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DigDoug@lemmy.worldto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•20% of american buyers are spending over $1000 a month on car loans. 22.4% of new loans were 84 months or longer. It means someone who buys a car today will be paying it off until July of 2032English12·5 days agoAre movies and TV shows really accurate when it comes to American attitudes towards cars? I remember watching something where a character lamented how old their 5-year-old car was. This simply does not compute to me. My mortgage is less than the equivalent of $1000 USD a month - I’d much rather have an “old” car.
DigDoug@lemmy.worldto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•A Classic Childhood Pastime Is Fading [Largely because of cars/road safety]English171·8 days agoWhen I was in high school I used to bike practically everywhere.
A few years ago I got a bike again in the hopes that using it would improve my health. Despite still living in the same city I now felt so unsafe on the road that I sold it after a few months.
Kokomo
DigDoug@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some things you do when you are home and bored?English45·14 days agoWank
DigDoug@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What websites search function do you hate most?English24·16 days agoI work in ecommerce, so the answer is “ours”. I get far too many calls saying “Do you sell x”, or “How much is y”, and because of how terrible our website’s search function is, I can’t just say “use the fucking website, that’s what it’s there for” like I desperately want to.
DigDoug@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•WhatsApp messaging app banned on all US House of Representatives devicesEnglish351·17 days agoWe all know they use Signal, anyway.
I still use Firefox despite Mozilla because fuck Google.
I tried Librewolf, but YouTube (yeah, I know) ran like crap on it for some reason.
Custom ROMs were always a pretty niche thing, and they’ve become much less worth it since:
Stock Android doesn’t suck as much as it used to
Banking Apps aren’t guaranteed to work
VoLTE doesn’t work (this might depend on phone model)
Most manufacturers now offer software support for a reasonable length of time
So unless there’s an old feature you want to keep (LG Quad DAC diehards represent), or you’re super privacy-conscious, most people aren’t going to bother.
DigDoug@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Wikipedia Pauses an Experiment That Showed Users AI-Generated Summaries at The Top of Some Articles, Following an Editor Backlash.English1·28 days agoMe saying “RIP” was an attempt at hyperbole. That being said, shoehorning AI into something for which a big selling point is that it’s user-made is a gigantic misstep - Maybe they’ll listen to everybody, but given that they tried it at all, I can’t see them properly backing down. Especially when it was worded as “pausing” the experiment.
I remember when I first bought my Gamecube… I had to sign an agreement that I would never play a non-Nintendo property again. “How could they ever enforce this?” I thought. Little did I know that the next day, the Sony SWAT Team would be bursting into my house to extract my Playstation. It was absolutely terrifying.
I haven’t played a single non-Nintendo game since.
DigDoug@lemmy.worldto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Ever-rising height of car bonnets a ‘clear threat’ to children, report saysEnglish19·29 days agoThese haven’t really invaded New Zealand yet, but I walked past a parked one once and the bonnet came up to my shoulders - I’m six foot tall.
These… things are a “clear threat” to fully-grown adults. They’re well beyond that for children.
DigDoug@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Wikipedia Pauses an Experiment That Showed Users AI-Generated Summaries at The Top of Some Articles, Following an Editor Backlash.English74·29 days agoIf they thought this would be well-received they wouldn’t have sprung it on people. The fact that they’re only “pausing the launch of the experiment” means they’re going to do it again once the backlash has subsided.
RIP Wikipedia, it was a fun 24 years.
DigDoug@lemmy.worldto 3DPrinting@lemmy.world•Update on the "crushed letters" issueEnglish1·1 month agoHave you tried printing on a raft?
DigDoug@lemmy.worldto Nintendo@lemmy.world•As fans reject Switch 2 game-key cards, former Nintendo marketing leads say it's unlikely that physical games will ever "100% go away," because "they realize the importance of that"English61·1 month agoThe massive negative reception could certainly be considered a “rejection”. Whether people actually stick to their guns and refuse to buy them is another story.
DigDoug@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•If you were the CEO of a small game development company would company field trips be a good thing?English4·1 month agoI can’t imagine anybody would prefer work-sanctioned “fun” to the same amount of PTO and the money the activity would have cost.
DigDoug@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s BlogEnglish3·1 month agoYeah, I didn’t consider that the exchange rate in 2012 was really good. With the new price and today’s exchange rate, it would be $180 NZD, which isn’t the end of the world, but feels kind of wrong because electronics generally get cheaper the longer they’re on the market.
That being said, it isn’t just Kindles. Kobos used to be ridiculously cheap, and now they’re the same price as Kindles if not more.
DigDoug@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s BlogEnglish8·1 month agoIt’s crazy. I bought the then-current basic model Kindle for $90 NZD in 2012, which still works. I recently started looking for a new eReader with USB C and without the rubberised coating that slowly turns back into oil. The cheapest I’ve found is over $200.
DigDoug@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft wants Windows Update to handle all appsEnglish52·1 month agoOn the one hand, it’s about time - APT was released in 1998, and it wasn’t even the first package manager.
On the other hand, I’m sure Microsoft will find a way to make it shit.
DigDoug@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What's a good HTPC OS and software?English9·2 months agoIt’s still in active development, but you might want to keep an eye on
Plasma Bigscreen
. I’ve been looking for a similar setup to you, and it seems to tick all of the boxes, at least for me.I only learned about it recently, and I’ve been too busy to try it in that time, but I’ll edit this post with my impressions once I get the time to have a play with it.
“and the word ‘dog’ with the word ‘son’.”