It always makes me chuckle a bit how internet censorship (at least in western countries and on a personal level (school and work networks excluded)) is almost always just done through DNS. I mean I’m sure not going to be the one to tell them how laughably ineffective that is, but it’s just funny.

Thank you for your thought provoking question, “AI has use”. I’m sure this is a legitimate question coming from a real human.

Did you check the book

Not to be dismissive, but if you deconstruct every website like this, won’t they all look horrible? I mean how long would Google’s list be if you detailed every single controversy and dodgy thing they’ve done in/to/from their search engine?

Btw you double posted this

Why’s it a static gif

Seriously. In Australia, you have to “activate” your Sim card with your full name, email, bank details (depending on the carrier), and a copy of your driver’s license. Hell, I bought my last phone directly from a carrier, completely outright, with cash, prepaid with no plan, and they took a photocopy of my drivers license. Buying phones elsewhere they’ve never done that to me, as long as it’s prepaid and bought outright, but for some reason the major telcos do it for all purchases

many engineers do not know how to effectively communicate with management when something will result in terribly written software and just do it anyway.

I imagine this is partly a result of bad and misinformed managers too though. There’s a lot out there who have 0 clue wtf you do, just that you make computer do thing yet still act like they know your job better than you

Now that I think about it, I actually first used Linux in 2021 too. For me it was because the laptop I had shipped with a HDD that was known for being prone to vibration failure, so while waiting for the warranty request to be approved I was running a persistent Ubuntu live USB

I’ve never seen one in Australia. We don’t really prepay for petrol here. Some servos in the dodgiest suburbs do make you between certain hours, but I’ve never seen one that makes everybody always prepay or one that actually takes your card. Most of the time you’d go inside to prepay anyways, but on the few pumps I’ve seen that do have card payments on the physical pump it’s either tap or swipe, no insert, and no holding cards hostage

Not to sound like I’m claiming to be up on a moral high ground or anything, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth using accessibility tools for non accessibility reasons when it comes to Reddit. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t care, but Reddit has shown me that they don’t give a shot about people who need accessibility tools at all. Allowing some of them to stay around was just a desperate attempt at preventing some bad PR. If they thought an accessibility tool was mainly used by people trying to bypass their stupid and greedy decisions, they would 100% kill it off in an instant

What’s a VPM?

It’s not just you, it’s phoning home for me too. Pixel 7, also Australia, bought outright from officeworks. I don’t log network reqs so I don’t know exacts, but it’s using 25kb every 3 days or so, so it’s doing something.

Also in Australia and it shows that to me as well

But going into my app list and showing system does show it

Isn’t this the same country that made the drinking age 21 because of car accidents?

Probably, but it covers me in the future if they ever add another bot to it

I don’t disagree with them on about 70% of things though

They said community (the formal term for our equivalent of subreddits), not 3 mostly troll filled instances

It’s an instance that automatically reposts every post made in certain Reddit subs.

I don’t like it, and blocked the entire instance because I don’t like the whole automatic repost thing, especially when the OP probably won’t even see any responses

Um ackshually 🤓

The reason people on Lemmy do that is because everybody on Lemmy is just an idiot, except me of course - I am not an idiot. So that’s why I reply with multiple paragraphs over minor things.

See, replying to people with long winded ranty, over pedantic messages is likely to make them realise they’re actually an idiot and don’t know what they’re talking about. Regardless of whether all the posted is just a 1 sentence meme referencing the OP, and, say, the office, it’s just not good enough. They need to learn to be smarter.

So in closing, the reason this always happens to you and all the other lemmings here is because I’m actually smarter than you lot are actually. If you just started prefacing your jokes with 47 paragraphs of explanatory text, clearly explaining that you actually aren’t an actual idiot this wouldn’t actually happen to you anymore.

Git gud