He’s way past fucking just his customers, he’s been fucking everybody for a while now.

I definitely associate FTW with ‘for the win’ first. Now I’m heading to wikipedia to read the disambiguation page to see what else it means.

Edit: for the win, for those wondering, and fuck the world have wildly different meanings.

We should normalize “ate the beaver” as a response to falling for satire articles in Canada. Then start responding with that to other ‘ate the onion’ comment threads without providing context.

It’s so frustrating that good reasons get embedded in with the shit. LLMs and data centers can be a good tool for things likes research. Canada should have these, if they can be had ethically, for the things we need/want to do. We don’t need to have dependency on american companies baked into it.

Going to the hardware store is fun! I could walk around looking at the stuff there for hours.

Home despot is a last resort for me if both the smaller stores with competent employees (I blame HD for this, not the employees themselves) don’t have it and waiting for an order to come in is a problem for any nunber of reasons.

That’s why I’m here. Really enjoying it, it reminds me of early days of reddit when it was just a bunch of nerds. I saw a socially awkward penguin meme yesterday, just need some gammer aficionados in the comments now.

I agree with that too, what the usa is doing to the people of Venezuela is repugnant. Filibustering is an action for the elected officials whom I don’t have any patience for. My comments were intended to show some grace and sympathy for the american general public who are relentlessly propogandized and walked over.

I can see value with bigger, more robust platforms that can house smaller communities. More platforms like Lemmy could allow for a future where entire communities can move platforms if it no longer suits them or a better fit emerges would be nice. Need more platforms that don’t constantly abuse their users with dark patterns for that to happen though.

None of that’s happened yet so they should take a small amount of time to vote for the lesser of two evils then get their ass to work on doing the things you’ve described so next election they have another choice.

I don’t start trying to bake a cake if I know I don’t have any flour.

I’m not american. Do you realize they only have two parties? Don’t come back at me with a whattabout third party unless you include some data about independant’s visibility, funding, and results from their recent election.

I’m neither american nor European and my first read of the top comment was interpretting it as the american organization. It took me reading several of the response comments to realize that OP wasn’t advocating for the nonsense going on in the usa.

Probably a reflection of how expensive they are and that the law is too convoluted for most to consume. Is the hate justified and/or are lawyers responsible for those points? I don’t know🤷.

I don’t have stats handy to back it up but wasn’t the young male voting block part of what got trump re-elected? If you hit anyone with the right propoganda enough it’ll start to be effective. That voting block appears to have moved in last weeks US election. There’s a lot more old people already voting that are at varying levels of being politically informed. To stereotype, young people don’t tend to vote but can be politically active.

Agreed. You have a bit different perspective on it than I do but I was coming to say the same thing. It’s funny when the first comment you read was what you were going to say.

I’m flipping between this comment thread and another one about a tv that looks similar to mine saying it’s out of storage with the discussion being about thee fact the storage has likely been filled with unsynced log files. I’ve been thinking about loading some custom slop firmware on my tv for a while now but I’d rather work on fun projects than have to ward off the onslaught of major corporations trying to abuse us.

Yeah you’re right but I think OP was asking what else. If they’re keeping the network settings what other logs and data persist through a possibly intentionally mislabelled “factory reset”?

The problem is I don’t know the answer! It’s a case by case issue that takes real effort to resolve each time.

I just disconnected my samsung tv from my wifi yesterday because it had a popup it was doing a software update. It was already substantially laggier than when I bought it. Whenever I use it I’m either playing a game or using the pi I have plugged into it so I just want it to switch inputs quickly. Only reason I hadn’t killed it yet in my transition to FOSS is because my wife uses it for netflix. Maybe we’ll use this as a good break point to get her off the netflix subscription completely. I die a little inside when I see it on my credit card statement.

I think that makes a bit of a dilemma. Which is better slop software with quality issues or proprietary closed source which could be running any number of malicious processes?

Yeah that’s Mae Martin. I recognize them from LOL Canada which was hilarious too.