It’s so they can track you better. If you’re in the US and using a Chromium based browser, so long as you don’t view “adult content” they usually don’t pop this up. But they can’t track in Firefox, and because of GDPR, they can’t track logged-out users in the EU, so it’s all about the money. I use Vivaldi and a VPN to watch youtube, works mostly fine.

EDIT: Well never-fucking-mind…this strategy has worked for me without fail for a lonnnnng time, and today they got me…same day the pulled uBlock origin from the Chrome store…dicks.

I also leaned there are still ska bands in 2025.

You can totally turn it off in a couple clicks or leave it on if you want it. Other tech companies take note, this is how you do it.

Every Texan I know has a generator to deal with the unreliability of the grid, and there’s never been an article about someone in Iowa getting a surprise $100k electric bill…and the average wage in Texas is substantially lower than in “left wing” states like California or Washington…so not sure you’re making an apples-to-apples comparison, but time will be the judge, we can all check-in in a year and see how this plays out. Does Lemmy have a remind me! bot?

The one state that refuses to connect to the interstate power grid and has Uber-like surge pricing on electricity? Yeah, I’m sure this won’t result in regular people footing the bill for more billionaire profits.

Texas is a joke, but not a good one.

Jeff Bezos can afford to do this because of Amazon.

Boycott Amazon.

Just what’s in it by default:

Yeah, but it’s Joe Biden…he admitted to war crimes, but he didn’t realize he was admitting to war crimes.

For anyone who doesn’t already know the good FOSS alternatives:

• Local: Libreoffice
• Cloud/self-hosted: Nextcloud Office

You’re just jealous of our freedom to choose between different health insurance companies to deny our claims for care and bankrupt us

ding ding ding! It’s the only option, and I hate it.

SOLVED! I had to learn how Cloudflare tunnels work, but 45 minutes later and it’s doing exactly what I need, thank you so much, kind internet hero!

Note: The ISP is Comcast, who at various points on the web has claimed to block and NOT block :80, but lots of other people online seem to have the same problem, indicating that they do. At least for some people.

I love Fish

Probably preaching to the choir on Lemmy but…reminder to boycott Facebook and Instagram.

Wow, this looks really cool! I see a reddit icon on there, but not a Lemmy one…is Lemmy support coming?

FTA: "While this is a win on paper, it’s unlikely that the publishers will get paid by the LibGen operators, who remain anonymous. "

renters

$117k

This is the stupidest timeline.

Yeah, Mailspring is what I use currently, but the sidebar pretty much just shows the list of e-mails, no other data, but it is the best of what I’ve found on my own.