When it comes to dealing with advertisements when they’re surfing on their browsers. I’ve just learned recently about how Google has or is killing UBlock Origin on the Chrome browser as well as all Chromium based browsers too.
We’ve heard for years about people complaining, bitching, whining and vice versa about how they keep seeing ads. And those trying to help them, keep wasting time to tell these people that they’re surfing without extensions. Whether it’d be on Chrome or Firefox or another browser.
By this point, I’ve long stopped being that helper because if you cared at all about the advertisements you see, you would’ve long had gotten on the wagon of getting adblockers by now. You bring this onto yourself.
I wish it was acceptable to call older folks out as lazy if they refuse to learn how to text, email and otherwise use the internet. It’s fine for them to call millennials lazy if they can’t drive a stick shift or balance a checkbook, but if you’re giving me bullshit like “I’m 68 years old, I don’t text and I don’t email” you are just a lazy, stubborn bastard. I’ve met plenty of 90 year olds who are perfectly capable because they aren’t lazy old fucks.
Seriously, of all people they’re the ones that have been around since the internet’s inception. They’ve had more time to adapt than anyone.
I’m not sure that flies for boomers. That’s the X’ers: my adult life pretty much matches the history of PCs, so I better know how to use them.
However my parents were older when PCs appeared, and at the time there seemed no reason to learn about them. Ok, my Dad was an engineer who built them, but my Mom never had any reason to use a computer until the Facebook era, when lots of regular people started to use email. It was still quite common at the time for adults to not see a purpose, so I give boomers a pass
Even if someone doesn’t regularly use computers, it doesn’t hurt to gain some experience in communicating in ways you’re not used to. Like, I don’t like ‘typing’ on a mobile phone. The interface is small, customization is limited and you’re prone to constantly make spelling mistakes. But I adapted and can at least now type on mobile half the speed I can on a keyboard.
Generational gaps need not apply. This is simply just a learning thing that is applicable to all.
The dangers of conservatism/fascism.
If not for conservatism, humans would be proactively addressing global heating. Conservatives oppress the innocent and vulnerable in every country where conservatives have power. If not for conservatism, there would be no genocide. Conservatives are the gullible, deadly foot-soldiers of the billionaires.
Conservatism is the single biggest threat to life on earth. Eradicating conservatism would be the single most positive change we could make to preserve life on earth.
Conservatism should be used as a moderator. If Libertarianism is left unchecked it will try to solve all the problems all at once, running out of resources before even achieving a proper solution. Ideally the Parliament should be roughly split into 5ths with each part representing an important area (environmentalist, economist, socialism/communalism, etc.). Then through coalitions, in which conservatism should always be a part of the most relevant problems can be targeted in a moderated sense.
Vaccines. I gave up trying to gently educate my coworker and instead am waging an outright campaign via Facebook to terrorize her into vaccinating her poor sickly autistic son. Every journal article and news piece on preventable disease, I’m posting it, and am having long winded chats on my page about how measles wipes your immune memory and how a kid died of that in the community a few months ago. Parents of antivaxxers should have their children apprehended by CPS. It’s child abuse.
I wish it was socially acceptable to call people lazy for certain computer-related woes.
I often have to “rescue” my mother because her computer ‘broke’. – What is actually happening is that windows is doing the usual Windows thing of nagging you about updates/microsoft edge/whatever. It’s a matter of reading what it’s saying, but she just… Doesn’t read the message or look for the button. This woman has a PhD. Like. She isn’t stupid. She’s incredibly smart, actually. But she just doesn’t want to learn.
Like, the computer itself can tell you a lot of stuff. You just need to read and click around. But when it’s a computer screen it’s like some people develop selective blindness. I legitimately wonder if people who are 60+ have some eyesight thing going on where content displayed on a screen and specifically on a screen is unreadable to them. Because if anything is in a different place or it does something unexpected, they just lock up like a deer in the headlights instead of like. Reading what is on screen.
That the covid pandemic is still going full tilt and still demands a very aggressive worldwide response.
Everybody (over the age of 4–they were born in 2020!) knows it, they just deny it like crazy because they don’t have the balls to deal with how unpleasant it is.
Which makes it infinitely more unpleasant because we aren’t lifting the weight together. But anybody still denying the pandemic is consciously deciding to do it, and an explanation isn’t going to make them un-decide, because it’s not a lack of knowledge.
