Google (the company) As A Service. Make new things and discard them, unsupported.

There was a rash of people shoveling kanban “first project”-ware for a year or two a while ago. Everyone and their mother made a kanban app and advertised it on reddit and Lemmy. All also abandoned within a few months and were exceedingly mediocre to begin with.

Just because you made a project, doesn’t mean you have to advertise it as a maintained app, especially if it is one of 1k of the same projects.

I think the problem partially is people thinking they have to “get a following” and get “github stars” on everything they make in order for it to be a valuable experience.

Someone doesn’t remember Sony’s original DRM rootkits malware scandal lol

And in Israel, though that is mostly their plastic storage IIRC.

The good thing is that 2nd hand hilti tools are around and easily kicking and working well.

My father in law found me a near perfect condition hilti TE 2M older model (turn lock) for under the cost of a new Makita (our other tools) and that thing can go all day through brick.

For consumers yes, but an AR glasses for technical workers that (for example with an electrician), you could mark and highlight cables in AR that you are working on/ignoring or being able to auto search and send IC identifications on reverse engineering a PCB would be genuinely useful.

Source that it actually reduces it and the companies aren’t lying out of their asses?

That is a bit of an open source philosophy difference.

Is it better that everyone has open source everything so that anyone who finds the one-off useful can benefit from it?

Or is the software actually not provided “as-is” like the license states and on releasing open source software the community deserves regular updates?

I think that second option is a very entitled path. We are not entitled to the continued used free labor of a random person on the internet.

Don’t forget to change the database. There were breaking changes there as they moved to a different version in 3.0 which causes error loops.

All of my stuff luckily moved seamlessly without having to restore a backup.

He doesn’t know what WINE stands for lol

No, it just makes containers like distrobox but for each application IIRC.

May lead to union orginazation and isn’t spied on by corporate IT 😱

Too bad most mega corporations are based in the US so they will take the risk of a slap on the wrist from a foreign entity to keep valuable advertising data for millions of people in a different country outside of their jurisdiction.

Those regulations discourage small companies doing those bad practices, they aren’t proportional to revenue so are just the cost of doing business for almost trillion euro companies.

So what is different now?

Is Israel, Trump’s ministers’ pockets, insurance company executives, and the military industrial complex executives considered “the american people”?

From your linked article:

Russia’s call for an emergency meeting despite its own attacks on Ukrainian civilians was also questioned by several nations.

Pretty much every nation in war commits war crimes. I would seriously struggle to find a country or entity that didn’t… People don’t just have the soldiers line up nicely and shoot at each other until one side surrenders.

Pretty rarely do countries get investigated or convicted for war crimes… The worst like the US and Israel just ignore it either way.

I think the problem for most people is not the “saying yes” part, but the breaking into any social circle at all to begin with.

Groups are generally pretty tight knit and not accepting of outsiders in most environments and after early to mid 20’s, even if you are just trying to make friends, unless someone is the 1 in 100 very charismatic people that everyone instantly vibes with like one of my friends is.

I made friends pretty easily before I turned 25 or so, now in order to make friends with other guys (I moved countries), I have to either be into watching sports, cars, or getting blackout drunk.

It is very funny that this article seems to be under the impression that opting out does anything at all.

Oooooo, maybe now they don’t save your data under your legal ID directly. One time connection with your phone and they know your fingerprint that is already linked with an identity lol.

Opt-out is the biggest lie in the tech world.

A company that you trust with your privacy (one aspect) has been caught in league with mass surveillance loving fascists? Yeah I am sure that those are a perfect mix and it won’t lead to mass surveillance of its users like the dozens of VPNs now under Israeli mass - surveillance - fascist control.

It is just a complete coincidence that the people pushing more and more mass surveillance are buying up (and in this case winning over the controlling part of) the ways for normal people to avoid mass surveillance.

Put aluminum foil on the OUTSIDE of Velux windows.

My friend’s parents were velux installers the amount of windows they had to fixed that were burst or cracked because of people putting aluminum foil on the inside instead of the outside is staggering. The heat gets trapped in a very small pocket with the very heat conductive aluminum, the thermal shock can crack it.

A screen is always a significantly worse experience than physical programmable buttons sadly