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Perhaps, but this is what was advised by the doctor, so I don't know

I'm not in the US, but one of the issues I have with medical insurance is that, say you need medication, the doctor will provide you with a prescription, requiring a specific brand due to the efficacy compared to other brands. The insurance providers would reject claims for the prescribed brand, and suggest an inferior brand that doctors warned to avoid.

This happened to my older folks, and is baffling why insurances feel the need to override a doctor's recommendations.

I just roll with all 3 🤷

• Signal for friends and family
• Telegram for my own personal bots and hobby development projects
• WhatsApp for the rest of the friends group that refuse to switch to signal

My personal top 3:

• insurance
• subscriptions
• Google and similar data hungry companies (while not a financial scam but moreso a privacy scam, companies like Google and Meta profiteering on our personal data without our knowledge or awareness)

They go by Vaccine Hunters. I don't think they are active anymore but you can find their history here: https://vaccinehunters.ca/about

What says about them is market performance. Year over year growth for the past 3 years, 60th in top ecommerce sites for electronic-related domain.

https://ecommercedb.com/store/dbrand.com

We can judge all we want by their approach, but their performance numbers don't reflect your theory. Perhaps you're not their target demographic, and that's ok.

How do you feel about Karen's Diner? Their whole shtick is to be rude and unprofessional to customers. Same goes for dbrand. It is their brand to be unprofessional.

Canadian governmental entities (at all levels) aren't known for their innovative thinking. Throughout the pandemic, regardless of your position on vaccines, the main fact that it was a group of volunteers in a discord channel that were responsible for the information shows the archaic state of digital communication in Canada. Frankly embarrassing by global comparison.

The irony is that it is on brand for them to be off brand

True... How would governments enforce dumb laws like that on open source software anyway?

Been doing so over and over. The problem is that the recommendation model is pretty basic. You start watching a new channel or new topics, your recos start being mostly about topics related to the new channel/topics.

If I'm subbed to 200 channels, rarely do I get recos from channels I've subbed to early on. As a dev, I would love for the ability to tune what gets shown on the home page.

Linus has a track record and proven history of doing/saying stupid shit. I think in this case, he recognizes that he's just shit at his job and wants help. He most likely didn't expect the Billet issue (no way he would have known Steve would have released a vid) and if he knew about Madison coming out, he'd have tried to prevent that sooner. Hiring a CEO won't fix the Madison problem, as that event had already occurred.

I recently disabled history after getting annoyed about getting bombarded with recommended videos for something I only needed to watch once (e.g. a recipe, or instructions on how to repair something).

Now my YT homepage is literally stuck with the same videos, even the ones I've already watched. Doesn't matter how many times I refresh.

YouTube recommendation algorithm is extremely rudimentary, it's shocking. I really wished that they gave us the ability to tune the recommendation model, or some sort of include exclude filtering.

I know this is a pretty old thread, but wanted to +1 this as well...

I found Lemmy to be better for my mental health. I recently visited Reddit again to follow on a heated topic since Reddit has more info and news, and found my anxiety levels skyrocket due to the toxicity of comments.

While Lemmy has less engagement than Reddit, that also leads to a more level-headed community.

That, and with new Lemmy apps and experiences being developed constantly, I'm liking it here a lot.

And may I suggest you do some research before replying?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65787391

Balancing an AK-47 assault rifle slung around his left shoulder and a large stick in his right hand, Abdul hits the heads of poppies as hard as he can. The stalks fly in the air, as does the sap from the poppy bulb, releasing the distinctive, pungent smell of opium in its most raw form.

In April 2022, Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada decreed that cultivation of the poppy - from which opium, the key ingredient for the drug heroin can be extracted - was strictly prohibited. Anyone violating the ban would have their field destroyed and be penalised according to Sharia law.

The sticks are used to destroy the fields, not beat people 🤦

And punishment under Sharia law is much more severe than getting beat by a stick, which isn't something that obviously will never fly in the US.

I mean... Sure there are major improvements that can be had in the US, but punishment and consequences as defined in Sharia law isn't exactly something that the US can simply adopt.

I had literally just set this up on my truenas instance yesterday (even though I've been using ZeroTier for some time). The key thing to recognize is that truenas whipes out any modifications to its system after a reboot, hence the need for this script.

https://alan.norbauer.com/articles/zerotier-on-truenas

I've heard great things about tailscale, but just have had an opportunity to try it.

You are welcome ☺️.

That is until the occasional apocalyptic events (assimilated Earth in First Contact), or the upcoming Dominion War..