bizarroland

The playbook as I understand it is that they offer a community improvement for free at first to get you hooked and then once everyone is entirely reliant upon it that’s when they do the rug pull.

So there is a good chance that Google search will improve for the next 6 to 18 months while they are doing this just know that this is a temporary reprieve from the enshittification solely to prime the engine for the enshittification to get massively worse.

I don’t get this. I know the person on the left is the trans employee from Linus tech tips, and I saw in the comments who the person on the right is but I don’t get this meme at all

I came across this phrase organically by accidental haiku:

Water drops in the Ocean never mean to be- come a tsunami

I’m willing to bet you’re still ending up in their database. Unless you are using some sort of VPN to first obfuscate your location and then a brand new account that has not been used before, then there’s going to be some record of similarity.

When I’m installing Windows 10 or 11, I use the Rufus installer to create a pre-built admin account that I can sign in with.

Oh yeah?

Open edge and search for something. Check in the top right corner and tell me you’re not signed into some sort of pseudo-created Microsoft account.

Not to mention that Microsoft forces you to use a Microsoft account when you create your account on your home computer which is then automatically logged in to edge and *bing so that they can track and quantize more of every single thing you do on the internet to monetize you

I think it’s the second one, because every time I’ve heard the objection about the Sun not working at night it has always been in the form of a gotcha and not in the form of a question like, how do we deal with this issue?

And it mitigates the current red herring of the anti-solar groups complaining that solar “generates too much electricity during the day, and not enough at night”.

With an effective and balanced grid storage system across the country, we can recharge the batteries during the day and then use the power at night.

My mom was still paying for dial-up AOL in 2016. She had been paying them $20 a month for over a decade while having high-speed internet that she was also paying for.

When I asked her why she didn’t cancel it, she said she would lose her email.

So I canceled it because AOL provides free email because they make money off of the ads.

Reddit sold whatever soul it may have had to the devil, as does every company that goes public.

It’s literally taking our words and our conversations and using them to train an inhuman computer system to sound more human.

And we are not allowed to say no.

It doesn’t get more devilish than that on the internet.

And of course, I deleted my account when this whole debacle happened, but I’m sure they’re still taking all of my old comments and selling them to any person with a dollar.

They’ve made it incredibly clear that anything you post on their platform is theirs, and if they do something you don’t like you can go fuck yourself.

Fuck Reddit.

You can also find a cheap laptop with like a 7th gen Intel or newer processor and use that with a wireless keyboard and mouse and an HDMI cable.

Bang for your buck it’ll be the best deal for you

I’m sure if you search the internet there are quite a few pie hole block lists that are very easy to add.

Shoot for the Tony Starks but don’t miss cuz otherwise you’ll end up among the Elon musks

I thought AI generated pictures were automatically public domain and unable to be copyrighted?

2 more to go and then most of us die! Yay!

I’ve noticed that when I am specking out a new computer I typically fall into the trap of wanting the absolute best computer I can get for the money.

I’ve always been on the cheaper side, so I have found myself spending days or weeks researching various parts at various quality levels at various prices.

It becomes a huge drag.

Set the budget that you’re comfortable with, find the motherboard that has the features that you want, then get a CPU that fits in that price range, a case that fits your use cases, and then if you’re going to splurge on anything splurge on the power supply as a good power supply can last you through multiple computers.

If you have to save money somewhere, save money on RAM as you can always order more or upgrade the rim that you have relatively inexpensively. Maybe if you’re going intel, purchase an i5 CPU and then consider upgrading if you max out its abilities or you find yourself frequently running at 100% utilization.

And don’t overlook pre-builts. There are lots of refurbished computers that you can purchase for far less than the cost of the individual parts that have all of the minimum specs that you want in exchange for little things like only having a single stick of ram or having a low quality SSD.

There’s nothing that stops you from upgrading later should your use case change.

I’d be okay with it even if it were on a time delay.

Like if device manufacturers had to publish their software in order to no longer officially support the device that would be a welcome compromise and at least a step in the right direction right?

Exactly. Microsoft never does anything that isn’t in their own financial interest.

Even if other people benefit from it, it really is all about ensuring that they have profit growth year after year.

So I can’t trust anything that they ever do and nobody else who cares about freedom in technology should either.

You got to give us some context my dude. Why is funk whale not recommended by you?