Around my region, South America, everybody used MSN as well. We went through a phase of using Skype, but it was too resource heavy in comparison with MSN. Later on, people who needed voice chat for games played around with several different apps, until we finally settled with Discord back in 2016. Say all you want about Discord, but I’ve been using it for almost a decade at this point, and if your need is to have voice and text chat and easy screen sharing for gaming, it’s basically the golden standard. The problem started when people started using it as a replacement for forums.

Your monitor is “smart”?

“brain dead easy thing”… All you need is to just manage signal integrity of super fast speed ram to a super hungry state of the art soc that benefits from as fast of memory as it can get. Sounds easy af. /s

They said that it was possible, but they lost over half of the speed doing it, so it was not worth it. It would severely cripple performance of the SOC.

The only real complaint here is calling this a desktop, it’s somewhere in between a NUC and a real desktop. But I guess it technically sits on a desk top, while also being an itx motherboard.

I have the news in Brazilian-portuguese if you want.

Tl;Dr: repeat of what happened to Twitter basically, Moraes issued the takedown of a right wing/conservative brazilian influencer on Rumble on the basis of spreading misinformation and fake news (no surprise there), but Rumble has no legal representation in Brazil, which makes the company illegal to operate here. He ordered that they appoint someone as legal representation for the company in 48 hours, that was Thursday, feb 20, and they didn’t comply. Rumble was fined and Moraes ordered the platform to be thoroughly and completely blocked in Brazil until they pay their fines and appoint someone as legal representation.

Essentially, just a giant W.

Nothing else is changing. No account required, no ads, no tracking, no strings attached. Your data remains fully in your control, stored locally in plain text Markdown files. All features are available to you for free without limits.

Maybe the layout or that little nipple that could work as a mouse.

“Land of the thief, home of the slave (…) where the dollar is sacred and power is god.” -Brother Ali

There’s literally porn ads on yt. Recently an acquaintance of mine got one of those “Look what she said when she saw the size of his dick. You can have a bigger dick if you just buy our product”, with plenty of suggestive imagery. And scam ads. My mother got scammed because of a youtube ad pretending to sell products in the name of a famous brand of supermarkets in my region.

Precisely, it’s not capable of self-reflection, thinking, or anything of the sort. It doesn’t even understand the meaning of words

Do everything outside the walls. I had the same problem in my house, I literally killed all the wires inside the walls and did a whole new installation in an industrial style outside the walls. It’s way better for maintenance purposes anyway.

Yeah, no amount of UPS is gonna fix a problem like that. It’s more than time to rewire their whole electrical grid at home. That’s quite literally a disaster waiting to happen.

That has always been the essence of the “Free Market”, for thee but not for me.

Baka Gaijin, but yes.

I usually convert pdfs to epub if its something I actually need to read and not just scan/browse. Often I would bother to even edit the epub in Sigil to fix any problems with the conversion.

Network chuck has a really easy to digest series on how DNS and subnetting works, there are also free courses from free code camp on the topic, but those are less digestible.

One of my biggest recent gripes is that I have to use WhatsApp for work. I have disconnected myself from all privately owned giant social media, but I can’t drop whatsapp because I’m required to use it for communication at work with students.

While doing that, let’s block X and Meta as well.

I’m with you, comrade. People on Lemmy need to understand that as long as you’re playing by capitalism rules, you’ve already lost. Liberal ideologies are a losing game, you can’t win if you’re playing the same game as the people who WILL use their money and power to oppress you. This american election is the proof. A man with 400+ billion can play by any rules in the capitalism game.

…in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. -Rousseau

Too diplomatic even.