They only killed a small percentage of the people who purchased them. Please, think of the innocent shareholders.
ETA: Look at the downvotes on this new post. The one on my comment arrived instantly. Not normal on this site.
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PSA: Lenovo has gotten in trouble for hidden Chinese malware on their laptops, multiple times.
Careful with their hardware; it's no longer the company that built the name.
Cost of Attendance, Undergraduate, Brown University: Full Time Off-Campus. $71,412
Yet, they have billions in investment funds.
I'm 110% in favor of higher education, but not at schools that are run like an exploitation racket. Even state schools, that receive loads of Federal funding, are exploiting students financially. It's insane that it has gotten this bad. Soon, the upper class will be the only ones who will be able to afford an education. In light of everything else, that almost feels intentional.
Apologies for the slight digression here, but institutes of higher education that are overflowing with cash make me see red. You're a school, that's not how any of this is supposed to work.
That burning anger you feel when reading about stuff like this, is partly the point. Your outrage is funny to them, and they can't wait to unleash more contradiction and hypocrisy, just to watch you squirm.
I'm not saying to ignore them, or to become apathetic. People should just be aware of that aspect, so they're not as easily toyed with by vile little men, like Tuberville. Ignore the trolls, look for the helpers, and cheer them on.
Apologies for the light digression, and rant. I typed that out as a reminder for myself, more than anything else. So tired of these clowns gumming up the works of every single thing they touch.
The bullshit sentences are the ones we mainly hear about, and many people have a bit of a confirmation bias because of it. But, you don't have to look further than your own community to see that slaps on the wrist are not typical.
US citizens are the most incarcerated people on Earth, by an uncomfortable margin.
Strike, and strike again, deep into the heart of Mordor. Ignore the cries of those who only wish to keep their coffers full.
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EDIT: Sorry everyone, was just having some fun, until I remembered that no level of crazy breaks through the joke wall anymore. So, yeah, for more facts find me on Truth Social under patrioteaglefreedomlover1776_2
Netflix seems to hold on to content for as long as possible, but HBO is going the route of removing content to avoid paying residuals to cast and crew. Frankly, because of that terrible decision, I'm relieved to see people leaving. That's right; I subscribed and they removed West World right as I started it. I'm bitter, but mostly, that's just a nasty thing to do to the cast and crew of shows that people love.
Also, side tangent. What the hell is with modern marketing firms getting into the brains of c-suites and talking them into destroying their brand? I mean, "Max"? WTF? HBO has been a household name since the 80s; everyone knows it, there was no need for a change. You know what Max is to most people? Cinemax, another household name from the 80s. Just stupid.
Every time I go to buy cat food I have to hunt down the bag, because some asshole talked them into a logo/design/name change. They're changing something their customers look for, because some marketer is rattling around in their heads. It's maddening.
People ask me where my wife works, and I can't remember the name, because some marketer talks them into a revamp every 2 years.
Did everyone just graduate from the Elon Musk School of Dumb Marketing Decisions? PLEASE STOP, DAMMIT!
This part is also, ummm, interesting...
BleepingComputer has confirmed that this API is still openly available to anyone on the web, even after its abuse was reported to DuoLingo in January.
My answer is probably boring, but it works, and I had fun with my own. Just set up Wordpress. At this point, you can find templates for any site design imaginable, and there are a million plugins for it. It's an all-around solid platform, that has mountains of documentation. Wordpress was made for blogging, can't go wrong there, but I've used it for all kinds of stuff, including ecommerce. It's simple and effective enough that I have a hard time going any other direction.
I used to host Wordpress sites on a home LAMP server; it was a fun project that didn't cause a bunch of headaches, mainly because of the amount of available documentation. Search "wordpress self-host" and you'll find a whole lot of information.
Good luck with whatever you decide on!
Like Yelp? So, for a fee, Gary can have that review removed, in order to maintain his 5-star rating.
You can tell they're Russian uniforms because they each have a little pouch sewn into the crotch, to hold a bottle of clean urine.
Also, what bugs me about this is that your text editor is not "fedora/gnome/whatever" or "FUCKING LINUX" it's just a text editor. Often, they don't even install with a spell check dictionary. I guess it would fall under "whatever" but, eh, not in that context.
ETA: Just noticed they're root. I predict their next post will be FUCKING LINUX ISN'T SECURE!!!!1
The sentence after the one you quoted explains how this is different from other treatments (it's Musk). With any other company, the question wouldn't have even entered my mind.
