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Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising
  • I agree with the sentiment of your post, but I think the examples are a bit too far fetched:

    I'd wager most people use a computer/phone on a daily basis, which is why having a basic understanding of it seems like knowledge we should all have.

    Inversely, most people don't need even have a turbo in their car and many don't even have a car, so any knowledge relating to that is probably useless for them.

    That being said, even if someone is less knowledgeable in a field, respect should always be the baseline, as you illustrate, they're probably skilled in something else!

    I'm saying that as an IT person that's aware that I'm making money mostly because people don't bother to learn all this, so in the end I don't mind that much.

  • Nuclear Power
  • Those are very good points.

    This specific source doesn't highlight it and I don't have the opportunity to find something else at the moment, but when I first heard about it ( in a ted talk that I can't remember the name of... ) they had highlighted that health complications followed similar curves. The worsts of course being burning stuff due to dumping it in the air, but that most renewables had their lot of injuries too, that their just less publicized.


    Here's my full take of nuclear/renewables

    My understanding is that most power grid depending on renewables need an alternate energy source for when power demands ramp up: they need some energy sources that they can tune depending of needs, at the drop of a hat.

    Hydro does that, you can let more or less water through. (I happen to live aomewhere where most of our energy is Hydro) Things like wind or solar are more complicated.

    As an energy appoint source, I think nuclear is a good fit for some use cases.

  • Nuclear Power
  • The thing is, nuclear problems are big and scary events, but they're rare.

    Think like plane crash vs other transportation accidents: they make bigger news, but they're actually safer than most other solutions.

    Here's the data: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh

    It does seem that your solar example is the one thing that's safer than nuclear sccording to this chart though, so maybe you knew!

  • Which TV series intros do you not skip by choice?
  • It's an anime, and nearly cheating but for me it was Mushoku Tensei Season 1

    There was an intro song, but while it was playing there would be B Rolls of whatever part of the setting was pertinent for the episode.

    It was awesome, but then they did a normal intro for Season 2, which struck me as a bad decision.

  • Haier, the air conditioner maker, takes down open source third-party Home Assistant integration
  • One thing I find annoying is that there's no way for me to let the company know that this behavior lost me as their customer forever unless they change their tune.

    I'm fairly sure I'm the kind of person they'd market those products towards and it hurs them, but there's no wat that I'm aware of to let them know.

    If there was a way, and a significant amount of people would do so, maybe the decision makers would understand it's stupid...

  • New Linux user here. Is this really how I'm supposed to install apps on Linux?
  • As others have mentionned downloading the .deb and running it will also work, but I feel nobody gave your a tldr of why you may want to follow those instructions instead, so here it is:

    Those instructions configure your package manager (apt) with a new repository for this application.

    The upside to that is that anytime you will look for updates, this app will also get updated.


    It's a bit more work up front, but it can pay off when you have dozens of app updating as part of normal system operations.

    Imagine a world where windows updates would also update all your software, that's what this is.

  • This transgender man moved to Canada to escape transphobia. He found it here, too
  • I know what you're saying, but sometimes it is just the vocabulary.

    I remember a conversation with an older woman remembering fondly going dancing with her gay friends.

    The words she were using would be considered slurs today (even if a bit dated) but they were not meant maliciously.

    It's easy to assume bad intentions, but it does happen that it's just someone that's not informed of the current "correct" vocabulary, and that's okay as long as it's addressed.

  • Stop using YouTube.
  • I believe that the existence of ad blockers do change the situation quite a lot.

    I also pay for youtube premium. Before doing so I was using an adblocker and didn't see a single ad before subscribing.

    The reason I did so was that multiple creators I was following mentioning that a view from a premium subscriber was worth more to them financially than from a regular one.

    It's the easiest way for me to support multiple creators at once.

    The moment my experience decreases, Youtube looses my support and I go Patreon instead. As ublock exists I don't have to live through ads at all.

  • Buying a new car is not better than keeping an old one
  • Small anecdote: I bought a new Cheverolet Bolt about two years ago.

    A couple of months after I bought it there was a recall on the batteries, they had to replace all of them in the car.

    They were out of stock for quite a while (I assume because of supply chain issues)

    They finally replaced them a couple of months ago.

    I choose to see that as a 2 years extension on my bettery life,lucky me!

  • Linus Tech Tips apology video - BEST PARTS
  • While I agree that it wasn't the time nor the place, that video had nothing to do with the sexual harrassment/assault allegations.

    This was in response to GN video and subsequent Linus response on their forum.

    The other stuff came after.

    Still weird, but not on the same scale in my opinion.

    Edit: I just saw timestamps lower in another comment chain showing that the apology video actually came after the twitter post.

    While it was most likely filmed and edited before said post, launching as is is pretty bad indeed.

  • What is an iconic catchphrase from your grandparents?
  • I was raised by my grandparents.

    My grandfather was the cook most of the time, and he was always trying new recipies he found online: in years, I don't think I ever saw him cook the same meal twice.

    Everytime he'd taste something new, he'd enthusiastically comment "it's different than usual!" (Rough translation from French "ça fait changment!")

    To this day, I have no idea how good or how bad he thought any of those dishes were.

  • 'Barbie' makes history with $1 billion at the box office
  • That's too broad a claim for me to agree.

    In this specific event, adjusting for inflation on older movies might show that there was precedent where a movie directed by a single woman was more successful than this one.

    If that happen, that achievement should also be celebrated. If that didn't happen, this movie should be even more celebrated.

    Asking for more data isn't the same thing as attacking a claim.

    Maybe I'm just naive, but I like to assume good intentions.

    If someone actually say something sexist, calling them out is important. But I don't think assuming sexism first is a good thing either.

  • When Baldur's Gate 3 came out, Steam's overall bandwidth consumption went from around 18 Tbps to 146 Tbps
  • I'm not the person you answered to, but as english ain't my first language I figured I'd ask:

    I get that this person was trying to say "piqued" as in "got my interest"

    But wouldn't "peaked" as in "my interest couldn't possibly get higher as it has peaked from that new information" also be valid?

    (I get it's a saying, but as I'm not familiar with that saying in english it didn't bother me, which is why I'm curious)

  • Actually not funny
  • I worked in groceries story when I was younger.

    But funily enough, it's probably one of the rare times I'd have answered "yes"!

    We got a policy here where anything mislabelled under 10$ is free for the first item. Anything over 10$ gets a 10$ rebate.

    My understanding is that it was put in place a while ago when stores stopped labelling individual items to keep them in check and ensure that consumers had a recourse in case of mistake.

    Source: https://www.opc.gouv.qc.ca/en/consumer/topic/price-discount/store/tip-sheet/

    NULL being "no money" by any definition, and the regular price for this probably being under 10$... well, it's probably free!

  • Lemmy World is down once again.
  • DDoS are sometimes just people thinking "because I can", not necessarily motivated by profit.

    A smallish scale service like a lemmy server ran by volunteers seems like an easy target, so it wouldn't be surprising that being the case.

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