implying Google has customer service

You don’t need to crack anything, pirate your ebooks (I’ve recently had good results from annas-archive.org for fiction books) and send them to kindle as personal documents.

Corporations are not people, no matter what the Supreme Court says.

The only game journalist I trust is James Stephanie Sterling and Denuvo sure as shit isn’t sending them a copy

Laptop and Chromebook are two very different things. A laptop is sufficient for any use case that doesn’t demand GPU power, but if you’re ever considering buying a “gaming” laptop, don’t. You can get a cheap laptop and a decent gaming desktop for the same price and they’ll last you longer and run better.

A Chromebook is just walled garden bullshit.

Iain M. Banks’ Culture

Cops will never help you

the ! addressing allows you to post a link that anybody can click to get their instance’s version of the community link. So for example, [email protected] posted anywhere on lemmy becomes a link to https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/[email protected] for me, but the exact same link is a link to https://aussie.zone/c/[email protected] for you

The matrix is capitalism and being cis

Think of the poor cluster bomb manufacturers. How will they maximize shareholder value if nobody uses their widely banned weapons that mostly kill civilians?

Tradition, one of the worst reasons on earth to do anything.

I tend to binge through books. I just finished Andy Weir’s Artemis and Project Hail Mary in about one night each.

Which means the things I’m in the middle of tend to be web serials since I can’t just rush through. I’ve got dozens of tabs of royalroad open in my phone’s browser. Everything by Ravensdagger is good, and I’ve been enjoying Return of the Runebound Professor and Let’s Not Obliterate, and awaiting the scheduled return from hiatus of Ends of Magic on Monday.

Rimworld, KSP1, Stellaris

A recipe for frequent civil wars

If a corporation puts their crimes inside a computer, they can get away with it for years before anybody figures out how to do anything about it.

From the 1998 paper titled “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine” by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page:

Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. For example, in our prototype search engine one of the top results for cellular phone is “The Effect of Cellular Phone Use Upon Driver Attention”, a study which explains in great detail the distractions and risk associated with conversing on a cell phone while driving. This search result came up first because of its high importance as judged by the PageRank algorithm, an approximation of citation importance on the web [Page, 98]. It is clear that a search engine which was taking money for showing cellular phone ads would have difficulty justifying the page that our system returned to its paying advertisers. For this type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.

Yeah there’s a pretty fundamental conflict of interest in an advertising company controlling most of the world’s browsers.

This means you need to use Firefox, Chrome is crippling adblockers.

Really the whole Trashfuture extended universe is fantastic

There are only two types of software: Free and nonFree