Yup, and I won’t buy a new gas car either.

I’ll tell you why I won’t buy one.

I’m not going to go into debt as much as a house would’ve cost me 20 years ago so I can drive a 10,000 pound explosive that I spend several hours a day charging, be asked to pull over to turn on Bluetooth, have a tracking device in my car, which the government can turn off if they like, have to fumble with a touch screen to turn up the air conditioner, have to pay rent for features built into the car and then have any features I purchased be non transferrable on the secondary market. These are all fuck you’s to me, so I say fuck you to them. Take your vendor lock in SAAS product and shove it up your ass. You want me to give a shit about emissions, fix all that, until then I’m driving a 20 year old beater.

It will hurt US manufacturers, because their budget gasoline cars won’t sell.

The internal microphone is on the same board as the webcam in laptops.

Pop the bezel and disconnect the cable when not in use.

Next up: all web pages are full resolution bitmap files.

They’re doing that to poke fun at the “energy drink can sized hail” news headline from the other day.

Really, wow. I didn’t know that.

If it’s on steam it will run.

What happens November 2025?

I personally don’t like ads because they’re intrusive, and because they are an attempt to manipulate my mind in some way in order to extract resources out of me. I’d like to keep my mind as clean as possible and not be a tool towards someone else’s ambition.

I don’t mind ads on something like a TV, where you’re already passively consuming content, and the ads are just “here’s a product and how it can improve your life”. But in something interactive, they are incredibly intrusive, and most ads are made not about a product and why you’ll like it, but they’re done in ways that are tested and optimized to bypass your rational mind and appeal to your emotions or your lizard brain. I loathe being manipulated and have great disdain for those that attempt it.

There’s also the factor specifically online of tracking and data mining. You want to show me a product, fine, you need to know what color my butthole is to sell it to me, go fuck yourself.

Edit your messages after they’re sent lol…

1. Isn’t the keyboard supposed to help you not fuck up? I remember when it did. I am supposed to expect that the company that has made predictive text worse and worse year after year is going to give me a good text correction feature?

2. this isn’t a feature of android, this is in google messages,

3. the messaging apps people are actually using mostly already let you edit messages.

Slightly unrelated, why is it that these tech product promos always feature nondescript happy people having the time of their life on their phones? They’re reaching drug commercial levels of uncanny at this point. Corpo marketing has gotten so bland, everyone watching it nowadays just feels like they’re being manipulated.

You have an actual AMOLED display? What type of machine is it?

You’re on a network where the majority has strict limits on the topics you’re allowed to poke fun at. Commercialization may have started the trend, but an eternal September of humorless cunts are keeping it going far and wide.

Most communists on Lemmy would be put against the wall by the CCP. Agitators are useful until the party has power. After that they’re troublemakers.

If they tied every expenditure to a tax that is directly related to the expenditure I’d like taxes. No more big pot of money. Military paid for by it’s own tax from commerce that benefits from a military. Roads paid for by taxes on car sales or registration tax PR something, etc.

Isn’t this just a ripoff of the “information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton” meme?

Yeah man, used to be you could spend like 5 or 6 bucks and get something quick. Full meal too. Nowadays I think those companies are just riding on inertia, Americans are used to eating it and still have this idea that it’s cheaper even though if you think about it for a second it’s not. By the time you pay it’s like 10-12 bucks. Meanwhile there’s a Cuban lady down the street, she has no menu, she just makes one thing each day it’s something different, whatever she wants, you don’t get to decide, you hand her 10 bucks and she hands you a little box of the most delicious surprise you’ve ever had. Why would I pick the corpo garbage over that?

I started living this way too. Honestly, fast food doesn’t even have a value proposition anymore. It’s not cheaper than some local family run taco or burger truck/shack, and significantly crappier. Also, the lady or guy handing you your food keeps the money after paying the cook and what not, if they’re not the cook themselves. I’d rather that than it go to frozen patty distributors and stock buybacks or whatever they’re up to these days.

It’s marginally cheaper than a run of the mill sit down joint.

Also soda… I don’t understand why anyone drinks that shit. I used to, then I stopped, and now when I try it it’s gross honestly. Syrup with bubbles in it. You want some, make some ginger ale, its easy and delicious. You cut up some ginger, cook it in a pot with sugar and water, let it cool, put it in a pressure bottle and pitch yeast, it’s ready in a couple of days.

I’ve never ordered door dash or any of that stuff, as soon as I heard about it o was put off by the idea.

You’ve got the right idea man. No lazy food. If it’s not worth effort you’re not actually hungry.

Dogs can be racist.

Source: had a racist dog once. I don’t know where he got it from because it wasn’t me.

Yeah archive then