You guys got 2 years? I was given just 6 months! I can feel my DNA mutilating, so I'm expecting to pass through those pearly Gates any time now.
A concern that I haven't seen mentioned is Eternal September. Right now, Redditors are the school kids who are barging into someone else's space and trying to make it their own, without first knowing what the community is like.
The same thing happened on Reddit. I've always seen the Obama AMA as triggering Reddit's Eternal September, though it can be argued that it was happening before that. The influx of users killed the Alot Monster, and forget about anyone helping with grammar; they'd be ridiculed and downvoted into the negative. Then, Reddit got rid of the up/down counter altogether, so nobody coming from Facebook would end up with hurt feelings.
Anyhow, there's a risk that Redditors are going to ruin the fediverse. I'm new here and can already see it happening. Fingers crossed though, I'm staying optimistic!
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Is there any reasonable stance a person could hold, where teachers unions would be a "frequent foe"?
Imagine always knowing better than teachers, doctors, historians, fact checkers, other parents, and virtually any expert or intellectual. I can't even wrap my head around that level of ego. The mind boggles.
I believe it was you, and the Irish.
Oh shit, I just realized why they're mentioned. Yield, for they have the high ground, and cannot be sieged.
I caught a brief glimpse of the second frame, and thought I'd foolishly opened some goatse.
Feels like I got off with a warning, and that it would be wise to slow down a little on these mountain roads.
Can someone explain all the of possums these past few days? And, while I'm on the subject...
Car hitting possum memes: No. :(..
Cowboy possum memes: YES! :D
I don't see an issue if a living person wants to sign away their rights for this. But, if someone's already dead, and they were never asked, creating new material with their likeness should be off-limits.
A good use of the tech is to restore and enhance old films. That's exciting, this other thing is dildos.
Had a friend come out to me just yesterday, and his story is identical. So much so that I had to creep your account to make sure you weren't him.
The similarity doesn't tell me that two people are going through this, it tells me that statistically, tens of thousands must be. Depressing, but yours is good news. Rickety parental unit aside, I hope you're feeling as great as my buddy is; I could both see and hear that a tremendous weight had been lifted from his soul.
Best of luck to you and what this new future holds!
If you don't speak to pollsters, how do you know if they're reptilian or not?
-RFK voters
Everyone is suggesting Dell, and I agree, with one caveat:
Order from their business division. Those machines are designed not to be a hassle, because they want return business customers. Dell business machines have no bloat, and consumer-grade extras often come as standard features on business machines. Just better all-around, even the designs.
Only catch is, you need a business license to order this way, or a friend with one.
It's not just Lemmy, it's all of the communities and people that he constantly trolls and shits on. The only people he hasn't tried to piss off are neo-fascists and Russians. If someone doesn't see that, they must not be paying attention. Which, well... that's not a bad idea, to be honest.
Regardless, it's nice that everyone is finally waking up to the fact that he's just a grifter who likes to call non-grifters pedos.
Also, I caught the comment you made next to this one; what client are you using that shows downvotes? If they're actually downvoted (shows +1 to me), it's likely because the sentence, right after the one they quoted, answered their question. So, the comment as-is didn't really add anything to the conversation.
I have a tall mouth, and I drink tall tea. The cup is the same, though.
You absolute maniac.
Looks like you got a taste of the good life early on, and now you're jaded. I tease (but not really).
Not sure if it's still the case, but Dell used to assign a support tech/team to each business account, and you could call them any time, directly. They'll dick around with home users, who'll only purchase a handful of devices over a lifetime. But, businesses order hundreds of machines at a time, and Dell isn't stupid.
Something else to consider is that home support has to do stuff like help aunt Bertha find the Facebook icon on her desktop (in the late 90s, I was one of the guys they'd send to her house, as a last-last-last resort, oh boy). Where, businesses will often have their own tech calling Dell, with real problems, that are costing money. Those are two vastly different skill sets, and it would be a waste to use the same support team for both sides.
The contrast between the two tiers really is striking though, and it seems you found that out early.
$260 billion US taxpayer dollars.
Israel has free healthcare, college, and war. How neat for them.
As another commenter hinted at, "Thinkpad" used to mean IBM laptop; Lenovo bought the name (and PC division of IBM) for that reason, and they don't mind if people think they're still IBM, because OG Thinkpads were the bomb. This is what I was getting at.
