I advise against Amazon Machine Turk.

It’s basically a digital sweatshop. Doing all of these menial, logically mundane and borderline crazy tasks. Just to earn a literal nickel.

Yeah, okay, China.

How about produce the thing and don’t pull any marketing tricks, hm? We’ll find out one way or another whether these are the real deals.

DDR4 is serviceable to me.

Here’s some actual advice for PC builders - what do you actually want from your system? Nothing you say can be vague, you have to set up goals. That’s the entire important note of PC building is what you’re building it for and how long you want it to last for as in, how long until you’re wanting to build another?

There’s too much of that going on.

It isn’t because we don’t care about Taiwan, Ukraine, Gaza, Palestine, Hong Kong .etc when we say we can’t do much for them. It is because we physically can’t, because we’re not in positions of power that would help make that change. All we are, are just voices and there is only so much voices could do and those voices ended up getting silenced because of people in positions of power.

That’s because it’s their project. Not yours.

So the only win here is that you got to extend your time on Windows 10 for one year. That isn’t saying much because you’re just going to confront the same issues again, a year later. Again, do yourself a favor and grab the Windows 10 version that guarantees you til 2032. By then, you could skip Windows 11 entirely and see what else is on the horizon.

Good, because fuck that platform and its parasitic hold on society.

I suspect you are gaslighting or something here.

But this is pretty dumb logic you’re presenting. Okay then, by your logic, Hitler didn’t kill the jews during WW2. He just simply said he wanted them not to be in his country or anything. But he didn’t kill them, he just sent them away and had other people do the killing for him.

You know better.

Mario uses Chrome and that’s why Browser hates him.

People make this more complicated than is needed. We already know who these people are. We already know what kind of wealth they’re wielding. Why do we pretend as if we don’t and we need to re-assess this?

Yeah but, how likely is it that they’ll ever see such a fate?

Next to zero. This is all just fantasizing.

Not if you’re used to the idea of having so many abandoned instances to where people could start reporting them as being abandoned.

I used the word ‘deliberately’. Oh! You don’t know the word ‘deliberately’! Therefore your reply is irrelevant! And you say I’m being petty! Look at you, telling me to read and write when you can’t even do it either! Hypocrite!

This is what people aren’t talking about enough. It may make people feel all good inside to not have Amazon and everything - until they are commuting for long periods, having to spend more than they budgeted for and shipping to not be available. Also, who loves it when you have to store-hop multiple places and still not find what you need?

It’s like I can’t rely on Walmart or even Best Buy to have what I’m looking for. They have their limits. I can’t rely on small businesses either because they probably won’t have whatever it is I need.

So, sorry, I’m going to keep shopping Amazon as sparingly as possible. Do I hear anyone who is Anti-Amazon prop up any stores for reasonable commute and pricing and available shipping for people and communities? No? Then shut up about your lectures that people don’t need Amazon and how they’re sheeple for continuing to buy from it. It is all about self-pride and virtue signaling.

Seems like the Dead Internet Theory is true.

It is exactly how when companies make the most cutting edge software or develop a platform that gets white-hot. It’s about building portfolio and padding it.

They pour into the hard work to make whatever they make the best of its kind. Then when so many people are using it and the value grows, once a company sees its peak value, then it is time to sell.

We’ve seen this happen many times. Skype to Microsoft. Twitter to Musk. Deals that are worth billions and are making the original creators set for life.

Firefox Fanboys; “LEST IT NOT CHROME!!” they’ll cry.

Yes I will always take any and all jabs at Firefox fanboys over issues with Firefox because they’ve drank the kool-aid.

LibreWolf and Floorp is better.

Well the mods on Lemmy are little to no different. I guess the difference is, is that lemmy mods can just ban you by taking word of some idiot’s story. Oh and they also are prone for not being descriptive about why they banned you.

Which is no better.

We really should have and we have had a good track record in doing so.

SOPA, PIPA targeting online piracy have not passed in the US because of the fighting efforts.

We shouldn’t be content just because we use a VPN. Companies are getting smarter about handling VPNs by putting pressure on the companies themselves.

Children car-seats are such a scammy looking business. They build them as cheaply as possible and use materials that degrade. Some people even toss them for the slightest thing wrong that wouldn’t otherwise ruin the purpose and security of the car-seat.

And yet the average cost is like $100 ~ $300 just for a decent one. I can understand tossing one if you’ve been in an accident or something but if it can still be used and your child is still secure and safe, what’s the problem?