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When it comes to dealing with advertisements when they're surfing on their browsers. I've just learned recently about how Google has or is killing UBlock Origin on the Chrome browser as well as all Chromium based browsers too.

We've heard for years about people complaining, bitching, whining and vice versa about how they keep seeing ads. And those trying to help them, keep wasting time to tell these people that they're surfing without extensions. Whether it'd be on Chrome or Firefox or another browser.

By this point, I've long stopped being that helper because if you cared at all about the advertisements you see, you would've long had gotten on the wagon of getting adblockers by now. You bring this onto yourself.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I wish it was acceptable to call older folks out as lazy if they refuse to learn how to text, email and otherwise use the internet. It’s fine for them to call millennials lazy if they can’t drive a stick shift or balance a checkbook, but if you’re giving me bullshit like “I’m 68 years old, I don’t text and I don’t email” you are just a lazy, stubborn bastard. I’ve met plenty of 90 year olds who are perfectly capable because they aren’t lazy old fucks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Seriously, of all people they're the ones that have been around since the internet's inception. They've had more time to adapt than anyone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Seems nobody will ever put sanity and social safety over their feelings. People don't really understand the social contact anymore. They think that's for everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

The dangers of conservatism/fascism.

If not for conservatism, humans would be proactively addressing global heating. Conservatives oppress the innocent and vulnerable in every country where conservatives have power. If not for conservatism, there would be no genocide. Conservatives are the gullible, deadly foot-soldiers of the billionaires.

Conservatism is the single biggest threat to life on earth. Eradicating conservatism would be the single most positive change we could make to preserve life on earth.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

That the covid pandemic is still going full tilt and still demands a very aggressive worldwide response.

Everybody (over the age of 4--they were born in 2020!) knows it, they just deny it like crazy because they don't have the balls to deal with how unpleasant it is.

Which makes it infinitely more unpleasant because we aren't lifting the weight together. But anybody still denying the pandemic is consciously deciding to do it, and an explanation isn't going to make them un-decide, because it's not a lack of knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago

Influenza typically accounts for 1.5% of deaths at its peak every year. Covid has been hovering around 3%. So it’s currently about the same level as a bad flu season. To me this indicates endemic levels. If there is a strain that suddenly starts killing more people, it will make headlines. I’m not trying to be in denial, this is just where I’m at. I’ve had it, and my immune system is doing what it is supposed to do. I’m not worried about contracting it again, unless the a new deadly strain comes out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Is it still full tilt?

Looking at CDC graphs of excess deaths, it appears we're back at baseline. That is, assuming I'm reading this correctly which is very much not a sure thing.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The importance of digital privacy and freedom. The way capitalism ruins everything you like.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago

Worked at a major tech company as a data engineer, constantly warn everybody that major tech company is doing crazy surveillance, nobody cares. Told everybody my job was taking economists and research scientists python models, translating them into production code for data pipelines that would operate on terabytes of streaming data and it would change our recommendation system on the fly to keep you on the page. It was designed by academics to prey on basic human instincts. Tons more sketchy stuff, but I always felt like that was the most predatory. All we need to know was your zip code and gender and we knew how to recommend you stuff you wanted, and then people would voluntarily give us more identifying information.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Before calling support, turning your device off and back on again will legitimately resolve 90% of your issues.

If you call the helldesk and the uptime of your device is more than 24 hours and you said you already rebooted it how can we trust anything else you say?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Because I rebooted it last week and still had the problem last week after rebooting and I was lazy about making a ticket.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (4 children)

Now, conversely, if you work in support, please ACTUALLY FUCKING LISTEN TO ME when I am telling you I've already done that 17 different ways, along with tons of other troubleshooting and isolating and I'm not a technical moron and I tried every possibility to avoid calling you so can we PLEASE SKIP THE USUAL BULLSHIT SUGGESTIONS?!?!?!?!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 14 hours ago

I hate it too but they don't because everyone claims they know what they're doing and they've already tried all that stuff.

99% of the time it turns out they haven't and that was the problem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

That's the difference from a good support tech and a bad one tbh. Bring able to gauge someone's tech literacy and taking in all troubleshooting done before is literally the first thing you should do. So many escalations I've received just has "had user reboot, had them disconnect and reconnect to network. Checked and device has no pending updates, sending to L3." in the notes. Half of the time a reboot really wouldn't do anything, and they really just needed to be added to an AD group (most of my tickets last week). I'm just glad I'm shifting out of support and more into projects.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

tbf, I have rebooted my system and uptime didn't also reset. It appears that newer Windows has this "fast startup" feature. Pinky swear I told the truth.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-10-up-time/02176a76-1a18-4fc8-9ef6-39b149aae3fb

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Actually two things:

First: Capitalism is bad. It gets so bad it will destroy people the worst way: both mentally and physically. And it will destroy our planet more sooner than later. We need to get rid of „the rich“, switch to a social stable System and actually care about our environment (aka climate) immediately to stop the worst. It is already way too late to stop the catastrophe entirely, but some of us still can survive.

Second: Voting for faschist and racist parties will hurt you badly. They don‘t want what’s best for the common people, they want power.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I wish we fucking lived longer so the people who doomed our planet would be alive when it starts burning. I hate that their selfishness will go completely unpunished, and that they get to die happy and comfortable in their beds after sentencing billions to death.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (41 children)

That if they vote third party before we can get rid of the first-past-the-post system, they are helping their ideological opposite. And a corollary: if they do it because of the genocide in Gaza and Trump encourages a total wipeout of the Palestinian state like he's telegraphing, the blame for the deaths of those innocent civilians is on them for being self-righteous instead of honest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Let our boy CGP Grey handle that for you:

Https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Washing hands, not eating off the floor, not drinking from the same bottle as 10 other people etc...

Just basic hygiene things

[–] [email protected] 19 points 17 hours ago (6 children)

When you're at a fast food drive thru and they offer to round up for a charity cause, YOU can claim that write-off donation on your taxes, not the restaurant. Of course virtually nobody would do that unless you save your receipts and tally them up next year... but you can!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Related, I tire of explaining tax deductions are over valued. It's a net loss to you to spend money on something deductable and claim the deduction. If you have $100, the government takes $20 and you get $80. If you give that $100 to charity, you have $0, the government gets $0, and the charity has $100.

Deductions are only good if you value the thing that the money went to.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago

Looks at Republican party

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I'm not a fan of people enthusiastically turning the written language into gibberish and hiding behind "it's enough to be understood."

I don't fucking understand you, idiot.

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