[-] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yep I have that problem now. All the toilet seats in my house are soft close and I slam public toilet seats whenever I'm out of the house now without thinking

[-] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Very important that whatever first aid kit you get has a tourniquet, or that you buy one separately.

They are easily the most important life saving device in any first aid kit. 99% of the time you won't need it for normal cuts but when you are dealing an injury that needs one you WILL regret not having one.

[-] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't that be fixed by a fresh install though? I haven't uninstalled anything in the last few days...

[-] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Nope, just Windows Defender, I think other AVs are just as bad as malware.

[-] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

NGL I haven't considered this yet; it IS feasible though, I'd just have to make a bootable ISO drive and dig up my product key which is buried... somewhere.

I'll consider doing that if I can't find anything else to fix this but I'd rather not.

[-] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

No, it won't. I bring it up in this particular thread for 2 reasons.

  1. I don't like the insinuation that anyone who claims to have problems with Firefox must be bots. I don't think that's at all true, since I've run into multiple problems with the browser myself that I haven't been able to solve.

  2. I brought it up in the previous thread because I think that if people are considering switching, knowing what problems exist is useful. It isn't meant to dissuade anyone, in fact I regularly recommend Firefox to my friends and family. But I don't personally use it because of a pretty major problem, and I don't think it's bad to mention it when the topic comes up.

[-] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

"Other people who have bad experience ces with something just be asteoturfing."

Ivw consistently had an issue with Firefox that I described in a thread a few days ago that I can't seem to identify or fix. Am I just not allowed to mention it?

[-] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

The right has succeeded enormously in changing the definition of "free speech" for a large segment of the population to mean "speech without public criticism or outrage."

That guarantees that we will see lots of horrific people get into office and get the spotlight, because anyone who asks "why are we platforming these people" will be accused of "cancel culture" and "being anti-free speech" by all the conservatives and even some liberals, now.

Forget that the people I want ostracized from major public platforms are actual, literal nazis, saying nazi things and actively working to enact a system which will enable actual genocide. That doesn't matter any more to a lot of liberal suburbanites who believe that free speech is somehow sacrosanct, and have accepted the new definition.

It guarantees the Overton window will continue shifting to the right at an alarmingly fast rate unless we enact laws to stop it, which we can't because of how broad the first amendment is.

[-] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

He's incredibly good at turning experiences into words. Allentown is still relevant today, the way he wrote it it just describes so many peoples American experience.

But he did that a lot. Where I think he's best with it is more emotional songs, he really captures whatever emotion he's getting into words well. Like, Captain Jack does a good job of telling the story of someone in small town America, but I always heard it as a song about depression. All this stuff is happening around you and you're just kinda there for it, not really feeling much of anything.

Or how he captures that nervous feeling about meeting a girl for the first time in Get it Right the First Time. He is so good at getting emotion into music.

[-] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, that's basically the only LED that I miss. I used to REALLY like that LED light that would flash to tell me what notifications I had. Different colors for different notifications.

At night I'd just flop the phone over so it doesn't light the room up.

[-] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

You might have some kind of problem with your eye sight.

... good night vision?

[-] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I disagree.

Twitter was one of the largest social media platforms on the planet, and was especially huge in the US. Before Musk bought it it didn't show any signs of failure. It lasted over a decade, and had enough reach that I think it made a lot of sense for things like emergency alerts, government officials, etc. to use it as one means, even a main means, of disseminating information. It was really effective at that until what, a year ago?

I don't think anyone really predicted Elon Musk buying Twitter and running it into the ground within a year. Yes, it was hypothetically possible in our capitalist system, but there was no indication that it would until Elon made a joking tweet.

Because of how the modern internet has organized itself, it was inevitable that critical systems would utilize Twitter for it's reach.

I think you're applying hindsight and expecting people to have made decisions based on events that hadn't happened yet. Before musk bought Twitter it wasn't at all unreasonable for people to rely on it for information from government officials because it was the format millions of people were accustomed to receiving that information in every day.

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