Company before my last provided phones as they were super paranoid about 3rd part software. Righty so as its a huge telecom company. Wasn't a great phone, it pissed me off more that I had to carry 2 phones when on call/at work.

Next company is 2x times bigger and known to the worst in my field. I needed a quick job and the shit started from day 1. I didn't last 6 months. But I did keep them off my phone, even thought it was tech obsolescence that kept them off :)

And the killer bit was the company owns a cellphone company! No freebee's in fact the 1st couple of months there my boss or higher up bosses would send me emails to switch over to them. Dickhead that owns the company wanted 100% of the employees to be subscribers.

Fuck that lol

I'll check it out, I do say I like the lemmy old view vs the FB/New reddit feed. I just have to get out there and load up on all my favorite subject for the subscribed feed.

I never like endless reddit so thats not an issue.

But will check out piefed and see how its navigation is. Thank you!

Oh its worse you want to be able to enter Canada w/ a prior DUI you can if you pay around $10k usd for a government pardon.

And with the 10k spent doesn't guarantee they will approve and will keep the money... So kiddo's don't get a DUI if you want to go to Canada.

As for a simple DUI in the US its a minor crime. If you hit aggravated DUI you catch a felony and you're fucked.

Aggravated is a high BAC, minor in the car, DUI crash with or without injuries, excessive speed while under the influence.

There are more, the Police have plenty of ways to burn you hard if you are do something this stupid.

I know so much as my buddy would bitch up a storm about us going up to go fishing and he can't go.

When Aaron passed away and Ellen came on reddit went to hell in a hand basket.

And Spez went full retread...

Never happen at the rate they are banning people for nothing... Myself included.

Oh wait, bots, thats how they will do it.

I will say the one great thing to come out of this is coming back to Lemmy. Its different but I'll get used to it. I was on here previously just didnt take at the time.

There is a whole list of crimes that bar you from entering Canada. I had a buddy try to go snowmobiling and was denied because he had a dui 25+ earlier.

Thats a misdemeanor in the US.

https://www.ezbordercrossing.com/the-inspection-experience/prior-criminal-offenses/u-s-crimes-and-canadian-equivalent/

Apply that to the world and you can see why they barred so many people.

As a GenX'er I agree 100%

Now the band is pretty good to imo.

My old job tried this w/ my personal cell phone (for logging in). I told them where to go with that. Then they threatened a layoff, so I had to relent while I looked for another job. Turns out my phone was too old to support the software.

They can't force me to upgrade and they were too cheap to buy me a new phone. They found a work around real quick as I couldn't do my job and they had to double me up w/ a coworker (OT). less then 24hrs later I was back on the network. And quit a few months later.

IT people were beside themselves, they were "you don't upgrade your phone ever new release" I was like F that noise I climb antenna's for a living, at no point to I need the latest and greatest to be an antenna monkey.

Its #2, I caught a sub reddit ban, a friend logged into my wifi and accessed the banned sub, one single post. His account and all my accounts were permabanned for "ban evasion".

I have an appeal in but I doubt it will go anywhere.

Just happened to me, but mine was no fault of my own. Buddy was using my wifi and commented in a sub I'm banned in.

His account got banned and 4 of my other accounts got the B& hammer. I appealed but I doubt the will reverse.

With a VPN, I have no idea how they can see round the VPN as I log out, change my location, then log into another account.

(I have multiple accounts as I like to keep politics/hobbies/local subs/and NSFW all separate. Been doxxed more than once.)

Now they have some time type of ban detection. I use a VPN and bounce between logging into my different accounts.

Not for ban evasion but for doxxing, I don't post personal info on my politics account, my hobby accounts are pretty open, etc.

I pissed off somebody and the sub reddit banned me. I go thru and filter that sub out of my accounts. Didnt think about other people using my wifi.

Buddy comes over and posts a single post in that sub. His account and ALL of my accounts are now permabanned.

The reason I know is they AI mod replied then deleted a post about ban evasion to him, so he knew the comment he made on what sub and we pieced it together.

The rest of the msgs I got from reddit made no sense as I didn't post in the sub and until he mentioned the reply it all came together.

I would like to know how they are tracking me as use a VPN. Kinda makes it useless if it doesn't work as advertised.

This how people are gonna find out how bad of an idea to allow the manufacturer to have that much control over your car after purchase. Tesla will shut their cars off if they find them jail breaked.

Just like the guy that wasn't allowed to fix the cooling hose on the battery Tesla's only option was to replace it. A third party fixed it but he still had concerns that they would shut it off (citing safety) because he wouldn't buy a whole new battery after he fixed it. Also barring him from quick charge stations was another concern.

Aaron was reddit, and since his passing its shit now.

RIP Mr Swartz, you are sorely missed.

Into the Wild was a cautionary tail that for some reason people romanticize...

Sand? They are speculating a year worth of rain in a very short time. Flash flooding is going to be insane. I suggest you do what we do during hurricanes on the right coast.

Evacuate.

Nothing is worth your life or the life of your family and friends.

They nuked almost all my accounts the other day. I talked a bunch of shit on the direction they are going and missing Aaron's leadership. I walked away and here I am. One account I never log in on and with only 3 posts, perma banned. It was obviously targeted...

I had this exact thing happen to me, they wanted me to move from a tax free state to LA. I said no and they came back we promised your position to another employee. I said ok I need at least a 50% raise to counter the cost of living and taxes. They balked and thought they could push me into it. I stood my ground to stay in my current position and they had to fire me, which looks bad on them as I had no infractions.

I collected, didn't have to pay back my relocation (over 20k) and had a job that I pushed off until near end of unemployment. Thanks for the free long vacation! I went to China and HK (this is before the chaos) for a few months

Lets not get into how the Irish and the Black community was very close until the protestants had issues and we ended up w/ the klan.

/Fuck the klan.

Sub-standard "spicy pillows" need to be banned. The amount of energy and that fact that water or any normal ABC extinguisher cant put the fire out is enough for me to get really strict on regulating them. Especially in apartment/condos