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Tumblr-corpo is like “wait for me, I wanna crunch what’s left of my userbase too!”

Huh, this is the first bot I see in the entire fediverse. (Sorry for the off-topic.)

Not only that, but it’s not the appropriate community for this kind of questions. It should be in !support@beehaw.org.

@JVT038@feddit.nl, if you could delete both posts, it would save mods some work.

Oh, I thought it was the Spanish “ja” which is “ha” (laughter). Completely opposite meaning.

I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a standard for EV plugs. You’d think the EV industry would have learned from the PC industry…

On Mastodon you can export and import your data. So it’s just a matter of doing frequent backups. Not sure if there’s an automated tool or option for that, as I don’t use Mastodon much.

The instance you’re talking about seems to be working just fine. Maybe they had trouble or were doing maintenance. In their About page, they offer to follow an account for notices about such events.

Apple claims privacy but is at least moving toward a place where that isn’t really true.

Apple literally tracked my sleeping habits, down to how many breaths I took. For every little thing, there’s a privacy policy link, and some hidden option to send “analytics”, which is on by default. People kid themselves if they think Apple doesn’t do the same things Google does. They just have better PR about it.

From a non-US perspective, Apple is unfeasible if you’re not rich.

Last year I was given an iPhone as a gift (which I did not ask for), and I had to endure almost a year of it, until I decided to resell it and buy myself a new Android phone.

Everything, from a simple charger or a cable, costs triple. And because Apple is not officially in my country, you never know if you’re buying an original product, or some crap that will kill your phone.

App developers for iOS are obsessed with forcing everything to be under a subscription. And it’s fine if your income is over 1500 USD a month, but for a South American living on 200-300, it’s impossible to pay ten 5USD subscriptions. Local app development (banks, virtual wallets, etc.) are more focused on Android development because this is the third-world and most sane people own Android phones, plus it’s much cheaper to work on that platform.

You cannot customize the appearance of your phone, order the icons (with gaps in-between), use custom icons, or anything you can do with something as simple as a freemium one-time payment custom launcher on Android. Nova Launcher is capable of doing a million things on an unrooted phone, but nothing like that exists for iOS. You cannot even separate the volume of ringtones and multimedia (I have four different volume options on my new Android).

Locally, people use WhatsApp or Telegram, or the social media apps. We also use old fashioned calls, though people nowadays prefer WhatsApp to bridge the calls. There’s no “problem” of integration, because people have chosen that and it’s rare to know someone with an iPhone. And if you have an iPhone here, you have to use WhatsApp anyway.

And iPhones are very attractive to robbers, so if you go out with your iPhone you’re almost inviting someone to rob you… so you don’t take it out in public, and you don’t use it for what it’s supposed to be used (note taking, calls, texting, pictures, agenda, etc.). You only use it at home… might as well own a dumb phone and a PC. (Not that Android users don’t get robbed, but Androids are more of a lottery, while an any-gen iPhone will fetch a higher price.)

In the end, I sold the phone and got some USD bills, which is always good to have here. I got a mid-range Android that costs 1/3 of an iPhone and does a lot more. Mind you, I’m not rooting it or tinkering too much with it beyond cosmetics. And while I try to degoogle myself, I’m also not going to go out of my way.

Even so, if the choice is giving Apple or Google my data, there’s really no real benefit in picking one or another. It’s just a matter of deciding which one we care less about or costs us less. So, you do you. If you’re happier with an Apple product, all the better for you.

That if you have an Instagram account it’s best not to link it to Threads, I’m guessing.

Thanks for bringing me this into attention. I had no idea who she was beyond “the new CEO of Twitter who has to clean up after El Musko”. Though I did have a feeling that, to be in that position at this moment, she might not be squeaky clean ideologically.

Kind of like accepting to receive an award from the Bigot Convention, or something. You only go if you agree with them.

Exactly.

And because conservatives want to believe that of minorities, they will not step back to think why they’re being bombarded with all these “satirical” propaganda accounts.

Yes, I think it only works when the person trying to get away with the mess stays put in the shadows. El Musko cannot stay quiet or out of sight for 5 minutes, let alone a few months.

A lot of them are. I’ve seen some of them in the Hispanic circles. They spew dog-whistles or insane LGBT+ stuff that no one in the community does or thinks, but conservatives lap it up like it’s chocolate fudge instead of the excrement it really is.

In an alternative world, I wouldn’t mind if the goal was something like that Black Mirror episode, “Hated in the Nation” (how ironic posting this on Beehaw 🐝).

Exactly. He’s like a predator in the wild. You want to know exactly where he is and what he’s doing while you try to drink water and eat something.

Wasn’t there a name for this? Putting a woman in charge to take the blame as a company implodes? “Crystal” something?

Meanwhile, Musk purchased roughly 10,000 GPUs, typically used for large language models for Twitter

Ah, so we can expect Musk’s version of Tay at some point. Yikes.

As long as they don’t give out the old addresses, it makes sense that they’ll delete inactive accounts.

But it’s one more incentive for me to delete some old accounts from the pre-alias era.

Didn’t know anything about Manifest V3.

Looks like more splitting of standards will be happening. Supposedly Firefox will not adopt some of it fully, unless what I read is outdated?

Jesus, what’s going on?

It’s so disappointing, right? At the same time, my mom always was a certain way, but Twitter exacerbated her bad behaviors.

I’m not sure if I understand.

Aren’t cards nowadays contactless? What does Google or Apple Pay provide that is different from taking out the card from the wallet and use it contactless directly? Just not taking it out?

I’m so amused by this. My mom was sucked into that crap and can’t pay, so I’m hoping El Musko will finally drive her out. In a way, he’s my hero. 😂