Rentlar

Some nasty jerks they are. Well now internationally famous nasty jerks.

I mean it's safe to say it was probably the last opportunity to do a protest on that scale even before these changes. Maybe they can still do "remove any post on wellthatsucks that isn’t a vacuum" type of change.

Probably old Reddit imploding will bring a few more this way, but safe to say that most people who left Reddit because it's changed for the worse since 5-15 years ago have already left. Still, I have seen a few new users join Lemmy after TechLinked mentioned the site and a continuous trickle would be welcome.

On another note, hearing the "council of Reddit moderators" makes me imagine a cringeworthy meetup in someone's basement.

This is an important first step in the right direction. Given the state of consumer law saying "anything goes if you agree to it" this may be the best initial way to start discouraging the practice of always online everything, helping preservation and being honest with consumers.

"The remote shutdown did not affect these vehicles. They are operating normally, without any failures," he said Friday on Telegram, per CNN. "You couldn't ask for better advertising for the Cybertruck."

Buy a Cybertruck today! Only 1 in 3 chance it stops working after 2 months!

Distances in North America tend to be measured in hours of driving at highway speeds (usually 65mph/105kmh, but sometimes extra time added going through cities). Houston, Texas for example you can get from one edge of town to the other in an hour, plus up to an extra hour in traffic. The transit options in every metro area are different. The only thing is that people in suburbia are in the middle of a maze that would take 25 minutes on foot to get out of to the nearest convenience store (corner shop). A habit of going every other day for light shopping trips on the way from work is less common and often limited to retirees and non-working parents. What's more common is doing a large cartful of shopping from every week to even once a month, and fitting it all in your monster SUV or pickup truck.

That said lifestyles can vary across the US, suburban vs rural, like New York, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles will each have their own characteristics with how far things are, how far they feel and, how developed transit is. Between cities, transit is rather disconnected without a car, you have minimal and inconvenient coach bus services and trains that might show up 3 times a week.

Well, as you may be aware, banks like getting money.

Taking money from their customers through banking fees and interest on both deposits and loans isn't enough for the banks and credit card issuers. So they sell credit card and loan usage information to whoever will pay for it, and these credit monitoring companies will, to keep a file on you (tied to your SSN/SIN). They know how many loan accounts and how long you've had them for, how often you pay your loan bill on time vs. not, what % of your credit limit you tend to use each month, and when you go shopping for new loans (since loan agencies will request your file from them to determine whether you are trustworthy enough).

Before the whole API fiasco, reddit was down a whole bunch, and old reddit plus 3rd party apps were taking significantly longer to recover than the new interface. I'd already been noticing the quality of posts going downhill and the number of plagiarizing bots and shirt sellers going up.

One time it was down, I searched up Reddit alternatives and found Lemmy. I had previously heard tidbits of the Fediverse (like Mastodon and Friendica) which sounded like something up my alley, but the Twitter/Facebook style didn't fit my vibe. So when I discovered this Reddit alternative that seemed appealing. I looked around for a good server to join and I made an account, coincidentally on my 6-year Reddit cake day. I was in a transition period away from Reddit between March to July 2023 since there wasn't too much content on Lemmy really until June, but I tried to contribute a handful of local posts and news to my communities. In June I posted a handful of comments trying to help people migrate to Lemmy. It was a little difficult to leave, but I edited my top 20 comments plus a handful of other niche answers saying I left for lemmy, put a goodbye self-post and swore to myself I would not post or comment on Reddit again.

So far I've stuck to this pledge. Still I sometimes wonder if I should post an FAQ to help more people, but I'll leave that to other people and Redditors can find us at their leisure.

So in G major, you'd get two letters matched (D and E) instead of just one.

Let's save money and have AI control the Nuclear Power Plant, see what happens >:]

That's part of the reason why new community oriented projects are way more interesting to me now than most software. There are some outliers in the space who still have dedicated people in their craft rather than for money but it is fewer and farther between.

Imagine if they pulled that on the idle timeout pause screen too...

Ah of course. Americans tie so much success and personal welfare to employment, that's the problem! An UBI would help everyone succeed then we wouldn't be too worried about immigrants /s.