I know. But it’s wrong.

Chill; he’s probably not talking about you. He is talking about “your mom”. If you want her to use Firefox, it’s got to be simple.

Bah, that’s such a lame hot take.

Tonnes of things are really complicated to explain because they’re complicated.

You’re not wrong.

Whether you like it or not a lot of the internet relies on advertisement to work.

Some sites can introduce subscription fees and they can get out of it (I’d personally like that), some sites aren’t really sites but just optimising towards ad revenue (with all the shady practices that follow), but most produce valuable content for their users and rely on advertisement to sustain themselves.

So if we want to find a way to support that large center group, without enabling the crappy bottom tier, we have to make profiling safer. Well we don’t have to, we can dream of a safer, better world and try to bring it about by creating revolutions, but if we are practical, creating something that enables what the advertisement industry would like, without destroying what the users would like, is a far more realistic approach to making the world better.

Me too. If you think the Nordics is bad, don’t move move to the U.K. or US where I am. We can argue all day long about our experience of each system, but look at the Gini coefficient alone for some data.

WTAF are you talking about. On Lemmy, you’re either a communist or a billlionaire tooting nazi.

I’m in favour of a progressive tax on income, in favour of inheritance tax and in favour of a wealth tax. That doesn’t mean I think some people shouldn’t become rich from their efforts or that every wealthy person has gotten their by exploring the labour they employ (everybody else free to take that risk too).

I’d like my government and country run like the Nordics. Where I do fit in in your insane binary world?

As a stone-age person on Lemmy (47) allow me a response please.

First of all, I agree with you. Spent my 20s going through the motions thinking “maybe I just won’t meet someone I can bear to be with in the long term”.

And then I met her.

But in some respects she also met me at the right time. My assumptions about what I needed to help fix changed. My way of talking to women about their day, their challenges, their ambitions slowly morphed. So I don’t know if “she was perfect for me” or I had finally learnt how the differences between biological males and biological females drove how we communicated, what we needed and expected from each other, allowed me to finally commit to a long term relationship. We’ve been together for 17 years, married for 15. She drives me mad at times, and most days she wants to strangle me slowly, but despite all those small details, we also make each other laugh till we can’t breathe, we agree on almost everything (probably why the small disagreements become so “important”), we manage to parent four kids relatively well and when we finally find the time to have a day by ourselves, I am reminded why I fell in love with her.

I guess I’m trying to tell you that it might still happen to you too.

I used to have some old copy pasta for this on Reddit but I’ll be damn if I’m logging in to retrieve it.

So I’ll paraphrase:

Has the battery been made or is it a concept? Has the battery been made to the scale that the claim argues it can hit? What is the price? How many charge cycles? What’s the temperature range it can operate within? Can the battery fit into the existing production processes or will it require new tooling to productionize? Does the battery require any novel materials that aren’t available at scale yet or at the price that’s been assumed? Does the production of the battery have any bi-products that haven’t been handled industrially before? Will the battery require new safety approvals? Will the production require new safety training? What’s the size and the weight of the battery? What’s the charge and discharge rate? How does the temperate of the battery get affected by charging and discharging? Is the battery as safe under puncture and deformation as existing batteries? Can the battery be recycled as easily as existing batteries?

Etc etc

“China develops new battery” needs an answer to all these questions before anything meaningful has been developed. Until then it’s just a theory in a lab. For every 1000 things that work in a lab, one escapes and becomes a product you can buy in a store.

Lol. If you replace “with” with “wish” it should make more sense.

How I wish Firefox forked and ran like this rather than be beholden to the ad money of Google.

I mean looking down at a touch screen that offers no tactile feedback is dangerous. And feeling a button click that your muscle memory can intuitively find is not.

Tbf in many countries you still get this. The Nordics is night and day compared to the U.K. where I live now. You get a local number, a local email and someone who works at that office actually responds and is enabled to make decisions.

It’s a trust thing.

It’s not just a “soft spot” thing though - the tactile confirmation of a button press is life and death if you’re driving a car.

My old Panasonic TV had a fugly but extremely speedy OTA guide. It would load, display and start accepting (rapid) input in 0.2s when you clicked “Guide”.

My new LG - I mean, for Darwin’s sake, it’s like no one gave two shits about OTA programming. The guide takes 1.5s to load, then each channel row loads in, sloooowly, and scrolling is like shuffling clay tablets.

I’d take my old TV back if I could.

You’re assuming the national services are better, I suppose. In my experience it’s been the EU who has struck a better balance between privacy and investigative powers than the crap they’re pushing for nationally.

Europol is merely a clearing house, standards process and coordinating agency for how national police forces work together across the EU states. It has very, very little power. Unfortunately.

I pay about £2.50 for 700+ GB storage, with about 2-10 GB of ingress every month. Storage alone is only £1.40. That’s using OVH’s “Cloud Archive” product; they also have a product called Cold Storage which is a smidge cheaper but doesn’t offer updating of existing data, so according to my projections based on the class of data I am archiving it wouldn’t be cheaper in the long term.

I’m not saying I can. I don’t use Google, haven’t for years, so can’t make statements about the quality of its search. Intuitively search isn’t benefitting from the use of AI.

Ok that we agree entirely. Google is worried that their investors will worry because their investors are too dumb to understand that LLMs and Search are two separate things and one isn’t necessarily better because it uses the other.

You’re confusing what I said as being solely about search.