where would the line between manipulation and traditional advertisement be? theaters frequently exhaust the buttery scent in areas where theatergoers will be to intice them, casinos avoid 90° angels and clocks to disorientate customers and promote time blindness.

and the ones that are their kids they can prevent from accessing their platform to a better degree than most broke technically illiterate parents could dream of doing.

so it served its purpose well

Lemmy is far from normal, it is not profitable as a social media platform and is reliant on donations and generosity.

Google AdSense does similar things to meta, as does amazon. This is far from a misuse, of the technology as that implies that this isn’t accomplishing the intended goal, which, aside from laws trying to differentiate children from adults, it does.

famously both android and ios have (default to iirc?) a “feature” which dials the emergency number by repeatedly pressing the power button.

then what other objective part is? if you can’t reliably measure something it isn’t important.

scam implies that you didn’t know what you were getting into, for almost a decade you could easily tell star citizen wouldn’t release soon, therefore it should be considered a scam at that point in time, the early investors were scammed, but not the current ones those that feel that way are either idiots or failed to do basic research.

it’s only 800 million dollars, the same cost as a few movies combined. Who cares if lives get saved, they were just going to die eventually anyway now they just suffer on earth longer.

ram can be used to heavily compensate for slow read speeds and can make slow memory leaks less of an issue, also with that much you probably don’t need a swap file/partition.

consider that profiting off volitility and lazyness is generally a good strategy.

this is why keeping no logs of user activity i s a good idea.

it’s a death by a thousand cuts situation, more friction to use a local account, less convenience in accessing rarely used settings (most recently I was trying to help someone change a setting located in the advanced power management control panel thing), more pressure to use edge, continuing to shove one-drive down our throats, copilot, implementing features that knowingly make third party tools work significanly less well without proper customization to fix it, weirdness around Multi-Display setups on laptops, the maps app getting worse at giving directions.

RTFM is always a good strategy, the manual/wiki/source code will almost always have more info than a comment can reasonably contain.

money

hopefully either congresspeople or people with better aim.

Nah, too much moderation, go with one of the many more niche *chans, or even just one of the 8chan clones.

the same could be applied to humans… but then who would buy consumer goods?

In all seriousness though the only solution is for the cost of living to go down and for a UBI to exist so that the average person can choose to not work and strikes are a legitimate threat to business because they can more feasibly last for months.

I don’t know anyfamily who didn’t eat most if not all of the died eggs after or around Easter.

they have something that claims to be able to do it, I haven’t personally verified it, but generic on device voice recognition has gotten pretty decent.

yeah, and if you want something that doesn’t spy on you your only real option is home assistant.