deweydecibel

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[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

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@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

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@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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@lemmy.world 48 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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@lemmy.world -4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

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@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (12 children)

I love how the narrative focuses on 2016 and not 2020, where he lost all on his own.

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Legitimately, they have an entire video sub where the spam garbage.

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 45 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

iPhones will report it too if they have Maps open.

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

 

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.

 
 

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.

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