At this point the Onion has more accurate news than X

I worked in sales at a honda dealership for about six months. On slow days we had to sit there making cold calls and blasting out texts and emails and I remember the first week after training they gave me like 1600 "dormant leads" which were essentially people who were rejected from finance companies the last time they were at the dealership or people who already flipped out about getting all the calls and texts and literally even people who unsubscribed from all communications or were on the national do not call list. Hundreds of previous employees were on the dormant lists too just so the new guys had people to practice on. Car dealerships are so greasy

Yeah I think it's pretty wack. If I search doordash then Uber eats will be the first result or if I search Uber eats then doordash will be the first result lol the ads are getting so extreme it pretty much evens out in the end and it's all completely pointless aside from making everything more annoying for the user

Im pretty sure someone made the wayland.social mastodon instance for that exact purpose lol

I don't think it will make enough of an impact for Alphabet to actually give a shit but I agree they're getting out of control with the ads and I think a handful of people will start looking for alternatives. I recently switched from Google to Kagi and I set up Firefox to redirect all YouTube links to Piped lol I think a lot of people are already trying to find alternatives to Google products due to general enshittification but they're so big I don't really see it hurting them in any significant way. I would love to see something actually compete with YouTube though tbh. I personally try to use non Google alternatives whenever possible these days

I know I'm about five years late to the party but I picked up No Man's Sky on sale a couple weeks ago and I'm having a lot of trouble putting it down! When it first came out I thought it was over hyped and maybe it was back then but I'm obsessed now. Lots of big updates since then

Well hey now let's not rule out the dummy thick front butt lmao

Sheesh what a waste 😮‍💨

Glad to hear this! I had them blocked already

This line from Uncle John's Band by Grateful Dead is really simple and maybe kinda cheesy but it's given me motivation and kept me in check a few times:

Well the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore. 'Cause when life looks like easy street there is danger at your door

I might take up diving 🤔

I know some unofficial apps already have it but I like the idea of karma. Like nothing crazy with algorithms but just the summary of all the down/updoots on profiles

Material You/automatic color themes. I have a huge collection of wallpapers I've built up over the years and now I can only use a select few unless I want the entire phone os to be themed in ugly pastel colors like light brown or yellow or puke green. I literally just want an alternative option to pick my own color scheme or at this point I'd even be happy with the standard blue accent for everything instead of basing the entire os theme on random colors from my wallpaper. I also hate the rounded corners though! Especially the way phone displays are all rounded off and it just absolutely wrecks the resolution of everything. Having a camera sensor in the middle of the screen is kinda annoying too

Aw dang that makes sense. Like when you migrate servers on mastodon you can't import posts. Well at any rate it will be cool to see how it unfolds.

A crummy commercial?! (⁠╯⁠°⁠□⁠°⁠）⁠╯⁠︵⁠ ⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

Have to work 10 hours today but business is usually pretty dead on Thursdays and I just got Borderlands 3 on the ol' Switch last night so it should be an okay day 😌

Well that's one thing you don't learn about in boating school

Awesome, will do!

I think you look great! I've seen a few comments that say this already, but don't overthink it. Hope the interview goes well!

Actually I'm not sure, I know you can follow them on mastodon

My brain 🫤

That's a good point actually

I've been putting some serious hours into No Man's Sky the last few weeks. Lately I've been getting pretty hardcore about F-Zero 99 as well

I've been wondering this for my entire life

Generic ez cheese

For android definitely moshidon! Stable version is material you and has a bunch of themes and extra features. Nightly version is updated frequently. Completely free and donation funded, it's the gold standard for mastodon apps imo

Ope, ya beat me to it lol that's what I'm using also