I was, too, they just sent us to work from home. I had some contact with coworkers, but not very much, and it was on a recorded phone line where professionalism was expected, and an average handle time was enforced, so not like you could have any real conversations
Nah, I grew up in Louisiana, everyone was just tan because it was normal to spend a lot of time outside xD I don't tan well, and I've never spent much time outside
This. If you want to be sure that the flacs are worth it, go do one of those 128kbps mp3 vs 320 mp3 vs flac tests and see if you can hear the difference. I can't, so I just do 128 mp3s and save the storage. Almost 2k songs in 10gb of space :D
Yeah, a friend of mine was recently buying markers, and a lot of companies also just... Don't have their own stores. They either redirect to Amazon, or if they to they still fulfill it through Amazon. Etsy is also full of resellers.
Kind of reminds me of a vegan couple I knew in college. They did a speech in class (for public speaking), and one of the points was "Even just cutting meat out one day a week, like with meatless mondays, helps a lot more than you'd expect"
YouTube, in my experience, has been the hardest one to fully cut. Sometimes you need a video tutorial for something, and there just... Isn't one anywhere but YT. Also a lot of the content types just... Aren't available elsewhere, and it was hard for a while not having some of my favorite YTers to watch. Nebula, and Dropout definitely helped with that part, though, they had enough that it made it easier.
It did make me realize how dependent I was on YT for emotional regulation, though. I have real bad anxiety, and I realized pretty quickly I was watching things to numb it. Podcasts, music, and to a lesser extent books/fanfic have helped with that though. Generally now I'm looking for people who want to make something good, not make money, and that's lead me down a lot of really interesting rabbit holes in general with art
(I know a lot of artists are trying to make money, and pay your artists, but there's a difference between "Making something that will sell" and "Making something you're proud of hoping people will like it" y'know?)
I remain unconvinced that it's since the 2000s, mostly because this shit started in '81 at the latest. If you blame any modern societal problem on Reagan, you will almost always be right, at least in USAmerican
They think they exist, but they do not. "Apolitical" usually just means "Fine with the status quo" which isn't apolitical, it's at bst non-confrontational. It also tends to reek of ignorance of what's actually happening around them. That's all at best, there are tons of people who use "Apolitical" to push far right agendas in spaces not centered around politics.
There's a reason the joke of "Only two races/genders/etc exist to gamers; white/male/etc, and political." You can replace gamers with any group that's (at least perceived to be) predominantly white men, and it still comes out.
Everyone always forgets about WebKit, and QtWebEngine. QtWebEngine is a Blink (Chromium) fork, but it's so far from the codebase that it's functionally different. It still does get detected as Chrome tho
It can definitely be both at once. Could be paying an inflated amount, or they could just be doing it to keep FF alive. It's not like helping their direct competitor provides a direct advantage, and FF would be in a lot worse of a situation without the Google money.
Yeah. My partner, who notably hates apps (I suggested hermit to turn websites into apps, and they rejected the idea until I reworded it as "Bookmarks"), mostly uses apps. Several people have commented that it's weird that I use the mobile browser for most social media (Lemmy being the exception).
It... Really, really is. I remember using Fandom on mobile being so bad I set up an auto redirect to breezewiki, and that was with adblockers. Now that I have DNS-wide adblocking on, when I accidentally click a Fandom link it's pleasantly surprising how well that's working.
There definitely are. I've met a lot of people who really love their cars, and if I ever talked to them about how I (didn't) take care of my car they would look at me the same way I look at people who tell me they've never even seen the settings menu of their web browser.
I was, too, they just sent us to work from home. I had some contact with coworkers, but not very much, and it was on a recorded phone line where professionalism was expected, and an average handle time was enforced, so not like you could have any real conversations