Influenza typically accounts for 1.5% of deaths at its peak every year. Covid has been hovering around 3%. So it’s currently about the same level as a bad flu season. To me this indicates endemic levels. If there is a strain that suddenly starts killing more people, it will make headlines. I’m not trying to be in denial, this is just where I’m at. I’ve had it, and my immune system is doing what it is supposed to do. I’m not worried about contracting it again, unless the a new deadly strain comes out.
This is where I’m at too. I was literally just talking to my friend about this last night.
We both know of several people who feel very strongly that the pandemic is still in full swing. They won’t go out of their house without a mask, they get their groceries delivered, they won’t come to any social events for fear of getting sick, and they only work from home. They’ve basically trapped themselves in their house, out of fear.
In my opinion, which is only an opinion, I think these people have an undiagnosed mental illness. Some sort of excess anxiety that was triggered by the events of lockdown and the early pandemic, and now they are unable to reset back to normal.
I don’t mean that in a bad way or a rude way, I’m legitimately concerned for these people and don’t know how to help.
For your average Joe, COVID is just a reality we live with. I don’t want to get it, but I can’t afford to lock myself down, nor do I think it would be healthy for me mentally if I did.
I don’t think it’s good for you physically either. I have been exposed to Covid, probably every few months. The immune system needs to actually see viruses in order to keep making antibodies.
Even in mild cases of COVID in healthy younger people it has cognitive impacts. What you believe is false.
I’m aware of long covid risks. My belief to which you are replying is that exposure to viruses is important to continue making antibodies. The study indicates a 25% risk of cognitive impacts from mild COVID cases. I’m not alarmed by that number, and I’m not seeing how it should change my belief about immune system health.
By the year 2100, ambient CO2 will reach 1000 ppm (1 ppt), which is associated with a 10-15% decline in cognition. In many indoor spaces, CO2 levels are much higher than this. I actually got CO2 up to 1800 ppm just driving my car with the air turned off. Anybody who works indoors in a building is at risk of impaired cognition.
Even having a mild case of COVID has cognitive impacts in healthy people. It’s really really really actually very terrifying.
Is it still full tilt?
Looking at CDC graphs of excess deaths, it appears we’re back at baseline. That is, assuming I’m reading this correctly which is very much not a sure thing.
Everyone all denial about diseases and serious illnesses until they get it. Unfortunately, during the pandemic, some of those who did get COVID and denied about it, still downplayed it like it was just a simple cold. Until you know, some of them actually died because of how much they didn’t anticipate the probability of getting it.
Dude wake up, Covid was the biggest scam in history of humanity!
You dropped this: /s
Seems nobody will ever put sanity and social safety over their feelings. People don’t really understand the social contact anymore. They think that’s for everyone else.
Third party voters, trying to explain feminism, trying to explain planned obsolescence, explaining that you need to check more than one source for information, ad blocker,
I use Firefox for over a decade now never had any problem with ads and if it occurres it’s very easy to sort it out
Literally anything.
Except Wayfinder’s revamped Echos launch. It’s like $20 and it’s super fun. Go buy it and support Airship Syndicate.
Washing hands, not eating off the floor, not drinking from the same bottle as 10 other people etc…
Just basic hygiene things
I’ll likely always point it out, but I’m surprised at how few people are willing to understand how to consider a conflict resolved.
Imagine for a moment, you’re sitting in a courtroom. You appear before the judge. You sit down. An officer whispers maybe three highly accusatory sentences in the judge’s ear about things that have long been dealt with. Without you saying a word, and without a few minutes having gone by, the judge sentences you to practice forced disappearance or face annihilation in some form. So many times I’ve faced people who you’d think believe this to be how the journey from point A to point Z is expected to play out in addressing issues, in all spheres of life, complete with a direct rejection of nuance/elaboration, and it has made me wonder if humanity really is inherently evil, for a lack of a better word.
I’m having an aneurysm trying to understand what’s being said here, can anyone explain?
Glad I’m not the only one. I read it 3 times and still don’t know what’s being said.
Maybe don’t take it in all at once. Separate everything into parts based on where a comma would be. And also realize that “due process” is one word. I am genuinely confused at how it’s hard to understand.
I’m trying to understand your conclusion, it feels like you have contempt for humanity because of their inability to tell when a conflict is resolved?
Correct.
it’s partly deliberate. a war is being waged on our ability to communicate, organize, and solve problems. the elites don’t want us thinking critically, they want us obedient, working, paying.
i think contempt is justified, because anyone can learn how to debate. but please understand most people have been shoved violently into their complacency.
