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Besides traditional cable/satellite tv, what's considered "tv" today?
  • My fishbone antenna and local VHF/UHF stations are positively offended at not being called the "traditional" TV. Now get off my lawn!!!

  • I can imagine the "will you be using the mobile app?" question to get cheaper food is going to devolve into the Mark of the Beast and someday no one will be able to buy anything without using the apps
  • Well that may work for you. My goal was slightly different. I needed official apps for work. My goal was to have a work phone that was completely disconnected from my private life. Graphene and sideloaded app would not have worked for me.

  • I can imagine the "will you be using the mobile app?" question to get cheaper food is going to devolve into the Mark of the Beast and someday no one will be able to buy anything without using the apps
  • I tried this. I bought a phone with cash, bought a prepaid SIM with cash and a google play card with cash.

    Used a throwaway email address, and I could not get the play credit into the account.

    I even opened a support ticket with google and they could not help.

    I am an IT professional and quite adept at navigating technical bureaucracy and wasn't able to do it completely anonymously.

    My guess (and it's just a guess, i could be very wrong) is there is some internal, undocumented check that the account has been tied to a real person before it allows credit onto the play store.

    If someone has had success doing this I'd be quite interested in hearing about their experience.

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  • Well, that's fine, I'm betting he'd have a bad day as well if he tried.

  • Store making me feel like an outcast because of privacy concerns
  • I am absolutely not advocating rudeness to the cashier.

    Give them the opportunity for malicious compliance.

    Allow them to answer every question and have a pleasant break from the monotony, knowing full well that they are being cheerful and helpful just like the training videos and handbook demand they be.

  • Store making me feel like an outcast because of privacy concerns
  • Cool assumption bro. Hope that works out for you.
    I am never rude to the poor people that have to work retail. I know the pain; I have been on the other side of the counter.

    What I'm talking about is malicious compliance.

    They tell the cashiers to push the program and be helpful? Fine. I will let that cashier be the most helpful employee ever and at the same time gum up the company data collection system with fake information.

    At the same time as more punshment to the company they will see reduced sales and throughput requiring additional cashiers (more hours/pay for those people).

    But please bring on the fake internet point brigade.

  • Store making me feel like an outcast because of privacy concerns
  • I didn't say to be rude to the cashier. They make hourly wage, doesn't matter how many people they check out.

    Make the company pay. Cause less product to be sold per hour. Cause more cashiers to be required. Make it more expensive to have the data collection program than to not have it. Be the change you want to see in the world.

    Or just let them get away with it. Your call.

  • Store making me feel like an outcast because of privacy concerns
  • Give fake information every time. Waste the cashiers time with questions. Make them pay for it.

  • Quire should become the correct spelling for the word 'choir'.
  • may i...inquire... why you believe this?

  • What's a good gift for a 2-year old?
  • Yes, Brio scale, not Brio brand.

  • What's a good gift for a 2-year old?
  • Definitely coordinate with the parents, not only to find what your nephew's interests are but also so no gifts are duplicated.

    If they don't have advice or you can't ask for some reason, Brio scale trains, construction equipment, emergency vehicles, dinosaurs and generic toys are usually a good bet, they don't usually understand or care about brand names or franchises yet.

  • Study of 500,000 Medical Records Links Viruses With Alzheimer's Again And Again
  • Sure. It might. But no other opposing views were explored. Suggesting anything other than an amyloid plaque targeted drug ended careers.

    That's not okay.

  • [newbie] Does one need special drivers for running 3D printers?
  • Most 3D printers are nothing like traditional paper printers and don't need drivers, but require a program called a slicer to create the GCode that your 3D printer understands. Then the GCode file is transferred to the printer either via an SDcard or WiFi for printing.

    There are several slicers (OrcaSlicer, PrusaSlicer ) that work reliably on linux. Please binge TeachingTech's YouTube channel to get a better understanding of what 3D printing entails.

    https://teachingtechyt.github.io/

  • How do you deal with it when you download library source code from github and need to change all the header includes to actually be correct?
  • Can you just make some symlinks in usr/lib and usr/include? Or am I just not understanding the problem correctly?

  • What do the numbers mean?!
  • The Conet Project

    shivers down the spine at 48kHz

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  • Domains have restrictions based on the rules of their registrar, that may be mandated by the government of the associated country.

    Some old examples are .gov, .mil, .edu. - I believe that only US Government entities can register with .gov - Not just federal entities but also state and local entities. For example. https://www.sf.gov/ is the San Franscisco City Government site. I've also seen things like https://abcab.ca.gov/ that actually use the hierarchy that was originally intended to exist in domain names. Similarly, .mil is for US military organizations.

    .edu must be an accredited institution located in the United States, for example https://harvard.edu/.

    If you're in the United Kingdom, you can get a .uk domain, and there appear to be special subdomains with specific use, for example, colleges and universities are .ac.uk, although I don't know the specific details

    .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz are all free-for-alls and no one cares if a commercial entity registers a .org or vice-versa.

    Trust any information you find on the internet as much as you trust the author. If you don't know personally know the author, well, then, how much do you trust random strangers on the street handing you fliers?

    You can read more history on gTLDs at the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain

  • relatively easy to unwrap it

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cringecollective.io/post/107895

    > Sauce: https://fiftystatebanana.com/2024/09/19/fibonananacci/

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    relatively easy to unwrap it

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cringecollective.io/post/107895

    > Sauce: https://fiftystatebanana.com/2024/09/19/fibonananacci/

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    relatively easy to unwrap it

    Sauce: https://fiftystatebanana.com/2024/09/19/fibonananacci/

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    I used to be a text adventure like you til I took an arrow key to the knee.
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    know your history
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    why isn't it ok? why????

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cringecollective.io/post/75583

    > why isn't it ok? why???? > > Meme "the number of people who think this is an abomination" over a photo of a USB-A to USB-A cable, "but think this is perfectly acceptable" over a photo of a USB-C to USB-C cable, "makes me sick."

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    why isn't it ok? why????

    Meme "the number of people who think this is an abomination" over a photo of a USB-A to USB-A cable, "but think this is perfectly acceptable" over a photo of a USB-C to USB-C cable, "makes me sick."

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    o no
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    Someone suggested a 45, but my record player only handles 33RPM.
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    i can't help but see it
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    its a mockery of clothing
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    City Street Orientation Visualization

    https://geoffboeing.com/2018/07/comparing-city-street-orientations/

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    don't ever change you're perfect

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cringecollective.io/post/43035

    > don't ever change baby you're the best

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