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psivchaz

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  • What's Some Tech That Was Better Than It Is Now?

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  • Video games. Don't get me wrong, there are still some great games, but the entire experience has degraded on average.

    • The inclusion of obnoxiously long, often unskippable, intro sequences with studio credits and such. There used to be maybe a logo, maybe a very short sequence at worst, and almost always skippable.
    • Most of the big budget games are intended to be a grindy slog, often to get you to spend more money on micro transactions. Fun takes a back seat to intentionally addictive but objectively less enjoyable experiences.
    • Others are intended to be cinematic experience. Some of that can be fun, but sometimes I just want something like the old Sonic or Mario games that I can just pick up, play for a bit, and put down.
    • Enjoy a game? You could talk to friends about it at school, or buy a magazine that talks about it. The experience now is largely an unregulated online wasteland... If you find a community, it may quickly be beset by people that you really don't want to associate with, posting crap that no magazine ever would have published. Except for some of the funnier magazines, which may have published it just to rightfully mock the person.

    The graphics have improved. In some cases the gameplay has improved. I don't want to downplay those. I'm just annoyed with how the overall experience has gotten worse on average.

  • Btw, I don't use Arch

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  • I'm with you in some cases. Who you take money from is not the same as who you give money or support to, necessarily. I think the worry in this case is that it's a surveillance company.

  • Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas

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  • Oh that's easy. Encryption is only legal when communicating with a business that is registered with the IRS and not when doing peer to peer. There, we've hopelessly broken digital privacy while letting the US government determine who gets to exist online.

  • On the Internet, what is a dead giveaway that someone is actually a kid?

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  • Generally when people bring up some personal detail, my immediate reaction is to assume the opposite. Especially if it begins with "as a." For example: "as a woman," this person is a man. "As a black person," this is the whitest person you will ever meet. "As a 60 year old," definitely ten.

  • Linux back at 4.04% on the Desktop. Windows went below 73%

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  • In theory I guess it provides better security in some ways, but certainly not all over giving you hardware and a VPN. So there's that. But yeah, it sucks.

  • Work from home

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  • I think it's more about manager capability. A person who manages IT, for example, but has little idea what that entails will want people in the office. They have no idea if a given ticket should take 3 hours or 3 days to resolve, so it's easier to just have their people in the office where they can look at them and verify that they are, in fact, sitting at a computer.

    The ideal work environment for me, and I think most people, is one where you're judged based on what you do and how well you do it, while details like when you do it and where you are when you do it get left to your discretion. Managing someone like that requires skill and knowledge in what they're doing though.

  • Byron Bay is to be stripped of its nudist beach – and naturists blame ‘conservative creep’

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  • Beaches are tougher but I believe there's a nudist resort in every state in the US. You can visit the AANR website and find the closest one. If it's a "family resort" that means it's probably very welcoming, if a little boring depending on location.

  • Top post in the conservative subreddit: Being unable to work at a "woke" company

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  • Trump says he wants foreign nationals who graduate from US colleges to ‘automatically’ receive green cards

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  • We all know that the hate for Mexico is nonsense. They aren't coming over the border and stealing highly coveted jobs. The jobs that have actually been taken by immigrants are largely middle class jobs that require degrees, things like IT and medicine.

    In part, this has been fine. It drives the salaries down a bit because they're willing to accept less to move to the country and even the lower salary is still much more than they would make at home. Companies win because there weren't enough qualified people to go around for a while, so immigration closes the gaps.

    This is pure conservatism though. Allow foreigners to come study here in unlimited numbers, then let them stay to take middle class jobs at lower salaries in these non-union industries. It's like outsourcing but everyone is in the same time zone and they won't resist your return-to-office mandate.

  • Top post in the conservative subreddit: Being unable to work at a "woke" company

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  • They already remade Little Mermaid too recently. Terry Crews as Rapunzel, though, is still on the table.

  • Microsoft Edge nags users with a 3D banner to change Windows 11's default browser

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  • I don't think I've ever gotten an ad from the OS on Android. I know some manufacturers, Samsung in particular, include ads but that's not "Android" so much as "Samsung's shitty skin of Android."

