llama

@ llama @midwest.social

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3 yr. ago

I'm a llama and I eat casserole.

1y ago

Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub
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llama @midwest.social 1y ago
It basically already is because you know most people are just going to lookup a free VPN who has every motive to obtain as much information as possible about the user and sell it.

2y ago

Privacy

It's a machine in the locker room where you drop your wet swimming trunks in and it mechanically wrings them out so it dries faster.

2y ago

Privacy

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llama @midwest.social 2y ago

Because they (old guys) come out of the pool and put their swimming trunks in the centrifuge things to dry and then they take like an hour to get ready.

2y ago

The message to Democrats is clear: you must dump neoliberal economics

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llama @midwest.social 2y ago

A cracked brick wall is more visible than a sinking foundation.

2y ago

Capitalism is killing our social lives | The Communist

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llama @midwest.social 2y ago

Better make sure people don't have fun just being amongst themselves, how can we introduce a product that invalidates the traditional social experience?

2y ago

Australia passes landmark social media ban for children under 16

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llama @midwest.social 2y ago

All of their content is public though, you don't need to verify your age to watch a Joe Rogan podcast.

2y ago

Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'

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llama @midwest.social 2y ago

Cities skylines 2 is already out so IMO we don't need more games

2y ago

What bias are there, targeting Open Source specifically?

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llama @midwest.social 2y ago

From a business standpoint I've noticed these two mindsets prevail:

With paid SaaS, there's always somebody to blame for missing features or outages. From my POV either way the IT department is getting blamed if a system goes down, and the overconfidence in the vendor to fix all issues timely is not always realistic.

Business leaders have conditioned themselves to being sold something. With open source they still expect a CEO or some figurehead to give a presentation on how the free tool will benefit the company, even though it doesn't make sense when there's no incentive to sell.

2y ago

California farmers were big Trump backers. They may be on collision course over immigrant deportation

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llama @midwest.social 2y ago

MAGA when they realize they are part of the collective America and are just as responsible for making it greater as anybody else.

2y ago

Want to understand why Trump won the election? Look at pop culture.

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llama @midwest.social 2y ago

Charts these days mostly seems to mean how many tiktok videos play the song. When I ask people what kind of music they like it's either "whatever I find on tiktok" or some random niche band I've never heard of like Ralph and the Orange Peels.

2y ago

Want to understand why Trump won the election? Look at pop culture.

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llama @midwest.social 2y ago

I guess in a society that is increasingly lonely especially for young people, it's easy to get dragged into the redneck incel rhetoric. I don't really know where this activity is taking place but it seems to be everywhere.

2y ago

T-Mobile's Forced Arbitration

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llama @midwest.social 2y ago

Somebody tried selling me a locked phone on eBay despite listing it as unlocked. The seller refused to be helpful so I filed a claim with eBay, waited the 10 days, eBay sided with me, got a refund and shipped the phone back, waited for the refund to process, then spent $100 more to buy the same device from Amazon.

2y ago

Has this ever happened to you?

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llama @midwest.social 2y ago

This reminds me of the time in HS when a letter broke off my laptop keyboard and my parents insisted on taking it to the shop for a repair. Turns out they really just wanted the shop to turn over my search history and chat logs. I already knew my parents were nosy so I would always delete it anyway.

One day I came home from school and they said the shop fixed the keyboard but just needed my password to test it and do updates. I said no it's fine if he can type in anything into the password then obviously the keyboard works, and I already did the updates regularly.

They literally had to beg me for the password and they were like pleasssse just give the shop the password so they can finish their checklist and you can get your computer back, and I was like fine if it's the only way I'm getting it back. Of course nothing came of it because there was nothing to discover.

Then my parents got the computer back but kept it in the trunk of their car for a week, and I accidentally saw it when we were leaving Old Navy which started a whole "I don't believe this!" discourse in the mall parking lot.

Moral of the story just talk to your kids instead of spying and lying, because they know and it won't work!

2y ago

Permanently Deleted

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llama @midwest.social 2y ago

So now they're just charging people for what they were already doing anyway.

2y ago

Pray for their safety

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llama @midwest.social 2y ago

A lot of malls in Asia have signs that say not to walk on the escalators. So yeah I guess if it breaks you're SOL if the people in front of you aren't rule breakers.

2y ago

The 4-day workweek was a longshot. The UAW isn’t giving up

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llama @midwest.social 2y ago

If the conditions are still the same that cause people to want to ask for a 4 day work week, then people will keep asking!

2y ago

Trig

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llama @midwest.social 2y ago

In HS trig class I asked the teacher what was the actual logic behind the tan function, and she said "well it's just programmed into your calculator" and I said I realized that but how did it work, she told me to go ask the AP calc teacher.

3y ago

Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.

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llama @midwest.social 3y ago

The YouTube viewing experience on FF is terrible. I have premium no ads and still manage to break the interface occasionally by clicking a new video or seeking the video playing.

3y ago

me⚠️irl

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llama @midwest.social 3y ago

This does happen though when they cc me on an email that has nothing to do with me, and expect me to dig through the whole thread to see why it's relevant.