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SomeRandomWords,

It’s wild because in a lot of cases the FDA does have jurisdiction over the apps, they just choose not to check them.

SomeRandomWords,

We’ve finally made it! People look at a picture of Lemmy thinking it’s a more popular platform.

SomeRandomWords,

They might have changed the OP to fix it in the past hour, but for me the “screenshot” is coming from the social image for the link on the post itself. Clicking through the link gets to the actual article.

SomeRandomWords,

If it makes you feel any better, Costco and Walmart also don’t work for a lot of Americans in the US who don’t like that inefficient way of shopping. You’re not alone.

SomeRandomWords,

Are they moving issues or just code storage to GitHub?

SomeRandomWords,

I keep hearing people only on Lemmy bring up Gitea but I haven’t really heard of it otherwise. What’s the appeal and what’s keeping it locked away with the Lemmy community?

SomeRandomWords,

I think the YouTube Downloader is paid and they might be getting it confused.

SomeRandomWords,

People absolutely think something about it when it happens, and hell sometimes the government even does something about it (as demonstrated in the article you linked). Just a whole lot of us would argue they don’t do enough about it.

SomeRandomWords,

I lived in Boston for a while (with a car, but putting low miles on it)

Curious, did buying groceries more end up costing more?

When I switched from buying in bulk periodically to buying small more often, I can say that my first few weeks definitely cost more. I had a mindset about buying for X weeks out instead of X days out that took a bit to shake. In the process I realized how much food waste I was having by purchasing in bulk and not fully using everything, and I naturally switched to purchasing less at the grocery store. Both because it meant carrying less home but also because it was cheaper. Now I buy more or less exactly what I need and I can say on average my grocery spending is less now (avg monthly) than it was when I was buying in bulk.

SomeRandomWords,

Oh but didn’t you know that’s just a slippery slope argument and he’s really just a cool dude and who doesn’t encourage hate or violence? /s

A whole lotta people in this thread who don’t want to acknowledge that this dude is trash, no matter how good or bad their music is.

SomeRandomWords,

I haven’t personally tested this, so this is all an assumption because of how related things work. But I’ve done extensive accessibility testing throughout the years and things tend to act the same.

On the web app for Lemmy, alternative text should be called out instead of the image (well, alongside since it lets you know there’s an image with alt text). When you use an image as the text of a link (so, what is normally a clickable image) it should call out that it’s a link, then that the link is an image, then that the image has alt text. This is not dissimilar to how things work if the image won’t load and the alt text is shown instead.

On mobile apps it’s the wild west, almost entirely depending on if the app developers put in the additional effort to make all of that information available to screen readers. By default not a whole lot is given other than the text itself so images are often completely skipped or called out without the alt text.

Has HP printers always been this bad? (sh.itjust.works)

So my mother recently bought an ET-2800, By HP we had an HP printer before and we got a new one because the old one would not work with my sister’s Windows 11 Laptop. So I had to set it up for my mother, the manual said you can use it without the app. But there was no way to physically do that. Anyway, I downloaded the app on...

SomeRandomWords,

Richard Stallman is a bad person but I don’t think we need to make stuff up to prove that. He’s said he’s fine with child pornography (as long as it’s consensual) and might have favorable views on pedophilia (that may have since been backtracked) but that doesn’t make himself a pedophile.

Just a misunderstood crazy person.

arstechnica.com/…/richard-stallman-returns-to-fsf…

SomeRandomWords,

Defending a pedophile doesn’t make one a pedophile. That’s the stretch I’m arguing against.

I can’t believe I’m defending Stallman here. He’s got so many other reasons to be hated.

SomeRandomWords,

I made it pretty clear he’s a terrible person, just for many, many other reasons that are far easier to argue.

SomeRandomWords,

Yes. It partially makes sense because you could screw the new congresspeople who aren’t corrupt with hidden income sources into not being able to afford their living situation, which could become a really bad point of leverage for awful people. I believe their staff goes without pay though.

SomeRandomWords,

Whoa I had no idea this happened. I used to be a part of a group that would go in and add street view for places like public transit stations so people could gauge accessibility. It’s such a shame that Google killed that ability…

SomeRandomWords,

A lot of it was updated with both OSM (imagery via Mapillary) and Google Maps.

While I love the “don’t make Google stronger” stance, the goal wasn’t to help Google but instead to help the people who needed the imagery. And (at the time, at least) most people planned their routes using Google Maps so it was important to meet them where they were.

SomeRandomWords,

After we lost that one expensive spacecraft we’ve been moving towards metric more and more there as well.

SomeRandomWords,

There’s nothing worse than SSHing into a remote machine, coding some stuff in vim and losing the SSH connection randomly. Especially when you’re working in a controlled remote environment instead of locally, screen is super useful to keep your place when you get back.

SomeRandomWords,

Both? Both!

SomeRandomWords,

They’re starting to charge $0.30/packet in some areas of the US. Clearly this place is going downhill only because of that /s

SomeRandomWords,

My neighbor used to walk his cat on a leash to stay active in both of their old age. It used to be cute to watch the snow white cat just walking around with his harness, having the time of his life.

Cats shouldn’t be left to roam free outdoors.

