...did you watch the video? You can see their contributions have been $0 year after year with their tax filings, and Jirard admitted they haven't donated anything.

Blocking the bots has really gone a long way to make my Lemmy experience more enjoyable.

these platforms have the know how to deal with spam and they will be incentivised to share that tech with other federated instances.

Based on what? These private companies aren't going to share anything because they owe it to their shareholders not to.

I dont think any of your points are wrong, it's just the association with Facebook people are anti. The fediverse has a great reputation for being completely removed from profit motive driven mega corporations. Facebook joining is gonna make people question the fediverse is my understanding.

I don't think Reddit could have handled this worse than they are. Those who are against Reddit may be a vocal minority, but in terms of moderation and content creation Im hoping we are the majority and Reddit slowly dwindles as spam and bots take over and content dries up.

Amazon. Fuck Amazon.

I mean, it's weird to encourage people not to increase their physical activity if they're trying to manage their weight.

While it's true you can't out-train a bad diet, exercising, even for just 30 minutes every other day will go a long. Running a 5k will take about half an hour depending on your fitness level and will burn a good 350 calories or so, more if you're overweight. Do that 3 times a week and that's the equivalent of a about 2 meals you've burnt off (or one really unhealthy meal). Plus getting outside and exercising is good for your mental health.

Companies want your money and nothing else. Any wokeness you are perceiving is a strategy to make the most money out of their customer base.

Companies pandering to "wokeness" have done the math and figure more of their customers support it than not. This isn't really wokeness, it's pandering.

....to plug headphones in. How is this a genuine question?

People still use their phones to listen to music and wireless earphones are almost universally garbage, require charging, and produce insane amounts of e-waste. Wired headphones don't have these issues

The YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips is a very large part of the tech space, reviewing, and making videos about technology. This is actually bigger than that as it speaks to Linus media group, of which Linus tech tips is one of many tech related channels.

you are aware that other people live different lives to you, and do things differently right? I listen to music to fall asleep, and I plug my phone into my car via the 3.5mm jack to listen to music. You ask how often it would be a problem? It would be a problem every single day

Gonna upvote this without clicking on it assuming it's the technology connections video

Nobody is going to buy a cyber truck because they will never be mass produced

Weird headphones don't use ucb-c, there is already a standard for headphones and it's the 3.5mm audio jack.

It's gotta be ketamine

Good riddance

I feel like my Garmin could probably survive being run over by a car

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but if a product can only exist if it's consumer-unfriendly, perhaps it shouldn't exist at all.

Sure wireless earphones can be convenient, but the extra e-waste, the non replaceable batteries, the Bluetooth transceivers, the DACs used (while the device you're streaming from almost certainly already has these things) is super wasteful.

I think if we have any chance as a society, we need to start thinking about the products we use and how they are produced and how much waste they create, instead of just how convenient they are at the time.

What an incredibly bad and ignorant take. If you can make more money flipping burgers, trades will have no choice but to raise their wages to compete. Or, quit your job and go flip burgers if that's a better deal.

Fast food places are so fundamental as a stepping stone to building a career and to say only children who are exploited should be working there only says you are ok exploiting children.

If someone is working to serve you your food, they deserve a living wage.

I was looking for a bbq thermometer yesterday and all I could find was smart wifi/Bluetooth thermometers. Why the fuck does a thermometer need wifi/Bluetooth?!?

I mean if you're still using chrome at this point, you're just asking for trouble