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deweydecibel

@ deweydecibel @lemmy.world

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  • Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year

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  • Choose to live only in a cloud, require everything to be "smart", and you're inviting this shit upon yourself. There's absolutely zero serious reason to buy internet connected frame beyond tech illiteracy, mindless consumerism, or sheer laziness.

  • Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year

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  • Why in the world are people paying for this? You can get displays like this for digital photos that don't even require an internet connection, much less a subscription. Is this how far people have gone in their unwillingness to learn to use technology that isn't some cloud/app based bullshit? Just put some pictures on an sd card and be done with it.

  • Ford trying to patent system that reports speeding vehicles to police

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  • Let's be real, close to a majority of Americans have no issue with their iPhone being used as part of a mesh tracking network, even if it helps abusers with airtags.

    All they have to do is sell this to people as benefiting them, and they will gobble it up. Hell, chances are, insurance companies will start offering reduced rates if you drive one (and then they buy the data from Ford and increase rates with it).

  • Ford trying to patent system that reports speeding vehicles to police

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  • Not just a law enforcement thing, either.

    Ford will absolutely, 100%, start selling this data to insurance companies, who will absolutely use it to increase rates.

  • The DNC is the only reason you're not currently enjoying a second-term Sanders and a sane Supreme Court.

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  • Both Hillary and Biden are closer to the country as a whole and more likely to pull moderates, who you need to win if you want to actually win a national election.

    The internet has allowed leftists to delude themselves into thinking the only people that need to be appealed to is them.

    They fundamentally do not understand the kinds of people that make up this country. I'd love if we were a left leaning population. We aren't. Continually lying to ourselves about why Bernie didn't win is a type of paralyzing ignorance that only looks more and more absurd as the years go on.

  • The DNC is the only reason you're not currently enjoying a second-term Sanders and a sane Supreme Court.

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  • I love how the narrative focuses on 2016 and not 2020, where he lost all on his own.

  • The DNC is the only reason you're not currently enjoying a second-term Sanders and a sane Supreme Court.

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  • Legitimately, they have an entire video sub where the spam garbage.

  • Michelle Obama Is Only Democrat Beating Trump in New Post-Debate Poll – And It’s by A LOT

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  • Please stop dragging her into this.

    She'd never want to be President. I'd argue we wouldn't like her very much if she was the kind of person that did.

  • People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are

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  • iPhones will report it too if they have Maps open.

  • What’s next after Supreme Court curbs regulatory power: More focus on laws’ wording, less on their goals

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  • Except no serious regulatory laws will ever make it through Congress so long as it's as broken and paralyzed as it is now.

    That's the point. That's the strategy. Congress is frozen, the Court is captured, and now the Executive is diminished. The government is paralyzed to regulate capitalism now. This has been the plan for a long time, only now do people grasp it.

  • Barbie is bugs?

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  • The placement of that text is deeply frustrating. Just a black text box placed without any care? No craftsmanship at all?

    And a watermark? Still, in 2024? Uggh.

  • Republican support for marriage equality drops as conservatives ramp up anti-trans panic

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  • This article is giving them too much credit, frankly. Saying Republican support dropped from "majority to minority" is misleading, bordering on clickbait.

    All that happened was support dropped from 55% to 46%. They were only ever barely a majority.

    Saying "Nearly half" or "over half" of all Republicans don't support gay marriage is splitting hairs. They all support the candidates that are against it.

    The real story here is that even support among Democrats and Independents dropped a bit in the last 2 years. Meaning the fear mongering is pervasive enough to affect everyone.

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    I don't support this but I don't not support this

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  • You could also just put a fucking padlock on it like a sane human being.

    At this point, you're not concerned with keeping your precious cooler, you're just looking to hurt people.

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  • It's nice to see Lemmy will be continuing Reddit's tradition of believing booby traps are ok because anyone trying to touching your precious things deserves the be physically hurt, regardless of the countless ways it can hurt other people who were doing nothing wrong.

    This example isn't even defendable from a home defense angle because you left the thing out on the damn boat, not locked away. At that point it's not just a booby trap, it's a baited trap.

    And for fucks sake it's a damn cooler, who cares this much about it but leave it where anyone can get it?

  • Welcome to the fediverse: Your guide to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, and more

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  • Not just include it, they describe the Fediverse, right up front, as an escape from corporate controlled spaces, and without a hint of fucking irony, drops Threads as the second "big name".

  • Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission

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  • You can see their strategy at work here.

    It is possible to keep individual files on the local hard drive with different settings (that in my experience never seem to stick past updates).

    The default, though, is to take everything on your computer off of your computer, put it into the cloud (their computer), and recommend you pick and choose which ones stay on your computer. In essence, they want you to think of your computer as secondary to their computer. An extension of it.

    There is no "your computer", it's just the computer you happen to be logged into at the moment.

    The cloud is not something you take advantage of, the cloud is where you live now.

  • Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission

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  • Or the fact that once it's off of your hard drive and sitting comfortably on their cloud (their hard drive), they can scan it and harvest it for data.

  • Joe sniffing hair tho

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  • Ok but...he's gotta wear the aviators.

  • Finally a useful feature (no)

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  • At least that can be turned off in updates.

    All these hardware additions, the AI buttons, even Windows taking away the right CTRL key for Copilot, are ugly appendages that, in 20 years, when were clearing out the equipment closest, we'll see some of these and go "oh yeah remember when that bullshit was as a thing for a few years?"

  • Lemmy Apps @lemmy.world
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    Android apps that allow hiding or collapsing images in comments?

  • AssholeDesign @lemmy.world
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    Doordash now has a tab to advertise other stores that you can accidentally swipe-up when trying to scroll down the menu

  • Boost for Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Boost doesn't seem to recognize Lemmy's native "Show scores" toggle, to spite it being in the apps's Settings. Scores are still visible when the setting is toggled off.

  • Reddit @lemmy.world
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    The Boost for Lemmy app preview looks promising for RIF refugees