Damn, I thought there was no way it was that long ago, but 2017.

Hey NZ is major now, don’t take that away from us!

I have! But not until this moment.

Most data centres are not the monstrosities that are being built for AI and are being protested.

But also most Lemmy users are using instances hosted in data centres.

My kids are primary school age and don’t know about TikTok or Instagram, or Youtube shorts. But I can imagine them getting sucked in if they were allowed to watch that sort of thing. It’s probably a challenge I have coming up in the next few years, when other kids their age start getting phones and having access to these kinds of media.

People have been saying for years that attention spans are getting shorter, hopefully someone is studying it!

I haven’t found a linux OS that supports any phone I have, or I might have considered it as a test on a second phone. But those postmarket wiki pages are a bit scary. I wouldn’t want a phone where I can’t see how much battery I have, or the wifi has “extremely short” range, etc. One day it will be the year of the Linux Phone! But I don’t think it’s today 😆

You probably do get quite a different view than I do! But now you mention it, I do know people like that, where the TV is constantly on.

I have three kids who all read for fun (mostly visual novels at the moment, due to reading ability), and I think this is partly because the TV is generally off in our house. When I was a kid it was almost never off, so maybe it’s not a new problem!

What is a new problem is that social media sites and app development companies hire psychologists to try to get people to spend more time on their apps (addict them). I say new, but I was reading about this happening 15 years ago, I have to assume they have refined the art by now. I am not sure banning the sale of phones to under 16s will be enforceable, but I like the idea a hell of a lot more than giving my ID to facebook.

I do wonder exactly how it will work too. There is a big difference between giving the kids a phone to watch bluey on for a long car trip, and having free access to a phone. We have spare smart phones the kids use. They have to ask, and they don’t have social media on them, just podcasts, music, and libby (plus the above mentioned bluey et al for long car trips). Do they have to possess a social media app for them to count as possession of a smart phone? What if it came on the phone and it’s logged out?

What we need is a proper policy defined by experts, rather than politicians defining rules about things they don’t understand.

I’d argue many people react in shock now to the idea of free access to smart phones! But I might live in a bubble.

As an aside, google is going to lockdown android in September sometime. Look into installing Linux on your phone to keep everything on it private and away from googles data collection.

GrapheneOS or some other Android fork seem more practical. From everything I’ve read (mostly people’s opinions here on Lemmy), there’s no Linux phone ready to be a daily driver.

2.5% of the wealth over $10M. It’s not historically outrageous, only in recent times. We do need to tax wealth, and economically it’s likely better than taxing income (I presume Greens aren’t planning on removing that though).

But I prefer the Opportunity 1.7% LVT proposed, which is not on the total property value just on the land. This is intended to lower house prices, which introduces the possibility of having more money by paying more tax. They also waant a UBI which would offset any extra tax paid by most people (their estimates are that 90% of people would be the same or better off).

Realistically though, no small party is going to pass a large scale tax reform. Whatever their policies, they would be lucky to get a fraction of their intent across the line. This goes for Greens and Opportunity.

Different company doing the tracking from your phone, they can monetise it at utilise it in other (nefarious) ways.

I guess that’s my question. Who? And how do they benefit from more GPS tracked vehicles? And how does that party have control over the bike racks?

Also, a phone is near impossible to get by without. We shouldn’t have to accept our phones are tracking us on someone else’s behalf, but people have to be a little bit more flexible with those, whereas a “smart-rack” which can track bike journeys is more easily determined to be OTT and can be pushed back against.

I don’t know much about this, like how a smart rack would track your journey, but isn’t the argument that people DON’T want you to bike?

If such a conspiracy exists, surely this is an oil company conspiracy not a GPS tracking conspiracy?

Let’s be fair here. No one needs you to use a GPS tracked vehicle to track your location. Almost everyone walks around with a GPS tracker in their pocket, and even if you don’t share with Google or Apple your rough location is pretty easy to distinguish from cellphone towers. Stores also use bluetooth beacons to know that you’re there. I also don’t understand how pairing a phone with an e-scooter/e-bike helps track you if you’re already tracked?

I am also curious about who would be coordinating the removal of bike racks? Surely this is a decision either by the council or the store, depending on whose land it is. I would guess they are being removed if they are old and not being utilised, or perhaps your council is not a fan of cyclists.

I live in Wellington, and have not noticed bike racks disappearing. If anything, I’ve noticed bike infrastructure improving.

I had assuned the lantern would show for the full hour every third hour? If it was a shorter window that might explain why I didn’t see it!

The start menu was the beginning of the atrocious thing we have today, but right click on it, and you got a quick access menu to everything from a terminal shell to settings to actual shutdown options. It still exists in some form today.

If memory serves me correctly, Windows 8.1 introduced the right-click-on-start menu, arguably the best Windows start menu there ever was.

Do we have fediverse historians writing this stuff down? I feel like we need a knowyourmeme for fediverse drama.

Huh, I hadn’t thought about the origin of the wop-wops but it checks out. Also I thought people who said woop woops were townies but apparently they are Aussies.

Welcome!

There was hardly anyone online and not that much earlier the button came within a second of hitting 0. Plus you can see the final press was not by a red player! And that player did a lot of presses while the heart was corrupt.

You should be able to tell from the replay that’s now available on there, but it keeps freezing up for me. O can only see the ending which had two reds and the purple all furiously clicking.

Ok in that case it probably wasn’t it.