To be fair, duck duck go also has some garbage results compared to like 2015 google. I have used ddg for the past several years and many topics yield terrible results. I was “the good googler” amongst my peers at the time. I haven’t tried qwant, so it might be better. A lot of search engines are worse and I’m guessing it’s partially because the web is just bloated with trash now.

The other problem is that you wouldn’t put a rate into a rate. It should be 7 in 100k without a percent. The percent doesn’t need “in 100k”

I think the bold is implying they are a business, not a religion.

Nothing against Daniel Craig as Bond, I think he fit the part. I think some of the movies weren’t great for plot instead. I would’ve loved Elba to have been the next one when Craig first said he was done. Maybe Michael B Jordan now or Jamie Foxx back then as well. Bond in his 30s makes more sense in my head unless age is a specific plot point like Bruce Wayne in Batman beyond, but that starts complicating the 007 transfer a little on the nose for the franchise.

The crazy part is how many companies still have IT with servers and support anyways. I have seen it first hand where I work. We have an extensive IT department but also rely heavily on cloud services for all office work. It turns into a poor experience when there’s a work laptop issue because local IT doesn’t support it and Slop services are slop.

Heck at this point I know more couples where the guy does more cooking than the gal. It’s mostly middle class (if 70k to 90k counts in lowish to median cost of living for middle class are accurate at this point). Guys are way more likely to cook in my anecdote. Women are doing "girl dinners* which are full carbs, snacks, junk food. They aren’t necessarily gaining weight on “girl dinners” but they aren’t getting basic amino acids either. I see guys taking up cooking to fill the balance of nutrients and taste now that I didn’t really see growing up. Maybe things are changing, maybe I’m in a weird bubble.

What expectations do you have for resolution and frame rate? My 3070 plays Spider-Man 2 just fine. I think I’m running 1440 at 60. It’s as good or better than the original console release.

I’m not trying to hate on the guy that hands out towels, but I have a specific aversion to any person hanging out in a bathroom at all. Unless there’s an underlying reason I am not aware of, leave me out of this weird interaction entirely. I know many people who think it’s weird.

Sure you are correct that parents can’t be there hovering at every moment to correct their kid everytime they make a mistake. At this point, it is easier to put controls that actually work on any internet connected device that you give them than any shenanigans that could get up to outside of supervision. Give them a a tablet with parental controls. It will be a better control than when they go to the corner and buy drugs or whatever is the real life equivalent. It’s never been easier for a parent to control their child’s online consumption than now and it will only get better. The offline risks aren’t really changing the same way.

I completely agree. It would be amazing if we could nationally or even globally enforce age restrictions to give an internet kiddy pool to let children learn and grow in a safe online environment. We live in a time where the people who are pushing this in the government should not be trusted to use that information for the real reason. “For the kids” is all made up and not helping kids. Giving up privacy in order to not help kids really highlights how corrupt the people pushing for this are.

I think you make some good points here, but just for context, I do think that there is a level of responsibility on the parents here in combination with the companies. There’s plenty of “online literacy” classes that I think would be appropriate for adolescent education. I’m the unfortunate benefactor of needing to master cursive as a class one year and then typing the next year. Schools would be more beneficial if they included teaching kids internet literacy. They can probably drop some of the old stuff. They also don’t teach several other things like financial literacy in many situations (despite heavy capitalist leanings in real life). The education system sucks, but that is not an excuse to let iPad kids control my freedoms, and the root cause for age verification has never been about protecting children in the first place.

I’m also a layman, but I have read some discussions about this exact comparison. Essentially, the big mainstream sites often have personalized algorithms for each user that learns and adapts specifically to the user to feed the user whatever junk food content it can to keep them engaged. Algorithms on things like base lemmy or maybe reddit in the past just have a sort function like excel that propped up posts with more likes or more comments. You can see what other people are interested in, but it’s not targeting YOU. The predatory targeting algorithm can put a person into a self fulfilling echo chamber that in some ways resembles psychosis. This could naturally evolve into actual psychosis for individuals. I think the old verbage of “touch grass” was the prescription for fighting the effects. I think it’s a lot harder to “touch grass” when people are increasingly online and have fewer and fewer avenues to get out of their own echo chamber while staying online almost exclusively. I’m not an expert and the people I got this info from have no credentials I can source, but the logic seems sound to me. Anyone else with better credentials should weigh in if I’m wrong.

The Internet went from globalizing us to partitioning us pretty suddenly, and I think we are seeing the effects now.

I’m not disagreeing with you when I say this; I just am not on social media other than lemmy and YouTube at this point so, I am out of the loop. What are these sites doing that gamifies watching content? I get all the other crap for posting content like likes and views. It incentivises content producers. How are viewers getting “likes and views” equivalent on Facebook?

It might be true either way. Just a different kind of ending. It’s clearly not a state that’s improving as it is. The data centers won’t help the people most in need right now though.

I’ve been using a hybrid type that’s a silicone foam instead because I had the same complaints. The comfort and useability is peak. The bass boost from foam might be a little less (I don’t care about that aspect), but I strongly recommend the one’s from diofit. I ran through every size in my pack over the years with my galaxy buds 2 to avoid buying more. Somehow they all just fit anyways.

You should try a type called silicone foam ear tips. They are like a hybrid of memory foam and silicone. They seal way better but not too much and are more comfortable than either option to me. I used a brand called diofit, but I would guess more brands make them. I ended up using every size in the set just to avoid going back to regular silicone and they all worked pretty well. I should just buy a new set, but I kept thinking these headphones would die soon with how much I use them.

I second this hard but actually prefer a kind of hybrid type. just looked at the one’s I’m using now and they are by diofit. They make a silicone foam option that’s literally like it sounds and mixes the benefits of each type together. (The pure memory foam can be a little too form fitting so they are hard to remove and over-isolating)

Haha I learned this the hard. Was a pretty cool light show until I stopped the microwave though

Did Gyllenhall have some similar political sentiment or is your opinion just based on his past performances? I recognize him when I see him but don’t really see him as a reason to be excited/turned off for a movie.

Sounds like your company needs to add educational programs so they can see the bigger picture. The opposite is also true. Plenty of managers whether project or people don’t know anything technical and create more issues than would ever be acceptable for someone way below their pay grade would afforded.