higgsboson

Yeah, I'd disable that if I could. I'd much rather have no thumbnail than an animated one.

Some mowers are designed that way. Mine advertised "no oil changes", but really it means I have to add oil a couple times a year instead of draining it.

Chase is copaganda.

When you fight literal Nazis and still can't come away looking like the good guys.

...Because you think it is NOT an unpopular opinion? It sure seems unpopular, judging by the comments.

Its surprising to me how many people have apparently never heard of TEMPEST.

Fuck them for these games. It's an abuse of their market position.

Does Google offer a phone number for me to contact them about problems with their half-assed products? I've tried lots of times to reach a human being, but never raised a response as a private citizen.

Negative. I am a meat Popsicle.

That's not what I consider negligible on my phone, which is already resource constrained. Yes, I have a problem with an app that intentionally wastes my valuable resources. I wouldn't care so much from my desktop, but I mostly just use a desktop client to do things I can't easily do on my mobile clients.

No big deal. It's not as if my participation is especially valuable. I would just participate less.

edit: my objection is obviously more in principal than it is practical, but it would hardly be the first time I walked away from software (or a network) on philosophical grounds.

And use copper pot still with silver solder.

Never heard of, eg, Vioxx or thalidomide, I take it?

That's a hard NO from me, dawg. If Lemmy goes down that path, I will just not comment. My account settings let me just block bots. I dont need my resources wasted so I can interact with the "good bots".