The only problem with the sentiment of “just don’t use it” is that many of these stores have like one manned checkout vs a dozen sel checkouts. Not about to sit in line with the carts full of stuff when I need to grab two things.

News channels have been using YouTube to upload clips and segments for many many years now. But you probably don’t like YouTube because it’s big bad to folk like you.

It’s not exactly that I’m buying into it disappearing is a foregone conclusion - just that if something doesn’t happen to proactively protect and improve the system, than yeah, it’s in big trouble in the next decade. And my personal bias puts my main concern on the people who rely on it for disability insurance since they are some of the most vulnerable. Of course I want what I paid into it myself later in life, but at least I can see it helping those close to me for some consolation if it doesn’t.

Thanks for the link what a great breakdown. I knew it was bad for him but it’s so much worse than I thought!

Millennial here and I have a few family members that rely on SSDI so I just like that my contributions support them. I’ll figure things out myself for retirement. But an estimated 7.8 million people rely on SSDI and taking that away from them could very well be death sentences. We have to do better.

Generally curious how many people that have clung to Windows largely due to gaming have made the switch or plan to make the switch now that Valve has done such great work with Proton. I know I am certainly considering it and this is the kind of thing that will expedite that.

You can always tell a disingenuous response with the both sides bullshit.

At least I bought a pool ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Having the standard three and a top center is perfect way to run a dual personal/work PC setup in my experience.

Edge is fine for the most part. I prefer FireFox on my personal devices but Edge does the job for Enterprise pretty well.

Such freedom.

Reddit is Fun.

Agreed. Bluetooth wasn’t great at first but has been fine for years now.

I switch between swiping and typing. It works pretty well most of the time.

Longcat is longgg.

I think some people don’t even realize PhD and MD are different things.

You perfectly describe how it felt on Reddit to comment and what turned me into a lurker after the years went by. Doing my best to be more active on Lemmy to help get this thing growing!

Vampire Survivors on the steam deck.

It’s a good idea to check in on this every so often just to make sure your employers are paying their contributions too. I recall some horror stories when this this been posted before.

Smelling C-diff for the first time is something.