REI isn’t who they hype themselves to be.

So now they probably want to use GenAI to create hype shots, fake reviews, review summaries, and “improve efficiencies” that are so far from their original mission you can’t see it from there.

But REI is a LONG ways from being the co-op sort of place they used to pretend to be. Now they just resell cheaply manufactured trash.

deleted by creator

deleted by creator

Umbrella, water, no electronics, and yeah, the bathroom situation is never planned out properly which is frustrating.

It’ll be scorching hot, and the protest is planned for a park with absolutely no shade, but that’s where I plan to be. I’ll also be still annoyed that the 5051 people suck so bad at planning (they keep having protests change time, venue, etc at the last moment).

Scrambling to stack overflow is my guess

Definitely the count, he’s #1 in my book

I’m subscribed to a number of ‘magazines’ and none of them have any politics at all. I peek into ‘all’ every now and again out of curiosity.

So, same as reddit - gtfo of all, and change your default feed to be what you want to see.

I find it interesting that simply having been involved in litigation (I got sued once for an art piece) seems to be enough that I go home every time I’m called for jury duty. They really do want people with no idea.

We can’t have anything nice

I say this to be fair, since I’ve used Debian since almost the very beginning: Debian is a bit more complicated to set up.

I generally find when people ask me for help, they’re either on Ubuntu or on Fedora (in which case I direct them to someone else for help). Sometimes they’re gamers or using something where Debian + tweaks is ideal, but often I just help them configure Debian, or just help them get their Ubuntu where they want it.

I don’t know, this was for a system on kubuntu 24.04, the latest up there. I removed it, replaced it with debian and kde - my friend isn’t a gamer, doesn’t require anything bleeding edge, so that was just a better choice in our opinion.

Only tangentially related - but a friend brought over a new kubuntu install and Canonical had the cheek to demand money for VLC patches? They don’t fing own VLC. What the actual f is going on over there, Canonical?

I just recently de-snapped yet another ubuntu system. Couldn’t agree more. I use debian standard for all of my stuff, and I agree with your ranking.

Everyone is doing this, partially to stop AI scrapers and bots. It’s a bit weird on an “about” page, but welcome to 2025 and the dead internet.

I hope they keep it this time, I’m tired of seeing these, and then “oh, MS gave us a great deal soooo”

I believe this states the take many have - much like nobody batted an eye about auto-contrast, content-aware fill, or line smoothing. They weren’t trying to replace humans with programs, weren’t causing huge environmental impact, and weren’t trained on stolen content. It’s the ham-handed implementation that most are opposed to, combined with the obnoxious techbro mentality.

What “kickstart”? The fediverse isn’t a commercial venture. If we can connect with our friends and interests, it’s already “working”. I find fantastic new people here all the time, doing really niche stuff I’d never find on a platform focused on appealing to everyone.

If “99%” of people aren’t on it, that’s perfectly acceptable, and just makes it easier for the ones on it to find and talk to their friends. I don’t think we need or want the vast torrent of spammers, downvote bots, and “influencer” types who use whatever gives them clicks.

I was told something like this about an article I was pointing out wasn’t on page 1 of google, but was on virtually all other engines. “Unless it’s page 1 of google nobody cares”

And all I can say is “who cares? those aren’t the people it’s for”

Considering it’s shipped by default on the fedi, on ghost, discourse, bsky and loads of other very hot upcoming and established tools, it’s very much alive. Just because xitter and facebook and google failed to find a way to monetize it and therefore tried to kill it doesn’t make it dead.