It’s all well and good being oh so principled like you’re making yourself out to be, but phones are expensive, and the above user is being completely rational for wanting to settle on a Pixel 9a for $250, especially when the other OEMs have plenty of their own problems.

Get off your moral high horse.

Live and let live is pretty much the antithesis of organised religion

I’m a very vocal critic of LLMs, I think they’re so overhyped and overused it’s hard to believe.

But I’m also getting really tired of people purposely putting extreme effort into tricking the LLM into saying something harmful if someone were to follow it blindly, just so they can make a clickbait headline out of it.

And what the hell is up with the major “ChatGPT is Satanist [if you instruct it to be]” angle? Are we really doing the Satanist moral panic again?

ffs, criticise OpenAI for being closed af, being wasteful, being strong political lobbyists, for stealing work, etc. You don’t need to push disingenuous stuff like this.

Oh look, one of Lemmy’s many resident tankies.

Nazi gold didn’t disappear after the Nazis fell. They still pocketed it all, despite knowing where all that wealth came from, and did fuck all to help rebuild Europe.

Other things like their appeasing attitude towards Russia, reluctance to allow weapons exports to Ukraine, and willingness to export weapons to awful regimes are all unambiguously current.

You’ve not heard of shady banking, Nazi gold, reluctance to stop dealing with Russia, women not being able to vote until the 70s, and Nestle?

Switzerland gets aggressively simped for online, and there’s certainly some nice things about them, but there’s also some pretty awful things.

An unrepentant homophobe who accused people who dislike him for his homophobic views/actions as being closed-minded and bigoted for disliking him over it.

You can’t make this shit up

The data ☝️

I’m always surprised by how low the Flatpak share is.

I used to maintain a website for a bicycling club in my county that was great for getting people into biking, getting people out the house, making friends, and staying fit.

We had a banner ad along the top of the site for a local bicycle/bicycle repair shop that aided the club a lot and was very reasonable.

He got something out of it (publicity and a seal of approval towards the value/quality of his work), and we got something out of it (money to run the site, and a bit left over for things like puncture repair kits and the occasional celebratory drink after an arduous ride).

Nobody bats an eyelid to those ads. They are reasonable.

What we have now isn’t that. What we have now is an insecure, malware-infested privacy nightmare that ruins webpages and stresses everybody out.

Use Firefox + uBlock origin for your own sanity. Don’t let big tech make you feel guilty for not going along with their game.

Honestly, a physical password book isn’t a bad idea.

Not accessible via the internet, and in most cases if someone has physical access to your system you’re done for anyway.

The main weakness it has is from a nosey flatmate, spouse, or child in the house.

Be rude, someone is rude to you back. Boo hoo.

Trying to bait people into absolutely pointless arguments makes the community shittier.

Oh my fucking god, really?!

You’re so smart, that never occurred to me. I thought that there was only 27 countries in the world, and all of them were in one continent!

Yes, I do realise that, genius. I’m not from an EU country myself.

However, I engaged my brain cells and quickly realised that most phones that exist are sold in the EU, and therefore the OEM has to make and test these updates anyway. In virtually all cases they will then release these worldwide.

Like how the EU mandated USB-C and now it’s worldwide. The EU has quietly become the market that sets international standards over the past 20 years.

I know it seems like I’m being mean in this comment, but fuck me it’s the most Reddit comment ever. A pointless comment just begging to start a pointless argument. Nobody can be bothered with that trolling shit. Do better.

You’re getting angry about people talking about technology in a technology community, leading people to ask why you’re here if you hate technology being spoken about.

That’s obviously not equivalent to racism or xenophobia.

You’re yearning so hard to be a victim. It’s pathetic.

I don’t think the issue with phones is the smaller bezels or better displays.

That’s not what’s ruining them.

All phones that are sold in the EU now have to have 5 years of updates after the phone is no longer sold.

Basically, all phones have 6+ years of updates now.

Japan has been living in the year 2000 since the 80s.

Why jump through all these hoops, and lessen the security of your browser in the process, just to do something that is being fully stripped out soon anyway?

Just install Firefox. It’s not like you can’t import your bookmarks and such.

To be fair, it does make sense.

“Warp 9.975” (and beyond, for newer ships than the Intrepid) is getting a bit absurd

Honestly the above comment infuriated me.

They would not be defending this person if they were a man.

Having lower expectations of women isn’t progressive, it isn’t feminist. It’s infantising. It’s misogyny of lower expectations. “Oh you can’t expect women to understand the difference between right and wrong.”

A woman who is happy to support Elon is every bit as bad as a man that is happy to support Elon. Supporting a nazi is supporting a nazi.

I will never understand why people think FOSS is or should be apolitical.

FOSS has always been political. It’s literally never existed in any other way.