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  1. Comment on United States Department of Justice will push Google to sell Chrome to break search monopoly in ~tech

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    One recent controversy looked like that's what was going on but when others dug into it, it looked more like it was YT a/b testing some new anti-adblock strategy. Changing the user agent was just...

    One recent controversy looked like that's what was going on but when others dug into it, it looked more like it was YT a/b testing some new anti-adblock strategy. Changing the user agent was just causing them to basically get another roll of the dice. Since it was only tested on a small percentage of users it would more than likely act normal after messing with it.

    https://www.howtogeek.com/youtube-adds-5-second-delay-to-punish-ad-blockers-in-all-browsers/

    4 votes

  2. Comment on United States Department of Justice will push Google to sell Chrome to break search monopoly in ~tech

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    What is "everything" though? Someone else mentioned syncing bookmarks (I guess I get that) and passwords (generally people recommend against this) but what else is there? Does it download...

    , so the ability to have almost everything accessible from any device is nice.

    What is "everything" though? Someone else mentioned syncing bookmarks (I guess I get that) and passwords (generally people recommend against this) but what else is there?

    If I'm setting up a new device and browser, I can get like 95% of the browser set up just by signing-in

    Does it download extensions and change your privacy settings etc?

    I just can't help but feel like there is little to no benefit to you, but the cost is giving over access to all your browsing data. Except for syncing passwords but thats less secure than alternatives.

  3. Comment on United States Department of Justice will push Google to sell Chrome to break search monopoly in ~tech

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    As someone who doesn't tie any account to their browser... why do you need or want a google account tied to your browser? I'm maybe out of the loop or something here IDK.

    As someone who doesn't tie any account to their browser... why do you need or want a google account tied to your browser? I'm maybe out of the loop or something here IDK.

    9 votes

  4. Comment on Luxury cheese is being targeted by black market criminals in ~food

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    What do Russians pay with? I thought at this point their money would be no good in the west. Edit: Also from the article, tracking chips in Parmigiano-Reggiano. They're taking this stuff pretty...

    “So much money is involved that officials, including border guards, can be paid off. Sanctioned goods are bought and sold through digital networks and these online orders also make it into shops.”

    What do Russians pay with? I thought at this point their money would be no good in the west.

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    Also from the article, tracking chips in Parmigiano-Reggiano. They're taking this stuff pretty seriously.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Heat pumps used to struggle in the cold. Not anymore. in ~enviro

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    Heat pumps can heat and cool. They're basically the same thing but they can go in both directions, dumping heat inside or outside.

    Heat pumps can heat and cool. They're basically the same thing but they can go in both directions, dumping heat inside or outside.

    2 votes

  6. Comment on If our worst fears about Donald Trump play out, how will we know when it's time to leave? in ~society

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    Kind of off topic at this point, but I can't imagine many of the homeless I see in my town being of any use as a worker. Some of them I'm sure you could have do basic labour but so many of them...

    Kind of off topic at this point, but I can't imagine many of the homeless I see in my town being of any use as a worker. Some of them I'm sure you could have do basic labour but so many of them have serious mental health issues, substance abuse issues, and things resulting from those.

    Billionaires want cheap labour but they also want labor that's productive.

    Even if they did start this kind of project I think it would fall flat. It would HAVE to start with the homeless. People in certain areas are totally fed up with the homeless so this would have real support. You just wouldn't be able to get any economic benefit from putting them in camps IMO. Then maybe you round up some other "problem" group and you'd run into the real problems with the economy starting to disintegrate. If you start pulling any minority group out of their day job and put them in a labour camp then you take them out of a situation where they are productive (I hope) and you force them to work likely doing something they are unskilled at and aren't going to be trying very hard to do. I think you'd see negative economic impacts going after just LGBTQ people let alone going after liberals as a whole.

    Sorry, it's late at night and I think I lost the plot here... and Im far from an being an economist... but I would be more worries about mobs and stuff than govt work camps. Except for the homeless...

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Waymo’s robotaxis are now available to everyone in Los Angeles in ~transport

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    Not Just Bikes just did a video on them that's worth seeing. One incident is described in the video that should give you pause. Another vehicle struck a woman and knocked her into the path of a...

    Waymo has a perfect safety record so far

    Not Just Bikes just did a video on them that's worth seeing.

