NeoToasty

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[–] NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 2 hours ago

Good. End us already.

[–] NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org 12 points 22 hours ago (11 children)

Those options aren't really ideal.

What if they live in the middle of no where? And their job commute is 1 hour out? Biking would take double the time and they'd have to leave very early to make it on time.

Not every town has public transit either. Mostly it's the cities that do, metropolitan areas especially. But, not a lot of towns offer travel luxuries.

[–] NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 22 hours ago

I've had maybe 6 people that got away who I could have had a better relationship with than most of the ones I already have had.

Thankfully one of them is still a good friend of mine, we just mesh well in behavior and understanding eachother. Unfortunately, it was a case of her being too reluctant to have taken a chance with me when I broke up with one of my exes some 14 or so years ago. Since then, she's been with someone new and while it's been going well. But we've talked at times about how we could've been if we were theoretically together.

And nothing feels worse than not only knowing you could've had them if they just spoke up, but knowing all this time later and not having a crack of a shot to try. It just sucks.

[–] NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Junk. They're useless because Google has made them online-only machines that are only good for when they're online and fewer ways offline.

For a while, least the early generations of Chromebooks, it was possible to substitute ChromeOS with a Linux distro. However, Google learned of this and decided to take that functionality away and I believe that all current generations of Chromebooks won't allow that.

So, Chromebooks just contribute to e-waste. Good job, Google, you assholes.

[–] NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 22 hours ago

This is why we have specialized people who you call to handle these things.

[–] NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org 19 points 22 hours ago

People will be angry but angry at the wrong people. No, let's not be angry at the guy for actively destroying everyone's lives. Let's be angry at blacks. Or gay people. Or transgenders. Or police. Or scientists.

Fucking dumb Americans.

[–] NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah I mean, people have complicated so many things.

Back in the early days of the internet, you were a laughingstock for being infamous on the internet. Like, you weren't supposed to and it was frowned upon. Now look where that's gotten.

[–] NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But you'll notice that the price comparison is narrowing and Wal-Mart is slowly not looking better off than the competition. It's almost like shopping at Dollar Tree is more feasible, it's what some of us are going to be forced to be doing if not now. Just shopping Dollar Tree almost regularly.

 

Jay Graber wrongly said you needed to be 18 to use Bluesky, when the actual age limit is 13.

 

Giving money to Amazon, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Google .etc

It's like, you can't have an argument for price gouging, when you're enabling them by spending. If people were smart, they'd stop giving them money 10 - 15 years ago and they'd be right now, trying to reconstruct so they can be more economically friendly than how they are now.

[–] NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 day ago

Learn it's lesson too late and at the wrong time.

[–] NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 day ago

The Depression to end All Depressions!

 

The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act, S. 2140, (PERA), sponsored by Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE) would be a huge gift to patent trolls, a few tech firms that aggressively license patents, and patent lawyers. For everyone else, it will be a huge loss. That’s why we’re opposing it, and asking our supporters to speak out as well. Patent trolling is still a huge, multi-billion dollar problem that’s especially painful for small businesses and everyday internet users.

 

Like, do you extend the lease? Return the vehicle and try aiming for a different dealership?

 

Going to be interesting times, in a bad way. Everyone knows now in the US the newly appointed FCC chairman is going to be Brendan Carr, who is against the idea of Net Neutrality so we expect that to go away again similarly to how Ajit Pai got rid of it when he was around.

Should anyone be worried about what this guy can do? Will he carry on the fight for entertainment industry's interests?

Okay, can we focus on the subject matter instead of just devolving it into a stupid meme and treating this platform like it's reddit? Come on, grow up and I've blocked half of you already.

 

Dial-Up internet. Unfortunately, it's still here because the ISPs continue to fail to deliver on the promise of expanding broadband over and over.

And because of that, it's no wonder internet isn't expanded to everywhere in the country of USA.

 

Today I'm donating my streaming sticks. I got a ONN brand 2k one I bought for 15 and I got an Amazon Firestick 4K I got for $3 from a thrift store because they didn't know what it was.

And I love the concept of stream sticks, I really do. Too fucking bad that corporate interests got in the way and now everything has to have a bundle of ads at every damn turn. Not even some of the things I'm subscribed to is free from ads because this is the future apparently, we're here.

Shame because I don't want to let these go and even if I were to subscribe to Netflix's ad-free subscription, that's only one source. Why do that when I can just grab a long HDMI cable, plug it into my desktop and to my TV and I can watch everything that's there, without ads because of the extensions I use to block ads.

 

Some of these things may sound a little exaggerated, but I'm not going to put it pass anyone considering who we're going to be dealing with in these 4 years.

I'm expecting nutrition labels to be poorly regulated and to be informationally false or fabricated. Because we'll have health "experts" who don't care about people's health.

There'll be a lot of sissy slapping among the rich who're fighting moreso over their ideas in what the best course of action that'll benefit them, than it is to benefit country.

Domestic dispute cases will more likely be thrown out or not focused on because this country has shown as to how many misogynists and incels that there are.

I was playing Half-Life 2 recently and for some reason, the vibes of that game reflected the vibes that we're going to be facing. While not exactly, it'll be a similar atmosphere, where we'll be clinging to whatever escapism outlet that we can find to ignore it all.

(This is USA...for the people who're like "DUHHHHH")

 

I would rather know a little, honestly. Because what pisses me off about information today is that I don't really know who's value I am to take and even be skeptical towards. So I'd rather know little.

 

If the price gouging of 2020 and everything following that too. If the housing market crashes didn't budge anyone. If the abundance of so many subscription services didn't. If poorly chosen representatives didn't.

If just the high cost of simply living life isn't doing anything.

Then what the fuck will anymore?

 

No examples from me, just curious.

 

Andrew Wilson is reportedly being considered for Disney's top job. It's a big move in the entertainment world, with potential ramifications for fans of Pixar and Marvel as well as The Sims, Battlefield, and Dragon Age

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