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I think out of all the things I’ve heard about Elon Musk, this might be the thing that disgusts me the most.

I think it comes down to just knowing what is good. When you’re young you don’t have any experience to judge quality by. As you get older you can rapidly assess that something sucks, even if other people are pumping it up. Either in terms of gameplay or plot or whatever, now you have standards. Also, a lot of modern games just don’t respect your time, and as you get older you realize your time is valuable so you just don’t have the patience for that.

I’m in my 30s, I still game, but I’m a lot quicker to just go “this sucks” and move on to something else.

I already donate to my Mastodon instance, if my instance needs or wants money for any reason, they should set up a donation button and I’ll subscribe. Which will give them a lot more money than they would ever make from showing me ads. We should normalize removing all ads from the internet, forever.

I use a physical sim. I’m not sure it even supports eSIM, but I’d be hesitant to ditch the physical sim for precisely the reasons you mentioned. I’ve swapped sims around between phones and even borrowed them from people when I was in a new area, something that’s much harder with eSIMs.

I was filling it out, but I have to ask, “What about Kbin”. There are several different interfaces that all communicate on this protocol. So I’m on asklemmy, but technically I’m not a Lemmy use, I’m a Kbin user, does that count as “Lemmy” for your study?

It’s better because Bing may still have selling ads as a priority when building the indexer. If you’re not the one paying, you’re the product.

Because last time I checked they just used Bing anwyay, while Kagi runs their own indexer.

Google’s becoming pretty terrible anyway, it only seems to return pages that are selling things. I’ve switched to Kagi at this point and it seems to work better, it’s subscription only, but you know you’re the one paying for it and that means that you’re the end customer.

I donate to all the services I use. Including my Mastodon instance, Wikipedia, Habitica, etc…

EDIT: And I mean monthly. Except for Wikipedia where it’s just yearly.

There’s a load of things I could say, but they would all be pointless, so I’m going to say this. It would be less depressing if you were actually being paid by the Russians.

EDIT: Which, you know, is not actually out of the question.

That was my first thought too. Wasn’t there like a checklist for “Why this spam detection scheme will fail” that was floating around since the late 1990s?

I don’t get it, third party users can’t consent to your stupid license agreement anyway. You’re still stealing their data.

If you average out your knowledge in different fields of expertise you’ll realize you’re just as dumb as they are. This brings something that isn’t peace of mind, but does look very much like it. Though if your biggest problem is “people not understanding you”, I suggest working on your communication skills.

But why does it work like that? You could just as easily make the phone silently pick up and silently hang up.

Not only that, but I don’t think the Russians really understand western thinking at this point. Even if they get everyone to believe these allegations, so what? It doesn’t change that Russia started the war, or the killing they’ve been doing in captured territory.

“The Ukranians said bad things about Russians”. Of course they did, the Russians are literally trying to kill them.

In addition to clearing the watch history, I’d suggest making them as “Do not recommend channel” in the Home view, refresh and do the same for the next batch. This will stop the channels popping up at all. Then use it to watch a few more normal ones. Of course the algorithm will pull to the right over time, but removing channels from the recommendation rotation should slow things down.

Not always. A lot of the time people will just lie about what they actually believe and why they believe it.

For example. People are going to say they support free speech because they believe in it as an important principle for a free society. No one is going to say they support free speech because actually they’re a full on Nazi and this is the only way to get their message out to the public until they get the reigns and then they can dispense will al the “free speech” stuff and lock down the opposition.

Actually this applies to a lot of politics related stuff. For example politicians always talk about how tax breaks are going to stimulate the economy, none of them say “well my mate paid me a few million under the table to push this, even though ‘trickle down’ has never worked in the 100+ years that it’s been around”.

Security patches, Everyone says “We need to insure that all new software has up to date security and patches.”, no one says “We want to collect every single bit of telemetry and integrate end to end DRM and the only way that can work is if the device is completely locked down so the users can’t bypass or root it.”.

I have a few things that help me when making these decisions.

1. There might not be brand loyalty, but there is store loyalty. I know a few places around that have sold me good stuff in the past and I usually check there first. A brick and mortar store, even if you buy from them online, has an interest in not thrashing their reputation by selling you junk. Eg, I tried several electric shavers, but the one I currently use is one of the only ones a local big-name store had. The ‘best reviewed’ one I found by searching online sucked.
2. No internet connected anything.
3. Old technology is usually more reliable. I got an infra-red electric stovetop with knobs instead of paying extra for an induction one and I don’t regret it. It was the only one they had because apparently no one wants knobs instead of touch sensitive buttons, but it still works perfectly years on and I’m still fairly happy with it. You never want to be first in line for anything.

Subscriptions to “Consumer Reports” or “Choice” magazines are always helpful, and their reviews are very reliable, but you won’t always be able to find the stuff they’re recommending.

Not even a self published Kindle ebook? Yikes. I bet the secret turns out to be “becoming more religious”.

I don’t dare click the link, what is it?