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ilmagico,

You still need a phone number to create an account. This just lets you hide it, and lets you share a chosen username with new contacts rather than your phone number, but you still have to provide the phone number to signal.

ilmagico,

Well, you need a prescription for those, so people do take lots of tylenol (aka acetaminophen, aka paracetamol) or ibuprofen. The problem is, it’s too easy to get prescription for opioids, and they get prescribed for relatively little things (but not for just e.g. a headache).

That said, I feel things are changing, people and authorities are openly admitting we have a opioid crisis, and there’s more awareness of the risks, which makes me think (hope) that doctors will be a bit more concerned before prescribing them. That said, I never got prescribed one, and probably won’t use them if I did.

ilmagico,

Yeah, but how do the people at the ballot box know you’re american? Many, many non-americans are also causasians whites … and many, many americans aren’t.

ilmagico,

No, it’s just that Zelensky has to lick Netanyahu’s behind to beg for aid. Sad but true

ilmagico,

“Every life is valuable! We condemn all forms of terrorism”

Zelenski has to walk a fine line … on one end, he needs support from Israel, on the other, he knows Israel is an occupier just like Russia, so he cannot even show too much support. And so, he condemn “all forms of terrorism”, implying that Ukraine, unlike Hamas, is not resorting to (too much) terrorism to fight back … between a rock and a hard place there.

Or he could just condemn Israel and lose their support, in exchange for “the moral high ground” and avoiding hypocrisy, but that never won any war. I don’t envy him.

ilmagico,

Right, but they want to.

ilmagico,

I don’t doubt it, but based on UN resolutions, there is clearly only one country occupying another.

ilmagico,

But a wrench doesn’t give plausible deniability …

ilmagico,

People have been trying to make VR go fully mainstream since, probably, the 90s or even earlier. It always flopped after some initial excitement. Who’s next to try their luck?

ilmagico,

I tried learning it some time ago (months, not years) and I never cussed so much in my life… maybe I’ll just get the hang of it eventually, but let’s just say, first impression on the UI is not good.

ilmagico,

Thanks for the pointers!

ilmagico,

I guess Ukraine can just send 5 or 6 of these for likely a smaller cost the iranian ones, which combined can do quite a bit of damage, and are harder to shoot dowm by air defence, just by virtue of the larger number. Of course, each has its uses.

ilmagico,

At this point, I have to conclude that Musk is actively trying to kill Twitter.

ilmagico,

Children have parents (or otherwise adult guardians) that are responsible to keep them safe, online and offline. It is their job to keep them safe. Adults, on the other hand, have freedoms granted to them by the constitution, at least in the USA, and I kind of enjoy those freedoms.

I guess I agree with the judge here, face scans (or other verification measures) are pretty invasive.

Of all the sketchy eCommerse sites (Wish, Aliexpress, Temu), which is the "safest?"

I always hear stories about the dangers of buying from WIsh.com, Aliexpress, and recently Temu. I’ve jokingly called them “buyer beware” sites even. Yet people still use them, and there’s just as many positive results as negative. But I’ve also heard about unexplained card charges, data hacks, pyramid-scheme-like...

ilmagico,

I’d pay dropshipping fees just to get Amazon’s no-questions-asked full refunds if anything goes wrong, including delays, broken or incorrect items, or just poor quality (and of course, those two days free shipping with prime if you have that). Amazon, in my experience, always rectified any issue promptly. Those other ones … well, you can try your luck, I guess.

ilmagico,

I don’t know where you live

Meanwhile, @the_q:

y’all

Texas, probably.

ilmagico,

Never tried temu (likely never will) but I’d be careful, it looks a lot like chinese spyware-like … I’d happily pay a little more and get stuff on Amazon, or other stores (brick-and-mortar included) rather than dealing with temu.

ilmagico,

I guess it’s worth it for me, also I haven’t seen nearly as much as 500% for the exact same item (possibly for “similar” items but I can already tell the quality). And I’d rather not deal with companies like temu. Anyways, good for you if it works for you.

ilmagico,

Most clients would allow you to filter out what (or who) you personally didn’t want to see, without having to censor it. Actually not a bad system: allows both freedom of speech and some kind of “moderation”. The system could of course be improved, e.g. by having some default, mod-curated server-side filters that users could opt into, but people would still be allowed to see the whole uncensored content if desired.

Exceptions could be made for illegal content (e.g. pirated stuff), where it would be deleted server-side by the admins (illegal defined to be “in the jurisdiction where the data is stored”).

Freedom should not be taken for granted.

ilmagico,

I keep getting spammed by dems, they keep calling me Mark. My name is not Mark…

ilmagico,

I started playing with Godot, but I was thinking that if I want to get serious, I really ought to learn Unity … guess maybe not ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Now instead, I hope this pushes more indie devs to use and improve Godot, help make it production ready :)

ilmagico,

we really need to be cranking up things like UBI and separating access to healthcare from employment.

Of course, some of those things are already there in non-USA countries. The US just needs to join the rest of the civilized world.

ilmagico,

And if they do they could let Ukraine use it, as they’re likely more trustworthy than Musk.

