vonbaronhans @ vonbaronhans @midwest.social

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The framing of the article's headline is bad, but the problem is that because people in starter homes can't trade up, first time buyers can't buy starter homes. Ultimately, the problem is that MORE people are stuck renting.

And that's purely descriptive. The people in the starter homes are not to blame, in any moral sense. But people read blame into it because emotionally resonant headlines get more clicks, so they frame it that way.

people are lazy have busy lives and want to put their time and energy into things that aren't learning a whole new technology skill.

FTFY.

If I had to guess, he'd try to find a business selling enterprise supported distributions of Linux, buy them, then try to expand/convert them to develop "consumer Linux". He'd advertise it as getting out from under the thumb of evil corps (ie his competitors), then as soon as it gains even a modicum of traction start implementing privacy violating shit, ads, whatever, to enshittify it as quickly as possible for a quick buck.

Once Firefox on mobile got extension support, I switched over immediately to use a decent adblocker. Made sure every app that opens a browser opens in Firefox. Has made my mobile browsing experience so much better, of my goodness.

That's bizarre. I am also on Windows 10 and use Firefox as my primary browser, largely because I can stream DRM'd video sites (Netflix etc) to my friends on discord.

Sounds dumb, but have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling? I might suggest also removing or disabling all extensions to see if that does anything.

I'd suggest picking other issues to discuss where the average progressive/leftie would agree with the direction of the Democrats, esp where a Trump win would likely mean a severe worsening. The right to bodily autonomy, LGBT+ rights, student loan forgiveness, progressive tax brackets (that may be a stretch for importance to the morally disaffected, but still), unions. Democrats may not be the best on those topics, but they at least move things a couple ticks in the right direction in the face of the alternative, which would be a very fast reversal of those gains (see recent supreme court rulings for evidence of that).

Just my $.02

Oh they'll blame all the demographics they can. The youths. "Progressives". I doubt they'd go so far as to blame "wokeism" but I imagine some other made up demographic would apparate.

I mean I'm voting Biden in the fall, swing state and all. But still, The DNC needs a lot of overhaul for sure.

Not so much, maybe towards the last month of that period defaulting to Bing. I think it was still being constantly rebranded then. It was still pretty new, so I never really trusted it for anything and just went to the sites in the results.

I used Bing by default for several months just because that's what my work laptop's browser had for default.

I never directly compared those results to DDG, but 9/10 times I would get frustrated by the lack of relevant results and go back to Google, where I'd find something useful on the first page of results.

DDG is just Bing. At least as far as the core search algorithm goes.

Unfortunately, my experience is the opposite. I tried to use DDG for about a month and consistently found myself giving up, Googling instead, and finding a relevant stack overflow page or reddit thread or whatever on the first page of results.

It's unfortunately still far more useful than other search engines, in my experience anyway. I haven't yet tried the paid search engine someone pointed out to me recently, Kagi, I think.

But given the cost of Kagi's tiers based on number of searches, it would have to be MUCH more useful to me than Google to really make it feel worth it.

Inkscape is for vector art, yeah. Great for design, not for like, painting.

Krita is pretty great for a free digital art app. But I used it for about a year and could never quite get used to it. I recently went back to Clip Studio Paint (with my perpetual license they do still honor), and my experience just improved so much. It was like... ah, yes, an art program that clearly paid people to specifically make the UI easier to use for non-programmers, what an underrated feature.

Kagi, you say.

I don't think there really can be a long term solution for this sort of thing. I think we just have to block and such as they pop up, defederate if a threshold is crossed. I dunno.

I know Google search has gone down the shitter... but it's still far and away the most useful search engine I use. Every now and then I try to use bing or ddg or whatever, and they waste so much of my goddamn time I just run the same search in Google and get something usable on the first page of results, even with all the kludge.

At this point I'd rather pay for a search engine if it meant better searching and no ads.

Ah, yes, a political party that spends millions and millions of dollars and countless labor hours running campaigns really wants to lose the election.

Biden et al may not do everything we want, but it's ignorant to suggest they aren't at least trying to change some things.

Don't think I've seen "univocal" before. Interesting.

Cash has an identifier on it, but unlike a check that identifier doesn't identify you.

Alum, maybe?

Yeah, but tax can always be figured into the presented price of things if businesses are required to do so.

That's pretty much the point of this type of legislation. Of course you need legislators who, y'know, vote to legislate in this way.