That’s not bad! I like how it looks like it’s collapsible and storable too, not one of these builds that just take up huge amounts of space permanently.
Definitely well thought out and executed, well done!
Look I hate YouTube ads too, and ads in general, but let’s say every user of a service is like you. Attention is all the currency they’ll ever get from you, that’s totally cool, absolutely. I’m totally that way too. But they’ve got to make money somehow, so if you’re not the paying customer, someone else has to be.
I’m not saying it has to be ad sales either, but if we want a world in which we can use services for free without ads, we need to come up with an alternative way for them to make money. It has to come from somewhere, and by the bucketload.
If every user thinks like you, then it doesn’t matter how many people you talk to or share links with, you’re not a net gain on their service, you bring nothing to it.
Why should they, or anybody, be thankful that you honour them with your presence, if you contribute nothing of value? What makes you so entitled to use somebody’s product for free with no strings attached?
Ads suck, I’m eager for us to move past them once we figure out an alternative that keeps products in business and us receiving things for free. But we can’t deny the reality we live in right now either. Even huge companies like Google (who yes, do suck) have to make money to survive.
Before reading the article: Is it the right wing fascist nutjobs that have infected every platform and space, destroying everything in their wake slowly but surely over the past decade?
Who would put their phone and takes a photo at work? Come on. You’re on the clock, rules are the same as when you were in school, phone stays in your pocket.
When I visited the USA, I was shocked at the number of clearly not sane people that were wandering the streets, shouting at things only they could see in their minds, etc.
Those are just the visibly mentally ill people, a vast number of others go under the radar.
In my country I’ve seen people like this maybe twice in my entire lifetime, in the USA I saw a dozen over a 6 month period. It was WILD. It’s something you should expect to almost never see in your lifetime, if you’re seeing it with any regularity? - There’s something very wrong.
These people need to be in mental healthcare, be it a mental hospital for those in most serious condition, or varying levels of care and assistance further down.
But… They don’t have a functioning healthcare system in the USA, let alone mental healthcare. All they have really are private companies acting like vultures picking at the dying masses pulling cash and misery out of them.
They’re the richest failed state I’ve ever seen. The wide dissonance between their existence as a functioning first world nation and their existence as a state with a deeply crumbling failed interior that’s only further falling apart year after year is kinda wild.
I really hope they can have a bit of cultural and societal revolution and right the ship, there are so many wonderful people there and so much to fight for.
But I think for all their supposed cultural love of fighting for their rights and freedoms, they’re just too oppressed by the rich and the powerful to organise and fight for a better nation :-(
I feel stupid for asking this because I should just google it right? But I can’t find an official website by Hamas and the only sources I can find for their charter is on the websites of American law colleges....
I’d be intrigued to see the results too, is crazy what’s happening over there and more context from a local cultural perspective would be most welcome.
If somebody is very tired they’re physically and mentally impaired in a manner similar to being drunk.
This is why you’re told to pull over and sleep of you feel significantly tired behind the wheel. It will kill just as easily as being a little too drunk will. Drive safe, protect others around you, be rested.
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If you think that’s bad, you should see the Americans with their conically gigantic SUVs, they’ll do anything to try to make up for their tiny… personalities
I’m seeing a lot of reports from users of Huawei and Honor devices have reported that their phones are incorrectly identifying Google apps as Trojan malware, specifically labeled as TrojanSMS-PA. According to the alert, this “malicious software” has the ability to send SMS messages without user consent.
I’'m not in that country, and Google’s spyware collecting data for the USA is just as concerning to me as China doing the same, neither country can be trusted to have my nation’s best interests at heart.
This question was inspired by my hatred of Temporal Anti-Aliasing which, in many games nowadays, is poorly used as a performance bandaid. On lower resolutions it will smudge and blur the image and certain bad cases of TAA will cause visible ghosting....
I don’t even know if YouTube will be around in 30 years, let alone not have competitors.
All gigantic businesses think they’re too big and entrenched and used every day to fail, until they do. Just look at Yahoo! as one example from recent memory.
In a video on Oct. 13, Instagram influencer and photojournalist Motaz Azaiza shared footage of the rubble of an apartment, the site of an Israeli bombardment that killed 15 of his family members....
To think that a company like Facebook could care less about some dead family members would be a mistake. They only, at best, occasionally pretend to care to ensure they keep the money coming in.
Have you been spending hours trying to pass a level? Or maybe you are completely addicted to a newly bought game. Do you have a question about a game or would like to share something else? In the Weekly Discussion Thread, you can do it all!...
Margot robbie is that woman from stranger things right? I’m lost on the reference here though, is she super sexist against other women or something? I only really know her from that show 🤔
Google will soon start testing a new ‘IP protection’ feature for Chrome users, offering them greater control over their privacy. The tech giant the upcoming feature prevents websites from tracking users by hiding their IP address using proxy servers owned by Google....
