iOS 17 seems great for me so far. Haven't tried iPadOS yet, but I will soon. Sonoma is good so far as well, aside from a couple small issues that are essentially just nitpicks.
I use it to sell things, but that's literally it. Legitimately the only thing it's good for at this point. And every time I go on there I'm reminded of how terrible it is. Actually nauseating.
Possibly, I don't use alternatives much (primarily because I don't sell much in general). I prefer Facebook because so many people are there and it's easier to facilitate cash payments via meetups. But there could be better ones, I'm not all that familiar with Swappa or OfferUp.
I feel like Switch successor "leaks" have become meaningless noise at this point. There have just been so, so many reported "leaks" and supposed possible release dates/years. I don't even pay any attention to it anymore.
And those shouldn't count? Do you have any idea how much easy access to guns increases suicides? Many, many suicidal people would still be alive without the easy access to guns in the US. It's one of the easiest and painless ways to kill yourself.
What came first, the chicken or the egg? Meaningless semantics; both are at play when it comes to someone that is suicidal. But I can assure you, suicide rates would be positively (downward trend) impacted by any sort of gun ban. I am speaking as person who has been suicidal. If I had had access to guns at certain points in my past, I likely wouldn't be here today.
I find debates and the debate format, in general, to be counterproductive and a waste of time. All I am going to say is that, at this point, it should be common knowledge and easily understood that gun control works to prevent gun violence. You see it in any other wealthy country on the planet, and all empirical evidence supports this view. The United States does not exist in a vacuum, as much as some Americans seem to like to think and believe.
No, I agree, I never said it was great. But Bing can be so finicky with what it allows you to do. I've literally had it tell me that it wasn't going to give me any more sources and to do my own research. Guardrails that I'm assuming are there to cut down on academic cheating, but it's incredibly annoying, patronizing and unhelpful. The censorship on ChatGPT is also annoying, but it's far easier to work with when it comes to constructing things the way you want to (as long as it isn't NSFW, obviously).
I really like Apple Music. Actually supports lossless, unlike Spotify, and it just feels much more music focused. Spotify has become too bloated, and I view it more as a "sound" app than a music app.
The supreme court even as a concept is one of the most asinine yet accepted institutions in the world. On par with the Catholic church, but so much worse because it actually has enormous and direct power over 330+ million people. I am dreaming and pining for the day that someone in power, most likely a president, just legitimately tells them to fuck off. They have no enforcement power and they fucking know it. I'm yearning for someone to have the courage, but it's as clear as it possibly can be that it certainly won't be a Democrat.
The Catholic church is an unjustifiable and ridiculous institution in the same way the supreme court is. The Catholic church also had a lot of control over the lives of many people for a very long time, although that influence has obviously waned in recent centuries and decades (although it's clearly still not completely gone). Now, as far as the president having control, I will also say fuck the presidency, but it would always be my hope that a person in that position would do anything in their power as a president and a person to stand up to unjustifiable institutions like the supreme court. Obviously a president couldn't abolish the supreme court single-handedly, nor do I think that would necessarily, inherently be a good thing, but I do think that a president could and should call out the obvious reasons for which the institution needs to be abolished, because it absolutely does. The fact that nine human beings can directly control the lives of millions and millions and millions of people is an absolute travesty. I don't even feel dissimilarly about congress, but obviously it's a bit better because they are actually elected. In general, though, I am a very strong proponent of direct democracy. Term limits are a starting point, but it would be akin to applying a bandaid to a gaping, oozing wound.
In a video by @Techconnectify, Alec goes into a deep dive into the simplicity of his particular model, its shortcomings and variety of data logging tests in an attempt to fix them....
Because Democrats love losing. This is literally something that has been seen time and time again. They make more money through fundraising when they're in the minority. They care about nothing but capital.
