i’m surprised to learn that there are enough people of this generation to downvote your post into oblivion. lol

i hope you enjoy becoming the 51st state because brainworms this extensive can only lead to annexation by the us empire.

it’s exceptionally rare I see an ad.

same here and something about this environment lets me get unreasonably triggered when i do see an ad. lol

idk about plain msg, but the msg that comes in powdered broths/stocks adds a lot to it – it keeps it from being too “one note”.

the insurance industry – especially health insurance – has got to be the biggest and most glaring example of this.

i had to stop doing this and my bank account now has money in it. lol

dumb phones are running android these days.

do both – pirate some closed source software and then brag about it! lol

my antipathy towards google was making me avoid pixels, but knowing that motorola’s graphene friendly phone is going to be a $1k+ high end folding phones and making me reconsider.

came here to say this and i’m glad lemmy is keeping this alive.

Ask your local political party (or union) and volunteer for tech stuff for them.

it’s alarming how little this seem to know and i know that i’m not the right one to teach them.

the europeans are the only ones besides the american gov’t w the institutional weight to force the tech giants to behave and i hope they follow through this time.

For me it felt like the words came directly out of Sam Altmans asshole where he had embedded himself firmly and deeply. It

altman gives off power bottom energy – shit is the only thing coming out of that asshole. lol

do i have a malpractice claim because no doctors have ever done this and i’m middle aged now.

it was 6.5 hours back in 1994 in the american southwest.

it sounds like you chose to patronize places that force you to use an app – there are alternatives that don’t require apps.

they’re sometimes inconvenient AF, but convenience is literally the reason why we’re brining climate change down upon us and how the epstein class has so much control over us.

Get together w a friend who has a 3d printer and start your own genre. Lol

🤦🏾 I forgot about codeberg – thanks for the reminder

it feels like an older iteration of free software – shareware, freeware, warez, etc. – where it’s free to use, but still does proprietary shit under the hood.

in some respects, this type of software predates open sources, so it’s always been around and now this makes it look like it’s started wearing the open source vibe as a skin.

Exactly, the stack necessary to play videos in your browser is no joke and I’ve always used it as a litmus test.

It’s not fool proof – as you pointed out – it’s probably the closest thing to a litmus test there is