The majority of people using Lemmy are wearing plastic clothing and fill the waterways with microplastics every single time they wash them.

Reviews are a thing of the past due to manipulation, and now ai as well. Google reviews have been trash for a long time. It really is a pity, there was a time when you could do an internet search for ‘best’ and get decent results, long time ago now though, before all of the amazon links.

pcmasterchef

Humans are why we cannot have nice things. The internet was always going to get ridiculous, just like the usa was always going to prove back to the future right in the stupidest possible way.

for who?

I have had 3 hdd’s fail… all of them Seagate.

subtlety and social media…

Install, change settings, use.

If Australians are not stupid, how do you explain decades of (pro fossil fuel) duopoly, instead of democracy?

Did you forget this /s Or are you a fossil?

“This audio is voiced by AI and may occasionally mispronounce words.”

Yeah… nah, fuck off sbs

ai slop

might be worth looking into

I’m not sure of anything, I would look into it further were I planning on using it, which I might do in the future, Garuda KDE lite looks like a decent distro.

From the little I have looked into it, it is all meant to be checked, adding an extra layer of protection, as long as your trust the people behind it (much like official I guess)

Another poorly written meandering article with a rubbish title

This seems to be the only bit possibly worth reading:

"Insurance costs hit homebuyers

Professor Paula Jarzabkowski, an expert on insurance protection gaps at the University of Queensland, says there’s already significant evidence that many Australians are struggling to get adequate cover for their properties — either because it’s too expensive or because policies exclude specific risks, like certain types of flood or fire.

She says these issues are not isolated to small communities in regional areas.

“Brisbane is built on a floodplain, parts of Sydney are built on floodplains, so we have seen catastrophic flooding in these major cities as well,” she tells SBS News.

“We’ve seen bushfires at the urban bush interface in Perth.”

This is not something happening to a few isolated communities, this is something that’s happening in our cities.

Newcastle conveyancer Leah Stevens sold her business in April but says insurance costs appear to have risen, particularly over the past five years.

She says about 30 per cent of the Newcastle local government area is designated flood-prone land, and she began advising clients to always obtain a home and contents insurance quote before exchanging contracts to avoid a “rude shock” once they were already locked in.

“We’ve had clients that have obtained [insurance] quotes and decided not to proceed with certain purchases,” she tells SBS News.

Stevens warns lenders generally require borrowers to have building insurance in place before settlement, and some policies have costs up to $14,000 a year, which can be a significant additional expense for prospective buyers."

The pop up is not the issue. The recent gamers nexus video about this is well worth watching.

LG believes it is your responsibility to tell anyone entering your premises, that your LG device will be spying on them.

I only use official and flatpak, I wouldn’t even use flatpak if official had more.

Chaotic aur might be worth looking into if aur is what you want. Everything there is theoretically checked.

Non-replaceable batteries are bad, but they are far form new, they have already been tried and are known to be deliberately anti-consumer, which is why the eu is doing something about it. Every single person does not need to buy ewaste for something to be known as ewaste.

Consumer tech would have progressed a great deal more if consumers had standards. At the moment it has just gone from bigger number better, to put ai in the name. Tech is meant to be better than that, sustainability is a massive part of long term viability due to finite resources.

I guess that would depend on how often you used the torch, for me rechargeable batteries last for years in them.

My headphones have a cord, because logic (for my use case anyway). I have no idea how long batteries tend to last in cordless ones.

So with the mouse, what you are saying is that you could use it while it was plugged in with a cord?

if you tweet, I would rather you were on a different internet, or preferably on a different planet.

friends don’t let friends use the AUR