I don’t even understand how this is supposed to protect kids from child predators. Do child predators not want to hang out online where they can interact with kids? So not having age verification enabled keeps you siloed to where the kids are… Meaning if anything it helps predators pretend to be kids better.
Now claiming it as a way to protect kids from porn… I guess makes more sense. Because we all know that sketchy porn sites care about laws.
Unless you live somewhere with unsafe drinking water. Bottled water is an expensive, wasteful, polluting scam.
we should separate “social media” from “attention media”
That would be the dream for sure.
What we really need is an alternative to the the original functionality of Facebook.
Staying connected with real life friends, family, and acquaintances.
Social event planning, sharing life photos, sharing life updates, hell even marketplace.
All the federated “alternatives” are basically twitter clones, which really is a very different thing at its core. I do not want to share family photos and life updates with the whole fucking planet. Just the 500ish people I “know” in real life. I also don’t want to see tweet like mastodon posts in my friend feed. Its a different thing.
I know friendica is supposed to be that, but in my experience, its slow as hell, and just feels like a weird overlay on mastodon.
Rest in piss.
“By utilizing state of the art decentralized cryptographic data science, we can bypass bottlenecks in the natural resource supply chain. Nonfungible tokenized oil coins can break developing economies free from bad actors in the free market.” - Some douchebag right now probably.
With a combination of Microslop pushing users a way, and fewer people even having laptops/PCs in favor of just using their phones, I see that 10% happening pretty easily. Its always going to be the business users propping up Windows numbers.
Was this supposed to be in c/aneurysm posting ?
The reality is none of this insanity has directly effected me. So day to day life, working, raising kids, etc. is completely normal for me. However, keeping up with news. Feeling empathy for people being effected now, and worrying about when the other shoe is going to drop on me and my family stresses me out. I don’t like being stressed out and avoid stress as much as possible, so I find myself just trying to stay distracted with hobbies, video games, etc. Then I feel guilty about distracting myself. If I can’t do much about the situation, I should at least inform myself about it. But then there comes the stress again…
So yeah, in a way add me to the crashing out list I guess.
The alternate reality where he ended up being a cop instead of a journalist.
Putting in another recommendation for Notesnook.
Of course I do. The only reason not to is if you are showering with someone else.
A friend in college got in a huge fight with his girlfriend when he peed on her feet in the shower.
I think its a better than nothing kind of option for some families living in remote places or living very itinerant lifestyles
But in general, I think its just a way for parents to keep their kids as indoctrinated into their fucked up beliefs as they can.
Also, growing up I knew many homeschooled kids through boyscouts, and they were almost always socially stunted, and often intellectually behind because their parents were barely teaching them anything.
Can you just plug a USB HDD into that old Mac and copy the files over using that?
I think there is an American ritual aspect to it. I hate football and never watch it other than the super bowl. I’ve always just watched it for the funny ads, halftime show, and social gathering aspect. There is nostalgia for the 90s-00s where funny Superbowl ads became cultural touchstones, and early “memes” that people would quote and talk about the rest of the year if not more. Though honestly, it feels like the mojo is gone. The ads rarely seem as funny as they used to be. Or maybe we are just so inundated with internet ads and the lightspeed meme cycle that they simply can’t draw the same level of cultural relevance they once did.
I spent most of last year running LMDE6 and while it started off good, things just got more frustrating to troubleshoot and the system felt buggier over time. (Which I know is not how things are supposed to be for “stable” Debian.) Switched to CachyOS a couple months ago and things work so much smoother.
Most of my IRL friends who still use reddit claim its mostly for porn. Which blows my mind as I never used it for that. They dont like the idea that most of the porn content on Lemmy is siloed away into defederated instances, and that they would need multiple accounts.
Yeah I only have that quest 2 because it was free. I would like to only stream PCVR titles to it to minimize meta usage. At least until the steam frame comes out.
I can imagine the wrist schmoo building up around the edges now.