deweydecibel 2mo ago • 73%
Choose to live only in a cloud, require everything to be "smart", and you're inviting this shit upon yourself. There's absolutely zero serious reason to buy internet connected frame beyond tech illiteracy, mindless consumerism, or sheer laziness.
deweydecibel 2mo ago • 96%
Why in the world are people paying for this? You can get displays like this for digital photos that don't even require an internet connection, much less a subscription. Is this how far people have gone in their unwillingness to learn to use technology that isn't some cloud/app based bullshit? Just put some pictures on an sd card and be done with it.
deweydecibel 3mo ago • 88%
Let's be real, close to a majority of Americans have no issue with their iPhone being used as part of a mesh tracking network, even if it helps abusers with airtags.
All they have to do is sell this to people as benefiting them, and they will gobble it up. Hell, chances are, insurance companies will start offering reduced rates if you drive one (and then they buy the data from Ford and increase rates with it).
deweydecibel 3mo ago • 100%
Not just a law enforcement thing, either.
Ford will absolutely, 100%, start selling this data to insurance companies, who will absolutely use it to increase rates.
deweydecibel 4mo ago • 46%
Both Hillary and Biden are closer to the country as a whole and more likely to pull moderates, who you need to win if you want to actually win a national election.
The internet has allowed leftists to delude themselves into thinking the only people that need to be appealed to is them.
They fundamentally do not understand the kinds of people that make up this country. I'd love if we were a left leaning population. We aren't. Continually lying to ourselves about why Bernie didn't win is a type of paralyzing ignorance that only looks more and more absurd as the years go on.
deweydecibel 4mo ago • 61%
I love how the narrative focuses on 2016 and not 2020, where he lost all on his own.
deweydecibel 4mo ago • 73%
Legitimately, they have an entire video sub where the spam garbage.
deweydecibel 4mo ago • 100%
Please stop dragging her into this.
She'd never want to be President. I'd argue we wouldn't like her very much if she was the kind of person that did.
deweydecibel 4mo ago • 100%
iPhones will report it too if they have Maps open.
deweydecibel 4mo ago • 100%
Except no serious regulatory laws will ever make it through Congress so long as it's as broken and paralyzed as it is now.
That's the point. That's the strategy. Congress is frozen, the Court is captured, and now the Executive is diminished. The government is paralyzed to regulate capitalism now. This has been the plan for a long time, only now do people grasp it.
deweydecibel 4mo ago • 96%
The placement of that text is deeply frustrating. Just a black text box placed without any care? No craftsmanship at all?
And a watermark? Still, in 2024? Uggh.
deweydecibel 4mo ago • 95%
This article is giving them too much credit, frankly. Saying Republican support dropped from "majority to minority" is misleading, bordering on clickbait.
All that happened was support dropped from 55% to 46%. They were only ever barely a majority.
Saying "Nearly half" or "over half" of all Republicans don't support gay marriage is splitting hairs. They all support the candidates that are against it.
The real story here is that even support among Democrats and Independents dropped a bit in the last 2 years. Meaning the fear mongering is pervasive enough to affect everyone.
deweydecibel 4mo ago • 94%
You could also just put a fucking padlock on it like a sane human being.
At this point, you're not concerned with keeping your precious cooler, you're just looking to hurt people.
deweydecibel 4mo ago • 95%
It's nice to see Lemmy will be continuing Reddit's tradition of believing booby traps are ok because anyone trying to touching your precious things deserves the be physically hurt, regardless of the countless ways it can hurt other people who were doing nothing wrong.
This example isn't even defendable from a home defense angle because you left the thing out on the damn boat, not locked away. At that point it's not just a booby trap, it's a baited trap.
And for fucks sake it's a damn cooler, who cares this much about it but leave it where anyone can get it?
deweydecibel 4mo ago • 100%
Not just include it, they describe the Fediverse, right up front, as an escape from corporate controlled spaces, and without a hint of fucking irony, drops Threads as the second "big name".
deweydecibel 4mo ago • 100%
You can see their strategy at work here.
It is possible to keep individual files on the local hard drive with different settings (that in my experience never seem to stick past updates).
The default, though, is to take everything on your computer off of your computer, put it into the cloud (their computer), and recommend you pick and choose which ones stay on your computer. In essence, they want you to think of your computer as secondary to their computer. An extension of it.
There is no "your computer", it's just the computer you happen to be logged into at the moment.
The cloud is not something you take advantage of, the cloud is where you live now.
deweydecibel 4mo ago • 100%
Or the fact that once it's off of your hard drive and sitting comfortably on their cloud (their hard drive), they can scan it and harvest it for data.
deweydecibel 4mo ago • 98%
Ok but...he's gotta wear the aviators.
deweydecibel 4mo ago • 100%
At least that can be turned off in updates.
All these hardware additions, the AI buttons, even Windows taking away the right CTRL key for Copilot, are ugly appendages that, in 20 years, when were clearing out the equipment closest, we'll see some of these and go "oh yeah remember when that bullshit was as a thing for a few years?"
deweydecibel 4mo ago • 96%
Don't forget the part where Logitech now requires you to use a web app (that only works on Chromium) to adjust settings or pair dongles now.
Just find a new peripheral manufacturer.
Looking for any Lemmy app that provides a setting to hide or collapse inline images in comments, like RES let you do on Reddit, or like RIF, to re-create the text-only comment experience. I've been using Boost, which I really like it and want to keep supporting, but this setting is still a WIP I think, and it's a must for me. I wanna try others until it's added. Thanks all Update: if you're looking for the same thing, I eventually landed on [Summit](!summit@lemmy.world).
Assuming it's a bug, was told to drop it here.
Just thought I'd point this out to anyone looking for an RIF alternative that's actually in the same vein as RIF (compact, simple, clean). Boost was a Reddit app until today. They just added a preview to the Play Store for their Lemmy app with no fanfare.