That’s how I wake up in the morning

Have you looked through the Sync settings menu? You can customize A LOT about the UI look and feel, including card type, card information, text size, text font, etc.

Have the various comment threads on a carousel once you click in. Because of the fractured nature of Lemmy servers I feel like I see way more reposts than on Reddit. It would be nice for them to get merged in some way.

Because people have run analysis on the activity of the app already and the trackers don’t fire if you aren’t on the ad supported version.

All of the listed stuff is also required for serving ads through services like Google and pretty normal for ad-supported apps.

The data privacy stuff is all related to the plumbing required to serve ads.

If you pay for the ad-free version none of that stuff gets loaded.

Sync just added an option for that.

NVIDIA’s marketing overhypes, but their technical papers tend to be very solid. Obviously it always pays to remain skeptical but they have a good track record in this case.

But it can be removed as a possibility by circumstance, which is what this comic is getting at.

This is why, in my opinion, billionaires are incredibly stupid.

By hoarding wealth and forcing people to live paycheck-to-paycheck, with little-to-no time for self improvement or leisure. With few resources to devote towards education or career-building, you are strangling the pool of people who could make your life better. Who could find the cure for whatever illness finally gets you. Who could invent something you’d never have thought of that will improve your quality of life.

Before the pace of modern technology I can kind of get the impulse, but modern billionaires are operating on rules of ‘how to win’ from 100 years ago. They are – by any metric – not only socially backwards, but fundamentally stupid. They are too dumb to even get being greedy right.

They’re tak-ing. myyy. gills.

At 30,000 employees that’s only $23,000/person. I’m sure payroll alone is well North of $700M per year.

Honestly sometimes just making a show of it not getting to you can get people like that to leave you be. Just start looking get dead in the eye and saying “thanks for the tip. I’ll take it under advisement”, every time she starts doing that to you. Every time. Same inflection. Even if you have to do it 20 times in a row. Even if she gets angry. Don’t say anything else to her unless it’s required to do your job.

Eventually she’ll get annoyed or bored enough to leave you alone and try to bother someone else she can get a reaction out of.

Lol, whoops

Can’t believe Hot Fuzz hasn’t been mentioned yet.

If you’re looking for genuine space opera, I quite enjoyed the Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Love that series but it’s not really Space Opera

It’s a remake that uses new, higher quality assets though, so isn’t an option in this case.

Bear Head by Adrian Tchaikovsky delves into this kind of psychology from the interesting angle of treating Narcissistic Sociopaths as an alien form of consciousness. It proposes that sociopaths hijack human social interactions, turning others into mere appendages that carry out the sociopath’s desires.

I’m a developer and don’t hate it on its face.

IMO it’s only a problem in the context of iOS not having side-loading. I’m imagining an app that uses an API to block ads and Apple just being like “no” and then you can’t get that app.

Glances at climate change rumbling towards us.