I’ve had a brother laser printer for 8 years now. Recently my wife was asked “can we get a color printer” and I said but we have at least 5+ years of toner left in this thing!

Recently it’s become even better and more stable. I don’t ever find a need to open another browser at this point.

I’m feeling sorta quilbert

What is the actual shape of this person’s head?

Your public IP stays the same for long periods of time, is geographically tied, and also associates you to certain ISPs based on your address space. How long does it stay the same? Months - Years potentially depending on the lease set on the IP.

every website logs ip. The question is whether the admin maintains those logs. However a web server needs your IP so they can route traffic back to you. That IP gets logged so that if something is not working the admin can review the logs and figure out what is going on. Many websites that are privacy focused either turn the logging off or dump the logs fairly quickly. Doing something like that means the admin needs to take steps to create other avenues for troubleshooting that don’t factor user data into the scenario. With smaller projects like instances hosted on lemmy that might not always be feasible for volunteer admins. This doesn’t necessarily mean they are doing anything wrong. Lots of websites maintain logs that include IP addresses.

I wouldn’t know if it was on reddit. I don’t think it belongs to them anyway.

As someone with ADHD I can tell you this is normal for me. I am not sure if this is normal for people without ADHD but yeah it’s hard for me to stay on track with any idea and follow through with it. It sure is fun to explore all this weird crap but not very useful to not get much done. I will say to give you hope I have still been able to cobble together the skills and abilities over the years to have a professional career but it has taken organization and perseverance that definitely don’t come naturally to me.

I think not having Trump making out with Obama is clearly a missed opportunity

Yes and I will add to this… Just degoogle your phone and slowly stop using Google services. Even this is not a perfect solution but its better than doing nothing.

No, can’t see it

OMG Yes this is awesome!

somehow every kind of bank, business, and rich person can get tax breaks, and bail outs yet average middle class people can’t get some help on their student loans.

I am pretty sure we either agree in full or mostly agree with each other.

But what if there is a significant number of people who are just awful humans, or don’t have a thought for learning, or are not being open or honest etc.

Yeah I agree at this point if people are being systematically terrible then they should get banned or if there is a whole instance of them that instance should be defederated. I say systematically because maybe someone just brought up a hot button issue or maybe they just had a bad day. Like if it’s 90% posts are normal and then just now and then they have a rage post I don’t think that makes them a terrible person. If for example out of a whole instance there is one or two slightly problematic communities but as a whole that instance is fine then it probably shouldn’t be defederated.

I support the idea of engagement and discussion but let’s be honest there are people who aren’t interested in that. There are people who are racist. There are people who really do think you and I are going to hell and they are happy to know that. Sorry there is a reason I don’t associate with people like that in real life and I don’t want to on line either.

Right I get that but I think we already have a fix for that. We can already block people and block communities we don’t like so we don’t need to associate with people we don’t like if we don’t want to. However we also don’t need to shut down their voice entirely if they are doing nothing else then posting horrible memes now and then. However that might not always be true some instance might want to focus on a certain type of advocacy like Open Source and so a meme community for racists might just make no sense for a instance like that.

It is not my mission to discuss this kind of thing with all those people. Trolls and awful humans sometimes do need to be ignored. Otherwise we cannot have interesting or productive conversations with anyone.

Yeah I think that makes total sense there is no need for anyone to do anything they don’t want to do in their free time. I do just wonder for the people who are not terrible but maybe just fallen into an ideology or have been radicalized. Would banning them and pushing them into a corner of the internet with only other radicalized people make them ever figure out they are wrong? How are they going to realize that they are wrong unless they are allowed to participate in a wider discourse where someone can challenge them on their beliefs? Does banning and defederating actually the problem in the case of people we just disagree with or does it make the divides worse and more entrenched?

thanks for the suggestion the post has been updated.

I’m in reality probably center left. I find that I tend to have nuanced views about a variety of things but I probably wouldn’t hard commit to a particular political stripe. I tend to vote Democrat but I often disagree with them on certain things as well. Sometimes I think they are not doing enough on social and environmental issues and sometimes I think they have gone too far on other issues. There are some republican theories I don’t mind but I don’t generally see this current party actually focused on anything I agree with.

oh yeah. hmm weird.

It’s in the browser so I imagine it would be with the github you linked to

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Garmin watch with wireless pay. I use the venue sq but many in the Garmin line support wireless payment.