Yes. When somebody else has a better take and I want it to be the top comment, I will downvote mine.
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Barbershop quartet singer, weight-loser, philosophy student of life
My 76 y/o spouse loves Linux Mint. The 2017-bought desktop was deemed insufficient for Windows 11 and now runs Mint.
Fighting with Windows 11 introduced me to Linux Mint, which works perfectly! I'm not an OS geek, so I really don't care about the OS -- it's just the thing I deal with on the way to Firefox.
As an audio enthusiast, it sucks that I can’t upgrade my stereo/audio system.
Exactly! I can have the system I want but having it somehow means no heated seats in the winter.
A lot of the comments so far are trying to stay with the negative connotation to exploitation. You exploit your comfortable shoes to walk further each day. You exploit the microwave oven's ability to more quickly warm your coffee than the stove.
This is the same with discrimination. You choose the raspberry danish over the cheese danish. This is you practicing discrimination, and it's fine.
Any evil in it comes from abuse or impact to yourself with respect to others, that second definition of exploitation in the OP.
The result of about half of recent lander missions from Earth is failure.
The USA hasn't tried one recently.
Unfortunately, I'm finding Lemmy 2023 just as shallow as Reddit 2023.
I don't know that I fit any of those label, neatly, but I've always been skeptical of the idea that the president is not in charge of everything under the Executive Branch.
Keep in mind I'm not in charge of anything and I'm not right about anything! I'm nobody here.
If Congress wants an independent agency, they need to create it and put it under themselves, not under the executive branch (so it seems to me). So even if Trump does not get into office (and let's make sure that he doesn't) Project 2025 is still going to be out there and it may be legally right in some important respects. Not paying attention to this reality is how we lost something like Roe v Wade ... What the Supreme Court can give, it can take away. There is no such thing as "never going to happen".
Please defeat Trump and Trumpism, but take this concept of Project 2025 seriously beyond Trump.
When Google added an account switcher to its apps way back in 2019, they made it possible to switch between your Google accounts by swiping up or down on your avatar.
Wow, look at that! I had no idea. It works!
I don't have a watch or a Fitbit, but these screens sure look a lot like Google Fit.
Working out with weights
Everything that has a beginning has an ending (perhaps with a long tail). Perhaps the only wrong thing is that we forgot about that. All of these Internet services tend to have a long tail, most of everything we remember once using is still around in some form barely being used but for a tiny and loyal user base that is still hanging in there for some reason.
None of these things were great in and of themselves, it was always the community.
This appeared this week on our home Windows 10 machine as well for the one account that does not use a Microsoft account. It's a new behavior.
Suddenly? Nothing sudden about it been going around for years.
From the article:
[In 2022], banks issued about 680,000 reports of check fraud, nearly double what they reported in 2021. And one expert predicted total check fraud will hit $24 billion in losses this year, roughly twice what it was just five years ago.
Constructively criticize -- remember that the decisions they made seemed like the right ones to them. Remember the human. And be specific: "Make better decisions" isn't useful, but "now that Lemmy does this, unfortunately that happens for me as a result" might just result in the changes you need.
The 3 button navigation is simpler, much faster than gestures and less prone to input errors than gessure navigation.
I was constantly backing out of my app when all I wanted to do was turn a page. Therefore I went back to the three buttons. The gestures are nifty, but I was always running into problems with the gesture happening when I didn't want it to.
My tech averse spouse finally wanted a smartphone and I knew he would not understand gestures as he is very literal. So there was a double bonus: the buttons are a lot better for him.
Lemmy.world announces blocking communities via Discord
I can't even verify if this was posted on their site.
- Discord is currently up. It's usually up.
- https://lemmy.world/ is currently down. (Cloudflare - bad gateway.) It's often down.
This story makes a really good point, thanks for sharing it.
The average APY in US banks is still 0.5% despite much higher interest rates and inflation. My credit union offers 3% for their premium (high balance) savings.
Hey folks, send the EFF some of your loving money. They are worth it. They truly are watching our backs. Good people doing the good fight.
How have I been on Reddit for 15+ years, totally aware of Reddiquette, and never saw that video? Thanks!
Perhaps visceral reaction. Small/fast brain over large/slow brain.
Or, perhaps, why is this an Android matter?
We (76 and 60) shop with our plastic (credit, never debit). Next cash if it is hand-to-hand, or we can get a receipt. Otherwise check, but we don't carry a checkbook. I may do PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle, but only if I know you personally -- if you're dealing with my spouse, you'd better take a check or plastic or wait for me.
to the detriment of literally everyone else.
How so? It's an option. The other option may be "no sale." We grew up on these and we understand them. All the high-tech ways are ever-changing, and we're never sure where we stand with them.
The annual subscription, which was introduced in January of 2022, goes to $139.99 in a $20 increase.
I literally renewed just two days ago, right under the wire!
