AeroLemming

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Biden administration moves toward allowing American military contractors to deploy to Ukraine in c/news
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That would definitely help a lot. It wouldn't be perfect, but at least some people's votes wouldn't be worth 3x more than others.

Biden administration moves toward allowing American military contractors to deploy to Ukraine in c/news
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Who's Dessalines? The name sounds familiar, but I can't remember much else.

Biden administration moves toward allowing American military contractors to deploy to Ukraine in c/news
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's absolutely insane that we have to talk about winning swing states instead of just having everyone's voice matter and vote count equally. Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 and his presidency was illegitimate. We will never have a functioning democracy as long as we have the electoral college.

Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy. in c/aboringdystopia
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Friendly reminder that Donald Trump LOST the popular vote in 2016 and was illegitimately put into power by the rogue electoral college. His presidency should never have happened.

To those of you with nothing to hide: One day you might have. Because you don’t make the rules. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

It literally happened in the US with period tracker app data getting subpoenaed in a state with an abortion ban.

Phone Link is Microsoft's late and closed source alternative to KDE Connect. It requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to work. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks, you have saved me the time of trying it again.

Phone Link is Microsoft's late and closed source alternative to KDE Connect. It requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to work. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Does KDE connect actually work with SMS on Windows now? Last time I used it, I couldn't text people, only reply using the notification if they texted me and I happened to click on it quickly enough. Pretty useless.

OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions in c/technology
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If Microsoft was a smaller company, this would completely ruin them and the next headline would be them declaring bankruptcy after failing to fight off 50,000 lawsuits. Fortunately for them, laws don't apply to companies their size.

Good = Boring = No Corporate News Story in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Don't get me wrong, I'm voting whoever I have to to vote against Trump. I'm just not super optimistic about the future even with a Democrat winning the 2024 election.

Good = Boring = No Corporate News Story in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Until it actually happens, I'm very cynical. It sounds great, but so many things sound great and then just never go anywhere. It doesn't mean anything at all if it doesn't actually happen.

I can't disagree. in c/microblogmemes
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The issue then is that all the investors that have already bought a ton of places can still leave them empty.

The Internet is becoming genuinely unusable without an ad blocker in c/enshittification
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Haha true. That's kind of also self-inflicted.

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Since Brave is apparently absolutely terrible, is Vivaldi any better IF YOU CAN'T USE FIREFOX*? (lemm.ee)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
56 comments fedilink
 

I daily drive Firefox, but more and more websites are starting to break without Chromium, so I still have to occasionally switch to get something working. I was using Ungoogled Chromium until I realized that there was no easy way to update it when that pixel-stealing exploit came out a while back.

To be clear, I'm not talking about stock "no settings changed" Vivaldi. With that requirement, even Firefox could be called invasive! What I want to know is if Vivaldi is relatively safe to use with all the telemetry and stuff disabled in the settings and using any necessary extensions.

Thanks!

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Is anyone else getting server issues? (lemm.ee)
 

For the past couple of days, I've been getting timed out or needing to wait a very long time for things to load. Did we get another influx of users from Reddit? I haven't seen any announcements. I love this instance and its federation policy because I can just filter out specific instances myself on Boost, so I'll only switch if I really need to.

Just tried to post this and got a time out error. (3x)

Now 400 rate limit.

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Is it just me, or is Play Store making it harder to scroll when ads are on-screen? (lemm.ee)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/android
13 comments fedilink
 

I normally use the Aurora frontend, but I used Google's app to check something. I couldn't help but notice that when I swiped and then let go, the page would barely move past the point I had let go. It had no momentum whatsoever. As soon as I got past the ads, scrolling was back to normal and the exact same flinging motion would send me down by at least a screen's worth.

Has anyone else noticed this?

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Windows rule (i.ibb.co)
 
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i just want to say how much I love having separate upvotes and downvotes. (lemm.ee)
 

It's very nice to see that X people liked a post/comment and Y people disliked it instead of just having a singular "goodness/badness" rating. It (literally, in a mathematical sense) adds a whole new dimension to post ratings and gives us a more nuanced understanding of people's opinions. Plus, it feels a lot better to see that 5 people agreed with you and 7 disagreed when you made a controversial statement instead of just seeing a score of -1 telling you how bad you are.

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