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  • Paper is the new privacy measure.

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  • For any strike or boycott to be truly effective it needs to be maintained until the other side comes to some kind of agreement. A single day or two isn't going to do much, and most of the population can't afford to miss anymore work than that AND they are not socially connected to each other enough to be able to rely on one another for support and services while they are effectively locked out of the support and services they would receive from being able to pay for things and buy things.

    For a lot of people the two general avenue of choices are resist now and potentially lose everything now, or do nothing now and potentially lose everything later.

    I'm not necessarily justifying their actions, but it's understandable.

  • Trump: ‘We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not’

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  • I'm more interested in what the rest of the world will do. I have no doubt Greenland will defend itself, but no one really seemed interested in sending troops to help Ukraine when Russia invaded, what would be different in this scenario? I realize technically it's NATO, but it isn't like any of those agreements are bound by laws of nature and most of the people in charge these days seem more interested in whatever is profitable than what is right.

  • A group of crows is a murder. A group of apes is a shrewdness. What's a group of you called?

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  • A disaster

  • Trump wants to bring Japan's 'cute' tiny cars to America — but it may not be easy

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  • I fucking hate when people say they prefer an SUV or a truck because they feel safer or because of the "increased visibility". It especially bugs me coming from people who generally hold more progressive views because one of the reasons driving is so dangerous is due to the proliferation of large vehicles, so what they are essentially saying is very analogous to "the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun".

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • I'll +1 your gripe with my old man yelling at clouds thing. Windows XP gave you the option of creating arbitrary taskbars/toolbars to locations on the desktop that could be floating or docked. I have always kept my data on a separate drive or array from the one my OS lives on. In Windows XP I would create a toolbar that contained the root of my data drive, dock it to the right side of my monitor, and then set it to autohide the same way you can set the taskbar to auto hide.

    That in conjunction with the way that Windows XP allowed you to remap "My Documents" to a different location made for the cleanest workflow I have ever had.

    They removed the toolbar functionality after XP and changed the way remapping system folders works slightly since then. I haven't really found an application that gives the exact same functionality as the arbitrary toolbar from XP, but even if I did I still spend over half my day at work on a computer that is locked down by corporate IT where I can't install whatever I want, and I like to try and mirror workflows between home and work because of muscle memory.

    I'm in my mid 30s, lol.

  • xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers

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  • Girlfriend's age?

  • Last-minute Xmas Gift Ideas for me (very poor) to get my aunt+family (very well off) who have been helping me out during a very rough time?

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  • Origami bouquet of flowers or arrangement of animals? Alternately origami Christmas ornaments?

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  • What the actual mother fucking deep fried double wide inbred corn sucking bull shit are these god damn cunts doing now? Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and all his carpenter friends sigh. I'd apologies on behalf of my country, but I don't think enough of it truly cares enough for it to mean anything, so instead I'll just say run, and quickly.

  • 765MB ram usage rule

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  • In terms of what? It's not like Electron, Qt, or gtk have been around forever. Programs with UI existed well before they did.

    One of my favorite applications that I use basically every day is convert. It takes up about 500KB on disk, consumes about 1.7KB of RAM, runs on anything from Windows 98 to Windows 11, and runs on Linux via WINE without issue.

    I guess I don't know what it was actually written in, but it sure doesn't seem like it was any of those 😅.

  • Over 19,000 games have released on Steam in 2025, with nearly half seeing fewer than 10 reviews

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  • The developer of Mind Over Magnet did a post mortem video where he covered among other things how much of gross he kept after paying the artists he hired, paid for things like assets, and after taxes, and it was about 43%. A very lazy search yielded somewhere around $300k in total sales on Steam, meaning he took home $129k. So yeah, not a bad chunk of change, but it's not exactly changing social class or long term working conditions.

  • U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen

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  • That would be included in the data. The auto braking is also worse when it comes to to pedestrians than other cars if I'm remembering a report from a little while that came out correctly.

  • What YouTube channel to you has degraded in time?