Barbershop quartet singing (ala The Barbershop Harmony Society). Instant friends and such satisfaction to hear yourself lending a note into four-part chords. (It's the basis of my username.)
cook and sous chef
Mad respect from me. I can't think of a more difficult job, you have to keep up, you have to juggle orders were some things are easy and some things are hard, you have to deal with the temperature and the standing and the moving. This is a tough, tough job!
Which Android devices are you currently using?
I have a Google Home Mini, a Google Chromecast, and I'm on my 4th phone powered by Android ... two from HTC and two are Pixels.
What do you love most about them?
The Home Mini and the Chromecast actually don't do too much that is useful for me. They mainly are just there doing not much.
The phones that I have chosen have been delightful. All Android phones are delightful, the cheap free phone that I got when I signed up for Visible (cell service) for my spouse was a piece of garbage. But that's the way that Android works: the developer/manufacturer can roll it to be whatever they want it to be.
What do you dislike?
I don't have anything to put here, but I'm looking forward to some of the responses.
ET-2800 does have a USB connection and linux drivers
I have the ET-2720 which I like but appears to have been discontinued.
Is it impossible these days to un-Amazon a Fire tablet? I'd love to have a cheap tablet and someone suggested this was a way...
according to what Congress decides
That's the rub. We have checks-and-balance and -- from the 10,000 foot level -- the current president is the enforcer/executor and, as such, has discretion with how to prioritize his efforts among existing and new laws.
When Congress makes an agency and tucks it into the Executive Branch, the president is the top of that org chart. Project 2025, in a nutshell, says that assignment gives the president the right to decide how much to do that business -- including abstaining to prioritize it. This view is consistent with how other government administration works, who may decide that due to a recession we don't focus on enforcement on fishing boats this year -- for example.
It may even be the case that no reason has to be given to abstain from giving a duty attention or funding. "Because they elected me and I say so," for example.
This would provide a check-and-balance against Congress making disagreeable laws.
Now Congress should still make those laws if they're sure they're right, because doing so would say how a thing is to be done and limit a president's power to do it differently, but the president seems to me to have the power to say whether and if a thing shall be done when it is placed within the Executive Branch (therefore, within presidential purview).
We have a judiciary that has been pulled rightward, and we shouldn't be surprised if we see more decisions aligned with Project 2025 from here on out.
Even if Project 2025 is right on the law, we have not being doing business that way for decades -- especially with federal agencies we consider independent by tradition or expectation. If we want to keep doing business the way that we are, we need to make sure our laws and any new constitutional amendments that need to be written are made. Even if we get an upright and generally good person as president, the points made in Project 2025 should be addressed.
That’s why downvote buttons exist?
No (and not downvoted) ... it's about controlling visibility.
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
My take: Upvote the stuff other people should see. Downvote the stuff that should have never been here at all. You don't have to agree or disagree, you can even have no opinion. But if you find it worthwhile to others, upvote it. Detrimental, downvote it.
I would disagree about your average because it’s brought down by people working multiple jobs
No, as these are the numbers reported by worker's themselves (Robert Whaples's research) and not by their disparate employers. But looking at it as you suggested, it comes out to 34.3 hours.
Here are two more views on it:
https://ourworldindata.org/working-more-than-ever (world trends)
I was looking for a lemmy instance that would let me create communities, downvote if I wanted to downvote, and that would take care of troublemakers without being too overly restrictive.
I also wanted to ease the burden on the very busy lemmy instances that were being overwhelmed by the reddit Exodus.
It seems I have found a place. The SDF has a very long history of serving several communities in the internet and Linux world. I first ran into them decades ago, and they are still here.
The quality has tanked in the past several years in large part because of how big it is.
What I think happened in the past several years was the rise of the mobile user.
It's somewhat hard to write well on a touchscreen and the 13+ demographic expanding as younger teens had less tech-hesitant parents means that low-effort submissions really took off. They don't write well at all, and they don't care about paragraphs, punctuation, or using any capital letters.
Excellent! Consider me subscribed!
We use the FOSS Homebank. We have been using it for years, I just did not want a pony up the money for Quicken.
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It worked great for me.
Using Firefox Android
UI: 0.18.1-rc.5 BE: 0.18.1-rc.4
A new study by human resources and payroll services platform Gusto Inc. shows smaller companies that have embraced remote work cite higher performance, better employee retention and strong corporate culture built on a foundation of flexibility. As small companies compete with deep-pocketed giants for talent, those gains could provide an edge.
“SMBs are increasingly looking to extend the flexibility that their workforce enjoys,” said Gusto Economist Liz Wilke. “Not only to attract them, but to keep them less stressed, more able to manage their lives, and to build a culture and a team that works for them.”
Companies that started in the past three years are 31% remote and 46% hybrid for their workforces, far higher percentages than more-established companies. Only 22% of younger companies are fully in the office, according to Gusto. Overall, companies that were 100% on-site before the pandemic are split between hybrid work and being fully in the office, with 8% fully remote.
from: https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2023/06/13/remote-work-small-business-success-tips.html (paywalled, unfortunately)
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