Sucks if you don’t wanna play though, same as it ever was I guess.

At this point it’s on web developers, and they sure as hell are prioritizing chromium browsers, likely out of time constraint (and also fuckery at the behest of corporate overlords).

I went to book rooms tonight in Vegas at the Golden Nugget for the solar convention this week.

Firefox couldn’t click through to the booking page. It worked for one room but not two. Chromium worked (ish), but also tried to say that it was almost double the rack rate than what the listing showed on Firefox.

I eventually went to kayak and despite glitches, booked the rooms, and still ended up paying more than I should have.

The Internet has become fundamentally broken due to sites trying their stupid fuckery of tracking and pricing shenanigans, let alone just trying to find basic information.

(Sorry I’m drunk and pissed off)

Nah nah, the countries with the best leaders. Ya know, the dictators that inspire our fatass douch-in-chief.

Meanwhile, that meme is glorious

There isn’t any secret to how it’s so bad - it’s simply overwhelming corruption, and they’ll keep increasing pressure on their own citizens because asking oligarchs to share their assets would be bit too much.

Well that sure sounds familiar.

I went to a courthouse a few weeks back to pay a fix-it ticket, and there was this dufus blasting hip hop on his phone while waiting in line for the clerk. I figured if this guy is dumb enough to be playing music in the court area and no one is saying anything, including the security cop, it probably isn’t worth the hassle.

I think you overestimate the average American’s aptitude for both understanding the ramifications of such spying, and to understand how to go about seeking out alternatives. Joe/Susie Random doesn’t have a clue about how what makes their phone screen work, only that it’s a tool to do things. Social media especially is so ingrained in modern life that you can become ostracized for not using it (even jobs sometimes see not having SM as a red flag). And even SM aside, what options are there (aside from FOSS, which does require a certain technical aptitude to adapt)? It used to be that you could customize android via roms to get away from it, but with these latest changes happening, even that’s becoming difficult to avoid big tech’s dominance. But again, it takes a certain level of know-how to seek out and implement such an alternative. And for the layman that doesn’t really have a clue about how this stuff work nor the bandwidth to learn it, i can’t entirely place the blame on them. The focus should entirely be on Apple and Google for strangling the competition that renders the options limited. I’m all for placing the blame on the individual when warranted, but we need to remember that merely by being on Lemmy we have a bit more technical understanding than most, and that must be taken into account for how we view these things. Many of the people out there aren’t inherently lazy or stupid, they just have different understandings and priorities in life, and we should be looking at these companies and also regulators for their failures of responsibility.

…you know you’re using a horribly outdated ROM, right? I’m actually amazed it still works.

Oh duh lol.

I remember that guy with CyanogenMod. It was great phone!

Better than being called a boomer or a boomer I suppose, we’d still roll out eyes at them regardless.

Yeah but back then we weren’t winning™

I was gonna say, maybe SF is relatively unarmed, but good luck in the East Bay.

Or we’re just old

Houston is a world of its own, with its like 3 highway systems interwoven with dogshit signage.

Just spend 6 hours driving between Cambria and the High Desert is So Cal today, can confirm.

I honestly believe that’s absolutely the direction we should start moving in. It’s just going to be a tough sell on divorcing people from there cars, and hopefully an “if you build it they will come” approach works out.

There has to be a way to incentivize tenants to forego cars for a project like this to succeed. I kind of understand the 1:1 ratio thing, because while I agree it’s ridiculous to cut housing units for parking spaces, the reality is that if there aren’t enough onsite parking sports for a given MDU, you’ll just have people clogging up city streets with overflow parking. Perhaps billing the building as carless or something and charging a premium for a parking spot to disincentivize car ownership?

You see this in major cities here in CA like LA or SF, where much housing was built and zoned before the surge in personal car ownership. Street parking is a nightmare, and neighborhoods are filled to the brim with people plopping their cars wherever they can. It has to be coordinated effort between residents and cities to help alleviate the situation. Even neighborhood vertical parking structures would help.

Took me a bit to realize that was inflatable

Hell yeah, that’s some job security lol