Are they supporting it so that they can gimp it?

We support the right to repair! Starting now all keycaps will be replaceable. Anything on the motherboard is off limits though or the display or the battery or the ports or the camera.

Does that mean “cured” or NED (or whatever you want to call not going to die from this particular cancer) or does it mean he’s responding to treatment and the tumors are shrinking?

I thought after 2008 that we had finally gotten over our large car addiction.

They’re so addicted to SUVs now that Ford doesn’t even make a car other than the Mustang. Their entire lineup is SUVs.

Here are the subs I used to go to…

• Askgaybros - Doesn’t exist on the fediverse
• Gaybros - exists but barely gets one post per day
• Politics - I’m banned because of my username, but plenty of subscribers. Interestingly I can’t figure out how to contact a moderator to get unbanned. The information page doesn’t list who the moderators are. I had a similarly “offensive” name on Reddit for a decade and never got banned from r/politics
• askreddit - plenty of subscribers on Lemmy
• Android - plenty of subscribers on Lemmy
• Linux - plenty of subscribers on Lemmy
• Economics - maybe a post or two a day

When I go back to Reddit, on desktop, all of those are operating as they normally do, with no perceptible change on the amount of posts.

There’s two problems…

1. There is no easy to use singular Reddit replacement. (The fediverse is not easy to use to normal people.)

2. Reddit is such a large social media site now that all the nerds getting angry and leaving doesn’t matter. 10 years ago this change would have killed Reddit, but now that normal people like my mom are on Reddit they don’t give a shit about using the official Reddit app, in fact they were probably already using it.

Now that you’re pretty wealthy has your family decided to become your best buddy now?

I’d be willing to bet that 80% of the people that have a very intense emotional reaction to the small town song live in the suburbs less than 20 to 30 minutes away from whatever city they work in.

Actual small towns like that have less than a couple thousand people suck ass. There’s nothing to do there and no jobs and that’s why people leave.

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I thought many worlds meant every single possible divergent quantum thingy gets its own universe. There is a universe where a single potassium atom in a banana in my kitchen doesn’t decay and there is another universe where that same potassium atom does decay. Multiply that for every single particle in the universe, right?

I guess even if that was true on a macroscopic level that’s not going to guarantee that every possible thing happens?

The smartphone is the only science fiction thing we have.

We didn’t get table top fusion reactors, food pills, Rosie the robot, casual commercial space travel, flying cars, hoverboards, etc…

But we did get a little computer we can carry around that has literally everything in it. It’s a camera, it’s camcorder, it’s a microcassette voice recorder, computer, telephone, book, TV, video conference system, remote control for all my lights, remote control for the TV, a McDonald’s ordering device, instant messenger, magazine, radio, GPS for my car, GPS tracker for my family, health monitoring device, flashlight, Sears catalog - It would probably be harder to come up with a list of things that it can’t do.

You can take my smartphone from my cold dead hands.

Squabbles.io has some traffic

Max Headroom background videos.

Just sort of giving up on life in my late teens and doing nothing.

I just go to work and go home.

I don’t have any friends, don’t have sex, don’t have any hobbies (besides video games), didn’t go to college. I’m very very obese.

If it wasn’t for my family acting as my social life and giving me stuff to do I probably would have killed myself by now. I have some friends online that I play videogames with.

(Yeah I’ve tried therapy and SSRIs/Wellbutrin and gotten my thyroid levels checked and testosterone.)

Mandrake like in 2003.

I had to log into my 84-year-old grandmother’s YouTube account and unsubscribe from a bunch of stuff, “Not interested” on a bunch of stuff, subscribed to more mainstream news sources… But it only works for a couple months.

The problem is the algorithm that values viewing time over anything else.

Watch a news clip from a real news source and then it recommends Fox News. Watch Fox News and then it recommends PragerU. Watch PragerU and then it recommends The Daily Wire. Watch that and then it recommends Steven Crowder. A couple years ago it would go even stupider than Crowder, she’d start getting those videos where it’s computer voice talking over stock footage about Hillary Clinton being arrested for being a demonic pedophile. Luckily most of those channels are banned at this point or at least the algorithm doesn’t recommend them.

I’ve thought about putting her into restricted mode, but I think that would be too obvious that I’m manipulating the strings in the background.

Then I thought she’s 84, she’s going to be dead in a few years, she doesn’t vote, does it really matter that she’s concerned about trans people trying to cut off little boy’s penises or thinks that Obama is wearing ankle monitor because he was arrested by the Trump administration or that aliens are visiting the Earth because she heard it on Joe Rogan?

Other than GPS coordinates, what’s the problem?

It’s pretty standard stuff that every app collects.

I’m actually asking what specific thing is the problem.