princessnorah

@princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. I genuinely can’t believe people are upvoting you for this. Like yeah, I super agree it’s a dark pattern. Stealing people’s data is WAY worse though, uploading potentially sensitive photos or documents to their cloud with no user input. But according to you that’s fine because it’s less obtrusive and annoying? Yeesh I’m glad I don’t have your priorities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no, an annoying red dot. Microsoft are straight up hoovering up users data into the cloud by automatically enabling syncing. These two things are not even close to the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” - Workers stayed remote even when told they could no longer be promoted.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in Australia and we still do this? I have a loyalty discount for being a customer for 7 years, AU$57/month for unlimited data on my mobile and free calls to 40 countries ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Mulgrew told Rick Berman she wanted a gay character on the Voyager bridge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘Resolutions’ called, it wants to build up a relationship between Janeway and Chakotay and then throw it away never to be heard from again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sex workers in Belgium to receive pension contributions and maternity leave under labour overhaul – The Irish Times⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This article states that the law is the first of it’s kind, but that’s not true at all. We decriminalised sex work in 2022 here in Victoria, Australia, and as part of that extended all protections and benefits workers enjoy to sex workers as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Stardew Valley⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it’s a mobile-only feature. On desktop the game only saves once the day ends, either via bed or exhaustion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Stardew Valley⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you haven’t played since relatively early in it’s release, I believe that was a bug that has now been fixed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalists have an answer to this, it’s called the Pinkertons…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan forces Apple and Google to open their mobile platforms • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As of last month, I can now, in fact, store my driver’s license on my phone. Can’t wait to use it for nights out with friends, no risk of losing my purse and the app even hides your address unless you specifically allow it, so no skeevy bartenders can read my address when they “card” me :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You say this like destroying the technology wasn’t their way of targeting the systemic issue? Destroying expensive machinery has been used by labour time and again as a tactic to get the capitalist class to cough up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear power explained in 12 numbers to help you understand how it fits Australia’s energy needs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And? We should be decommissioning and demolishing any that are upstream of settlements because of their huge risk of catastrophe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear power explained in 12 numbers to help you understand how it fits Australia’s energy needs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …pumped hydro is cheaper.

  It might be cheaper financially, but we’ve known about the huge environmental cost of dams for decades now. It boggles my mind that people suggest it in the same sentence as renewables.

  Let alone that the immediate risk to life and property if a dam bursts can be similar to that of a nuclear meltdown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so sorry for all these other replies you got to a simple explanation that you personally prefer working in the office. You do you mate!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you get lost and stumble into the wrong community or something my friend? Could you maybe dial it down from 11? Jeeze.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Felt cute :3 been feeling dysphoric lately so pls be kind >~>⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  woah, i’m genuinely impressed honestly! asahi has gotten way better, and your skills at both looking cute and tinkering are legendary :3c

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. It was pretty funny to me because downdetector.com (run by the speedtest.net folks) had 4 times the error reports submitted for DDG than Bing. Bing has a bigger market share, so I think it’s purely down to DDG users being more technically-minded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dutton threatens to pull Australia from [international] criminal court⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That or it’s all just a smokescreen to get out of the court so he can commit even more severe human rights violations against asylum seekers or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Blocks Access to Protest Anthem in Hong Kong⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With Invidious, it would have to block every single accessible instance for that to work. You can proxy the video through the instance to avoid censorship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of institutional gaslighting is this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if this also has something to do with the company itself avoiding shame too. Like firing an employee is a sign of weakness, that you hired someone like that in the first place? Or potentially a difference in benefits or a pension that they have to pay?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It entirely depends, but I don’t think “Stable” is necessarily synonymous with “Release” versions. You can have a “stable” version where it functions correctly and there’s no critical bugs that crash the program.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you go to the Meshtastic website, the Beta of the software is listed as Stable, with the Alpha branch considered the testing version: meshtastic.org/downloads/

  Lemmy itself is still in Beta, with stable version releases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahaha yeah tell that to every other country that has Google, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and every other American social media company serving it’s citizens emotionally charged content. Facebook was even implicated in inciting a genocide. The US isn’t any better than the CCP here. Though it very much falls into capitalist rather than state control, the end result isn’t much different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you like, talked, to a teenager or early 20 year old at all during the last three years? Either you don’t understand the huge cultural impact tiktok has had for that age group, or you think every single person that age is a “vertical video crazy”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, did you know that Facebook is responsible for a more recent genocide? So, considering TikTok’s ties to the Chinese government, which is also known to commit genocides, I’m gonna go ahead and say this is probably a good thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Who the hell would want to watch vertical videos on a smart tv??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨easy to install arch :3⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  please explain this art on your centre screen more it’s adorable yet also looks out of art of rally haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a setting to disable the call, I just did it that long back I wasn’t sure if that’s still the default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I just tested it and you’re right it’s a way faster way to get to power off. Personally prefer the five lock presses as it requires way less dexterity in your pocket. I’ve just disabled the auto-call feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Five quick presses of the lock button does this too, but beware as I think the default behaviour also starts a 3 second countdown to calling emergency services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nurses with an overbearing manager, how do you pass time at work without getting caught?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, and…? Do you think people in the business of saving lives shouldn’t get downtime at all, just all go from clock in to clock out? Like it’s a concentration camp instead of a hospital?

  Your mum sounds like she’s awesome, but she remind me so much of mine. Self-sacrificing to a fault, and potentially like she struggled to internalise that she needed breaks, because otherwise “someone (could) die”.