It's bananas that the IBM association is just gone now, because the name was huge in the 90s. Sometimes a fella can really feel old.
It was meant as a joke. Capitalism isn't feudalism in new cloths, either, but that gets a pass. I think you just hate ducks.
Besides, serfdom went on for centuries, under hundreds of different lords and rulers, in just as many environments. Your description covers one type, not all types. It's disingenuous to paint it black and white, just because you have a problem with ducks.
Both drive types are physical devices that a person can hold in their hand; you must have meant another word. Platter, maybe? Unless... something has changed drastically and I'm out of the loop. Are the youngsters downloading both RAM and storage drives now?
If the super-easy signup process is a barrier to entry for someone, is that person really worth having here? This may sound crazy, but I want barriers to entry.
Anyone recall how much better the internet was when it cost a few thousand bucks, and a bit of technical know-how, to even get online? It was no utopia, but it also wasn't everyone's Aunt Betty, who can't operate a toaster, on her iPhone screaming "5G gives you covid DO YOUR RESEARCH!!!1"
After finding the voting system better than Slashdot's, I was on Reddit for 14 years; I fell in love with it at the start, and slowly fell out of love each time they dumbed the site down, in order to lower the barrier to entry. It went from a forum for a community of nerds, to a Facebook meme image board, and each step was a painful reminder of Eternal September in action.
The Fediverse still has that old feeling of community, and I don't want Eternal September to happen here (and it is happening, but not to a terrible extent, yet). I wish signing up really was confusing. Nothing good will come from adding training wheels for Aunt Betty.
I've seen the low-effort meme comments as well; I hated them on Reddit, and I hate them here. This topic had come up on Reddit many times over the years, and there's not really a way to combat it, from what I could tell. People with nothing to say still want to participate (e.g. earn fake internet points), and that seems to be a favored way do it.
Entomology subs like /r/whatsthisbug had a hard rule against comments like "kill it with fire", "nope", and "nuke it from orbit". It was explained in the sidebar, mods would actively remove the comments, and people would downvote them, but it barely made a dent. Scroll to the bottom of a post and you'd see the same stupid "joke" repeated over and over, verbatim.
These people don't even look at the other comments, they just drop their canned catchphrase and leave. This is why I like that we have to scroll to the bottom to comment here; at least the numpties have to put in slightly more effort, and hopefully they notice the comment has already been made 30 times. Ah, who am I kidding? Seeing the same comment probably reinforces their desire to post it.
The entire issue is lame as frig, wish there was a way to stop it. I know I'd be a bad moderator, because I'd just ban them.
That's really interesting about the archive; it's surprisingly small. They must have combined repeated comments, which means there are about a dozen in total, along with some recycled Facebook memes. Now that I think about it, 2TB might be too big! ...I'm joking ;)
Just want to note that Voat was a right-wing hellhole by this point, and the vibe here is extremely different. I'd pulled out of Voat within a week, because the writing was on the wall; big wall, big writing. I'm curious what is making you feel that the Fediverse will be like Voat, because I'm not seeing it. I'm still new here, but it was really obvious on Voat, just a week in.
Now you have me worried that Reddit, in recent years, moved my Overton Window so far right that it no longer sticks out. Oh no.
This is it.
It seems a lot of people have trouble distinguishing between what's simply happening in their browser, and what's being sent back to the server. I mean, I get it; it's confusing, even to the people creating the tech, let alone a casual netizen. It's a good question, and you can't fault anyone for wondering what's what.
Serfs in Gucci belts.
Ah, who am I kidding? Serfs had a far better work/life balance than most people in the developed world today. They had to use regular belts, though, which is embarrassing.
The other reply made an excellent point. But, I want to add, that sometimes the goal of a debate is just to frustrate you. That's it. What they're trying to say may be stupid, nonsensical, needlessly brash, or whatever. That's intentional. They do not want a sensible discussion, they simply want to piss you off. That's their win.
There's a great quote about this, that is (thankfully) often repeated. Let me find it...
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre
Not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, these people are willing to take a risk in order to overcome difficult conditions, and that should be allowed. On the other hand, it feels like Neuralink is preying on their hopes.
If the company figurehead wasn't a libertarian billionaire edgelord, I might look past that second hand. No chance of that, though. He's going to kill people, and then he's going to retweet memes about it.