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  • The issue is that "finding it a personal failure" is missing the point of a Union and the conversation entirely. The entire point is that there is an inherent power imbalance and with everyone's livelihoods relying on each other having a concrete set of mechanisms in place beyond "trust me brow" is very important.

    For the sake of argument let's say that every employee feels 100% comfortable discussing issues with Linus and that he is 100% reasonable in his response such that his statement about feeling like a failure is valid. What if he were to suffer some kind of brain injury where cognitively he seemed to make a full recovery but over the course of a couple of years he seemed to be more selfish, less willing to take feedback, and more willing to order people to do things or they are fired?

    It wouldn't be severe enough for family or anyone to legally take control, but it could harm workers, and that is exactly what how a Union could help balance and smooth things out in that scenario.

  • Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway

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  • A phone in a breast pocket doesn't look all that out of place, especially if the person has very tight jeans on, but it's quite effective for filming.

    To be clear, I'm not OP, and I'm not even necessarily saying you are wrong, but as with most things I think our energy is being pointed in the wrong direction. I care more about the governments and corporations with their ability to record and cross reference images and videos from basically everywhere much more than I care about an individuals ability to do so. Even our concerns with an individuals ability to do so are often a result of that individual's ability to amplify the harmful aspects through the use of one of the aforementioned's unchecked power.

    If we aren't afraid to fuck up some people wearing Meta glasses that are being dick heads, then let's also not be afraid to fuck up the government and corpo forms of it as well.

  • Framework Computer Now Sponsoring LVFS / Fwupd Development

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  • Unless I am mistaken Lenovo has at least all of the ethical issues of Framework if not more. What would make a used Lenovo better than a used Framework?

  • Framework Computer Now Sponsoring LVFS / Fwupd Development

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  • So what are you buying instead?

  • Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced ‘like a PC with the same level of performance’

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  • That's kinda why I said to each their own. I personally find a full fledged keyboard with integrated touchpad controlling a PC using a media center UI to be my control/interface preference. The keyboard is small enough and light enough that it sits on the couch or end table with the other remotes or controllers without any issue. Until Logitech decided to be cunts there was actually a great solution more on your end of the spectrum in the form of the Harmony remote, but well, they killed it. Luckily though, there are a couple of open source efforts to create equivalent hardware as well as to dump their database of IR codes.

  • Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced ‘like a PC with the same level of performance’

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  • I use a Logitech K400 to control the PC connected to my TV and I generally find it to be much more convenient and responsive than using the remote on a smart TV or the controller for a console when over at someone else's place. To each their own though.

  • This place has an "Alberta" problem

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  • I have absolutely no stake in this, but that's not how I read it.

    They are stating it's something they are encountering with some frequency and then they are giving a concrete example and analysis to hopefully illustrate what they are experiencing.

    I'm sure you are familiar with the experience of being frustrated with someone's behavior or actions, but then have a hard time coming up with more than a couple of examples when prompted.

  • More than $70tn of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists warn

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  • Yeah, I doubt it. People talk a big game, but at almost every opportunity they will chose convenience and price despite what they say, and there are few things more convenient than wealth and the ability to use money to make problems go away.

  • Lock Screen Ads Are Coming to Some Smartphones

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  • Lol, sorry, I re-wrote my final sentence, and didn't delete how I started it originally 😅.

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    Recommendations for where to commission short graphic design work?

  • F-Droid @lemmy.ml
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    Why are parts of application in a different language?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Is there a European Union equivalent of BLS.gov?

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    How Different Countries Teach History (Comedy Sketch)

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    What would be the best Fediverse sub/community/place for questions about probability and statistics?

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    Tiffany & Co Is Lying To You (RamsesThePigeon)

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    Wordsmithing 101: Comma Chameleon (RamsesThePigeon)

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    Wordsmithing 101: "Setup" or "Set Up" (and Similar Terms)

  • Autism @lemmy.world
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    Generic Art Dad - Do Autistic People Think In Black & White?

  • Autism @lemmy.world
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    This is what stigma around autism sounds like to an autistic person (comedy sketch)