Do you have any idea how influential media is? When you have MSNBC and CNN plus various others talking about how Biden is the only viable option again and again and again, you can't ignore the influence of that. He won South Carolina after the endorsement of a very popular and influential corporate Democrat there. The media along with the DNC saw that as the opportunity to rally around Biden. Everyone drops out and endorses him, and there you go. I'm oversimplifying a bit for the sake of brevity, obviously, but bottom line, Biden was chosen and supported to defeat Bernie because they couldn't accept the possibility of a politician like Bernie winning. He was a threat to capital and he was extinguished from the race.
I honestly think that social media services should exclusively be nonprofits and run off of a combination of very limited ads and/or donation drives à la Wikipedia. Profit motives destroy things like this, as we've seen time and time again.
Hi! I just got a new computer recently, and I'm concerned about browser security and security in general. Any recommendations for a good secure browser? Preferably open source.
once again speaking for myself here, except where these sentiments have already been expressed by other admins. this is not a moderator document or anything, and it will not be stickied....
So I was posting on this thread which is a meme about how everything is Chromium (except Firefox obviously) and was replying to somebody talking about needing the "Linux of browser engines"....
Public Betas are out, who's going in? (appadvice.com)
The new iOS/iPadOS 17, WatchOS 10 and MacOS Sonoma public betas are out....
Facebook could be tracking your online Plan B or HIV test purchases (www.popsci.com)
Twelve of the largest drug stores in the U.S. sent shoppers’ sensitive health information to Facebook or other platforms.
Rumor: Nintendo Switch 2 Console 'Leak' Hints at New Feature (Scroll Wheel Triggers and Traditional Console instead of handheld) (gamerant.com)
What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?
i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!
Biden renews call for assault weapons ban after ‘tragic and senseless’ spate of July 4 shootings (www.independent.co.uk)
President says ‘epidemic of gun violence is tearing our communities apart’ after mass shootings in Philadelphia, Fort Worth, Baltimore and Chicago
Browse with Bing beta feature temporarily disabled (lemmy.world)
The ChatGPT website went down for a few minutes and then I saw this update....
Is music piracy dying?
Most of the discussion and sources of content talk about movies and series....
Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content (futurism.com)
G/O Media, an online media company that owns Gizmodo and Kotaku has announced that it will begin a "modest test" of AI content on its sites.
John Roberts Begs the Liberal Justices to Stop Criticizing the Court (newrepublic.com)
The chief justice doesn’t like his conservative Supreme Court colleagues getting called out for judicial overreach.
DeSantis says he would eliminate four federal agencies if elected president (www.nbcnews.com)
Florida's Republican governor said he would seek to abolish the departments of Education, Commerce and Energy, as well as the IRS....
Technology Connections talks about a red fridge from Walmart for an hour (youtu.be)
In a video by @Techconnectify, Alec goes into a deep dive into the simplicity of his particular model, its shortcomings and variety of data logging tests in an attempt to fix them....
Poll: A historic number of Americans don't want a Biden-Trump rematch (thehill.com)
fediverse soon (lemmy.world)
Is kbin.social anti-corporation? Should it be?
I'm seeing discussions on other instances about how a "federated" corporate instance should be handled, i.e. Meta, or really any major company....
Good browser for security?
Hi! I just got a new computer recently, and I'm concerned about browser security and security in general. Any recommendations for a good secure browser? Preferably open source.
Ford CEO says Tesla's Cybertruck is only for 'Silicon Valley people' and he's not threatened by it: 'I make trucks for real people who do real work' (www.businessinsider.com)
Ford's CEO said Tesla's Cybertruck is for "Silicon Valley people" not "real people who do real work."...
This Is Not A Faceless Megacorporation: a second reminder to be measured in what you expect of us
once again speaking for myself here, except where these sentiments have already been expressed by other admins. this is not a moderator document or anything, and it will not be stickied....
Escaping from the Chromium monopoly - alternative browser engines
So I was posting on this thread which is a meme about how everything is Chromium (except Firefox obviously) and was replying to somebody talking about needing the "Linux of browser engines"....