So maybe you just jumped to spew your cumload into the conversation, but the original person to whom I replied indicated that it was specifically their friends they were socializing with. And sorry if this sounds too grandpa to you, but tweeting is not a friendship. I see how many young kids these days have “friendships” online but in the real world they couldn’t give a shit about one-another. That’s not friendship.

So, what I was saying to that person is that for your actual real life friends is not a reason to stay on Twitter. Go get together in person and interact the way humans have for the past half million years.

Oh but excuse me for being a grandpa because obviously the toxic and impersonal method of socializing you kids do today is just so much cooler than the way it’s been done for half million years. Clearly, Homo Sapiens was just lame. It’s so lucky that the little brats of today have come along and we’ve finally been given the gift of wisdom of pimpled tweens to know how to relate to one-another: facelessly, voiceless, distanced and atonal on a screen.

Yes I meant talk to them. It’s what we used to do back before social media melted most people’s brains.

if you use Twitter to interact with friends

If that’s what you use it for, why don’t you just pick up the goddamn phone to talk to your friends, and ditch the piece of shit that is X.

I don’t know if you’ve been not paying attention but even if he’s not elected, he will never see the inside of a jail cell. Trump is untouchable. I’m not sure why, most people speculate he has dirt on some very powerful people - really serious dirt on many really powerful people. That’s only speculation, but if you recall during his first campaign he bragged about how much he was loved and worshiped he said he could walk out of Trump tower onto Fifth Avenue, and shoot someone dead in broad daylight and he would never face any consequences whatsoever. And he was right.

I said so-fucking-long to Google long ago and switched to DuckDuckGo. If I ever get really nowhere and think maybe googs might have a result for me, then on the Duck you just use a !g before your terms and it facilitates the search thru Google but without their ads.

Their focus shifted long ago from being the best to just figuring out new ways to get more out of users, no matter how deceitful and manipulative they need to be.

They have been continually and progressively hostile toward their sellers. They want total devotion and commitment, they want their sellers to swear off any and all other venues and pledge total loyalty to Amazon - AND they continually screw them as punishment for not doing so.

Kinda sounds like a cult to me. And yes, according to Louis Rossman, the FTC is preparing to go for the jugular against them.

I hope you smacked her for that lol.

I remember that! As others have posted, Logo.

Ford’s are so precise they can even create images like the Ford Logo with their lights.

That is fucking cool!

Only usable for current emergency. Once current emergency is abated, points expire.

It’s where every industry is striving for. To continually get paid for something forever.

So instead of barely “working” for a living, he wants to not at all work for a living.

Hey, if he can make ad revenue off idiots who are willing to consume his drek, good for him.

Precisely! As long as consumers continue to play their game, they’ll keep upping the ante.

My main computers are 8+ years old running Linux and performing astoundingly well.

Unfortunately, 90% of the time a typical non-savvy consumer buys a new machine it’s for all the wrong reasons and they really don’t have to. They just don’t know better.

All law enforcement and regulatory bodies have their plates full non-stop in this Wild West world we live in now. At any moment for every criminal that’s caught a hundred get away with something.

Ok, I get the gist. Thanks!

Funny you mention Phillips because that’s the brand I like, too. Just recommended it to someone here in fact.

I’m not sure what wattage my ceiling fixtures are; I’ll check.

Which app for iOS to use for kbin?

I use Voyager (wefwef) for Lemmy and the official Mastadon app for their platform.

I’d worship and all-in-one FOSS solution!

Seriously, I have whichever ones were remaining in the boxes when we finished populating all our fixtures. Haven’t replaced one ever.

How do high-end home LEDs get around this? Do they have a battery that caches the current between cycles?

When my wife and I bought our place, we renovated and made all lights LED. The overheads in the living room and kitchen are quite bright and steady, so they must avoid this somehow.

I’ve never been disappointed with Philips. However, I have no doubt there are tons of exceptionally good quality products out there from various brands.