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alekwithak

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alekwithak ,

Enshittification - a pattern of decreasing quality.

Why life expectancy in the
US is falling.

Declining Health-Related Quality of Life in the U.S..

The enshittification of life is real.

alekwithak ,

Oh this is good

*Actually I take it back, it would be funnier if she was just holding a pistol in the bottom frame.

alekwithak , (edited )

Is it not!?

alekwithak ,

Huh, TIL mantis shrimp aren't the same animal as pistol shrimp.

alekwithak ,

I also work in a data center, I can't take anything :(

alekwithak ,

Yep yep, same. Old droves get destroyed. My word that I'll wipe the drive is apparently not enough.

alekwithak , (edited )

How much energy is used by our current financial system? How much energy is consumed serving ads to every human on every platform every second of every day?? No one ever questions that totally necessary use of our limited resources 🙄

Edit: Didn't realize you guys like ads.and the federal reserve so much. That's gonna be a pretty major Yikes from me, Bros.

alekwithak , (edited )

That's quite a claim to make without a source?

*It's a wonder the rest of Lemmy hates this instance, y'all are insane.

alekwithak ,

Pretty dumb. I thought this would be about lending libraries -_-

alekwithak ,

Subscriptions are just as predatory. I won't applaud them.

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    alekwithak ,

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

    Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?

    I'm sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I'm sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I'm sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it's been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one back?

    alekwithak ,

    It's all getting worse, I swear Swype worked near flawlessly fifteen years ago.
    I've used iNsturalist for years to identify plants and animals. lately it doesn't know what anything is. It thought a bird was a bullfrog yesterday.
    Search results, GPTs, all nearing unusability.

    alekwithak ,

    Gboard was first introduced in 2016, I'm talking 2010-2012.

    Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not (arstechnica.com)

    Earlier this year, Microsoft added a new key to Windows keyboards for the first time since 1994. Before the news dropped, your mind might’ve raced with the possibilities and potential usefulness of a new addition. However, the button ended up being a Copilot launcher button that doesn’t even work in an innovative way....

    alekwithak ,

    This article is a bit late?

    alekwithak ,

    None of that was ever true for Twitter, anyway. It wasn't true before Musk bought it and it's only got worse.

    alekwithak ,

    I have multiple 3DS and a WiiU, will try to remember to do this tomorrow!

    alekwithak , (edited )

    I appreciate that! I dumped my 3 3DS. The application made it super easy.

    However my WiiU hadn't been on in forever and forced an update that killed homebrew. We'll get there, I just haven't had the time to deal with it yet.

    And my WiiU as well!

    alekwithak ,

    Enough with the AI chatbots. They try to shove one down our throats on our computer desktops, in our browsers, in our messaging apps, now we need to be inundated while trying to game?

    alekwithak ,

    Have you tried to understand the hate? The movie Earthlings has a great segment on the leather trade.

    alekwithak ,

    I believed the same thing, but most leather doesn't actually come from beef cows. There is some by-product of the meat industry but the bulk comes from cows raised specifically for their hide.

    alekwithak ,

    It's a difficult topic to find real stats on, results tend to be skewed one way or the other depending on the politics of the source. Most of my knowledge on the topic is from industry professionals and documentaries. Basically due to the harsh chemicals over half of all leather is produced in India, and conditions are not great for either party.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/how-india-s-sacred-cows-are-beaten-abused-and-poisoned-to-make-leather-for-high-street-shops-724696.html

    alekwithak , (edited )

    I mean it was never actually a good place for news, aside from the top five trending stories, if you wanted infinite bad takes on them.

    alekwithak ,

    Right, and though it is certainly worse, my argument is that this was true before the rich brat bought it.

    alekwithak ,

    I mainly used XDA then, but you right. I had truly forgotten how nice it was around '10 - '11.

    alekwithak ,

    "I'm not on the bus so let it crash"

    US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

    The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

    alekwithak ,

    At least it happened.

    alekwithak ,

    Because???

    alekwithak ,

    They have been trying SO hard lately. A featured section on After Midnight, absolutely riveting, totally 100 percent factual posts being discussed by very real unpaid people on Tiktok and Instagram.

    Real glad I'm here instead.

    alekwithak ,

    I guess sometimes we don't see our own patterns till they're laid out in front of us.

    alekwithak ,

    Have I got a YouTube video for you...

    alekwithak ,

    Had a class in college where we weren't allowed a GUI. Thanks Professor Becker!

    alekwithak ,

    20 years? Please!

    Wait...

    Oh no

    Politicians Are Using Kids As Props To Pass Terrible, Harmful Legislation. Don’t Let Them Get Away With It (www.techdirt.com)

    Politicians Are Using Kids As Props To Pass Terrible, Harmful Legislation. Don’t Let Them Get Away With It::Amidst all of the attention paid to last week’s Senate hearing on child safety online, it remains stunning just how little time was actually spent on how to help children online. Instead, we saw pure theatrical...

    alekwithak ,

    If they were, Bernie would've been the Democratic contender lol.

    Discredited yourself in one sentence, and managed to save it for last. I'm impressed!

    ginger and thyme are full of lead too rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

    bad news bears a ton of spices are full of lead (consumer reports has some info but it’s partially paywalled) so is that 1984 Garfield mug and most fiber sources and anything brightly colored from before 1978 (4 yrs after women were allowed to get credit cards in their name) and many water bottles with a vacuum sealed interior...

    alekwithak ,

    May I offer you some punctuation in this trying time?

    alekwithak ,

    Link?

    alekwithak ,

    No one is ever concerned with how much energy is used to feed ads to the entire population of earth 24/7.

    alekwithak ,

    Unironically this.

    alekwithak ,

    What are you on about?

    alekwithak ,

    Damn, I knew the numbers would be crazy, but that's absolutely bonkers.

    alekwithak ,

    The irony that if no one had bought NMS it would still be a POS.

    Raspberry Pi is planning a London IPO, but its CEO expects “no change” in focus (arstechnica.com)

    The business arm of Raspberry Pi is preparing to make an initial public offering (IPO) in London. CEO Eben Upton tells Ars that should the IPO happen, it will let Raspberry Pi's not-for-profit side expand by "at least a factor of 2X." And while it's "an understandable thing" that Raspberry Pi enthusiasts could be concerned,...

    alekwithak ,

    Sometimes you have to pre-suck to show investors you are serious about dismantling your company so they can feed on the corpse.

    alekwithak ,

    So he unloaded all the unsellable 256mb stock to a bunch of nerds? That's just good business sense. Man could be president some day.

    alekwithak ,

    For those that would get it without the last panel, definitely. Unfortunately mainstream appeal necessitates the explanation.

    alekwithak ,

    But a taco is just a sandwich???

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