In the US we’ll do anything but build fiber with the billions we tossed at the telecom industry.

Are both subnets public?

I 100% agree. A loud TV blasting ads all day is extremely upsetting to me, you can literally feel companies groveling and begging for your money; it’s disgusting. “Hurry in!” “These deals won’t last!” then of course the fucking low-level humor that makes you feel even more stupid. I honestly loathe being anywhere near a TV tuned into stations like that.

I want to feel the same but from a purely financial standpoint it makes sense.

Don’t want a locked down phone? Buy directly from the manufacturer.

Exactly! It just feels so wasteful. I imagine it’s to sell a higher capacity at greater cost for higher profit.

I can’t tell if you’re arguing in favor or against smaller capacity drives but personally I’d like to see smaller sizes on the market for devices that don’t need a freaking terabyte of storage. When I was shopping for a small mini PC I use as a router I couldn’t find anything smaller than 256 GB so I settled for booting Alpine Linux into RAM (“diskless”) from a USB drive.

Yes blocking corporate social media domains to prevent being tracked and fingerprinted is extreme. Let’s write petty comments with sarcastic-ass hearts to continue virtual signaling and literally do the opposite of what we suggest.

Ha, this reminds me of implementing “API” access in the shipping world for companies that only ship a 90s-style web portal.

My logic that I don’t want to connect to Reddit at all when I’m using Lemmy but that’s happening for who knows why? I understand how computers and networks work so I get it that Reddit shores up the hosting cost but that doesn’t really address the issue.

I have all corporate social media blocked. Why would I want to load content from Reddit, especially when I’m on Lemmy actively avoiding Reddit?

people are crossposting

What software uploads assets to Reddit then recycles the URL for embedding them on other platforms?

Can’t see it because I have i.redd.it blocked. I’m really confused why images from that domain are constantly embedded on Lemmy.

I’ve felt like I’m in a simulation quite often. It sounds very cliché and I never thought I’d actually feel it (the idea has always fascinated me but c’mon, really?) up until the last few years.

I can’t remember for sure but I think it’s common knowledge that lemmy.world blocks VPNs. Just switch to an instance that doesn’t.

I don’t really care either but I think immediately calling it “not news” is maybe a little much.

Web developers (or rather those that pay them) will do literally anything but stop spying; fucking trolls. It’s disgusting how greedy people are.

(Disclaimer: I’m a professional web developer myself but thankfully not in the realm of unethical spyware shit like this.)

Yeah seriously. Why even engage?

I get the same confusion when I prove someone wrong using a universal curl example. The same guy that parses JSON by hand (rather than use a library) can’t remember how to fucking use curl.

Ironic because it constantly screws up escaping on macOS. I have a feeling when it says Bash it’s actually using zsh (default on modern macOS) and it doesn’t even realize it.

I’ve witnessed it do Bash) echo "Done" then claim a task was done without actually doing anything beforehand.

Move to the other side of the continent.