Right, that list somehow reminds me that I need to go get a copy of Children of Men, very topical, sadly, and worth a rewatch.

It sets itself to autostart, and then hid the setting deep on a second screen. Opt-out plus malicious design, for one example, and the algorithm and pay structure for another.

I fucking hated spotify from the moment I first interacted with it, primarily due to the way the app worked, and its exploitative position as middleware.

Convenience be damned if it’s a net loss to society.

Such a right wing kind of statement hiding behind empathy! Wow. “Only critique yourself. You are your nation. Do not talk about other nations.”

so as a citizen, besides not buying their shit slurry, what is there to actually do about it more actively

Well there’s a vast landscape between ‘citizen’ and ‘not buying’!

As a participant in state and local politics, you do what you can. I learned during years of NGO work that the longest lever for the non-owner class is policy.

That means working on specific issues by directing persuasion to policy makers, and often you catch those flies with honey. Appeal to the cooperative side of politicians and bureaucrats, make them feel like leaders and other ego things. Also, usually, pressuring with risks, like looming financial or political losses. This seems like very unsatisfying work because it is far from the front lines and providing direct relief, but systemic change is easier when protests aren’t necessary.

Meanwhile it’s also possible to start the Transition to a new economy, without fuss. Cooperatives are all around you, join them. Find every little opportunity for mutual aid, and take them when you can. Make non-commercial transactions normal. Participate in repair cafés, and develop thrift economy, like clothing exchanges and toolshares and small buying clubs. Electrify and find more efficiency. Group study. Build small organizations and ventures.

And crucially, participate in a little Direct Action, for your sanity and honour. What that means, whether it’s food charity or illicit art, is unique to you.

cf. Children of Men

Again not reading what I wrote FFS! I did not call you uneducated but said you were kneejerking by intentionally missing the point, which looks suspicious, then said you are being anxious, because you were not reading the comment, and making it about you instead of the previous commenter. It’s not an insult.

I didn’t even imply that, so I will now call you anxious.

I was defending people who write well and craft long detailed answers. Read it again.

Really, kneejerk somewhere else, some of us paid attention in school and actually format things properly while using decent grammar. Bonus if you’re an organized thinker. Definitely a touch grass moment, the internet is wearing on you.

Oh yeah, I get it. On iOS I use a simple database app called Collections that I really like, I use it for mileage tracking and certain kinds of journaling or lists that need extra features like a relational key or lookups or sketch or calculation fields etc. When I can’t find an app that does what I want.

Basically a simple roll-yer-own approach. I haven’t looked into sharing the data dynamically, though. I think Collections is iOS only, probably similar apps galore on android. https://collectionsdb.com/

I don’t know of anything like that, but it seems like parsing out multiple different formats for recipe ingredient lists would be one of the major obstacles to consistency and reliability.

I don’t know much about digital recipes, other than the crap that is various websites with their ingredient list obfuscation game.

Hm, I feel bad enough trying to trust that apple is respecting our privacy in iCloud sync, it’s a stretch, but data processed by an aggressive retailer about my shopping, don’t think I could do it.

That seems like a perfectly reasonable feature list!

Yep, this method works really well in a busy schedule.

My spouse and I use iOS so we share lists that we dictate to: “add onions to the grocery list” or “add vitamin c to the pharmacy list” is pretty adhd friendly, and updated live so if one is shopping, that’s inevitably when we remember something and the other one of us can update the list without texting.

I like kitchen owl, but have to use iOS for various reasons, and it’s pretty low friction, even autoorganizing the list by section of store to make it easier when roaming the aisles.

All our recipes are in print or our heads at this point so we don’t need a list-from-recipe feature.

OK but no-one knows for certain.

Fuck, Dean, lately all you seem to do on lemmy is gripe and insultingly correct people while getting it wrong yourself. Hope you feel better soon.

Oh those display specs are usually pretty good. What is more of an issue is noise (cooling system) and power consumption. They are usually brighter than home units.

The retail industry generally uses NEC/Sharp and similar displays, but they are expensive as they are metal-cased and built to run reliably all day every day.

E.G. https://sharp.ca/en/product/business-displays-pnm502/

When you create the live USB installer, you can test it out before installing by booting from the USB stick.

You will probably need to have a way of establishing a wired connection, however, in order to install the Wi-Fi drivers.

I currently have it installed on a 2008 iMac and a 2012 MacBook Pro.

I also have ZorinOS On a MacBook Air that works great, and Debian on a MBPro 2014, and am about to install Fedora on another MBPro, 2013. Those are mostly server experiments, though.

Yes, I wind up with a lot of old macs that I am reluctant to recycle!