I’m tired of helping and educating people about how using “bipolar” to describe things like the weather or a job is problematic
nothing. absolutely nothing. if ppl would wanna know they’d ask. let them use facebook, iphone, crude oil and whatever floats their boat. all tipping points have been reached. no need to stress anyone anymore.
Tipping point is the wrong word, because after a certain point it’s tipping and you can’t stop it. There are a few ways that applies, but it very much does not describe the whole situation.
Climate change is a dial on a stove and we’re still cranking it.
have you seen idiocracy?
You mean the thinly veiled eugenics manifesto?
“You’ve chosen the wrong phone” is peak lemmy.
Second only to “ditch Windows, use Linux. I don’t care about your use case”.
but it is mutual. the iphone/android user share anyones data (e.g. contacts) with the most f’up corpos. just because something is convenient doesnt make it right. but as stated…nobody needs to be educated anymore, everyone knows best.
Before calling support, turning your device off and back on again will legitimately resolve 90% of your issues.
If you call the helldesk and the uptime of your device is more than 24 hours and you said you already rebooted it how can we trust anything else you say?
Helldesk.
tbf, I have rebooted my system and uptime didn’t also reset. It appears that newer Windows has this “fast startup” feature. Pinky swear I told the truth.
Did you restart or shutdown? Shutdown is more like hibernate, restart should be a proper reboot.
Any proper it system will have that turned off because fast boot only applies to devices with spinning disks. If you have a SSD as your boot device there is no advantage to it.
Any proper it system
No True Scotsman would ever enable such a feature!
You are correct. However, I don’t mess with my work computer and let the IT department manage it. Sometimes, they manage poorly.
Because I rebooted it last week and still had the problem last week after rebooting and I was lazy about making a ticket.
Now, conversely, if you work in support, please ACTUALLY FUCKING LISTEN TO ME when I am telling you I’ve already done that 17 different ways, along with tons of other troubleshooting and isolating and I’m not a technical moron and I tried every possibility to avoid calling you so can we PLEASE SKIP THE USUAL BULLSHIT SUGGESTIONS?!?!?!?!
That’s the difference from a good support tech and a bad one tbh. Bring able to gauge someone’s tech literacy and taking in all troubleshooting done before is literally the first thing you should do. So many escalations I’ve received just has “had user reboot, had them disconnect and reconnect to network. Checked and device has no pending updates, sending to L3.” in the notes. Half of the time a reboot really wouldn’t do anything, and they really just needed to be added to an AD group (most of my tickets last week). I’m just glad I’m shifting out of support and more into projects.
Honestly, they can’t. The way IT works is there’s multiple levels. First level, second level, third level. Whenever anybody calls in, they get first level, which are usually either inexperienced people, new people, or people with no experience whatsoever, and they’re all reading scripts. They’re the gatekeepers for level 2, 3, and 4, the people who actually know what they’re doing. It’s because 99 out of 100 people don’t know shit and it just needs to be restarted and they would clog up the time of people who actually know what they’re doing and nothing would ever get done.
And if one of those level one guys accidentally lets through somebody who should have been taken care of by their script, they will get reamed the fuck out for wasting people’s time who gets paid more an hour than they do a day.
I hate it too but they don’t because everyone claims they know what they’re doing and they’ve already tried all that stuff.
99% of the time it turns out they haven’t and that was the problem.
I don’t often need support, but when i do, i try to make it clear that i kinda know the deal and i tried everything in my power to make it work for days, and calling in support isn’t my first instinct. But i completely understand why they treat you like a dummy.
If I was support, had a list to work through because my calls were monitored and recorded, and you were being a complete know-it-all asshole, I would walk through them as slow as possible, and repeat as many as I could plausibly get away with.
Because that’s the actual job: following instructions from their boss, which means following their processes. Why would they deviate from that, and risk their job, for someone who’s rude, and/or self-important?
As someone who’s also technically competent and rarely calls support, when I do, I’ve never had to repeat the same steps 17 times, or even 3 times.
I let them tell me to turn off and on again, confirm it’s done, explain why I need a level 2 support or escalation. Then they’ll typically ask me one or two more questions, which I’ll politely answer, reiterate my polite request for level 2, and they will escalate for me.
Almost any support position to do with phones is horrible to help people with. No one wants to turn it off. No one wants to understand their bill. No one accepts how data is used. No one thinks they need to pay for their devices. It’s a vast landscape of ignorance and entitlement.
