flop_leash_973

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[–] flop_leash_973 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Oh I don't disagree, it is worth it. I ended up paying for it myself before I switched to Joplin. I just went down a rabbit hole of realizing I technically could self host the backend and stubbornly tried to make it work well beyond what was good sense at the time. 😅

[–] flop_leash_973 4 points 1 day ago

Sounds to me like Amazon is reducing the value proposition of their product. For me, additional roadblocks to being able to enjoy something they way I want when I have paid for it reduces the value of the product itself.

For example, if a DRM free book in an standards compatible format costs $20, then the DRM version I can still download for offline viewing is worth $10. The DRM version I can't download is now worth more like $1-$5 depending on how badly I would want to read it while still supporting the author.

And yes, ebooks from the major sellers aren't worth much to me and I rarely rent (because you're not really buying) them.

[–] flop_leash_973 16 points 1 day ago (9 children)

It is a really good app. But was a pain in the ass to keep the archive in sync using multiple different platforms without paying for their sync addon in my experience. You can roll your own sync with stuff like Syncthing, cloud storage, etc. But the archive had a bad habit of seemingly finding ways to get out of sync.

[–] flop_leash_973 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

One of these days you would think one of the other powerful people in one of the other branches of government would get upset at this stuff.

[–] flop_leash_973 4 points 4 days ago

And no one in there mind will show up at those out reach meetings. That is just telegraphing where to stake out for the ICE folks.

[–] flop_leash_973 42 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I don't like it when I agree with the general notion of something Trump says or does. Makes me feel dirty.

[–] flop_leash_973 43 points 1 week ago

It's weird that the most natural complexion in the photo is the painting of a dead guy on the wall.

[–] flop_leash_973 84 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Because X is owned by a pro-hitler probably Holocaust-denying shit heal.

[–] flop_leash_973 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

How quickly most companies have walked back all of the "moral" stances they have taken over the last few years, all within just a few weeks of the political winds changing, should be a lesson to everyone that there is no such thing as an ethical publicly traded company.

They will do what they think will make the most money for the shareholders, no matter what. If you want them too "pay", the only choice is to stop giving them money.

[–] flop_leash_973 65 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (17 children)

Thanks to the likes of Proton, gaming on Linux is a hell of a lot better than it was ~5 years ago. You can actually do it now for the most part without to much fuss in my experience as long as you stick to Steam.

But once you leave Steam or get something brand new made by an EA type and have to lean on third party implementations of Proton or raw Wine to get things working it gets a lot worse.

[–] flop_leash_973 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I got an account strike the other day and a post removed "by Reddit" according to the message for saying something to the effect of "protests without a threat of violence behind it doesn't mean much to those in power these days" on a thread about some ongoing protests.

Something about a site rule violation for advocating for and/or calling for violence.

[–] flop_leash_973 92 points 1 week ago (10 children)

You want to get rid of Musk, stuff like this is how you do it.

Publicly make Trump out to be the lessor power in the relationship and his ego won't be able to handle it. Look how fast he lost his shit during that debate with Harris when the subject of his crowd size came up.

 

As if those AI overviews weren't already useless enough.

 

It feels dirty to agree with an ISP on something. But even the worst corporations are on the right side of something from time to time I suppose.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by flop_leash_973 to c/technology
 

Jesus, that is a gross way to inject advertising into turn-by-turn navigation.

Edit/update from 9to5google so this post does not spread what is apparently inaccurate information: https://9to5google.com/2024/07/08/google-maps-pop-up-quick-detour-ad/

 

It is hard to imagine that there was not someone inside of Nike that lost their faith in humanity when the pitch for these things was originally taking off.

 

Well, at least they aren't outright throwing the functionality in the trash.

 

I can't imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.

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