Starbucks and coffee chains are, you know, nowhere near my house, for one thing. How am I going to have coffee in the morning if I have to first leave my house and get a bus to where the coffee shop is, then get the bus home again and then go to work, or whatever?
Further, those places are EXPENSIVE AS HECC. The sort of people that can afford to buy coffee at those places every day sure do have it real nice.
For the rest of us, we make our coffee at home, and sometimes if we’re lucky we get the cheap “real” grounds instead of the instant powder, haha
This is literally exactly what I keep saying and people just look at me like I’m crazy. Exactly!
Do you by chance know any further reading I can do along these lines? Books are preferable to dubious random blogs and such but I’ll take anything written, really! Thank you :-)
This will be a quick post. We have received a phishing mail to our [email protected] mail address telling that they are “lemmy.world Security Team”, telling that they will “disconnect” your account from our instance. This is ofc, not us. Do not fall for it! The attached image is how the mail looks like....
The image conveys everything I need, I don’t have any reason to load my browser up and visit a whole other website I don’t even use, when I’ve already gotten everything I could possibly need from the quote already.
I don’t know who this is, but I imagine there’s some sort of laws against openly calling for genocide in their country, or if nothing else, a firing from their job by a business that doesn’t want to touch you know, a public genocide lover, with a 10 foot barge pole…
if someone sprays disinfectant and i can smell it from the other side of the room does that mean all the food in that room is contaminated with disinfectant?
No, not really. Sure, a teeny, tiny, absolutely insignificant number of atoms from the disinfectant have landed on all the surfaces in the room, including food, but this is absolutely 100% insignificant (assuming it wasn’t sprayed near/towards the food where it was visibly landing on it).
To put this into perspective, consider that there’s poop particles in the air all throughout your house in varying amounts, carried from your toilet, most famously on your toothbrush, which is often very close to the toilet (often in the same room). But in such tiny amounts as these, it’s entirely benign, and you’d never know!
The world is slightly disgusting in harmless ways, like that. You have microscopic mites living in your eyelashes, there’s more bacteria per cell in your body than human, and I think we’re all very well educated nowadays on how easily bodily secretions such as snot, spittle, etc, are transferred to others through sneezing, physical contact with surface, etc, contaminating everything and everyone with potential illnesses.
Such is life! Don’t worry about it :-)
(Except the part about spreading things like COVID, do take precautions there).
Well, a county, not the country. Would be nice to specify what country of the similar 200 in the world that you’re talking about in the title, you know? It’s not like we all assume you must be talking about one special country.
The conservative party has literally been running my country for over a decade now, so they’re probably not talking about my country xD One ruled out, 194 to go…
At least Labour don’t twiddle their moustaches while talking in frank terms about evil foreigners and using that god awful term the Americans invented to describe their enemies… “woke”.
I’m all for public transport, and limiting the need for cars, but public transport isn’t viable for EVERY journey.
What if you’re disabled and have special travel needs?
Or you’re sick/elderly/immunocompromised etc and need to avoid enclosed crowds to avoid catching COVID as it will surely kill you in your current condition?
What if you’re trying to transport something that can’t be taken on public transport, like your rotavator to go turn over your allotment? Or your big strimmer? Or even just your big gardening tools to do such jobs by hand? Or maybe you’re transporting a load of wood you just bought, or a new window, etc etc.
Or just a load of family grocery shopping for the week, which would take up several seats on the bus which isn’t allowed, assuming you could even get all those bags onto the bus - you cannot can’t carry them all once you get off, either, you’d be stranded at the bus stop. You could use a large personal shopping trolley, but again, those have nowhere to go on a bus.
What if you’re going camping and need to transport a bunch of stuff for the whole family down to a camp site?
What if you need to dump loads of old rubbish down at the tip, day, because you recently demolished your old garden shed, or had a big clean out?
Talking taxi every single time for these sorts of things is incredibly expensive and not viable, and those are just a few examples of the many reasons you might need to take a personal car over excellent public transport links.
I love love love public transport and reducing car usage, but getting rid of cars entirely severely limits people’s mobility. Cars fill an important niche. We shouldn’t all be taking cars for every single journey, that’s the main problem we have to tackle as a society, but they are important to maintain access to none the less.
Seeing news like this, and knowing how it will negatively affect the mobility and life options of the poorest and the most at risk, makes me sad 😔
Rate my setup rule (slrpnk.net)
YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2883134 (!android)
The people who ruined the internet (www.theverge.com)
Don't forget to tip your gas station (startrek.website)
I guess they don't have moisturizers on a moisture farm. (lemmy.world)
The third place (startrek.website)
coworker rule (sopuli.xyz)
The magic genie has appeared to grant you your wish. What small thing do you wish for that would have the biggest positive impact on the world?
We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed?
Does anyone have a first party source for the current copy of Hamas's charter?
