The irony of having this in the middle of the article

We did just fine before these existed. They should just be outright banned, and the existing ones be phased out in some way where the owners aren’t completely screwed (though, if I were being vindictive I’d say tough shit, you shouldn’t have participated in this arms race)

America is a capitalist hellscape, but so is China.

Unions and strikes in-practice are banned.

They seem kinda equivalent on workers rights, to me.

I’m with you on being against capitalism, but UBI isn’t convincing as a solution to me.

UBI pre-supposes that the rich and their corporations should have a monopoly on the means of production, and you still have capitalism, just that the population are guaranteed an income via high taxes. But the power structure, and undemocratic nature of capitalist controlling everything still exists.

UBI is some dystopian stuff if you don’t combine it with getting rid of the ruling class and the other tools of capitalist oppression.

But yeah, I agree with you that we certainly ought to be working less than we are (yes, even if standards of living were more fairly distributed to poor countries), and in the future I also agree with you that we ought to be working way, way less of technology allows for it.

No worries friend :)

You can place things anywhere down to the pixel, not just snapped to a grid like with Nova (though, there is option for a grid of apps, also).

It’s a bit of fiddly process if it’s complicated, but you can layer and place things however you want.

There is no dock, you can however pin items to show on every screen, which is basically the same thing, so that would also fit that criterion.

Also 4 swipe directions on icons for extra shortcuts beyond tap (last I used nova, it was just up and down? It’s been many years).

Basically, can highly recommend Total Launcher, though in fairness, I have not tried some of the other launchers listed by others here.

The one time fee for pro is pretty affordable, iirc. The Dev is also pretty responsive via email

If crazy levels of customisation is the reason you use it, Total Launcher did the trick for me.

World governments: I feel so unappreciated for all the help I continuously provide ☹️

in-video ads

They do actually have an in-built skip for this. It’s not as good as sponsor block though

They aren’t completely equivalent, though it’s pretty close, sadly.

I agree that it’s better for someone to get involved with a third party, but if that third party’s electoral strategy is to simply try and receive more votes, then they’re actively hurting under the US’ terrible voting system. (This is under the assumption that this third party is less right wing that the Democrats, and that you don’t want the Republicans to win).

Any third party that is actively campaigning on getting preferential voting across the line by influencing the Democrats from the outside (yeah, first part the post is that terrible that this is necessary), or is revolutionary in nature, is okay in my books.

The rest are doing active harm because of the spoiler effect.

“Blue no matter who” is really, really dumb, and people really ought to get involved with groups within and without the Democrats to vigorously push for electoral reform, and better yet the abolition of capitalism and implementation of actual democracy (the US can barely be considered a democracy).

Parties that just are campaigning on: ‘Hey! Vote for us because we’re better’ with no actual strategy of changing the system are dumb, also.

If your software runs on windows or MacOS, this point is such bull, sorry.

Do you monitor what software people have installed accessing their banking needs on those platforms?

Gotta love the spoiler effect :3 yikes first past the post sucks

Me every day at work.

It’s even worse working in the company’s network drive.

But damn, it often takes ages for a right click to appear in the goddamned downloads folder (which is in its default C drive location…)

I feel you pain friend.

I like it at the top of the view-port, but I agree the auto-hiding/showing feature is excruciating.

Best part is, they don’t even have to go to court, this sort of thing can be taken to your state or territory’s administrative tribunal, which costs peanuts to file with, and it’s extremely common to represent yourself. Hence why it’s an extremely effective threat when you’re obviously in the right, like in this case.

Basically Umart is fucked and Australian Consumer Law is really not shabby :)

It might not be legal, but it’s already morally acceptable to shoplift from Coles and Woolworths

I just don’t because it would be a massive pain if I were to be caught

This is so fucking stupid. I’ve worked in hospitality, saying please and thank you just comes with the territory no one needs to be checking if you do it.

In a cafe that’s the whole service (in my country at least): being friendly to people, and providing a nice place to hang out and have a coffee, the actual beverage is secondary.

Saying please and thank you is such base politeness. You can easily be rude or cold even when you do use them, and conversely, be absolutely lovely without using them at all.

People don’t go to burger king for the pleasantries, the amount of politeness you should expect is the same as anyone else walking down the street.

Policing politeness with technology is stupid. People should ask each other how they’re going genuinely. Not from a place of corporate greed.

Fuck this capitalist dystopia.

This is a great propaganda* image. Yoink ⚒️

* word used in the neural sense

The general strike in Minneapolis shows what the working class can achieve.

From the provinces (Australia), I suggest you join whatever local movements exist.

I’m wishing you great success, because I worry what will be in store for us if the US falls even further into racism.

Stay strong friend

Props to the camera person for showing the message.

Every small resistance counts ✊

Using an LLM for anything other than language, weird software questions, and really terrible low-stakes coding just seems like a stupid idea to me.

It can save time in certain contexts, but pretty much only in writing you some headings for a report or something. Using it for NUMBERS is insane.