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Only if you’re good!

404 demanding my private information to access their article about how I shouldn’t give my private information to companies.

Honestly I’m considering just using Windows server 2022. I’ve got it running on my dedi and it’s great. I don’t see any reason not to just install it on my pc too.

Seems like obscurity is kind of an essential component to successful archival work. Art being preserved through capitalism’s daily attempts to burn the digital library of Alexandria won’t be achieved with flashing neon signs directing as many people as possible to the archives.

That sounds like grounds for some kind of legal action. Antitrust? Class action? I don’t know the specifics of the best strategy for approaching it, but if Nintendo is showing a pattern of using their legal team to harass legally operating emulator developers that sounds like something that should be actionable.

Using someone else’s IP, such as claiming that something you’re distributing is an episode of their show, most certainly qualifies for a valid DMCA takedown notice.

Are those voters likely to vote for Trump instead? Or do you think the centrists that Democrats tiptoe around during election years are?

Once she’s in, once the immediate danger to the basic functioning of our government is over, I’ll be interested to see how she handles it. Right now though? She seems to be providing criticism while walking a careful line and trying to play it safe.

If she doesn’t come firmly down on refusing to materially support the IDF after the election, I’ll be first in line to start making noise about it. But at the moment? We need to secure our ability to have future elections first or it’s going to get a whole lot worse. I get it.

Yeah, that’s the bit that gave me the bro-y vibe, honestly. That and Brave. Also like, not that it’s necessarily a bad thing that I can see his muscle veins through his shirt, but that’s often a component of that particular corner of Joe Rogan-NFT-Bitcoin-Tesla.

But yeah, that makes sense. It definitely feels very sudden and artificial, which makes me wary.

Why are y’all spamming this Rossman guy suddenly? I had never heard of him before two days ago, and now I’ve seen posts about him every single day.

Seems like a bro-y tech dude. He promotes Brave and references sexual assault when talking about the behavior of software vendors with their customers. Honestly he gives me kind of a shady vibe on top of that.

So like, why is Lemmy suddenly full of his fans? What’s going on?

If it were actually the mid 2000s, I’d be okay for an insane amount of time with just Flash and Audacity. Today, probably the first Baldur’s Gate.

Oo or an snes emulator with Shadowrun.

I feel like fraud is a big risk for, what, less than $100/mo? You can do better.

They’re literally an insurance company. They have lawyers coming out of their ears.

There’s a huge middle ground between constant reposts about the same topic and hostility to new users. Megathreads have often been the solution to that particular problem. I don’t know if Lemmy has a merge functionality, though. It seems like the mod tools are kind of limited.

That depends on what you want out of them. If you want to minimize the amount of stuff you’re carrying around as your top priority, sure, phones are great. But if you want ease of use for a specific task without unwanted interference? They’re not always the best.

Like, if I were doing any sort of meaningful photography, I’d want my actual camera. It’s easier to shoot with, it allows for more control, and no notifications or phone calls are going to suddenly interrupt a shot.

When it comes to a music player, it’s mostly good, but what if I want to keep listening to music while doing other stuff on my phone, or while talking to someone? Phones are pretty bad at that sort of multitasking. There are certain websites I can’t read while listening to spotify, because something completely inaudible takes over the sound channel as soon as I load the page.

As to making phone calls? The number of dropped calls or calls with one-way audio is absolutely absurd, and not something I ever ran into on older dumb phones.

Convenience ultimately depends on use case. It is nice to always have some kind of camera on me, even if it’s kind of a half assed one. Ditto to a computer, a music player, and a phone. But they’re definitely not more convenient to use.

There’s a reason dials, macropads, tablets, midi devices, and things like that are popular. It’s usually a lot easier to control physical stuff sitting in front of you than it is to interface with some abstracted UI. Like, typing is so bad on phones that it spurred the creation of contemporary AI.

Aaa! Name thief!

It’s an invidious instance, but I ain’t tellin!

I’ve moved on from trying to block the ads to using a front-end and a macro to do the annoying part for me. It’s been nice. I hadn’t realized how bad youtube’s UI was until seeing a clean one. I definitely recommend using one of the less notable ones, they seem to be faster.

Personally, I wrap all my cuts in old lettuce.

Specifically it says to avoid handling raw seafood if you have an open wound. It’s not recommending that we all give up sushi or like, avoid lettuce.

I’d say all piracy that isn’t bootlegging or otherwise profit motivated is pretty ethical. It’s basically a decentralized museum of modern art that our tragically morally bankrupt society can’t be bothered to allow for the legal preservation of.