TeoTwawki

all the groups you cited? are they just toothless and making no impact because it happened way too late? or do they just have a very trash deginition of what is intrusive? The major players still intrude all they like the second adblock isn’t there.

by the time ablock plus’s author tried to meet in a middleground advertising was already so far out of control that the users said “f that, no more” and most of us moved to ublock origin. these pricks need regulated into submission but it’ll never happen.

if it became reasonable, I’d turn off my blocking. ain’t gonna happen and we all know it no use pretending these companies are gping to back off thier tactics.

there are sites where I WOULD HAVE whitelisted them from addblocming if they had not chosen to make them functionally unusable or not stop nag me me. take youtube. I never minded those ad breaks…bht thay constant box nagging me to try premium is not acceptable. and then they just had to keep ramping up the adds and are now being a big baby trying to wage war on adbocking. result: no more youtube. ty for convincing me to not even visit anymore -slow clap- good job ahole.

and ever been to a fandom wiki? used to be named “wikia” so that people could confuse their brand with “wiki”. so many adds jammed into that thing browsers tend to choke if you aren’t adblocking.

I mean sure privacy is great to care about, but nobody even pretends to care about usability.

the sahara turning fully green could actually be another kind of disaster - parts of the food chain rely on dust from the sahara blowing over the atlantic to provide essential nutrient/minerals for smaller organisms that slightly less small organism feed on.

https://www.popsci.com/environment/sahara-dust-atlantic/

migrating dust clouds originating in the Sahara Desert are crucial to fostering life in the Atlantic Ocean as far away as the Amazonian basin

It’s not a big deal, and often it’s literally just about whitespace so that we don’t have fifteen different indentation models and bullet syntaxes.

a lot of amazon sellers simply mark working pulls as “refubrished” when all they did was reformat or if you are lucky did a zero fill and check that the sectors weren’t bad.

I don’t trust reburbs that aren’t manufacturer refurbished on any site because its a huge difference in the testing and checking being done.

I do sometimes buy used drives, but I know what I am getting there vs “refurbished” - and there is usually a pricing difference which is why so many are dishonestly calling used drives refurbs.

you want to look at the sellers warranty policies. if if they actually have one besides amazons, the seller is confident in their own items longevity

It’s a cork screw eh?

Not even gmail… They turned that to shit years ago.

Holds up “Dwarf planets matter” protest sign

“Sleeping early” ha, no such thing. Just setting yourself up to stare at the ceiling.

We’re supposed to force ourselves to get up still dead tired instead even if we didn’t get much and “eventually” says the doctor, “you will get tired enough to sleep on time”. LIES. ALL LIES.

Double irony is they’d also send a takedown to github claiming the code contains their IP due to being too ignorant to comprehend that none of the code contains any of thiers to do what it does