading.

For me it was easy because Reddit was really my only outlet. Never been a big social media user, but I've been using forums as long as I've been on the internet (a long enough time not to admit). So yeah it was a pretty easy transition other than a little bit of a learning curve in understanding how Lemmy and the Fediverse works.

That's an avoid for me. Marvel and DC were fun and entertaining when they first came on the film scene, but now they're just movie mills rehashing the same old slop. Box office performance indicates I'm not the only one who feels that way. But nothing against people who like their stuff, I'm just done with it, like listening to the same old song too many times.

I think it's a night and day difference, I can actually post stuff here without getting attacked over some triviality.

I believe its mostly a product of the much smaller community. I think more negativity may creep in as popularity increases.

Anyway, yeah, have an upvote.

Heroes (2006-2010)? That was one of the most boring and monotonous serial shows I've ever attempted to get all the way through. I watched every single episode of that suck fest hoping something would happen, nothing ever did. Just the same old thing over and over. I was like an obsessed gambler thinking the next one was going to be the big score. To this day Heroes holds a special place in my heart as the most disappointing waste of time serial show I've ever watched all the way through.

BTW, I liked SG1 and Atlantis, both were good shows and I watched most if not all the episodes. Never watched 200 so no comment on that one. Some remarkable ones I've seen lately; The Mandalorian, Star Trek Strange New Worlds, Black Mirror, Silo. Some awful ones; From (for lack of a cohesive plot) and Last of Us (for being gratuitously violent).

I agree with the point that people can be rabid about their belief in hard left ideals. Isn't that like trying to terrorize people into a subscribed ideology? There's a word for that.

I mean I think it's fine for people to have differing opinions about social issues, but when they try to hurt people in any way they can because they don't agree, that's just wrong. My position on an issue can be changed through an intelligent argument, but attacking me is going to make me dig hooves into the turf.

Even on Lemmy there’s a hard left slant.

I don't think I'd say hard left, but probably left to some extent.

I'm actually kind of odd in that I can be hard left on some issues and hard right on others. In any case, when I make right hand comments they seem to be tolerated here. The hard left stuff I don't agree with I just gloss over, I'm good.

Only instances with a ".ml" at the end of the name may or may not be affected. Lemmy is a collection of instances so the loss of a few will not cripple the whole thing. Content over the whole is not greatly affected.

If your home log-in instance is one that's affected, you'll have to find a new one. You'll know right away because the instance will be unreachable. Not a big deal, last time I looked there was over 1200 instances to chose from.

Another consideration is any communities living on an affected instance may have issues. All communities are common to Lemmy, but each originates from a particular instance. We've not yet seen a major instance go down so I don't know how Lemmy deals with communities getting orphaned like that.