    One incident is described in the video that should give you pause. Another vehicle struck a woman and knocked her into the path of a robo taxi. The robo taxi couldn't stop in time and so drove over top of her. Once she was out of sight under the car it then started going again dragging her with it as it went.

    6 votes

  8. Comment on ADHD and TODO lists in ~health.mental

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    I just accept that not everything on ANY list I make ever will get done. I write my list in a note app on my phone and I don't share it with my wife... I don't hide it or anything... and I usually...

    I just accept that not everything on ANY list I make ever will get done. I write my list in a note app on my phone and I don't share it with my wife... I don't hide it or anything... and I usually never look at it again after that day.

    I tell my partner about my successes that day and if she says "I wish you had gotten this thing done" then... Idk, sorry I started doing other things. At this point in the relationship she isn't happy with me exactly but she knows what to expect.

    As far as actually completing tasks goes, I sometimes set timers. Even though I have privacy concerns about it being in my house... I use an Alexa thing to do this so that I dont get sidetracked on my phone. For example, I'll set a timer for 10 minutes and go so chores for 10 minutes. Then I'll set a timer for 20 minutes and do something I want to do that's not productive.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on Mindless games, preferably mobile in ~games

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    Universal Paperclips

    Universal Paperclips

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  10. Comment on Donald Trump's team mulls postponing Ukraine's NATO membership for at least twenty years, WSJ reports in ~society

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    What would ever lead us to believe Russia wouldn't attack again besides a pact like NATO? Realistically whats even the point of not letting them join NATO if its not to so that Russia can waltz in...

    and there’s reason to believe that Russia won’t attack again before that.

    What would ever lead us to believe Russia wouldn't attack again besides a pact like NATO? Realistically whats even the point of not letting them join NATO if its not to so that Russia can waltz in there some other time?

    Regardless of all that, I don't see Russia willingly walking away from this conflict unless they can "win" some victory or if they just get beaten too hard and are forced to walk away.

    20 votes

  11. Comment on Linux Mint desktop environment recommendations? in ~comp

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    Its just Ubuntu with KDE, so yes it has snaps. I don't like snaps either but I do think the snap hate is a little overblown. If thats your concern then run whichever Mint DE you choose or put KDE...

    Its just Ubuntu with KDE, so yes it has snaps.

    I don't like snaps either but I do think the snap hate is a little overblown. If thats your concern then run whichever Mint DE you choose or put KDE on after the fact. I kind of feel like half of what a DE is, is just cosmetic and the other half of what it is, is the bundled apps.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Me and my son (we're playing it together) just got to Gleba and we sort of love/hate it. We have no idea what we're doing and personally I'm ready to just ditch it and deal with it later but he...

    Me and my son (we're playing it together) just got to Gleba and we sort of love/hate it. We have no idea what we're doing and personally I'm ready to just ditch it and deal with it later but he wants to figure it out and stick with it.

    I spent some time last night playing without him so I could bootstrap the very underdeveloped robot network on Nauvis into something proper just so that I could start shipping up the ingredients for a rocket silo so I can drop that at Gleba and GTFO.

    1 vote

  13. Comment on Linux Mint desktop environment recommendations? in ~comp

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    You can install KDE in Mint fairly easily or you could just skip all that and do Kubuntu instead of Mint.

    I've used KDE on the Steam Deck, and I hear that's a popular one, but can I get that on Mint?

    You can install KDE in Mint fairly easily or you could just skip all that and do Kubuntu instead of Mint.

    11 votes

  14. Comment on 2024 United States election megathread in ~society

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    I'm kind of OOTL on US politics as I've been mostly ignoring it for the past few years... so whats the deal here? Is he planning to put a 20% tariff on all imports or just china?

    I'm kind of OOTL on US politics as I've been mostly ignoring it for the past few years... so whats the deal here? Is he planning to put a 20% tariff on all imports or just china?

    3 votes

  15. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Can you explain this? The only change I noticed with trains was the interrupts and I think some wait conditions.

    global signals with radar.

    Can you explain this? The only change I noticed with trains was the interrupts and I think some wait conditions.

    3 votes

  16. Comment on Valorant is winning the war against PC gaming cheaters in ~games

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    IMO it's about more than just the steamdeck, they really seem to care about linux support. I'm just going to guess that a bunch of the people at Valve are Linux users as well. If they weren't then...

