coyotino [he/him] @ theangriestbird @beehaw.org

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Seperating from my opinion of the headline - this shit fucking sucks. Just in general I hate the current state of the housing market, with large corporations buying up homes and renting them out or then sitting on them for tax breaks. Not shocking that these fuckers are also taking advantage of people that have just gone through terrible loss and disaster. Just sucks that these sharks are swimming in the waters and no one is doing anything about it.

i mean...they already have the versions with e/OS? Does that not fit that bill?

the Beeple are very passionate about this particular server. I think other servers have a lot of folks that would be fine with jumping to a new server if they had to, but i cannot really speak to that.

I think Fairphone would say that they want you to keep using the FP4 forever, replacing individual parts as they fail. Their goal is the reduce waste in the smartphone industry, that's why they make it so easy to maintain your device. Maybe eventually the main processor on your FP4 will be too slow to keep up with even those light apps. At that point, you come back to Fairphone and buy whatever the latest one is.

And as Sunshine said, continually releasing new generations of phones keeps them enticing to the vast majority of smartphone consumers that don't already use a Fairphone. I'm literally looking at this new one and considering if that will be my next smartphone when my Pixel 7's battery starts to turn. Seems like a pretty good deal to me, tbh. Might finally rip me from Google's grasp.

Probably would have been better to have a longer headline that doesn't assume readers know where Altadena is...

Regrettably...they kinda do. At least for studios like Obsidian and Double Fine, the landscape has become very grim. They are studios of a size that is very difficult to keep afloat in this environment. Investor funding in the gaming segment has dried up post-COVID, and these kinds of mid-level (or higher) devs were very reliant on that kind of funding. In light of that, these studios may have seen Microsoft as something of a safe harbor. They knew these layoffs were always a possibility, but I think it was better for them than the alternative. Or at least, it was the best choice for the people leading these studios prior to their respective Microsoft acquisitions. The devs that are being laid off are not the same people that signed off on the acquisition.

great tip, checking it out now

interesting. thanks for the info!

osm seems like a mess. your comment got me poking around my local area to see if they had marked a recent road closure i was aware of. They hadn't, and the Walgreen's next to the road was marked as a generic building. I dug into the editing tools, made an account, and made some edits. Then I tried asking OSM to give me directions to that pharmacy, and it just says it can't find a route. lollll great thanks OSM.

It seems interesting as a hobby to keep up with. Feels like editing Wikipedia articles but you're getting in on the ground floor, so your individual contribution is way more valuable.

they won't. Medicaid in many states has a name other than "Medicaid". For this reason alone, most Republicans are too stupid to realize it's a different name for the same thing.

thx for adding the context

Hell yeah, this is cool. Anyone have experience using O Maps or CoMaps for day-to-day navigation? I've never thought of going FOSS for this sort of thing, I would love to give Google one less piece of my data.

This is an incredible turnaround after it seemed like the initiative was stalling just a few weeks ago. Keep those signatures rolling if you can! As others mentioned, there is still a value in new signatures because some will be invalidated. Let's finally get a win for media preservation, eh?

I'm supremely happy to read this good news, but it's outrageous that Flint residents had to even lift a finger to get this problem solved, let alone campaigning for years on end. Access to clean water should be so heavily regulated that the state and federal government should know about the issue before residents even notice. The fines for letting the situation get this bad should be so massive that cities are incentivised to take action before it becomes a national headline.

Just want to take this opportunity to call out that Cass Sunstein is kind of a hack. If you actually read Nudge, you will find a book that never clearly defines what qualifies as a "nudge". Early in the book, a "nudge" seems to be strategic decisions that use small changes to create big impacts. By the end of the book, Sunstein is using "nudge" to refer to huge policy changes that would require years of campaigning for legislation. Sunstein rode the momentum from this vapid book all the way to getting an advisory position in the Obama administration.

If you wanna know more: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nudge-part-1-a-simple-solution-for-littering-organ/id1651876897?i=1000611711937

okay now you're straight up lying so I'm gonna block you. See ya later.

Luke Plunkett asking the real questions. It must be nice to be a CEO, just failing constantly with the security that you will continue to make millions per year for years to come. If I made this many miscalculations in my job I'd be unemployed within 6 months.

Ahhh omg 😍😍😍 I've never seen so many colorful ducklings before, they are absolutely adorable!! Thank u 4 sharing 🙏

That one is a reincarnation of Ganon.

When you create an account and the only thing you post is about Lbry, and the only posts you comment on are your own, it is suspicious. Reddit is plagued with astroturfing like this, and Lemmy is a reddit-like site. It is not unreasonable to be suspicious of an account like yours. If you want to deflect suspicion, go engage with more communities and comment on more posts.