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illah

@ illah @lemmy.world

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  • consider the implications for a post scarcity future

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  • I hate to be the akshully guy but the big problem isn’t economics but usage. We can’t store electricity at any kind of meaningful scale so generation needs to be balanced to meet demand. Unused excess power needs to go somewhere, hence the negative prices (the market way of saying, “please somebody take this electricity it’s doing more harm than good on the grid”).

  • Gay adult film actor-turned-Proud Boy from Pasco gets jail time for Capitol riot

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  • The weird thing is rebellious shock-jock type folks like this would have rebelled against conservatives a generation ago, but these days “the system” is perceived as the left. Something to keep in mind when trying to make sense of the world.

  • In-N-Out to close first location in its 75-year history due to a wave of car break-ins and robberies

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  • People here trying to make this about masking bad business decisions etc don’t live in Oakland. I live here, it’s really bad right now.

    I was joking with a friend that a lot of Oakland feels like a bad 80s dystopia film…like you know those scenes with hobos warming themselves around a burning oil drum, stripped and burned out cars everywhere, piles of trash, drug addicts and prostitutes wandering around, etc? That’s literally real life in a large part of east Oakland. Like I’ve swear to god seen a half dozen girls at one intersection twerking in the middle of the street on the yellow lines, and one block over is a 5 block long encampment (16th and international/ 12th st).

    Like this shit is on Google street view! It’s not hard to find. Follow this road all the way down to Fruitvale ave, it’s like a solid mile of a 3rd world refugee camp.

    https://maps.app.goo.gl/YTVNJW36gbYTJuY67?g_st=ic

  • Raspberry Rule

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  • I even went to the trouble of putting mine in a mini snes style case with functional power and reset buttons. Still have it ready to go…in the garage 😅

  • Does it even make sense to care about privacy?

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  • Haha yes! People assume data brokers “know” a lot about a person, but really it’s fuzzy signals. It is far from a crystal ball or a perfect record of every website you’ve ever visited, etc…

  • Does it even make sense to care about privacy?

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  • I’ve kind of come full circle on all this to where I no longer care. The slippery slope arguments are largely hypothetical imo…Google knows some stuff about me and attempts to show me ads, the vast majority of which I block, so what?

    I pay taxes, have a social security number, my bank and credit card companies know my purchase history, the credit bureaus know my mortgage payment and lender, etc…

    The myth of an off the grid life is exactly that, a myth. And what does it achieve for you other than some vague sense of idealistic pride?

    Google provides tremendous utility to the world essentially for free; its search engine, maps, mail client apps, browser, etc. are tools billions of people use every day. How do they maintain a global network of data centers and localize their products to hundreds of languages…none of that is free. If big companies want to give them money in an attempt at to get me to pay attention to them then so be it, let them finance it. Imagine if only those who could afford to pay could use these tools.

  • [AMA] I am a professional construction carpenter. Feel free to ask me anything.

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  • The contrast to this is knowing how to use the tool well and the difference between a $50 and $500 tool. Sometimes the cheapest version of a tool wielded badly is a lot more expensive than a pro with the high end version. Not to mention filling up a garage with things used only once years ago!

  • [AMA] I am a professional construction carpenter. Feel free to ask me anything.

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  • Besides the usual hammer, power drill, basic hand tools, duct tape, etc, what are a few tools or items everyone should consider having around the house?

  • Apple will no longer fix the $17,000 gold Apple Watch

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  • I still use the original sport band from 2015 on a 7th gen watch, and it fit the 4/5 gen before that. Unless the gold band was non removable from the watch I don’t see the issue.

    Also the fact that this was never publicly available means these were gifts to celebs for PR, ain’t nobody losing any money on this.

  • How many people actually dropped Reddit for Lemmy?

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  • +1

    Tbh I felt Reddit was getting less interesting and more of a habit, Apollo was the last straw. Lemmy is small and a much less active, but more random. Prob good to reduce the mindless scrolling.

  • Being “gifted”, only makes you wish you weren’t sometimes

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  • Sure, and an earache can be nothing or a symptom of a brain tumor. That’s the problem with a bunch of people self diagnosing based on WebMD or memes.

  • Being “gifted”, only makes you wish you weren’t sometimes

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  • Show this comic to 100 people and almost all will think they’re in the blue zone.

    This is like those ADHD memes which just list every one of life’s inconveniences or challenges as some kind of “symptom.”

    Everyone has these feelings, it’s not a curse, it’s just life.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 is defying game industry trend-chasers — and is being rewarded for doing so | Windows Central

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  • Does it save to the cloud so I can play on both?

  • The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.

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  • I think we all underestimate how much smaller the internet was back then. Flickr, the premier photo sharing site back in the day, was acquired by yahoo for $25MM. Kevin rose of digg was famously on the cover of business week touting a $60MM valuation. In todays big business tech era those are small numbers even factoring for inflation.

    Basically back then users were counted in millions and if the let’s say 5-10K power users and a 100k randos moved on that could kill a service. Today Reddit is too big to fail. It would take tens of millions of users in a mass exodus to make a dent.

    Look at Twitter right now, which is about the fastest case of enshittification of the modern era. The weird trolls filled the power vacuum that proper power users left and it’s still plugging along. If something like this eventually happens to Reddit it’ll be more like Facebook, a very slow decline but even in its shell state boasting hundreds of millions of users.

  • faerie's aire and death waltz

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  • Don't feel bad for the Moderators of Reddit

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  • I’ve never modded but have been on Reddit 15yrs 11mo as of the Apollo shutdown. At this point I’m in the 16yr club. It’s wild how badly they are acting toward mods.

    Frankly I’m not a mod lover or hater, with the exception of AskHistory. It was so clear how the mods there truly made the community. Haters will say they had a heavy hand, but it kept the quality remarkably high.

    I’m middle age so I’ve seen a full decade of forum shitposting and flamwars before Reddit even existed. The fact that Reddit can’t see the value of the community that build “their platform” is beyond tonedeaf, it’s just straight up arrogant.

    I’m sure Reddit will stay far bigger than lemmy for a long time, but that’s fine. Maybe better. The old forums were microscopic by modern social media standards but in hindsight the conversations with active users were more real and not just some random username that might as well have been anon.

  • [WINNER: OPTION B] Choose Voyager's icon!

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  • A or C

  • Thanks 196, my first post!

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  • That looked like a coffee mug with grapes on it to me haha but shoulda known a band that iconically 90s would be on here!

  • A billboard in downtown San Francisco

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  • So true, a lot of smart people where I work seem to buy the whole “all human knowledge” aspect of GPT models 😬

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    A billboard in downtown San Francisco

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    Blurred / nsfw photos no longer unblur in feed?