    IMO it's about more than just the steamdeck, they really seem to care about linux support. I'm just going to guess that a bunch of the people at Valve are Linux users as well. If they weren't then I don't think they would have gone this far with proton, linux on the steamdeck, and hardware hackability/repairability.

    Adding proprietary hardware and software to the steamdeck to make games function on it that wouldn't function on other Linux machines in such a blatant way... I think that might be the opposite of Valve's direction and motivations as a company. I might be totally off base on this one though.

    There is also a bit of a split in the steamdeck userbase. There are non Linux users to which the deck is their only Linux device. Then there are regular Linux users. The attitude of regular Linux users towards companies who break Linux support with anticheat is a big old FU. As someone who falls in the latter category I would really STRONGLY prefer that the steamdeck stay a device that continues to help Linux support as a whole.

    5 votes

  17. Comment on Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back. Rachel Plotnick's "re-buttonization" expertise is in demand. in ~design

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    Ya, I didn't actually expect you mention the company but it did sound a lot like Ford to me... both past and recent (this year) interactions actually. I'm not sure if you worked on it or saw it,...

    Ya, I didn't actually expect you mention the company but it did sound a lot like Ford to me... both past and recent (this year) interactions actually.

    I'm not sure if you worked on it or saw it, but the higher end f150 lightnings have a 15 inch (portrait) screen with some big volume knob thing ON the screen and just about every control that would have been in the center dash is in that screen. It looks incredible but holy crap NO.

  18. Comment on Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back. Rachel Plotnick's "re-buttonization" expertise is in demand. in ~design

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    I'll present the second gen Honda Fit as the most recent example I've seen of near perfect control design. The outside of the climate knobs is what turns instead of classic inset pointer things so...

    I'll present the second gen Honda Fit as the most recent example I've seen of near perfect control design. The outside of the climate knobs is what turns instead of classic inset pointer things so there is a lot to grab onto. Tactile detents so you can feel the controls move. Nice big stereo buttons... Where it falls apart is when they have a nav screen option, but at least the heater controls are still there.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back. Rachel Plotnick's "re-buttonization" expertise is in demand. in ~design

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    I think aesthetics really do play a MAJOR part in our choices; you do need to find a balance. If a car is too unusable then the wow factor disintegrates on the test drive. If your car looks too...

    I think aesthetics really do play a MAJOR part in our choices; you do need to find a balance. If a car is too unusable then the wow factor disintegrates on the test drive. If your car looks too ugly then its not even going to make it to the test drive. That said, if buttons are making it look bad then you need to find a better person to design the button layout because I've definitely seen enough cars over the last decade that still had the screen AND usable tactile buttons AND looked good.

    Specifically most of my fights were around the controls for the climate system, since that was the area I had the most say over.

    Ford? That was the first car I saw move heated seats into the screen (on a car I rented). That was about 10 years ago and it drove me NUTS; if your ass gets too hot and you can't pull over then you have to decide between increasing discomfort or risk crashing the car while trying to turn it off.

    we should make a module that's designed to be swappable in the future

    Ha. They want you to swap the entire car not just some module. I wish I was joking but I'm fairly certain that would be part of their rationale for shooting you down on that one. Thanks for trying to do the right thing though.

    5 votes

  20. Comment on Ballot box arson underscores potential threats to US election in ~society

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    This is kind of a weird side tangent/rant. I work with a particular guy occasionally that has different political view than me (shocker) that I always end up (politely) talking politics with. This...

    This is kind of a weird side tangent/rant.

    I work with a particular guy occasionally that has different political view than me (shocker) that I always end up (politely) talking politics with. This guy seems fairly intelligent but he always ends up making arguments for his viewpoint that have (IMO) poor logic or just stupid win conditions for hypothetical situations he poses. I generally view him as fairly intelligent and just someone who like to play silly bugger.

    The last time I worked with him I basically made a joke about the kind of people who always suggest that you can just put a generator on one wheel of an electric car and then it will always be charging your battery. He admitted that he would be one of those people. I tried to explain the issues with perpetual motion and how it would take energy to spin the generator etc... I don't think he understood.

    This guy was not capable of understanding the basic ideas of why free energy isn't a thing and I'm expecting him to think logically about his arguments regarding complex things like politics?