Still, I dont see in that article where it says Taiwan is building its own system, is there another source?

ilmagico,

Unless it explicitly says so, I’d assume the worst option, i.e. that you’ll be tracked one way or another.

ilmagico,

Which articles are supposedly blocked? Everything seems to load just fine for me.

ilmagico, (edited )

I really wish they’d just kill it. We already have one tiktok, which is already one too many

ilmagico,

I would be broke in 2 months or less … life got expensive quick where I live. I wonder where OP lives?

ilmagico,

Yes, exactly this

ilmagico,

I’m happy to hear that wherever you live is a helluva lot cheaper than Cali

ilmagico,

If I had 10k and no job, I’d be panicking and rushing to get whatever job I can get!

ilmagico, (edited )

Rent for a 1b apartment is more than that in some cities in California.

Edit: I see this was responding to someone spending 2.6k just on their credit cards, apologies. When I just graduated, spending that much on a credit card seemed like a lot of money. Now, that’s just average … on one credit card (I have 3 😅). Try having a family, traveling, or … I don’t even know, but life catches up with that pretty quickly.

ilmagico,

People downvoting have never lived a different country, or city, than where they were raised … seriously, cost of living varies wildly. 10k/month in expenses with a family, house (mortgage, insurance, maintenance, etc), cars (gas, maintenance, insurance, etc) travel / vacations, you name it, is not unreasonable.

ilmagico,

Ok, now we’re talking. That will get me through a couple of years if managed well, so I would have the luxury to be choosy about my next job, get multiple offers (hopefully) and not have to sacrifice on having fun while looking. Still, I’d be planning to get a new job in 2-3 months max, ideally.

ilmagico,

Not you OP, the top level commenter in this thread said this

ilmagico,

Or maybe they have a family with kids, they live in an expensive part of town, but moving is not an option due to job constraints, or maybe the kids are going to school there and moving would be disruptive. Maybe that area didn’t use to be so expensive 10 years ago. They need cars, not 80k cars, but large enough to haul said family around, cause maybe public transportation sucks where they live (ahemLAcough). Heck, maybe they bought those cars in cash, no payments, but gas, insurance & maintenance (maybe they’re old cars) are killing them. Car prices are too expensive to get a new car, so they keep spending 1000s in repairs instead. Maybe a hurricane, strong winds or just normal wear and tear made their house roof leak, thats $20k right there, ask me how I know.

Also, a 600k house is cheap and almost impossible to find in California, for example. No, moving to Texas is not an option, thanks.

Edit: the example above is hypothetical, not my current situation, but based on my experience.

ilmagico,

There is no set amount of USD that defines the line between “wealthy” and “poor”. Your $120k figure would go a lot further in Mississippi or Texas that it would go in California or Massachusetts, where that would be barely enough for a large family.

There’s definitely a place (or two) in the US where a family struggles with $120k/yr. Sure, just move to Mississippi, I guess …

Lots of people have families in high COL cities and live on significantly less money than that.

They would be considered “poor” there, or at least not wealthy.

I literally spent $24k on home repairs this summer, and I just pay it in payments, and I make 6 figures.

Well good for you, I guess.

No normal person pays this in cash, outright.

I guess I’m not normal.

My roof replacement a few years back was $8k

Good for you, that would get you half a roof here, and insurance won’t cover if it’s considered normal wear and tear.

ilmagico,

Open it from a mobile device. Definitely lots of porn ads…

ilmagico,

Somebody let their domain expire and this happened… I mean, it is at least somewhat tech related

ilmagico,

It’s not too surprising that a for-profit company is all about the money. It’s literally their obligation to make money for the shareholders.

ilmagico,

Maybe. Or maybe, they just calculated that they’d lose more money from the bad PR than they’d make from Russian business

ilmagico,

Still a creepy ass cult, but got better at hiding it. Meanwhile, more crazy emerged to compete.

ilmagico,

Apparently, the sources are here: gitlab.e.foundation/e

You’re right though, I couldn’t find the link anywhere on their website. I had to go to the forum where somebody asked

ilmagico, (edited )

Ok, what is divestos.org, and what is this page, and how does it relate to /e/OS? where does it say /e/OS apps have trackers (edit: see replies) has privacy issues, and what evidence are they showing? Not saying it isn’t true, but what are we looking at?

ilmagico,

Right, sorry. Still, most companies do this (e.g. emails from my bank) and you just need to block remote images. Still, from a company that makes privacy one of their selling point …

ilmagico,

Ok so, DivestOS is a completely different project than eOS … So how does it relate with privacy issues with eOS and e.foundation? is DivestOS a fork or eOS, or … ?

ilmagico,

I think you’re confusing rooting with unlocking the bootloader. These most definitely have the bootloader unlocked, or at least, it had to be unlocked to replace the OS (sometimes it can be re-locked after), but they aren’t necessarily rooted.

Bootloader unlocking is officially supported by many manufacturers (though your warranty is voided), and allows modifying the OS, which might be rooting, or completely replacing the OS (and the new OS might not be rooted).

Rooting, instead, just means becoming “root” (superuser, admin) on the device, which allows (almost) complete control over it.

ilmagico,

Ok, this link now explains what we are looking at, and who is making these claims. thanks

ilmagico,

Exactly

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