SomeRandomWords,

Definitely a lot more out in the country than in the cities or even suburbs. 10% sounds about right.

SomeRandomWords,

All of those are widespread in the northeast US if not across the entire US.

SomeRandomWords,

“Living the dream” is also in the US but it’s usually more sarcastic like “Just another shitty day at this job, just living the dream!”

SomeRandomWords,

It’s wild when I was looking to do something similar and instead ended up buying a newish electric vehicle because it was about the same price as what I’d otherwise have gotten.

SomeRandomWords,

This is what gap insurance is for (well, one of the reasons) although I’m aware that lots of people don’t get it.

SomeRandomWords,

I think it’s fair to say that our understanding of history, something which can change because it’s always in the context of the present, has changed.

SomeRandomWords,

I liked it better when this was misattributed to Stalin.

SomeRandomWords,

We’ve proposed “Routey” (pronounced like “Rudy”) as a nickname for a future pet named “Littleton/Route 495” (named after the MBTA Commuter Rail stop). You could also do “Tony” but that’s less fun.

SomeRandomWords,

Can I discourage rolling your own password manager (like using a text doc or spreadsheet) and instead recommend what you hopefully meant, self-hosting your own password manager?

SomeRandomWords,

KeysOff has been very reliable for me in the past (I’m not affiliated with them, just a happy customer) but I’m pretty sure there are multiple VLK resellers out there for Windows keys at this point.

SomeRandomWords,

Reputable? Eh, depends on your definition.

A lot of people make use of Sonoff and Tuya-relabled Zigbee relays. If you’re able to control it at a wall switch (so not an actual relay) then your options greatly increase.

SomeRandomWords,

I make use of the Aqara wall switches. Because I live in a 120 year old house without neutral wiring and with 120V lines, Aqara is one of the few that makes a no-neutral wall switch that fits in a standard Decora mount and also works when the Zigbee network is down.

WS-USC01 through WS-USC04

Comes in with- and without- neutral options as well as single and double rockers.

If you’re not in the US they also make a much wider variety of switches, mix of touch and rockers, that work with 240V with and without neutrals.

I’m aware that Aqara is a Chinese company and you should probably never let them on your wifi network. But because it’s Zigbee it’s far less of a risk and they’re plug and play compatible with all of the major Zigbee controllers.

SomeRandomWords,

I believe the Pro (or whatever they call the highest trim nowadays) supports USB4.

SomeRandomWords,

The terrifying part to me is how many people they must have had doing that boring task week after week.

Like sure, I don’t want everyone to be jobless because the robots are taking over. But I am hugely in favor of the boring, repetitive tasks being automated away so people can work on more interesting things.

SomeRandomWords,

Tall people vibes right here. When I used to take the train daily at rush hour, I’d squeeze into the car and pin my hand to the ceiling to stabilize myself. Never lost my balance.

SomeRandomWords,

I read that as an electric bike originally but now I wonder if you’re right. Mopeds are definitely better than cars but I doubt they’re better than trams.

SomeRandomWords,

I’m 100% confident that at the time that’s how this was interpreted. After the guy talked about how he was the least racist person in the room (lol), calling him Abraham Lincoln doesn’t seem like much of a stretch.

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SomeRandomWords,

Don’t use the new version then? Maybe we’ll get lucky and they’ll add themes.

SomeRandomWords,

I’ve unfortunately met people before who think those areas are just another parking spot, so honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the real answer.

SomeRandomWords,

Second one appears to be dissertations. Third one I think is a misselled flagrantly. I’m convinced the first one isn’t a real word.

SomeRandomWords, (edited )

That was my guess, but it’s missing letters vs the other two which had a single additional letter, so that’s why I wasn’t sure.

I just realized the OP was edited and now it looks closer to opinion.

SomeRandomWords,

Okay but really, how unexpected was that? It’s not like a wolf has never had a marine animal before.

SomeRandomWords,

I think everyone in your replies is conflating being a full time landlord and a part time landlord. One of them is definitely more evil than the other.

SomeRandomWords,

For years and years I thought that was how this worked. That you said you wanted to round up, and all of the money collected went into a pool that the company then used as a tax write off in one lump sum. So they were stealing your tax write off basically.

Nope, that’s not actually how it works in the US (can’t speak for other counties). If you round up your transaction for charity, you’re eligible to write it off on your taxes as charity. Do most people? Nope. But could they? Yes! And some people even do save their receipts for this purpose.

The company doesn’t get to write it off as their donation, because it’s not. For them it’s pretty neutral, they’re receiving funds and transferring them on behalf of the people who donated them.

Note: I can’t speak for companies that do donations for nonprofits related to them. I assume it’s still neutral for them, since you definitely still can use it as your own tax write off, but I haven’t looked into that side.

SomeRandomWords,

Yes, 100%. Anyone is a fool to use Tesla “FSD Beta” pretty much anywhere. But Tesla markets it as totally safe to use anywhere and everywhere (but especially highways) so there’s a point where you have to stop calling everyone that owns a Tesla a fool and acknowledge that the common denominator is Tesla and just not the owner’s foolishness.

SomeRandomWords,

My bad, I didn’t mean to insinuate that you’d call them a fool. I definitely would though.

Maybe just the recent buyers though.

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