slowcakes

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[–] slowcakes@programming.dev 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

The solution is simple but there's not enough political motivation to do anything, there is more incentive to do bare minimum. regulate marketing on the internet, enact laws that prohibits intrusive marketing ad platforms.

[–] slowcakes@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago (11 children)

And of they can't, because they can't. Every parent is not the ideal parent and will never be, heck there's parents who are retarded (in the literal sense).

But lets say it's the average tech illiterate parent, who thinks computers are a gaming machine for kids. Imagine the amount of social engineering and how the marketing departments of companies trying to make kids addicted to their platform. The industries are pouring trillions of dollars in marketing, are you confident that regular parents have a chance of competing with them?

i'm in no way of supporting this because it's done for other nefarious reason, just commenting on the troupe that parents is responsible for their own kids. We can say that all day, but the reality is that they don't know what impact it has on their kids mental health and how damaging short term dopamine addiction is for their children. Society is still responsible to help parents navigate healthy behavior for their children.

Tbh if children was the concern of this law, then you would allow parents to sue tiktok and other platforms that have made their children addicted to the platform. You should also be able to sue influencers for promoting stuff to children (they know the age of their userbase).

Still parenting is hard, especially when you are competing with phds in behavioral science or psychologists that help these platforms design their addiction mechanism.

[–] slowcakes@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What is considered not cheaping out on psu? because the price range can be 50-100 euro more depending on the model for the same effect. I usually buy the bronze standard and that the components are made in japan or korea.

[–] slowcakes@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Europe = Germany, otherwise its paris or spain, italy is an island next to new york

[–] slowcakes@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Their job is to sell tools to fix stuff, did you even read the ars article, it's just clickbait. Lenovo failed because they didn't provide repairability score for their laptop models. nothing to do with if it's actual repairable or not.

I've repaired Lenovo before, aftermarket items all available, change screens, keyboard, battery, simple stuff only though, no issues, everything is designed so it's easy to change.

I would not say the same about HP or DELL, shit enterprise laptops, and the consumer ones are worse.

[–] slowcakes@programming.dev -2 points 3 weeks ago

No but why should I, why is this the most important problem that should consume my time and energy, while there are 1000 of other global problems. Mass starvation, war, poverty, racism, anti trans, Eco terrorism, getting fucked by politicians. What is so bad in new York for trans people, is it forbidden to be trans, I actually don't know because I don't live there, but it seems like it has a healthy community?

[–] slowcakes@programming.dev -1 points 3 weeks ago

What the fuck is a trans person and a cis person?

[–] slowcakes@programming.dev 0 points 3 weeks ago

Okej but why do you want to define a human person or whatever, in this scenario? I don't care about cis/trans or anything, I don't identify as cis or man or woman. But grouping people based on things they have no choice in and then telling them because you are born like this, it's your responsibility to do whatever I ask of you, sounds weird to me. People are dealing with their own issues as people who identify as trans are.

[–] slowcakes@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

You say zucchini to eggplant, isn't zucchini another vegetable (green).

[–] slowcakes@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago

Yes. Let's take your personal anecdote and make it policy. People can just fix the environment to be accepted, change the world for the better and stuff like that.

Your ADHD is not the same as another persons.

[–] slowcakes@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

You don't even need cameras, you need rails on the ground you know, car follows the rails. Also a driver maybe, if you have a driver it should work, you tell the driver where you want to go, they take you there.

Otherwise, you also can try a global satellite mesh, connected to laser squirrels that can tell the satellites what to follow, then it tells you have how to drive. But you need at least a nuclear power plant to run your setup, 59 giga server farms that are on high pressure, high fule mode.

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