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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody wants random crap, trackers, spyware, and other garbage.

  If photpea wanted to curate their ads, it might be different. Maybe they could even have an artists gallery or subscription to advertise for their heavy users.

  But nobody in their right mind is going to stop blocking the major ad domians. Because that would just be stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Kirk in his own words.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok add the context: He was responding to the article that United was going to add more women and people of color to their… TRAINING program. Is there anything wrong with adding DEI to a training program as an opportunity? Both groups are drastically underrepresented, like in the under 10 percent range or so.

  The qualifications are the same, they can’t be a pilot without the qualifying. So either Charlie is lying, stupid, or just plain racist. He does not get a pass on that. He was definitely saying they cant do the job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump suggested people shouldn’t feel sorry for Joe Biden over his cancer diagnosis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you blame them?

  Religion is running right though politics and global affairs in a very negative way. Not a good look to be on that team. People just saw a man dragging a cross at the huge event for Charlie Kirk trying to show the suffering and burden he carried. These worlds are tied, and you are saying you align with that in their eyes.

  But why you would mention your religious affiliation, is there a good reason?

  Either you personally live by an ideal you can explain (such as feeling empathy for Biden in this thread) or you don’t. There is no need to say you believe in a fictitious being. Your acts and deeds matter more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump suggested people shouldn’t feel sorry for Joe Biden over his cancer diagnosis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or they disagree with you. I think they see the bullshit that is religion in general, as the comment I replied to was about religion in general.

  But Americans are certainly busy making the Christian religion a very divisive subject. I mean two books by pastors who are pushing the idea that Empathy is a Sin? Or the notion that wealth is an indication of God rewarding the right people? It is a mess.

  But like I said, this is how religion works, people invent it and wield it for personal gain and control. Always has been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump suggested people shouldn’t feel sorry for Joe Biden over his cancer diagnosis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is all about money and control. You cannot argue any other way. That is what religion does. It may not be what it evolves into exactly, and it may not be what the believers even want.

  But there is no denying it, every modern example is this way without exception. You think people in the past were any different? You think that is why for the longest time Christians weren’t even allowed to read their own book?

  Religion is a tool to enrich some and control others. There are very few exceptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Such a garbage site and always has been. Prior to microsoft owning them they were a shit show. They should never have recovered from this, but people are stupid.

  After microsoft bought them, they became nothing more than a data mining operation. Which also should have made people avoid them. But again, people are so damn stupid.

  So train AI on these dumbfucks, why not? They are too dumb to walk away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is raising Xbox console prices in the US again, five months after its last price increase | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep raising it, or lowering it doesn’t matter.

  Would never own an Xbox. Microsoft products? Hell no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every link went to forbidden as I am not currently in the US. So that was interesting. Then when I did check these rates in the small print I got only with a new account, subject to change, etc. That is a the scummy part I was talking about. I guess if one hoped they could get that rate for at least 6 months and were willing to shuffle it to another bank every so often, it could work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They vary wildly. The typical savings account now as about 1% or less. There are some online versions when offer 3.5. There are a few with stipulations: $200,000 in the account or deposits of $5,000 a month. Those are approaching CD type rates with rules.

  But they are not particularity common.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a really good rate. Online only version of Citizens bank right? The regular citizens rates are low like everyone elses, I wonder why they are offering such a high rate? You would think online banking wouldnt be that much of a benefit to them anymore but I guess it is. Pretty rare these days!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where is this mythical high yield savings account?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great? The first one was OK. Then it kinda went down hill from there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft mandates a return to office⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I keep thinking that. They know everyone is thinking that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft mandates a return to office⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So damn stupid. So they laid people off recently right? They say they are not doing this to decrease their workforce, but I have to wonder.

  Also, how many of these “teams” will be returning to the office only to have to work with other teams that are not in their office anyways? Seems like that happens more often than not in global organizations. Anyone know how centralized Microsoft work groups are?

