[-] sem 1 points 2 hours ago

Supporting his choices and the Republican party at large is the problematic part. I don't care if he loves Trump or not.

"Here is our official response, also available on the Mastodon post in the screenshot: Corporate capture of Dems is real. In 2022, we campaigned extensively in the US for anti-trust legislation. Two bills were ready, with bipartisan support. Chuck Schumer (who coincidently has two daughters working as big tech lobbyists) refused to bring the bills fora vote. At a 2024 event covering antitrust remedies, out of all the invited senators, just a single one showed up JD Vance. By working on the front lines of many policy issues, we have seen the shift between Dems and Republicans over the past decade first hand. Dems had a choice between the progressive wing (Bernie Sanders, etc), versus corporate Dems, but in the end money won and constituents lost. Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses."

[-] sem 37 points 6 hours ago

We can't claim that everything weird is written by AI, because there are weird human writers too. Although even if not AI, "experts claim" is such a dodgy source, that alone makes it untrustworthy.

[-] sem 1 points 6 hours ago

Disagree, it completely reads as a tweet supporting trump, and the "official response" that was later contracted by a more moderate official response definitely felt like a rant.

I've been watching Proton since then and they've very much backed away from the ceo's pro-Trump pro-Republican position, so I've continued to use their services, but mostly because I've already invested time and money into using them. But they lost my trust and I have not recommended them in the same way I used it before this happened.

[-] sem 1 points 6 hours ago

I do not perfectly manage my email inbox, and I've become absolutely dependent on their automatic Priority / Updates / Promotions etc. Classifications, as well as their features that surface important emails, or things you might want to respond to that you forgot...

[-] sem 2 points 6 hours ago

Like most things, it's not so black and white as Louis paints it. What products you buy and use absolutely is a political choice, but perfection isn't the goal. No one has to be a "perfect" consumer to avoid the low hanging fruit like Chick-fil-A or today's Tesla if those are important issues to you.

[-] sem 4 points 6 hours ago

One criticism I saw was that if you want to verify, you have to use a Google Form and log in with a Google account, which goes against lots of people's efforts to get off Google.

[-] sem 8 points 6 hours ago

They got badly hacked a while ago

[-] sem 4 points 6 hours ago

In a way it was a breath of fresh a air to hear the high honestly described in a way that makes it understandable why people would want to do it again, but also how it will never, ever be as good as the first time, and will ruin your life.

[-] sem 3 points 1 day ago

It's the same, Star Trek uses technobabble and Star Wars uses non-verbal technobabble to explain FTL

[-] sem 2 points 1 day ago

I tried it awhile ago, but it's too easy to accidentally spill water on the bed when you're trying to drink from it. Also the hydration reservoirs are tricky to keep clean.

[-] sem 2 points 1 day ago

They're not too bad, just start with them inside out, grab the corners, and pull through. And it makes it easier to make the bed later because you don't have to deal with the top sheet.

[-] sem 4 points 2 days ago

It's also a change in mindset. If you know there won't be trash cans, you'll bring less trash with you. That's why national parks advertise "pack it in, pack it out" so you don't get people using the "disposable single use tents" or bring in other items that generate trash that ends up in the park.

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Milestone rule... (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Somewhat anti climactic.

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Inspired by that other thread about backing in to parking spaces.

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Camels in the snow rule! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Can someone remind me why we stopped using Firefox a while back? There was some piece of news that broke everyone's trust, but I can't remember what Mozilla did. Was it a change in their user agreement?

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Have you Seen Him? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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I only post rules (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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I am typing this post on a modern "Thinkpad" from 2020 where the hardware volume keys could never change the volume on Linux. But everything works more or less correctly in Windows 11, unfortunately.

What are my options for getting computer hardware, desktop or laptop (etc.), where the hardware is specifically supported under linux?

Let's say I am wanting to plot a graph with "Usefulness" on the Y axis and "Cost" on the X axis. Then I could plot each computer on the graph, and make a decision about how much money to save up and spend for the best value that satisfied minimum requirements.

In my initial searching, I have uncovered these vendors as supporting Linux, albeit at a (usually) premium, niche price point:

  • System76
  • Framework
  • Dell
  • IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad

However I don't yet have a good intuition for when this is true (for example my thinkpad having incompatible hardware) or where these belong on the hypothetical usefulness vs. cost plot.

Also, as I understand it, linux distros are not in the habit of "supporting" specific hardware as "works on our distro." However in the past some have attempted to keep track of what works better than other things. I am hoping for a legitimate guarantee that the hardware I buy will not have hardware problems with the distro it supports. At least for some time.

My personal "minimum" requirements would be: feels "snappy" loading the OS and webpages/videos/media. The touchpad and keyboard are fully usable. All the hardware works correctly, and DPI/screen resolution doesn't cause scaling issues (or said another way, fractional scaling doesn't cause problems. Maybe this is unrealistic if I want to use arbitrary software like hexchat which is GTK2).

Let me know if I'm thinking about this in the right way or missing something.

EDIT: thank you everyone for your suggestions!

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submitted 1 month ago by sem to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

Ok, so. Earlier today I was watching the Technology Connections video about how Power is energy over time. In the video he shows a picture of an Anker Solix powerbank to illustrate the concept of energy storage. I've never seen or heard of this product before.

An hour later I'm reading an article on Lemmy, and there is an ad for that same powerbank.

What explains this? Some explanations I can think of:

  1. Random chance.
  2. Google scans YouTube videos for information about what products appear in them, and knows that I watched the video, and that I'm the same person now reading the article. It then gives this information to everyone in the ad-selling marketplace, so the Anker ad company can bid high to show me an ad.
  3. Google is observing what appears on my screen in order to sell this info to advertisers.

I think 2 is most likely given Occam's Razor, but I didn't think Google scanned yt videos like this.

Is there something I'm missing?

I was watching on an Android phone, on Tubular. My browser is IronFox. I'm surprised that Google can follow my activity from one app to the other... this is probably based on IP address, but I wonder what other device fingerprinting tubular and IronFox expose...

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Tumblule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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I just heard Money for Nothing for the first time in awhile and it sounded really similar; I wonder if it does to you all also

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