I feel stupid for asking this because I should just google it right? But I can’t find an official website by Hamas and the only sources I can find for their charter is on the websites of American law colleges....
In Dnipro, a soldier who was simply tired from the front line was detained by police and forced to take a breathalyzer test. After testing 0.00, he offered them to go with him to the front line. (streamable.com)
Mirror: files.catbox.moe/73pqir.mp4...
Rick Berman, for all his faults, was a John Hughes fan. (lemmy.world)
The Great Outdoors (1988)
"Jogging From the Perspective of Animals" by Jake Likes Onions (files.mastodon.social)
alt textFirst panel: [blank white space with black text] Jogging from the perspective of animals Second panel: Wolf by a tree looking at a man jogging. “What are you running from, apex predator” Third panel: Wolf: “Are you chasing prey?” “You need to conserve energy” Last panel: [second wolf peeking in] “The hell...
The Trekkies didn't like (and in fact got angry) at the mere image of Jedi Master Kirk, with his lightsaber phaser. (lemmy.world)
Google app being flagged as a virus by Huawei phones (stackdiary.com)
I’m seeing a lot of reports from users of Huawei and Honor devices have reported that their phones are incorrectly identifying Google apps as Trojan malware, specifically labeled as TrojanSMS-PA. According to the alert, this “malicious software” has the ability to send SMS messages without user consent.
What is something you dislike but still begrudgingly use?
This question was inspired by my hatred of Temporal Anti-Aliasing which, in many games nowadays, is poorly used as a performance bandaid. On lower resolutions it will smudge and blur the image and certain bad cases of TAA will cause visible ghosting....
Cruise Didn't Tell Anyone That A Woman Was Dragged 20 Feet After Being Pushed Into Robotaxi (jalopnik.com)
The company left out some key details regarding the incident involving one of its robotaxis and a pedestrian....
Are cheap plywood cabinets even possible in 2023? (www.youtube.com)
What decorations are on your walls?
And what do you recommend to hang on walls, for decorative purposes, besides family photos?...
What's some sex ed info you didn't know until embarrasingly late?
Oh my god I’ve got so many 😭
Yeah, thanks for the philophobia bro (lemmy.world)
A bombing in Gaza killed an influencer's family—Instagram responded by suspending his account (www.dailydot.com)
In a video on Oct. 13, Instagram influencer and photojournalist Motaz Azaiza shared footage of the rubble of an apartment, the site of an Israeli bombardment that killed 15 of his family members....
The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion (lemmy.world)
Have you been spending hours trying to pass a level? Or maybe you are completely addicted to a newly bought game. Do you have a question about a game or would like to share something else? In the Weekly Discussion Thread, you can do it all!...
The only rule when dealing with pictured folks. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Redditor when women (i.imgur.com)
Millions of smart meters will fail when 2G and 3G turns off (www.theregister.com)
Google Chrome to soon get a new ‘IP protection’ feature: Here’s what it does (indianexpress.com)
Google will soon start testing a new ‘IP protection’ feature for Chrome users, offering them greater control over their privacy. The tech giant the upcoming feature prevents websites from tracking users by hiding their IP address using proxy servers owned by Google....
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Does anyone drink instant coffee anymore?
For some reason I think of it as an older concept. Now Starbucks and coffee chains are popular....
qBittorrent 4.6 launches with I2P support - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
Oi bruv, squeak squeak innit? (i.imgur.com)
Rishi Sunak considers tax cut for top earners after byelection defeats (www.theguardian.com)
Phishing Mails (lemmy.world)
This will be a quick post. We have received a phishing mail to our [email protected] mail address telling that they are “lemmy.world Security Team”, telling that they will “disconnect” your account from our instance. This is ofc, not us. Do not fall for it! The attached image is how the mail looks like....
Not to get too political but... (i.postimg.cc)
Stronger then Super Saiyan Goku (lemmy.ca)
and no this is not an invitation for oil addicts to rant about EVs (lemmy.world)
Can we create a new Internet ?
Now that Google , FB wants to trap us and control every aspect of the Internet browsing, Is it even possible to break free....
Pay up (lemmy.world)
Nikki Haley openly calls for genocide against Palestinians on social media (lemmygrad.ml)
disinfectant has a poignant sme but is that bad when food is involved
if someone sprays disinfectant and i can smell it from the other side of the room does that mean all the food in that room is contaminated with disinfectant?
For Puma sightings you’ll have to go straight to their site now as Rooster Teeth moved Red vs Blue off YouTube citing decreasing ad revenue. (www.theverge.com)
The Conservative Plan to Take Over the Country (youtu.be)
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Do you think he was the *real* Captain Kirk? (lemmy.world)
Is there a website like libgen for audiobooks?
I realize libgen also has audiobooks, but they are not that many over there. (Trust me bro! I searched)...
Certificate to own car in Singapore rockets to $106,000 (www.theguardian.com)