SaltySalamander

What are these sites doing that gamifies watching content?

adding points and badges and achievements and all kinds of things designed to reward engagement with dopamine

Bluesky is also social media

So is Lemmy…

I’ll never unsee that

Because they are having less sex.

You do realize that they don’t actually know who runs the website, right? This is a lawsuit against a bunch of John Does. Nothing has changed, AA still exists, and likely will exist long after those lawyers doing the suing retire.

There really was a time where Seagate drives were trash. It hasn’t been that way for quite a while now, but that reputation remains.

Phoronix or someone cloud data host release numbers annually

Backblaze does this

goddamn i really hope they used copilot to do this 🤣

Please tell me you aren’t serious.

but mostly useless and definitely not profitable

The main reason for this unprofitability is, quite frankly, energy costs. Wouldn’t be much of an issue in space where your energy is free.

they are in fact explicitly eager to serve the US Department of War

I suppose you are a party to their closed-door meetings then.

If I were talking to someone, and said those three sentences, and they chose to ignore the contextual sentence, I would think their social skills were basically nonexistent.

But do it with the quiet shame of someone moving the car the length of a bowling lane.

A bowling lane is a bit over 18 meters. =)

Go yell “fire” in a crowded theater, or “i have a bomb” on an airplane and see just how quickly the government regulates your speech.

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

You should visit /r/twoxchromosomes sometime…

GOOD.

An operating system cannot brick a piece of hardware. This seems like a PEBKAC issue honestly.

As of this comment, this post had 3 top level comments. All three are handwaiving this away. And ALL THREE didn’t read past the headline.

My S7 battery pillowed on me. Didn’t burst into flames thankfully, lol.