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piefed.social

POV: It's 2050 and youve wedged your head between the passenger headrest and the door pillar

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cRazi_manreply
europe.pub

Your POV subscription has also lapsed and you're stuck in 3rd person view. If this subscription is not paid then you will be downgraded to top down (GTA1) view before finally going to the basic plan of text only console.

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Reddit killed 3rd party apps, but people still need somewhere to get memes while pooping.

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MisterFrogreply
lemmy.world

I don't mean this rudely, but in English you would say "uses Lemmy on their phone". I'm presuming this is German grammar or similar seeping through 😅

Only mentioning to avoid other people assuming you're saying only men use Lemmy, not having a go at ya :)

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lemmy.world

Thank you. Not a native english speaker here, things like pronouns are often a headache to me. In spanish phone is a male substantive, that's where the "his" come from.

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Yeah all good friend. I commend your efforts in using a non-native language!

I had the good fortune to grow up with English, so never judge someone for making a mistake (and can relate with my German grammar, which is pretty bad, despite growing up with that too!)

I've seen this particular error often because German boardgames often are translated wrong, where they use "he" for "the player".

Have a nice evening!

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Honestly I dont think the web ui is bad but stuff Like voyager is clearly superior

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lemmy.today

Fuck, I can actually foresee McDonald's advertisements being holographic projected into the bottom corner of your windshield. It's not even much worse than what car companies are already doing with your car.

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lemmy.ml

He's lucky to have the window rolling subscription

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jaschen306reply
sh.itjust.works

He only paid for the rolling down. It's 2 times the cost for rolling up. 3 times the cost of it's raining.

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I've got the Pay-Per-Roll™ formula, it's cheaper because most people don't actually roll that much so a sub with infinite rolling is a waste of money.

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lemmy.world

"Post a selfy with your delicious bag of McD's and the hashtag #imlovinit to receive 20 minutes of ad-free windshield time! Ba da ba ba baaa"

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My car keeps saying "time for a McDonald's break!" and pulling into the drive-through. I've been here for five hours, please send help!

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lemmy.world

I'm still trying to figure out how it's legal to have massive advertisements lining roadways specifically designed to distract drivers.

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lemmy.world

I think it was ford that submitted a patent for a camera that points forward, reads bilboards, then plays a video on your dash. I hate how shitty technology is being used all in the name of money and advertising.

Well never reach any kind of utopian future where things just work and technology is used for good. It's not about helping and feeding the needy, it's all about satisfying the wealthy. It's a disgusting timeline, literal rapists and genocidal maniacs running countries.

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bedwyrreply
piefed.ca

Off subject, but I wonder if these UAP sightings by the air force and navy are optical illusions, perhaps projected onto windshields.

Because they were shown to be defying physics, it's the least fantastical explanation I can think of that fits what is undeniably true, those that deny the facts as they are notwithstanding.

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I'm convinced that most North American cryptids were just memorable encounters with an owl that may have had substances involved on the part of the observer. Optical illusions being the primary source of UFO sightings, not out of the question to me

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Plot twist: In 2050, McDonald's restaurants no longer exist, and nobody eats there anymore. However, the company still generates $66B per year with their "ad free" subscription model.

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"bro the fuck in already inline at McDonald's why am I getting McDonald's ads"

The future of "smart" ads

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Does it make someone a profit?

Must be good according to the free market.

We will never escape the drive to enshitification under capitalism, even if we manage to get some good regulations in the short-term, a subset of reforms will always eventually be undone or loopholed.

Line must go up.

Dear lord give me Socialism in our timePlease join your local, non-Stalinist, socialist organisations and together win Socialism in our time.

inb4 someone pointing out all the shitty regimes that called themselves "Socialist". It's not socialist unless it's democratic, how else do the workers control society if they can't decide collectively how to run society?

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lemmy.world

We're sorry, we detected insincerity when you said "yum, that was refreshing!" For your safety, all vehicle control functions have been disabled. Please try again in 60 seconds

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ERROR: Yellow Mellow preference detected. Proceeding to Mountain Dew Education Institute. Nissan thanks you for you cooperation

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infosec.pub

This is the real reason tech is pushing self-driving cars. If you don't need to see the road, you can look at more advertisements.

And they'll sell it as a cost-saving feature, like smart TVs and Kindle tablets. "We can provide this at a reasonable price because the costs are subsidized with advertising." You can buy a car with a traditional windshield for $80k or with an AdShield (TM) for $40k.

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Bliblyreply
lemmy.world

All this instead of just building more trains jfc

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self-driving cars

Something I've never understood about self-driving cars is why would you want the expense of owning one if you're not driving it? It's like how rich people used to own expensive cars but employed a chauffeur and never drove themselves.

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It's not actually discounted though. They still make a heafty profit. They just mark up the alternative. Tomorrow they will make it more shitty and more expensive. Stock owners gotta extract ever more value. Line go up! End goal is to be a monopoly, protected by the law, get lots of money and provide little in value to anyonee in return.

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sh.itjust.works

What is going on? I've now seen two of this exact joke on Lemmy but one is this picture and the other is a video of a different dude in a different car with a different ad in the windshield.

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I welcome the new age of edgyrunners. Hacking(mostly script kiddy stuff but still) and modding is getting really popular.

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lemmy.ca

And it'll be the same four fucking ads, over and over and over!

My freemium homies know what I'm talking about....

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Hi, my name is ryan reynolds, do you want your own ai fuck toy to cum in 30 seconds...

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

They know this, and that's why they wait to do things like this until they know you have relatively little choice.

Not that you shouldn't care, but it's worth remembering the guiding hand of the market is not an all powerful weapon.

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bedwyrreply
piefed.ca

Indeed, without competition and regulation the free market doesn't work, and never has.

The manufacturers are in Trusts, secretly cooperating on not competing and maximizing profit at the expense of consumers and product and service quality.

That said, we still shouldn't buy their shit when possible, and to disable problematic things when possible, (which is a federal crime, introduced in the 90's at the behest of CD companies/record companies, whereby any type of digital lock cannot be broken without suffering 4 years in federal prison.

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I'd also say we need more old school hackers and restorers, that is to say folks who can work on hardware. It may be illegal to crack some code but physically gutting something to spoof, hotwire, or bypass their shit software through entirely physical means works as a better long term method. Restoration and maintenance of old tech is a lot easier, half the time something is broken it's either just a wire or the power being bad.

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a federal crime

I think most of us here know this, but the dmca broke the free market. Anyone who isn't or has folks that aren't (read time, 3 hours, including rabbit holes):

https://www.eff.org/pages/unintended-consequences-fifteen-years-under-dmca

This impacts the ability to fix or modify your own stuff, see Fulu, extend or enhance tools you already own, and repurpose items for things they can do but are not in the best interest of the company that sold them. Making it illegal to use a computer is akin to making it illegal to use a screwdriver.

This is why every car has a screen now. They were able to lock out any unauthorized customization, repair, replacement, etc because there was a "digital lock" somewhere in the process and use that to force first-party parts, service and software and get a reliable post-market revenue stream. Don't want your car advertising to you on startup? Too bad - disabling that is a crime.

Especially as we head into an election moment in the US - reach out to candidates and ensure they are aware and know we are aware.

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They should at the very least connect this to your start and make it so you can't start your car till you pay.

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They already do with remote starts with some vehicles. I forget which.

Also some cars I think use your phone as the key, so if you lose your phone, it breaks, is hacked, turned off, stolen, etcetera, you can't use your vehicle.

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