System76 has laptops with Pop OS

I genuinely can’t think of a better example of a modern day sophist than Jordan Peterson.

🙄 I think you’ll be okay

• Mamdani: doesn’t say something
• media: “do you condemn this thing you’ve never said?”
• Mamdani: “that’s not language that I use. I believe in universal human rights, including for Israelis and Palistinians. I’ve heard firsthand from jewish people their experiences and fears regarding antisemitism. This is why I’ve committed to increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800%. Unlike Trump, I will not police speech. I will speak with my actions by protecting jewish New Yorkers.”
• Media here and everywhere else: “YA HEARD IT HERE FOLKS MAMDANI IS ANTISEMITIC” 🙄 give me a break, who the hell listens to this garbage

The media is explicitly complicit in the rise of authoritarianism. I’d highly recommend the book “manufacturing consent”, it should be required reading for all Americans at this point.

jfc. And here I was thinking that that audio clip of Ken Martin literally fucking crying at David Hogg would amount to anything. These people have the utmost contempt for their constituents, it is absolutely ridiculous. They would LITERALLY rather America succumb to a fascist takeover than begin to call out their own, or oppose their corporate donors. The average democratic voter has more balls and patriotism than these people. Words cannot describe how insanely livid this makes me, neolibs can suck my fucking balls.

• there is no way to search a channel’s videos on the mobile app

It is baffling to me that they just… never implemented this? Like why???

I’ll add that everything about playlists is really dumb, which is a shame because they could be good. Why not treat playlists the way streaming services treat tv shows? Remember which episode I was on, and make it easy to find on the homepage with a “continue watching” option.

Also, the “watch later” playlist is a good idea but why don’t the videos automatically remove themselves after I’ve watched them? Why doesn’t the watch later playlist appear at the top of the suggested videos or something? Instead it’s hidden in a jumbled mess of playlists that I have to manually find. OH AND ALSO WHY ARE MY CUSTOM PLAYLISTS INTERMIXED WITH OTHER PLAYLISTS I’VE SAVED.

And the progress bar gradient is so ugly jfc. It’s one of those things that screams bored middle management decision making. And from a branding perspective, when has YouTube ever been off-pink? I know it’s minor but genuinely how did that slip through the cracks.

Maybe “the 2038 problem” will be the new Y2K?!

It’s a shame the people that need this the most can’t read

Sheng Wang is hilarious, I think his humor would align well with a lot of people here. He has a special on Netflix worth checking out

8 should be way higher. You can be sexist and not like Trump, and not vote because of it. I’d also add high on that list: rampant and nonstop right wing propoganda in all media formats (news, podcasts, YouTube channels, etc.) with no equivalent left leaning alternative. It should come as no surprise that young men are leaning right when casual mysogony and racism flood the content they watch, even when the content itself isn’t strictly political.

Don’t let this fool you, not from him and not from anyone representing a corporation. Corporations time and time again will say and do whatever it takes to profit, including pretending to care about human rights.

This still exists, at least in Mexico

Who didn’t see this coming from a thousand miles away when they announced they were going public? Here comes the endless churn of trying to keep shareholders artificially interested

If you use a VPN you will likely hit the limit, already happened to me

Can someone explain how this is even possible with a service like Signal? I was under the impression that encrypted messages can’t be intercepted.

Extremely frustrating either way, I hate constantly having to manage different messaging services with different people and I’d really like to not have to add one more if signal becomes compromised.

How sure are you about that? Microsoft very dependably releases updates on the second Tuesday of the month, and their release notes show if updates are pushed out of schedule. Their last update was on schedule, July 9th.

I mean I know it’s easy to be critical but this was my exact thought, how the hell didn’t they catch this in testing?

“We could debate that if you’re interested” is why I love lemmy

I’m very much in the same boat, also joined around 2011. I didn’t leave because of the API changes, I left because the website was degrading substantially as a byproduct of its userbase.

Lemmy contains so much of what made reddit special in the early days. It was primarily tech-proficient people who cultivated a strong community, held each other accountable, and valued science and evidence.

As more users came to reddit, the initial community diluted. Certain subreddits were still special and worth checking out, but the greater whole was too massive for its own good. Plus, I suspect a huge number of new users were teenagers and children, and their comments and maturity reflected that.

I knew it was basically over once I saw comments on subreddits that regularly made the front page with extremely obvious bigotry and racism. Incescent bashing of women. Comments that reflected the vile nature of the shit comments you’d see on Instagram. This was becoming all too common and was not being moderated. The remaining comments felt like washed out circle jerking or a complete lack of critical thinking.

The IPO was the nail in the coffin. No good could possibly come from that for the users of the site. Haven’t been there for over a year and have zero regrets.