I can already burn through my entire wireless data limit in minutes. What is the point in it being faster without data being cheaper? At least from a users perspective and not someone who owns a telecommunications company.

Also the device is in a condition that makes this difficult like not turning on or the screen being broken.

It is at least a different problem, but adding in the element that any failure is a fatal one it just isn’t enough that there are less obstacles in the way.

Agreed. I already don’t trust car automation. No way I’m going to add a 3rd dimension to the list of possible failures.

If adblocking becomes illegal I’m done using the internet.

I actually really like the flat colors look with no gradients. Kind of like how the default web Lemmy UI is, but I wouldn’t use rounded corners anywhere. Back in the day I spent a lot of time theming my XP computer to look like this. Then eventually Windows ended up doing something similar in later OS versions. I have a tiny blog thing that looks pretty much to how I like it.

What I hated was the glassy transparency nonsense. Windows itself still has a few transparency options which I will always turn off.

They aren’t the same thing. With ads the monetization strategy is to implement ads to annoy the user into paying. Then finally paying for it is letting them know that they succeeded in implementing ads in a way that got you to give them money. You are thus incentivizing an ad driven internet.

Paying for access is paying for the service because you think it is good enough to spend money on. This is incentivizing the development of a good service.

Data harvesting another matter entirely. TikTok is going to harvest the data of paying customers and free customers regardless.

Isn’t it rather contradictory to have a community for “healthy discourse” and also “conspiracy theories” ?

The Lemmy instance server hosts it. When you are creating a post and click browse next to the image field it will upload the image to that instance. You can also host it somewhere externally as long as you can get a direct link to the image file. Then you copy paste it into the url field when creating a post.

If you want an image in the middle of your post you click the little image icon above the textbox where you type. Hover over it and it should say “upload image”. If you want to do this with an external image the format is like the following

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Ads are not the only way to monetize something. There are a few options which I would find agreeable. The first one would be selling it. You pay for access. There is no version in which has ads and the only way to use it is to pay for it. Another method would be to sell more advanced features or some form of usability. Maybe you can only view 1000 videos a month for free, but have to pay for more.

Whatever the method may be, ads are not the only way and unfortunately paying to remove ads just causes more ads to be implemented in things because you are rewarding them for doing it.

Any news on older Pixel devices having a price reduction? Has that been the case in the past maybe? I haven’t ever payed close attention near a new device launch.

Paying to remove ads is still paying them for implementing ads.

I think this abides by the idea of this post, but I would standardize language across the world. Whether it is an existing language or a new language doesn’t really matter or maybe a mix of the biggest existing languages.

I remember reading a book where in the future everyone spoke a combination of English and Chinese. They seem pretty incompatible though.

It’s a wonder that there is anyone still buying Tesla cars.

I can’t say for sure they were proper research skills but they were some kind of research skills. I’m also not entirely sure what media literacy entails so I’m going to guess that no that was never part of the curriculum at my university.

Where did I go?

Depends for how long. Buying a used NAS with a single 1TB drive is probably cheaper over a 10 year period than subscribing to some cloud service for the same duration.

Probably a lot of them. Definitely food distribution though.

The Swordfish from Cowboy Bebop. I recently bought a rather expensive model of it. Totally worth it though.

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