  The last person I knew who worked at microsoft was back in the old balmer days who got hired to do nothing to kill a open source project. They put a bar in their office and drank themselves to death. Paid well though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your top games to emulate on a long trip?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I played through Lollipop Chainsaw on my steam deck. No, not the new one, the original ps3 one with an emulator. Don’t bother with the remake.

  It is a good time waster and is humorous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPT: Go get a shot, now.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw a study the other day that mentioned that Sweden during the pandemic had a median time of 30 days sick leave for those who had Covid.

  In the US that would be rare if impossible for a lot of people. I would think if someone could get a shot that would lessen symptoms or duration in a country that has such a poor health care safety net it might be worth while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Windows in a nutshell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldnt hold your breath, unless microsoft finally realizes rootkits are a bad thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Windows in a nutshell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We replaced “Clock” with ClockPilot. It is so much better! Go ahead ask Clock Pilot what time it is!

  You: Clockpilot What Time is It?

  🤖 Clockpilot: “Ah, an excellent question! It’s breakfast time in 12 different countries, next week already in New Zealand, and—wait, hang on—did you know Saturn’s day is only 10.7 hours long? If you were there, you’d already be late for bed.

  …Anyway. Locally speaking: it’s … thinking …did you adjust for Daylight Savings, quantum drift, or whether your cat stepped on your keyboard last spring?

  Would you like me to set an alarm for:

  Your next existential crisis, The heat-death of the universe, or Dinner? 
  

  You: Clockpilot I said WHAT TIME IS IT!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Windows in a nutshell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are you waiting so long? Windows XP pushed me over the edge and I switched to Linux then. Everything was suddenly better. Computers were useful and fun again.

  What are you waiting for?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i’m not gonna manually search for things…

  OK you wont find things then. A lot of communities I like are not going to show up in ALL. I seek them out and sub to them. Why be so lazy, it only takes a few minutes? Or simply search for your interests.

  I mean if what you are looking for is where people are the loudest and places that are the busiest then by all means stay looking at all.

  Lemmy doesn’t have that many users and it also can have multiple subs that are the same category. So discovering those and choosing one, or both is up to you.

  So precisely:

  1. use the reddit to Lemmy sub finder if you are coming from reddit
  2. search for things you are interested in using the community search - flyfishing for example.
  3. click “browse communities” and you will get a list of all of them, glance through them and check the box to sub

  Not that hard.

  Also, use Scaled as sort occasionally. It will let smaller subs rise to the top of you list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I get it. For what it is worth, I find contributing to the subs I care about does help spur conversation. Some people even seem grateful to have the ice broken and get people engaged. Small communities stay that way if you don’t nudge them along.

  Also, every now and then I just browse all the communities (not the content or comments) just communities to see if there is anything I should add to my subscriptions.

  But I get that the easiest way is just click “all” and go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You are confusing seeing other instances with “ALL”. I just don’t want to see what I am not subscribed to. Curation of all this crap just makes it so much better. And focused for that matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just go to my subscriptions. Then sort by scaled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People use All?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft will kill the Lens PDF scanner app for iOS, Android⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even know what that is. Microsoft software on my mobile devices? No thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit already only allows Google to scrape them now, so as far as I am concerned it is a dead site. Removing my comments is worth it to not feed the monopoly that is Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI slop is ruining all of our favorite places to scroll⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The article says it’s ruining Pinterest?

  Finally a good use for AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the LG G5’s shocking last-place finish at the 2025 TV Shootout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol can’t read the verge article and can’t read the archive one either.

  The internet is so fucking dead.

  Captchas that don’t work, next to a reminder that to keep from seeing this I should run antivirus.

  I am on a damn PHONE! No VPN, just a standard internet connection.

  So sick of this shit, I want early 2000’s internet back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok employees in Germany strike over AI taking their jobs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. You missed my points, and called me a scab for no reason.

  You FOR spreading TIKTOK bullshit? Or can you see that it is a sad day to have to work for that company?

  Maybe you should look a little deeper and not be such a prick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok employees in Germany strike over AI taking their jobs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They want to work for tiktok?