[-] Comet79@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Spiritually Russian guy tells us not to move to the US. Yeah, I'll pass.

[-] Comet79@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

Best response by far. Very human-like.

[-] Comet79@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

I am in the EU and after 2027 freedom of speech in big websites will be pretty much over. What measures can i take to protect myself from government censorship other than using decentralized websites like Lemmy?

[-] Comet79@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I like Lemmy because it's, by design, shielded against government surveillance through mandatory police ID checks. The government cannot target Lemmy because it's decentralized/federated.

[-] Comet79@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

It was a very nasty setup, they practically tried to present Zelensky as a thug of sorts.

It's like the US administration is made of amateurs who are just now discovering that Russia is untrustworthy and is playing US presidents to further its goals, like they faked friendship with Bush in the 2000s when they were weaker.

With that being said, the US is still helping Ukraine defend itself, but it's much more transactional now.

[-] Comet79@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

1980: TVs will fry your brain

1990: Videogames will fry your brain

2000: Computers will fry your brain

2010: Smartphones will fry your brain

2020: AI will fry your brain

Any takes for the 2030s?

[-] Comet79@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

They did. If you remove it, Chrome detects that the folder is missing and it downloads it again. Just don't use Chrome.

[-] Comet79@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Christian fundamentalists would prefer to ban a lot of things for everyone. Since they cannot do that, they resort to the next best thing, which is to ban them for their own crowd. But the main objective is to have every device be like that. If this phone network establishes itself in the long run, it will be a big L for all of us.

[-] Comet79@lemmy.world 38 points 2 weeks ago

These people are called "tankies". It's communists who like militarism and imperialism, as long as it's of their own flavor. The internet has many such "bunkers" where these people congregate. They unironically support the countries you mention, and they do not represent the entire left-wing community.

I'd argue that they aren't the result of capitalist policies being shitty. Such communities have existed on the internet since the early 00s. It's just their ideology.

Why are they on lemmy? My guess is that Reddit banned some of their communities for posting violent content (threats of violence etc.) so they moved to lemmy, which does not censor people to the degree Reddit does.

The .ml for lemmy.ml supposedly stands for "marxism leninism".

[-] Comet79@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Fr? I always had the impression that the Empire was somewhat inspired by Nazi Germany and the rebels were the resistance. Some of the helmets imperials wear in SW are kinda sus.

[-] Comet79@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

It depends on the medium, but for TV shows and movies, the market is a mess. It's all streaming services, you have to pay multiple vendors to have access to everything etc. I've low key stopped watching movies because the whole thing is an expensive mess. It's no wonder people prefer piracy.

I wonder how difficult it would be for a vendor to be like Steam. Buy a movie once, add it to the library, watch it whenever. Afaik Youtube does that but I haven't tried it yet and I'm not sure if it's worth it.

[-] Comet79@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

These companies want to own all the hardware so you are forced to rent a computer. To buy a PC that does nothing by itself and requires some remote hardware to function. Amazon is already preparing a "game streaming" service, for example.

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