The funny thing about qr codes for restaurant menus to me, as someone that studied menu design. Is that actual menus are designed specific ways make the restaurant more profit and make it easier for people to find what they want. Whereas qr codes often bring one to a hastily designed list of categories which are not only less intuitive but also less manipulative. So people will end up taking longer to order less profitable dishes.

If you don’t have a smart phone in the US, even temporally, your almost a second class citizen.

Then if you don’t install corporate apps on your phone, there are even more problems for you.

Can we just agree to stop poisoning ourselves by consuming these garbage products and just drink water? Besides all the health benefits of boycotting both companies, you also get to not pay them.

Have you tried changing your DNS to one of these:

• 194.242.2.4#base.dns.mullvad.net
• 76.76.2.2#https://freedns.controld.com/p2

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

an American permutation of the CCP’s WeChat app model where the American government has final and singular authority to monitor and surveil all payments, domestic travel and communications of American citizens.

https://landfamilyhome.substack.com/p/a-household-guide-for-cyber-defense

Camel Cigarettes https://lemmy.world/comment/15135532

Somewhere in the archives of the Vatican, there are a lot of broken off dicks.

The image is from the Wikipedia page.

Honoring South Korean President Park Chung-hee in Army Parade at Armed Forces Day on 1 October 1973

You know, when FBI officials testified before the Church Committee they said, “At one point we had fifteen thousand people on the Security Index.” Expressing it like that you get the feeling that at one point we had as many as fifteen thousand. But that’s like saying that when you’re filling up Soldier Field for a football game, at some point you have fifteen thousand in the stadium. But wait a few minutes and you’ve got several thousand more. This is the way the FBI gives the information to Congress, and Congress doesn’t know what the hell they’re saying. They think: “Well, at some point that’s the maximum that we had,” which is not true. At some point we had fifteen thousand—leading up to a hundred thousand.

• Red Scare (Griffin Fariello)

And the CDC being ordered to not report any data on the avian flu via an executive order is also not the current administrations fault I guess?

It’s almost like killing hundreds of people at a time by building terrible products while ignoring safety regulations and silencing whistle blowers is a bad thing.

But at the end of the day. They are a “defense” company so they got nothing to lose.

Large Language Models don’t reason either. The idea that Artificial General Intelligence will come from LLMs is pure fallacy to drive stock price. When it is eventually announced that some company claims to have achieved AGI via LLMs, it will just be another arbitrary milestone that moves the goalposts more.

Lol. I guess she married into it.

I just started it and so far it’s ok. It seems to be lacking some description and details to help young readers internalize the material. At least for the tempest it seems to just gloss over a lot of things which is fine if the goal is to summarize but since the goal is to make Shakespeare accessible to children it makes it not very memorable. But haven’t read it all yet.

• The Critique of Digital Capitalism by Eileen Joy
• Shakespeare for Children by Charles and Mary Lamb

I’m on Voyager 2.23.1 using android 15 if that helps

I also use Voyager but I see the test image.

Cool

Honestly I didn’t look at the community, but it shouldn’t matter since criticism should be embraced when it’s made in good faith. Also I don’t care if I get down voted.

Some Nintendo fans just want to buy Nintendo things and enjoy the experience because they love the games.

I agree 100%. And I like these games too. I’m just saying that it’s the games and not the console which is the actual thing that these users love and enjoy.

I doubt users enjoy buying new consoles every few years, dealing with supply chain issues, privacy issues, and contributing to our throw away society.

I used to game on consoles too till my Xbox 360 got a red ring of death, my PS2 just stopped working, and my gamecube stopped reading disks. I realized that I could do nothing to fix them, they had to be recycled, and I would have to replace them with something else. Around the same time I realized how much I can do with a PC. From work, to watching movies, listening to music, and yes even gaming. But the cherry on top was how easy they were to upgrade, change parts, and fix.

I’m not saying that Nintendo shouldn’t be involved in how their games run. But I am saying there really should be other options. Even Sony release games on PC.

I already have upgraded hardware that can run switch games. It’s called a computer. I built it mostly using parts being sold at offices that were going out of business. I only needed to buy a GPU and a decent PSU. I found a free open source OS, booted it up and installed an open source program called ryujinx. And I barely have any issues playing games on it.

Imagine if Nintendo, instead of wasting all this time, money, rare earth minerals, and contributing to global heating by manufacturing these rather pointless consoles, simply developed games that could be ran on a computer or decently powerful smart phone.

They could focus on making games.