    The closest I've gotten to an ad on Pixel is a thing to review new features after updates.

  • Microsoft Edge nags users with a 3D banner to change Windows 11's default browser

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  • It's the downside of open source: You're at the mercy of companies that don't care and developers who are primarily interested in the hardware they're using rather than the hardware you're using.

    The best experience is going to be hardware that's built and certified for Linux. System76, Tuxedo, a bunch of other smaller names and the rare Dell or Lenovo. But that's definitely not practical for everyone, or a good idea to convince people to buy new hardware for Linux.

    It'll be a slow transition. The more enthusiasts hop on the bandwagon, the more manufacturers and hardware vendors will care about support. The more Microsoft keeps irritating their customers, the more companies will move away. The support will come, it's been improving for a long time.

    All that said. I'd recommend CachyOS or PopOS if you get the urge to try again. I've tried a bunch of distributions and those seem to have the best focus on "just make consumer hardware work right out of the box." That's no guarantee of course, but it's a start.

  • DeSantis Declares Emergency Over Floods After Cutting Stormwater Funds

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  • I was mostly focused on how irritating it is that there's yet another way that basic necessities are monetized, rather than on the actual implementation details.

    The government already tracks average home and property values for determining property tax and also for determining what is a reasonable mortgage for a given area. I was kind of thinking that it would just be in addition to property tax so based on your home value, so those with very large houses would already be paying proportionally more into it.

  • DeSantis Declares Emergency Over Floods After Cutting Stormwater Funds

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  • I would argue that the concept is flawed. The base idea is that you calculate statistics on how much you would be likely to have to pay out, then set premiums such that you'll always be ahead of payouts. Essentially, everyone pays so that the unfortunate few who need help can get money out of the common pool to help.

    This is just taxes, basically. We already do this with fire departments and such. However, insurance adds a profit motive on top because it's a company, so the amount they take in must always be significantly higher than the amount they pay out. And if it's a publicly traded company then the amount they make above and beyond the amount they pay out must always be higher every quarter.

    Like at a certain point, why not just do taxes and better disaster relief? As an added bonus, the government would have an extra incentive to care about things that may make the payouts increase, like poor infrastructure or climate change.

  • Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic

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  • This has to be terrible news for conspiracy theorists. Our government got caught doing something shady overseas but it was encouraging other people to NOT vaccinate, which is the thing the conspiracy theorists thought our government wanted everyone to do.

    I'm legitimately interested to see how/if Fox or OAN report on this. It should be entertaining.

  • math checks out

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  • And then interrupting that hold music at seemingly random intervals to tell you that they care about you, or to tell you that you could do this faster on their website.

    I had to call Assurant recently because their website literally threw an error and told me to call in and wouldn't let me proceed. I was told by the automated messages no less than 4 unstoppable times that the website is faster, and then after explaining the situation to the person she told me that the website is faster.

    She was clearly reading the script and it's not her fault so I kept quiet, but I have rarely felt such extreme rage in my life.

  • Adult entertainment industry sues again over law requiring pornographic sites to verify users' ages

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  • Worthy, sure. I just mean that what actually happened with The Jungle was people focused on how gross meat packing facilities were. The working conditions were treated as kind of a secondary, less important issue.

  • Majority of Black Americans believe U.S. institutions are conspiring against them, poll finds

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  • Even the stupid things that hurt everyone! That's the best part. We've been so into racism as a country that we shoot ourselves in the foot constantly to spite black people.

    There's plenty of examples, but the one that always comes to mind for me first is public transportation. We led the world for a while there. Buses and trams and all sorts of ways to get around easily. It feels awfully coincidental that we let black people ride wherever they wanted on the bus and all of a sudden public transportation takes a back seat to car infrastructure right after.

  • Adult entertainment industry sues again over law requiring pornographic sites to verify users' ages

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  • A moral panic is when people freak out because they're scared for the nation's morals or values. The Jungle made people, rightfully, freak out about their health (whether that was the intention or not). I don't think it qualifies as a moral panic.

  • Obi-wan being catty, per usual.

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