Protests are very good at causing civil unrest, damaging public property, making other peoples days worse, and swaying their view further away from your cause

If any of those are your goal, they can be quite effective

You mean like how you fully purchased a premium account?

I wonder why there are no laws against eforced, unilateral contract adjustments like this. Especially considering “no ads” was an explicit part of the original purchase

It is getting better though. We are all just facing the issues of our era’s.

Tech keeps going up, we are slowly making progress on climate change, the space race is back on, and superpowers don’t directly fight eachother anymore. Hell, we’ve proven to beat once in a century pandemics in a few years with relatively speaking barely any deaths. Life’s good

Yes, we have squabbles in the middle east and Africa, but that’s par for the course and not an indicator for human development. The only thing that has really gone backwards is that war has been brought back to europe

Toomba 2: The evil swine return is a piece of nostalgia I can never share

God I hate untagged YouTube links. You think you’re clicking on an image or an article, but nope! And now YouTube thinks you watched a random video and your recommendations get infected with garbage outside of your normally watched channels

I feel the opposite. Still all but one opinion gets drowned out. It’s just that now the opinion that survives is the one that screams the loudest rather than the mainstream one

I would consider that a downside tbh

There is nothing childish about snow. Especially since in some parts of the world, we’re the last generation that gets to enjoy it at all

Botanically they are. Culinary they are not.

Some languages split the word “fruit” up in those two cases. In Dutch for example, the botanical definition of fruit translates to “vrucht” whereas the culinary definition translates to “fruit”.

So, a tomato is a “vrucht” but it’s not “fruit”

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Thanks for the tip

I feel like this questionnaire is missing one rather obvious path:

I’m not using Lemmy because I prefer it over Reddit in any way. It has more technical problems, it lacks the niche communities that Reddit is famous for, the community is more toxic and rather extremists, and it is a splintered mess

However,

It’s not really a matter of choice. I simply can’t browse Reddit on mobile anymore. I’m not blind or anything, but the official app is simply not useable at all. Even the FOSS POS apps of Lemmy are better, and that’s saying something

It’s not a matter of preference. It’s a matter of necessity

1440p isn’t that high. You’re thinking about 4k.

And, as I said. It’s not running smooth. It’s barely running at all. It keeps dropping as low as 40fps

Your hardware is quite high end actually. It’s not a 7900 xtx or 4090, but it’s close. (Yes, I have a 980 pro 2tb)

I wonder why you run it that much smoother than I do then

Look at this guy with his dual 7900 XTX over here

I got a 7800x3d and 6950 xt. I played with performance boosting mods on medium settings

I kept dropping to 40fps on 1440p and ended up refunding

Kinda disingenuous to your employer to spend your billed hours doing chores around the house tbh

Coming from an outsider, could you give an example of a way Google attacks people individually and directly?

Preferably something more common than traffic accidents, since people drive cars regardless

What’s the second one

You know, so I can block it too

Horror should still be nsfl