bionicjoey

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Is "retard" a slur? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As someone on the autism spectrum, I don't mind using it or hearing people use it at all, as long as it's being used as a synonym for "dumb" and not being used to specifically disparage someone with a disability. Just like "idiot", words evolve over time from being specific words to refer to disabilities to just general words for someone being a dumbass.

What is a product that sounded promising but ended up being very underwhelming? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Anyone who can't pedal is also gonna have trouble standing upright and maintaining a neutral balance on a thin board

What does the term "shitpost" actually mean? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

A shitpost is something low effort, that simply takes up space in the content feed without being engaging, entertaining, or interesting.

One of the primary forms of shitpost is a meme or joke that isn't very funny, or has been reposted to death. So "shitposting" can refer to the act of spamming shitty meme posts.

What is a product that sounded promising but ended up being very underwhelming? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

One of those isn't a benefit and the other isn't true. Also, e-bikes are a thing

What is a product that sounded promising but ended up being very underwhelming? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Gob Bluth rides one, which reality captured the vibe they gave for the average person.

What is a product that sounded promising but ended up being very underwhelming? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Except it didn't really sound promising

If you could regulate something relatively inconsequential, what would it be? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

We need more maths terminology in our regulations

If you could regulate something relatively inconsequential, what would it be? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tell me you've never worked a day in your life without telling me you've never worked a day in your life.

If you could regulate something relatively inconsequential, what would it be? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Further: all toasters should be able to steal the sunbeam radiant control patent since it's being squatted on and not used in any toaster on the market

If you could regulate something relatively inconsequential, what would it be? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (7 children)

The number of hotdogs in a hotdog pack and the number of hotdog buns in a hotdog bun pack cannot be coprime

If you could regulate something relatively inconsequential, what would it be? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

An illustration of Satan

If you could regulate something relatively inconsequential, what would it be? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The one I buy has a Ziploc but it's very shittily attached to the inside of the bag. So sometimes it breaks off and then both sides of the Ziploc are stuck to one wall of the bag and it becomes useless.

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Safest way of using WeChat on Android? (lemmy.ca)
 

I live in Canada. My girlfriend is Chinese (also living in Canada), and while we are able to communicate via SMS, her mobile carrier isn't the best, and so there have often been issues for us with regular texting. She expressed a strong preference to use WeChat, at least as a backup option for when texting fails us. While I have some pretty significant reservations, it's not the hill I want to die on. So my question is: what can be done to use WeChat without compromising my whole phone? I'm okay with it if our conversations aren't private, but I'd like to know that I'm not giving unfettered access to all of my phone's systems and data to the CCP. What can be done to limit the reach of this ubiquitous app on my device?

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Safest way of using WeChat (lemmy.ca)
 

I live in Canada. My girlfriend is Chinese (also living in Canada), and while we are able to communicate via SMS, her mobile carrier isn't the best, and so there have often been issues for us with regular texting. She expressed a strong preference to use WeChat, at least as a backup option for when texting fails us. While I have some pretty significant reservations, it's not the hill I want to die on. So my question is: what can be done to use WeChat without compromising my whole phone? I'm okay with it if our conversations aren't private, but I'd like to know that I'm not giving unfettered access to all of my phone's systems and data to the CCP. What can be done to limit the reach of this ubiquitous app on my device?

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Louis Rossman/FUTO's YouTube app, GrayJay, now supports Sponsorblock... and shames you if you use it (lemmy.ca)
 

Seriously this was very surprising. I've been experimenting with GrayJay since it was announced and I largely think it's a pretty sweet app. I know there are concerns over how it isn't "true open source" but it's a hell of a lot more open than ReVanced. Plus, I like the general design and philosophy of the app.

I updated the YouTube backend recently and to my surprise and delight they had added support for SponsorBlock. However, when I went to enable it, it warned me "turning this on harms creators" and made me click a box before I could continue.

Bruh, you're literally an ad-blocking YouTube frontend. What kind of mental gymnastics does it take to be facilitating ad-blocking and then at the same time shame the end-user for using an extension which simply automates seeking ahead in videos. Are you seriously gonna tell me that even without Sponsorblock, if I skip ahead past the sponsored ad read in a video, that I'm "harming the creator"?

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