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    grue ,

    No, what you're thinking of are shoals. Souls are flatfish within the family Soleidae.

    grue ,

    "Whoever needs to hear this" is Reddit mods (especially of political subs) in my experience. Sooo much sealioning and other "polite" disinformation left unchecked, while angry comments calling it out got censored for "incivility."

    grue ,

    Disclaimer: I’m not a scientist and these numbers came from my ass.

    But is your donkey a scientist?

    grue ,

    In that case, ask him where Shelly Miscavige is for me.

    grue ,

    Why do you hate consumer protection law?

    grue ,

    It's fine as long as you're not a robot made out of aluminum or something.

    grue ,

    EDIT : you gotta keep deadnaming the transphobe’s media platform.

    I LOL'd

    grue ,

    This meme is how I found out.

    grue ,

    And the conclusion

    grue ,

    That's literally a crime. HP exceeded authorized access to your computer (specifically, the microcontroller in your printer) in order to damage it. I don't know if the criminal complaint should be directed to the FBI or the FTC, but either way, you should file one.

    grue ,

    Username checks out

    grue ,

    HP is doing what now?

    Sounds to me like HP themselves are the hackers, exceeding authorized access in order to destroy people's property. Prosecute HP!

    grue ,

    Welcome to the Internet

    grue ,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSA-yHzkvP8

    grue ,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKhknsN8M9U

    grue ,

    I feel like the CDS folks (the people giving away food samples) need to unionize. The fact that they're working at Costco but not working directly for Costco sets off my exploitation spidey-sense.

    grue ,

    I think all your other examples are red flags, too.

    'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al... (www.pcgamer.com)

    'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al...::It was only the other day we reported how HP has been slapped with a lawsuit in response to measures that disable its printers...

    grue ,

    https://spaceballsthestore.com/product_images/uploaded_images/skroob-sniffing.jpg

    The irony is that even that satire didn't envision something so cartoonishly evil as a subscription business model.

    grue ,

    It is unfortunate that they keep trying to make a subscription out of something that does not have an ongoing infrastructure need at the company’s side.

    It's not just "unfortunate;" it's unethical and abusive and the FTC ought to outlaw it.

    grue ,

    High Yield Toner is $15 without a chip from a reputable 3rd party.

    What are some reputable toner companies? I just ordered some E-Z Ink brand toner for my Brother printer, and I'd like to know if I should cancel it and go with a different brand instead.

    grue ,

    You can do even better buying plain old used instead of refurbished.

    I got a pair of MFC-9340CDWs -- with duplex and color -- off Craigslist for like $50 each a couple of years ago (one to use, and one as a spare). Even if I have to buy a new fuser relatively soon because the ones in both of them are almost worn out, it's still an incredible deal.

    grue ,

    The FTC provides a service, not a product.

    grue ,

    Pretty sure CNN is (willfully) misinterpreting the law. The EU is definitely not prohibiting them from just turning off the tracking without providing a choice.

    grue ,

    Or just wait a little while, purge the filter cache, update your filters, and try again.

    grue ,

    Speak for yourself; I use Free Software.

    grue ,

    To be even fairer, corporations have no inherent "right" to exist, and in fact should not be allowed to exist unless they're acting ethically and serving society.

    grue ,

    The time to get an Android instead of an iPhone was any time since 2008 when Android first became available.

    grue ,

    Loading your own software on a device independently of an app store, a.k.a. "the way general-purpose computers are supposed to work," a.k.a. "exercising your property rights."

    grue ,

    Holy shit.

    grue ,

    Boris Johnson wishes he could fuck up his hair as badly as this guy.

    grue ,

    Features like this really do require a subscription model. This isn’t enabling remote start by pressing a key on your fob. This is sending a request to a server, which connects to a cell tower to broadcast signal saying “turn on this car”. That stuff ain’t free. Someone has to pay AT&T for the data connection.

    Only because they unethically intentionally designed it that way, when they could've just as easily picked a different design that could've worked entirely locally. They are inventing excuses for rentiership.

    grue ,

    Congratuations, you've fallen for the propaganda. That sentiment is nothing more than corporate astroturfing against effective regulation.

    grue ,

    Then the people in charge should've thought about that before they gave the show a political theme. It's their own damn fault and they deserve what they get.

    grue ,

    The problem here isn't that Lemmy doesn't have good enough ways to sort content; the problem is that it's still small and doesn't yet have enough content to sort.

    mememamus , to Memes

    @memes

    grue ,

    Is there a [c/titlegore](https:/lemmy.ml/c/titlegore)?

    FTFY.

    grue ,

    I was already thinking of upgrading my old Roku to a $20 Onn (Walmart brand) Google TV box (which I'm told is hackable), but this will only accelerate that decision.

    grue ,

    Because continuing to prop up Reddit like you're advocating is why the remainder of the good stuff hasn't migrated over here yet.

    grue ,

    X doesn't care what the kernel is.

    grue ,

    I've been saying for quite a while now that the Internet was best in the '90s and early 2000s back before it was commercialized, even despite all the "under construction" gifs and whatnot. The signal/noise ratio has only continued to drop since then.

    grue ,

    Since I am an English speaker, my '90s Internet experience was very different than that. There were "link farms" (pages designed to exploit early search engine algorithms that scored pages higher when they got linked to a lot) and e-mail spam, of course, but being unsophisticated, it was generally a lot easier not to get suckered in by than the firehose of AI-written advertorials and shit we have today.

    grue ,

    I get what you're saying that '90s-style content is largely still there if you look for it, but this...

    ...which is harder now because there’s so much more garbage...

    ...has nevertheless destroyed the "Internet as it existed back then," which was specifically an Internet where finding such content was easy.

    grue ,

    No, I didn't forget anything. It was still better even despite all that.

    grue ,

    This is why:

    1. The FTC needs to do its job and start outlawing all these obscene subscription business models for things that are rightfully products, not services. Where's my goddamned First Sale Doctrine, FTC?!

    2. Software Engineers working on commercial products need to be professionally licensed, so that proper consequences can be applied for unethical "fail-deadly" designs like this one.

    grue ,

    But also… why the fuck does this require a sub?

    Because "fuck you, we're rent-seeking and you can't do anything about it," that's why.

    grue ,

    I can guarantee that every engineer that worked on that thing hated it and thought it was fucking stupid.

    As a software engineer who was also a civil engineer-in-training before switching careers, I think one of the big overlooked benefits of being licensed is that it would give engineers leverage to push back on unethical demands by management.

    grue ,

    If we don’t, we get fired and they hire someone else who will do it.

    If we were licensed, any replacement would be similarly ethically bound to refuse and that tactic wouldn't work.

    grue ,

    I don't think you understand what being licensed means. It means the state requires that people doing that job hold a license. Offshoring would become illegal.

    grue ,

    Just get one of the compatible boards

    The main selling point of a Raspberry Pi is that the "compatible" boards often... aren't. Instead of the well-supported, plug-and-play experience you get with a Raspberry Pi, with other boards even people like Jeff Geerling often struggle to get them to work. Also, the Raspberry Pi has excellent documentation, a large community for support, etc., whereas with alternative boards you end up having to hunt around for documentation and download firmware off obscure Chinese websites and whatnot.

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