Being owned by venture capitalists is pretty much an assurance that they’ll turn it to shit as much as they can get away with. The entire reason people abandoned digg for reddit in the first place was because it was selling out to ad space and shill accounts and manipulation. The venture capitalists will want big returns on their investments.
You obviously don’t have a debit card. It’s not “a permutation” of a credit card and they don’t come from visa or MasterCard. You’re talking about a credit line through your bank. I own a debit card. From my bank. With only my bank as the issuer. It takes money directly from my bank account when I use it. No creditor involved. It’s a money transfer straight from my bank account to the retailer I use it at. Millions of people have them.
Buddy, you straight up said it wasn’t her first litter based on the fact that she had 5 kittens. That’s dumb. What you said was dumb.
You know what? I like it, and I’ma start doing it.
Plenty of cats have like 5 in their first litter. Also, cats can get pregnant after they’re only like 6 months old. Your cat knowledge seems quite made up.
It’s hard to use a debit card?
That’s what a debit card is, and plenty of people use them.
Many people are idiots, though. They’ll use a credit card and pay interest all the time, rather than have the money to buy that TV or whatever before buying the damn thing.
I use a credit card to take advantage of the warped system, though. It gives me several benefits and costs nothing extra because I pay it off in full every month. All my purchases come with a year of reimbursement if stolen, a year of warranty past the manufacturer warranty, and cash back points. I have gotten thousands of dollars over the years for using a CC. Free money.
It keeps getting worse, too. The nineties wasn’t that long ago. I swear.
I put Linux mint on my 2016 laptop. It runs great.
I’m deaf in one ear. This here is my mute button.
I felt I was being pretty specific about “the most popular”. If the most popular instance is dead, we got problems.
Passenger vehicles and homes and most businesses could be covered by solar and wind, but oil will still be used for quite a while for cargo shipping and commercial trucks and things like tires. We could use a lot less, but oil is going to hang around for quite a while. Passenger vehicles account for about 25% of oil used.
Part of the issue (I feel a large part ) is that the learning curve is too steep to get on Lemmy
Now I’m not saying it’s hard at all; but it’s significantly higher than simply “go to a main page and create a user name and password”. Lemmy needs a sign up page that just random signs you up to an active instance (per the instances permission) and automatically subscribes you to the 50 most active instances to just get you started up.
Making a getting started page that’s as idiot proof as any .com would probably go a long ways into upping our numbers here.
Only thing I haven’t got to work yet for some reason is my windscribe VPN application. Easy move, really. Mint cinnamon.
An unprovoked war on most any country will likely spark sanctions and hurt the economy. Trump doesn’t give a shit about the economy. He cares about himself. That should be obvious to you as well. He’ll start a war just to try and keep in power. It’s why he’s already trying to claim he doesn’t need permission from the rest of the government to attack countries or take lands.
He wants a war before midterms as a reason to prevent them.
“the US” doesn’t want these things. Trump had the lowest 4 year average approval rating on any US president ever his first 4 year term, and he’s currently beating that by a lot this term so far. The people running the US are corrupt, wealthy, grifters. The elections are rigged by being gerrymandered all to hell (or worse) and protests are useless.
Hit the turbo button and go from a measly 30Mhz speed to the insane levels of 33Mhz.
For the younger Gen and the non computer savvy: Yeah. We went from 1 cpu core that would go like 30Mhz in the early 90s, to having 12 cpu cores running at around 5,000Mhz now. All while getting way, way, easier to build a PC from parts.
I don’t need to see these to make me feel old…
It’s also in a very terrible spot for that purpose. It would be very awkward to reach the controls from that angle and where the toilet is at.