I’m sad I’m just now learning about Twin

Another popular “unpopular” opinion!

Yeah, maybe knock it the fuck off with the gatekeeping bullshit. I’ve seen similar from you in other posts in this community. This is your first, final, and only warning.

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That’s 846.5 million people who are on some form of micro-blogging platform; almost a billion people plus or minus bots.

I rarely go to Walmart. This is from the local Kroger (grocery store).

Good. May other retailers and grocery chains follow.

I hate those things - they treat you like a thief by default. I rarely use them and prefer to wait in line for the 1-2 cashiers, but I did the other day because I only had a few bottles of water to check out, and it was unsurprisingly horrible.

Scanned and bagged all my stuff. More slowly than I’d have liked, but otherwise uneventfully. I unpocket my wallet to get my shopper’s card and debit card out. “Oh no, you didn’t!” the machine said as it called for backup. Cue waiting 3-4 minutes for the attendant to get to me.

The machine asked the attendant if I was stealing and showed a replay of what it assumed must be me trying some Ocean’s 11 level of grand larceny. In the video? It was me getting my wallet out to pay.

Absolutely no time was saved. Nothing was more convenient, and to top it off, I was once again accused of stealing by a bathroom scale with delusions of grandeur.

For those of you unwilling to actually read the article, it’s not money.

The pool of blue-collar workers who are able and willing to perform tasks on a factory floor in the United States is shrinking. As baby boomers retire, few young people are lining up to take their place.

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For some companies, remaining globally competitive involves the use of sophisticated equipment that requires employees to have extensive training and familiarity with software. And employers cannot simply hire people right out of high school without providing specialized training programs to bring them up to speed.

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“We spent three generations telling everybody that if they didn’t go to college, they are a loser,” he said. “Now we are paying for it. We still need people to use their hands.”

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The country is flooded with college graduates who can’t find jobs that match their education

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The Trump administration’s aggressive cuts to training programs for blue-collar workers have also hurt efforts to train a new generation of factory workers.

Not blocked, but my instance is fully de-federated from lemmit.online.

And yes, I consider all the re-post instances/bots to be spam.

Don’t have much insight myself. They did pare down their offerings to big trucks, the Mustang, and crossovers (basically killed off all their sedans) which I wasn’t happy about, but they do seem to be thinking ahead and leaning into EVs, so respect there. Unsure how much of that is in-house developed versus licensing from others (VW, Toyota, etc).

I do know they do/did a lot of cross-licensing of tech with Toyota; I was a little wary of buying the Fusion Hybrid when I had already done extensive research on the Camry Hybrid I originally set out to buy, but it turns out they share most of the same drivetrain on the EV portions.

From what I gather, they do seem to realize EVs are the future. Just wish they had some less gargantuan / more affordable options than the F-150 lighting and Mustang Mach-E. A Fiesta EV would be fantastic, for example.

My hope is that once they’ve got production for batteries, their offerings will expand since the batteries are one of the most expensive components.

My only regret was not spending the extra $1,200 to get the plug-in Fusion Hybrid. At the time, I didn’t have anywhere to charge it, so it didn’t make sense. If only I’d known I’d be buying a house a year and a half later.

Never had a Ford except a used and abused Ranger but it got the job done.

Drove one of those for years, and I miss it terribly (well, not for commuting, but for having on hand to haul stuff from Lowe’s lol). Sadly, the frame rusted out where the leaf springs attach and couldn’t feasibly fix it.

I’ve never been one for brand loyalty, but my grandparents were all about Fords. I drive one now but that’s only because I went to buy a Camry Hybrid but someone bought the last one off the lot right before I got there; the Fusion Hybrid I ended up buying was basically a consolation prize, but it’s been the most reliable car I’ve ever owned.

That said, I absolutely respect Ford for moving ahead with this and the forward thinking they’re showing, especially in the face of the current political climate. Will definitely keep that in mind when I’m ready to retire my hybrid and upgrade to an EV.

It’s a blunt instrument, but I’ve been temp-banning any new account that posts to any of the various “ask” communities. When I check back on them a few days later, 99% of them show up as “ERROR” when I view them on their home instance.

The upside is that with them being banned at the time they nuke their accounts, the delete request is not accepted and the content/replies remain available.

I’m to the point I’m considering patching the server to ignore federated account deletions since they’re being abused by a small number of people in a way that affects the majority of users.

Yeah. I’ll do what I can from mobile

Which alt (s) do you want me to add as a mod for it?

Edit: I added your dubvee alt as top mod and @BoozeOrWater@piefed.social as well.

!dundermifflin@dubvee.org

Yeah, some are. It’s just unfortunate that you frequently have to pre-order, fund a kickstarter, or roll the dice with some unknown Chinese brand that may or may not ever see a software update/3rd party ROM support. That, or they’re more expensive because of the smaller production runs.

I really like the PlanetCom ones, but they’re a bit pricey and have some quirks that would probably make them not a good fit for me as a daily driver. Not sure I’d want to pay those prices for a secondary device.

I did order a Minimal Phone the other day (July batch), so hopefully should have that toward the end of July/early August.

Until then, I’ll keep using my Cat S22 Flip which I have grown to actually love.

While [insert ad company name] products are a little more expensive, the quality and customer service are unmatched. It evens out when you use the [insert ad company name] reward card which gives 5% off each purchase.

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Both of my last two laptops have internal batteries. Both of them are also fairly easy to replace. The Thinkpad is the easiest (as is usually the case), but my old Zenbook is almost as easy (just requires a very tiny torx screwdriver which I already had from my cell phone repair days).

As long as they’re not glued in and otherwise a huge PITA to replace (like phones), I’m okay with internal batteries.

Those who cheered on the latter murder should now be examining their consciences.

30% (or more) of Lemmy is basically like “authoritarianism, murder, assassination, and political violence are bad unless it’s my side doing it” with a smattering of “Everyone must know of our peaceful ways…by violence if necessary”. The hypocrisy on display from those people is staggering.

Like, seriously, a non-insignificant chunk of the demographic here just makes me fucking sick.

It does, but I’m talking more about scheduled posts. Many instances require those to be tagged as bots.

Well…I guess I did miss the nod.

That also shuts down my fever dream theory lol.

The only one I saw I kind of liked was the Titan, but it seemed a bit out of date (not sure if it gets updates, and I didn’t see it listed as supported for LineageOS).