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  • Google Pixel 4a’s ruinous “Battery Performance” update is a bewildering mess

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  • Yeah, I was disappointment when I bought a very expensive Galaxy S22 to replace my old Moto G whose charging port wore out,. The S22 had worse battery life, camera, and no noticeable performance improvements. Recently, my S22 stopped charging, and I just bought a "Mint"-grade used Pixel 6 and installed GrapheneOS on it. Happy so far, and it's nice to be able to block network access to all apps, including Google's.

  • Not only in the US, it is a universal fiction

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  • Meh, I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment, but don't like black/white dichotomies (though I'm personally anti-capitalist). Unions most definitely care the businesses they work for make money. The more money the better, since union members can bargain for more. They have incentive to be pro-consumerist and to protect their business/industry. Even at the expense of others.

  • ‘Makes No Sense’: WSJ Editorial Board Savages Trump Tariffs on Allies as ‘Dumbest Trade War in History’

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  • Trump has mentioned that tariffs will help him pay for his planned tax cuts. Tariffs are like a flat-tax, which disproportionately help the rich while taking more from the poor.

    I also think there may be some other angles they're working; but I'm not completely sure on. Trump often threatens people to solicit favors; so this may also be a way for him and his cronies collect bribes and favorably business deals from politicians and the wealthy from around the world. He may also have deals with Putin, because he's acting exactly how you'd expect a person to act who was trying to destroy the Western hegemony.

  • Zerowaste Approach to Common 'Disposables'

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  • I try to find home-compostable disposables, which I can just throw in my compost pile, and eventually adds organic matter and nutrients to my various garden beds and pots.

    Nearly all clothing contains synthetics, which I do not want in my soil, so I try to buy higher quality, more durable clothing.

    I do not do humanure composting, and just buy the cheapest toilet paper :)

    I generally try to avoid disposables if there's a practical alternative.

  • Don't forget where we came from and what shaped us as a species. The Jungle.

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  • Marginal cost doesn't always decrease. More people buying gold or whatever won't decrease the price of gold. The cheapest way to feed cattle is to just let them graze, but there isn't enough land on Earth for everyone to eat as much beef as Americans, even if using intensive agriculture to grow feed (which degrades the soil over time and results in large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions). I don't think there's enough land on Earth to maintain the current human population for very long. I.e. I think we are in the overshoot phase of a boom and bust population dynamic. Saw this graphic a while back, and it's wild how much of the biomass we've took over:

  • Do you think AI "things" like Midjourney or ChatGPT will have or are already having some kind of "piracy" around them?

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  • Some of the "open" models seem to have augmented their training data with OpenAI and Anthropic requests (I. E. they sometimes say they're ChatGPT or Claude). I guess that may be considered piracy. There are a lot of customer service bots that just hook into OpenAI APIs and don't have a lot of guardrails, so you can do stuff like ask a car dealership's customer service to write you Python code. Actual piracy would require someone leaking the model.

  • We're RIGHT HERE :(

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  • Some people's aversion of algorithms on the fediverse kind of reminds me of people's aversion of GMO food. Genetically modifying rice to contain more vitamin D is probably good; genetically modifying vegetables to contain more cyanide would probably be bad. Algorithms don't have to be built to maximize "engagement;" they can be designed to maximize other metrics, or balance multiple metrics, or be user-customizable.

    IMO, Mastadon is much worse off for their refusal to implement any kind of algorithm outside their "explore" feed. When I tried using Mastodon, search was unhelpfully in chronological order, and my home feed just got overtaken by the people that post the most. In contrast, Lemmy's handling of algorithms is pretty good, imo.

    As bad as search engines are now, they'd be even worse if they just gave you results in chronological order.

  • Text to speech engine reccomendations?

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  • Thanks. So much better than RHVoice.

  • Proton CEO embraces Trump for "standing up for the little guys"

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  • Supreme Court leans toward upholding law that could ban TikTok

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  • I'm curious if ByteDance could just create a new legal entity and call it TikTak or something.

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  • Dunno, they'd probably have a hard time suing European instances, but they can't outright block, as that would be unconstitutional. U.S. states have recently been using lawsuits to get around constitutionality. I.e. Texas also has a "bounty" law, where if you know a woman went out of state to get an abortion, you can report it, and the state will sue them and give you $10,000. I think another state has a similar law for if you see a trans person using a restroom that doesn't match the genitalia they were born with.

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  • With the current laws on the books, Texas could probably sue Lemmy instances because they contain pornographic content and they don't verify users' identity.

  • Meta’s Moderation Modifications Mean Anti-LGBTQ Speech Is Welcome, While Pro-LGBTQ Speech Is Not

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  • Elon Musk says DOGE probably won’t find $2 trillion in federal budget cuts

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  • Too busy becoming the top-ranked Diablo player.

  • Anyone else here self-hosting on absolutely shit hardware?

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  • Oldest I got is limited to 16GB (excluding rPis). My main desktop is limited to 32GB which is annoying, because I sometimes need more. But, I have a home server with 128GB of RAM that I can use when it's not doing other stuff. I once needed more than 128GB of RAM (to run optimizations on a large ONNX model, iirc), so had to spin up an EC2 instance with 512GB of RAM.

  • GOP-controlled N.C. Supreme Court blocks certification of Democrat as winner of close high court race

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  • Idk about this specific case, but it's probably targeted on demographics. Mail-in votes tend to swing Democrat. People without ID tend to be poor minorities who swing Democrat. Urban areas swing Democrat. The parties put tons of research into profiling demographics, so they can supress votes and do stuff like this.

  • Meta now lets users say gay and trans people have ‘mental illness’

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  • He praised X, a competitor, in his video announcement. I guess Musk was right. "Zuck is a cuck."

  • Donald Trump Says Gulf of Mexico Will Now Be Called 'Gulf of America.' Congress Is Already Prepping Legislation

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  • Yeah, that's what I've been thinking since his speech. I'm thinking the people he's surrounded with are encouraging his non-sensical ramblings so they can replace him with Vance, who is a Thiel/billionaire puppet, and likely more predictable and reliable than Trump.