Well, gee, thanks for the rabbit hole!

As much as I agree the fake trees seem fake, they’re surprisingly effective.

I’ve asked people about cell towers on a hill nearby, and no one has ever noticed them. I tell them they look like fake trees, they still don’t know.

Our brains are pretty good at filtering out seemingly useless information.

So, you resort to name calling? Why should any of us engage with you?

Right?

I stopped reading after that.

Nah, just us tech heads that are willing to put in the effort (and I’m not, Linux on the desktop has a long way to go, and I use Linux for all sorts of services).

99% of users can’t be bothered to understand the concept of a web browser, and that there are different ones. Switch them to any Linux distro and they’d freeze like deer in headlights.

Source: decades of providing support.

And yes, dumb move my MS, not sure what they’re trying to do here.

Oh, wow, I didn’t realize masgravel license 365 too.

Even worse, the McD ice cream machine issue was caused my McD themselves, by having requirements around cleaning cycles that were tighter than the machine could do.

The same machines worked fine at other companies.

I mean, yea, humanity gonna human.

But at least with fed, it’s very easy to setup another instance and federate as you choose.

It will always be a shit show (again, humanity), but won’t have a single (or even limited) central authority to censor as it chooses.

My concern will be it following the path of email - today many email providers simply block a lot, so if you’re a new domain it’s challenging to prevent getting on the block list.

Like that’s a bad thing?

Hahahahaha, damn Google.

“Help us prevent government from stopping us from being bad actors”.

“No longer”?

You just now realize this?

Right?

$450 and a toaster to use something like the external batteries I’ve used for a decade.

Wow, I never made that connection

Except I’ve had experiences that aren’t explainable by alm this:

Discussing a random, never-thought-of-before idea with a friend, in the car. Neither of us had ever thought of this thing before (honestly don’t recall now what it was). Discussed it for 2 minutes, then moved on.

Later we’re both seeing related ads, yet neither of us searched for anything.

And it was something way out of left field for both of us, that neither of us had ever thought of before. The related ads were so jarring that we both told each other about it.

Oh, and my phone was rooted, de-googled (lineage), with heavy restrictions for the apps, no social media (I still don’t have any accounts with any of them, except here), etc. The other phone was an iPhone.

I’ve had a very similar experience.

Once discussed something, out of the blue, something I’ve never been curious about in my life, in the car, with a friend who also has never thought about the same thing.

Hours later we’re both seeing related ads.

Now, I get that the amount of data required for such analysis is supposedly outside the bounds of what phones can do. But I can’t see any other explanation. Neither of us ever searched anything in this subject, we talked about doe a couple minutes and moved on, never doing anything about it. We have very different interests, too.