Two weeks ago, I saw the loner at the table of an event. Went to go talk to them because they were alone for a while.
In less than 10 minutes, they made a offensive joke that would have insulted half the people here, and complained about their living situation unprompted.
My wife’s grandfather. That lady is like first gen feminism.
Well ol Grandpappy sent much of his life savings to sponsor a Asian wife, getting her a house and a new car. Then he was ready to leave my grandmother to start a new life. But Grandma found bank statements and they divorced and got mucho of the split.
He tried to live with his sponsored Asian wife, who ended up being a story like OPs.
Grandpa fucked around and found out he is now homeless.
Just two weeks ago, a deep fake attack involving a CEO’s voice trying to get his employees credentials happened.
Same. This picture is surprisingly accurate.
I wonder if me, and American, looking at Pakistan is like how Europeans look at America… Government and police are crazy. But the food, culture, and people are probably nice.
You challenged religious law. That’s against the law.
“In this religion, we use ExpressVPN!”
Quran, probably
I’m pretty sure Mohammad, Jesus, Buddha, and all the other gods would be concerned if they saw my porn history.
I see this as malicious compliance, and I love it.
You nailed it!
What grosses me out is that to get all those features, I have to be okay with my video data potentially landing in the hands of some company using it train AI or something.
Eufy was caught recently doing that. (And it’s my current solution for remote home camera system)
It’s built off of OSM. Which is how it should be.
Absolutely a depression indicator.
Post-election, my wife and I are going hard on co-op games again. We are not feeling so great.
But prior to that, we were casually gaming, maybe 1-2 hours a day at most.
This is the way.
Finding other ways to get your media that doesn’t blast you with ads.
Or if it always blasts you with ads, find a way to block them.
Don’t let the terrorists win.
OP was asking about Normal people.
Of course non-normals ad block.
But I’ve seen my parents use their phone and ignore the 60% of ads take that over the screen.
I self-host and dabble with this stuff. Im an engineer for more than a decade.
But I really struggled to find a solution that has a really high uptime with minimal maintenance. Ive set up some raspberry pi projects, including cams. Why would I want video to transfer to some company?
But the trade offs were significant. Every few weeks, there was a new problem. Maybe my router. Maybe my internet. Maybe the Pi. Maybe something else. Maybe it’s my VPN when I’m trying to dial into the network. Maybe it’s my phone app no longer seeing the device. Maybe a update broke it. Maybe God hated me that day.
After six months and spending 2-3 hours a month maintaining it, I burned out and just bought an off-the-shelf solution with a mobile app.
Of course, I only use it for security and it doesn’t exist in the house. It grosses me out, but it’s been two years of plug-and-play and just working without setup.
You literally cannot search for Mastodon without getting a weird ass 2-paragraph manifesto about The Fediverse.
End users just want to use shit.
This is unfortunately the world of open-source.
Source: I am nerd and I contribute to open-source.
It’s a shitpost youre not allowed to bring logic into this
Please don’t pee on your partner without consent.
I had a brilliant idea for a app during college. It connected self-identified lonely nerds with other self-identified lonely nerds. Like “Oh you like anime, here is this other guy, and here are five events you can attend together.” I was hoping for that Zuckerberg money if this app was a hit.
I ran it through a test trial with a dozen pairings of them in my college campus to see if it had value.
And yeah, a lot of the feedback was that the other person was kind of annoying/intolerable. Which was funny when both of them said that about each other.