It’s true.

Rules are meant to be broken - apart from when they aren’t.

You can change any aspect of the world any way you like, but only if doing that is critical to your universe and story.

Messing up without reason conventions that are well established is a dick move, unless the whole point of your work is to screw with people.

Nah this one is easy.

If it’s green and sparkly, it’s a good thing. If it’s green and bubbly, it’s a bad thing.

It looks like a video game puzzle where you have to spot the excruciatingly obvious “hidden” password.

Yeah. When you buy a Logitech mouse that comes with a dongle in the same package, you don’t need to do anything, just plug it in.

In my case though, I bought a replacement dongle for a mouse that was missing one, and was able to use Solarr to pair it up.

Solaar does the other Logitech-specific stuff you need too, like macros, scroll wheel ratcheting, and all that.

For anyone needing to manage Logitech devices under Linux, try Solar

Got me sorted recently when I wanted to pair a dongle with a different mouse than it came with.

https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar

I like to be home by 11, so there’s room for a little chill time before I actually have to go to sleep!

Getting home and immediately going to bed is the worst!

The “problem” they are trying to solve is “how do we keep people on the platform clicking and watching more videos for longer?” and the “solution” to that doesn’t necessarily involve showing you what you actually wanted to find.

Also it’s an autumn day and the office heating is just a little hot and stuffy

[The proposal] defines a deepfake as a very realistic digital representation of a person, including their appearance and voice.

The government said the new rules would not affect parodies and satire, which would still be permitted.

Seems like they’ve already thought about this, and the law will cover only digital clones, not human lookalikes - plus carve-outs for fair use satire.

I have two blåhaj - one in my bed for snuggles, who is well loved and well worn, and one hanging out on the back of my sofa for “Sunday Best” 😆

🤮

I don’t think we want that. It sets some weird precedent that instances need to be lemmy-dot-something, which is both untrue and restrictive on server hosts as a barrier for entry if that becomes the universal convention.

I assumed they meant ‘baked potato’ because ‘baked potato’ is what they said.

Yes, of course it will be online.

Exactly the same for me.

Notifications are allowed only when they serve as a convenience mechanism to tell me something happened in my life that I want to know about and care about.

They are not allowed when they function purely as a free interrupt mechanism to allow a corporation to monetise my attention for their profit.

Anyone with news alerts turned on, do yourself a favour and turn them off.

The news is always available - if and when you want it. You don’t need to allow yourself to be barraged by it 24/7.

And after the apocalypse is finished there’s probably gonna be Iike, jobs available, and plenty of empty real estate. Opportunities!

Viewers have literally zero attention span, so if the talking isn’t super high speed back to back without even a single second to pause for breath, people click off or scroll past.

Same with subtitles that flash up rapidly, a single word at at time.

That’s the sorry state of affairs we are now living with.

Cloudflare presumably don’t want to give away the identity of their customer.

Even if only 1% of people used adblock, then that’s 1% of millions of dollars of ad revenue. It’s easily enough to put several people on this as a full time job if they want to.

I’m sure Google saw it as only a minor issue at first, but the number of people using adblockers is presumably going up all the time.

The irony being of course that adblock usage is skyrocketing only because companies like Google have made the Internet so thoroughly ad-polluted it’s intolerable to go without one.