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Anecdotally, the odds are near zero that my wife and I can talk once about maybe buying some obscure thing like electric blinds and suddenly targetted ads for them somehow pop up on our devices.

This happens a lot.

I think you’re being naive if you believe they don’t locally distill our discussions into key words and phrases and transmit those.

The employee didn’t put it there, but they sure do whip that thing around to let you use it fast enough though.

Context being required to know what a word means? I give you English:

Bark, bank, bat, bear, bolt, bow, box, break, can, chair, change, charge, check, chip, clip, club, cold, crane, date, deck, die, down, dress, fair, fall, fast, file, fine, firm, fit, fly, foot, foul, jam, kind, lean, left, light, lie, like, match, mean, minute, mold, nail, novel, park, part, pen, plane, pound, race, right, rock, rose, scale, seal, spring, square, stalk, staple, stick, strike, tender, tire, trip, type, watch, wave, well, wind, yard.

My wife and I have a big, fancy bidet. We love it, of course. We’ve been remodeling our house and living in air B&Bs over the last five weeks. Ugh. Missing our bidet so much!

Because four letter domain names are easy to remember. A lot of companies now find an affordable four letter domain and then name their company that. Amazon’s router company eero is an example.

Yes, I only learned I was born in the last year for boomers a couple of ears ago. I was pretty shocked.

I use this as my reference. .

I was born in October of '64. Tippy tail of the Boomers.

I’m 59 and technically a Boomer so… You know I’m out of the loop.

I don’t get it.

Same. I was in my 20s when Max Headroom was new.

I do hate the new web based experience though. The executable client is very good.

They will learn from this effort, call it R&D, and start working on something that is effectively worse but break it into smaller pieces. The new project will be less obviously evil at a glance.

One film my family walked out of was Will Ferrell’s Holmes and Watson. Another we couldn’t stomach at home was Seth Rogan’s Sausage Party. It’s pretty bad that a 14 year old kid didn’t like Sausage Party.

I run a small business, but I’m also I’m an embedded systems developer on ARM processors for my products. Our toolchain is Windows-specific. That and the Adobe suite which I also need for my business keep my primary work machine Windows.

My laptop is Linux but even that creates occasional hassles with my work flow and presentations.

Hey, just so you know, “no one” is two words.

Oh I agree. Fun movie and character though.

No worse than a Russian submarine captain with a Scottish accent though. 🤣

Worse: Mickey Rooney as a Japanese man in Breakfast at Tiffany’s

As bad: John Wayne as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror

This was my thought too. Organic growth is better. I like the vibe on Lemmy far more than Reddit which has turned into a Instagram clone.

My wife and I finally bought a nice toilet seat style bidet (better price on third party sites) with heated water and all the bells and whistles. We both love it, she even more than me.

I hate going anywhere else now.

He’s right. LJ has a habit of coming and going. It’s nothing new.

Even more unpopular opinion: come to terms with the fact that it’s not unreasonable for even a large company to want to charge a fee for the service that they provide and that I consume for several hours a week.