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They also appear on the main screen, as you’re browsing and on shorts

Fully agree, but also after an event the extent that CEO did, that’s going to be held over their head for years to come. The easiest way to get it out of the air is stopping the constant engagement that’s encouraging it. Mastodon was a pretty large source of that.

going off memory, I believe it depends on region, but yes federally I don’t think it cares as long as the price is correctly shown and the “was price” is not higher than it had ever been listed as

I think I would be the same way tbh. Like I don’t care that they do it, but I defo wouldn’t expect it in the same place as art content. Although it’s allowed, I think I would do the same as what you did.

the inability to be able to rent it at a profit usually. If they don’t think they can get money out of it, they won’t want to. If the economy hits a point where the housing market collapses, chances are they aren’t going to want to risk the buy in knowing that they likely won’t be able to sell for equal amount.

Or the much faster method: the “scary” government regulating it

hard agree. I never have learned anything from a video in terms of software development… now working on my car on the other hand… many times over

now with #ADS, please tap the x to continue changing your GPS.

I think I agree. I would be fine with an infotainment system that:

1. doesn’t cripple the car when broken
2. isn’t integrated with non-screen controls like climate
3. still has functional buttons on the steering wheel

My malibu meets 2 and 3, but the fact that if the infotainment system breaks it cripples the entire car, puts me on edge. This would be mitigated if actual functionality was outside of it, and that the touch screen was just a control layer.

thank god. I hope this trend migrates to other countries. The amount of effort/distraction for touch screens combined with the additional cost of having to replace full on infotainment systems is annoying.

I just wanted to let you know, I was wrong/just blind,

I reopened on my desktop to have it another read on an easier to use screen, and they have them listed under the list header, but it uses the term “affiliate” instead of referral, and claims they make no money on the links.

I don’t fully understand why referral links are necessary if they make no money off of it though, so I’m still on edge about the integrity of it.

Just a fair warning to other people navigating the page, the links the article provides all contained referral links. Not that it matters too much, but it put a sour taste in my mouth that a privacy oriented post would contain these without prominently disclosing them

edit: looking again they do somewhat disclose they are there, but are insistent that they don’t have anything to do with affiliation, so not as bad but, I still don’t like that they are there.

That right there is going to kill any chance of me getting any of my friends to use it. Which is unfortunate and a side effect of not having a centralized server.

But when you’re trying to get someone to start using your app, trying to convince them to at least open the app once a day to make it so it’s able to be open in the background is a pretty hard ask of a lot of people

I personally wouldn’t trust them with an email service myself. They have been known to accept sponsorships through Google and as of late seems to be heading more and more in the direction of more tracking services in favor of a monetary profit. I don’t trust their email service would be any different

It’s perfectly legal to own any type of lock picking tool in all of the states in the US, as long as you are not using it for malicious purpose. But there are four states that have increased scrutiny on if you are caught out in public with them: Ohio Nevada Virginia and Mississippi, but it’s completely legal to have lock picking as a hobby(although some states require registration to do it professionally)

I was on board with your post until the last line.

However in the majority of the US it’s perfectly legal to own lock picking tools as long as you’re not using it for malicious intent, there’s only four states in the US that has restrictions on them similar to what you describe, those states are Mississippi where if it’s concealed / you don’t tell them that you have the pick and they find it on their own, you have to provide counter evidence in court of why it wasn’t you; and Nevada, Ohio and Virginia which states you must provide evidence directly countering the claim.

All states have it legal to own and use the tools, it just those four states have increased regulations on the tools that make it harder to defend in court if you’re caught out in public near a crime with them

I’m amazed people want “experienced” workers. Like trying to untrained an “incorrectly” trained worker is a pain in the ass. Like fresh out of college at least you have a base standard, once they have experience in the field you never know what you are going to get.

Fully Agree.

Mastodon, Lemmy and the likes are all enthusiast platforms in my eyes. Their primary userbase of the more savvy folk who are early adopters. I also believe it’s why many don’t fully get how complicated the fediverse really is to comprehend. To many the hurtles are just costs of being in the field/having a tech passion, hopefully it will be adopted but like, I still think the UI and general behavior and mechanics of it will be a fairly big roadblock.

IOS has had native RCS since they launched IOS 18 back in like August/September-ish, I haven’t had much issue with support from IOS to Android RCS side, but I’m not sure what my family in Florida use for their iphones, I expect older models might struggle. I have however had issues with communicating with my mom, but I believe it’s because she doesn’t understand that when she has RCS enabled, and she turns off data, it wants to try using RCS, then fails, and then falls-back to SMS, which for some reason Samsung Messages struggles with.

Personally speaking though, my S20 hasen’t had any issues with RCS period, its always been other devices not actually sending proceeding to error and then the person not noticing it so therefore not retrying

Whatsapp isn’t really a thing in my area but man is Facebook messenger is, but yeah nice that you were able, I didn’t have much luck with my relatives to switch over to signal or Discord back when it took off, they just sort of stayed on Facebook.

My online friend group had a higher adoption rate for discord from skype at first but, that might just be because I refused to give them my phone number so they couldn’t access me elsewhere.

Really the only group that I had really have an interest in other alternatives, was my cybersecurity class in college, but even they tended to straight towards Discord more than signal (which is insane to me)

Yeah I believe that, the people I have on my signal are generally ones that are worried that the cops are going to track them or something. I fully agree that privacy is important, unfortunately my family and the general public care is significantly less