Bezos is so out of touch it is stupid.

Is he out of touch or has he just recognized that 50% of the economic activity is already from the top 10% of the population?

I get the feeling the wealthy have just written off the bottom 90% of society and don’t actually give a flying fuck if anything works for us or not. He knows his core sales will go to people who do have fiber at their doorstep.

Maybe we’re the ones out of touch thinking they plan on having a place for us in this world at all.

I keep getting a 502 bad gateway. Even Lemmy is more stable than this.

They launched it before for influencers to join, and I’m not sure how many did.

The return of MrBabyMan

In 2019, Gates characterized his relationship with Epstein as a ‘huge mistake’.

Probably because it was the final straw for his wife Melinda, and Gates wasn’t happy how much she would take in the divorce. Considering he was a serial philanderer and often used his position at Microsoft as a way to meet women (including Melinda!), it’s not like he respected that marriage or his wife very much, so it can’t be that he’s sad about losing her or something, so my bet is on sad he was going to lose a lot of wealth over his Epstein connections.

Massgrave doesn’t work for Office I’m pretty sure.

Gave up on Windows fully on my desktop/laptop over a year ago after running numerous Linux servers for years (starting with a Raspberry Pi in 2016). I used to dual-boot for several years, and now I have a Windows VM I keep around in case I need it for something… but in practice I don’t actually need it for anything and haven’t spun up the Windows VM six months or more.

Unraid probably is in the pay resort area as well.

I thought drones were just going to be a fad, but they’ve become huge, especially in terms of government and corporate surveillance. I should have realized the way it was going when America started using them militarily. American military inventions almost always end up becoming popular consumer products/applications.

Man I think all of us mistakenly thought this. The early internet had such promise.

https://mander.xyz/communities?listingType=All&sort=TopMonth&page=1

I count 25 serious communities just on the first page of your instance showing all communities from all instances (37 on the second page). This is the primary way to find new communities, and it’s relatively simple to use, imho.

Look, people have explained it to you several times in here and at this point you’re being purposefully obtuse. Go subscribe to non-meme communities, only look at your subscriptions, and maybe stop bothering people demanding they cater to how you want to communicate. Your life and experiences aren’t a universal experience, let other people be.

The only memes I see are from meme communities, and I see a bunch of communities dedicated to thoughtful discussion, because I’m subscribed to them. I never look at the frontpage, I only look at my subscribed communities, and I’m only subbed to a minimal amount of meme communities. If I unsubbed from them, I wouldn’t see memes at all.

Also, the world is fucking dark and shitty. Sometimes people would rather make jokes about it than talk deeply about it because they’re trying to not go crazy and end up suicidal from facing too much darkness. Humor is often used as a release valve for painful subjects. Why not let the people who don’t have it in them to get into lengthy discussions just handle it in whatever way works for them.

Just… don’t connect them to the internet? Or if you must connect them for dumb shit like system updates, put them behind some access control where the only access they have is the server they get updates from.

This aspect of it being decentralized is so important to remember.

People sometimes give me quizzical responses when I point them to the repository for the Bypass Paywalls Clean plugin because it’s hosted on a Russian git site (gitflic.ru). The plugin was chased off the Firefox add-ons site/Chrome add-ons site, it was chased off of Gitlab, it was chased off of Github, all over DMCA takedown requests. People act like “well it must be shady because it’s not on a well known git site” and yet is hosted in a country that doesn’t respect the US copyright cabals control over media literally because that’s the only safe harbor for it. The developer even has this snippet on his description of the plugin:

PS although the add-on was removed from Mozilla’s add-on store (AMO) (because of DMCA Takedown Notice) it’s still signed and manually checked for security by Mozilla (hence the delay in signing).

Yet it’s super common for people to be absolutely suspicious of it. Including being suspicious of the traffic leaving the plugin when it’s not being used which turns out to be the plug-in checking for updates every time.

Using alternative gits is so important and is literally what allows programming and especially open source programming, to thrive.

Why not just delete the drive for the virtual machine? I don’t know, spinning up a new machine takes me less than a minute so personally I prefer a clean start with new device settings.

2. All posts must end with a ‘?’

This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?

I understand this vent, but unfortunately this is not the community for that, as this post breaks rule 2.

!goodoffmychest@lemmy.world might be a more appropriate community for this kind of generic vent.

*defeatedly puts away torch and pitchfork

*kicks dirt

Shucks I never get to be mad about systemd!

Are we getting the housing bubble in tech hardware now too?

I mean, yes. It sucks for sure, and is absolutely wrecking the consumer market… But it’s not like we can magically change it. Scarcity drives up prices, that has always been the case, and on top of that we have tariffs impacting a lot of these items too.

All I can do is hope these AI companies fail as hard as they seem to be set up to fail.

To be fair they weren’t saying they think it’s fine, they were implying that I do. They are obviously aware of inflated prices.