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atrielienz

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  • You'd be able to taste it which I think would fulfill the requirements of knowing its texture.

  • Microsoft allows Windows 11 to be installed on older, unsupported hardware but specifically nixes official support — minimum requirements for full compatibility remain unchanged

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  • Or spy on them more.

  • Itch.io games site taken down

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  • It was not for the purposes of bombing. It was for the purposes of recognition of their military aircraft and weapons systems.

  • Itch.io games site taken down

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  • I learned all the states at a 4th grader. Perhaps earlier even. I generally believe this is not a case of people not being taught, but a case of people not paying attention or otherwise info-dumping information they don't think they need.

    There was a point when i was in the military where I could literally write in the names of every country in the world on a blank map. It's been years since I had to do that and I wouldn't be able to do it now.

  • “A Perfect Storm of Cognitive Degradation”

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  • I'm going to say something that I just want people to think about.

    Part of the allure of TV and video games is the idea that they are something you can do after working 8-12 hours a day that doesn't ask anything of you. You can just sit and go through the motions. There is nothing being required. No deadlines. No bills. No stress. Not even attention if you don't want to.

    It's something of a detox from a world that is always trying to extract productivity from you.

    Because that is the case and because we have let the world creep in on any and all personal time we have to the point that we are afraid to not always be connected. While always being connected has a lot of positives (family always being just a phone call away, friends having an avenue to interact etc), there are obvious detriments as well.

    At the same time we have moved to a significantly digital age where there's not anything to do outside that doesn't cost money in some way. Transportation, venue, food, drinks, parking etc.

    I think what's happening is that due to these and other factors, adults and kids don't have the headspace to do more than veg out sometimes and the times when I see people doing that are while they're waiting around or on break or when they get home from work or school.

    The short form video is the kind of thing that allows you to veg out to some extent. It also offers the chance to feel like you're being interacted with (humans showing you something they think is neat or interesting or funny or stupid).

    We make the mistake of assuming that everything we do has to be if some substance. I don't think that's necessary. I think it's healthy to give your brain a time and place free from the demands of everyday life. We discourage daydreaming or wandering off in our thoughts. We discourage a lot of healthy brain downtime actions.

    The corporate aspect of it is obviously not good. But when you realize we are more productive than we have ever been as a species, spending more hours working, and going to school than we do in leisure, I don't think it's necessarily terrible that we take a break from that when and where we can.

  • Chinese companies are reportedly reluctant to adopt homegrown chips — domestic solutions are technologically too far behind

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  • That's very important context that I wasn't aware of. Makes the other comment about it being used as an avenue to search/seize that hardware much more believable.

  • Chinese companies are reportedly reluctant to adopt homegrown chips — domestic solutions are technologically too far behind

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  • Microsoft closes the door on Windows 11 supporting older hardware

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  • My mom only upgraded from her original surface pro running windows 8 when my siblings and I bought her a surface pro 7. She watches Netflix and checks her email and plays like plants vs zombies and solitaire. Some people really do live by the rule of "if it ain't broke don't fix it".

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  • With sales from companies? Yes. With sales from average consumers? Maybe not. Depends on what they can afford. There's people out there still using things like windows 7. If the computer still works they're unlikely to upgrade unless they care about having the newest stuff.

  • my mom caught me tubthumping 😱😬😳

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  • On the contrary. Return to Chumbawumba.

  • Bluesky is cracking down on parody accounts and impersonators

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  • So they just want parody accounts to be clearly labeled? With the number of people constantly eating the onion, I'm gonna say that's not the most terrible thing. People are dumb. They believe dumb shit.

    Edit: Given that public officials use Bluesky and the whole check mark fiasco over on shitter, I'm just gonna say maybe they should have learned their lesson before now and enacted policies like this a long time ago but I guess better late than never. Can't have a CDC parody account saying to drink bleach.

  • Australia bans social media for under 16s

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  • The point is to prevent the detrimental effects to the mental health of teens and preteens. That doesn't work unless you plug the holes. That's the problem. Fallacy in argument or no fallacy.

    The point we're trying to make isn't that we don't want the restriction. We just understand that it's not going to work specifically because it requires the same thing the under 13 privacy laws already include. Companies to comply (which they will, probably with detriments to legal users), and that parents be involved in what their children are doing online and restrict that accordingly to comply with the law (which we already know they aren't).

    I as a full grown adult am not willing to provide my details (picture of a government issued ID or similar) to most online entities. I certainly won't ever be giving it to social media or a porn site of any kind. But that's what's going to end up being required to enact this law and make it enforceable. Is the law going to fine parents whose children aren't in compliance? Is it going to fine businesses for not enacting enough restrictions? Is it going to outlaw VPN's for use on social media?

    Where is the burden of proof and who's privacy gets invaded in order to enforce the law?

    I was not (in my original comment or any subsequent ones in the thread) intending people to take this as "we shouldn't do this because XYZ". And I am aware that you weren't responding to me. I was saying that it's going to be problematic to enforce and isn't likely to have the results intended.

    It's not about the handful of people per hundred who commit a murder. Because murder being illegal isn't a deterrent and we have scientific studies to back that up. It's about how 75-85% of teens will find a way to circumvent the law because they don't understand the dangers and parents aren't doing their part. So the rest of us will have to jump through hoops to use any social media.

    If 75% or more of people the law effects aren't following the law, the law doesn't do what is intended and is going to have to be reworked.

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  • The thing about kids getting a VPN, free or paid is that it will spread like wild fire. It only takes one kid who knows how to do something. They tried this at my highschool, blocking websites and such. That was more than 20 years ago and we knew how to use VPN's or similar then and once we figured it out it was an open secret.

    I'm not saying the law shouldn't exist or that we should do nothing. I'm saying that this isn't going to be effective as it is and could end up leading to worse things.

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  • Probably going to get downvoted for this, but this just makes kids look for VPN's and other ways to skirt this restriction. It may make VPN's less useful for the rest of us as a result when certain services are forced to comply with the law, breaking those services for those of us using VPN's. It sounds like a great idea but I don't know that the implementation will make a noticeable or effective difference.

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  • Couldn't have happened to a nicer company.

  • What happened to kbin.social?

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  • No offense but it was the US Government. Most of their websites were coded for it, and quite a few of them didn't work properly or reliably in other browsers as a result. This was true up until it was sunsetted and they were forced to update to Edge and some of the websites still haven't been properly moved over to Chromium. When the pandemic hit and the Armed Forces had to setup remote work for thousands of people Microsoft basically built them a fork of Teams. The US Government is kind of running hand in hand with Microsoft on a lot of stuff if you just hazard a cursory look.

  • The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet

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  • I'm positive at least some of the servers that house Lemmy and its FOSS sister networks are housed in VC companies. The amount of people who can support that data and the servers it resides on is small without Corps being in the mix.

    We're not exactly winning over here on Lemmy or Mastodon. I've been a member of the Mastodon community for close to 6 years or so. It isn't a reasonable replacement for Twitter because (for what I used it for, which had nothing to do with Micro logging), it doesn't do what I need it to because the number of people I want to follow there are few and far between. Bands, book authors, local news networks, international news networks. I'm not likely to find out about school closings on Mastodon.

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