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  • reduces e-waste

    This is technically becoming less and less true as time goes on. Keeping the 3.5mm port only reduces e-waste for buyers who already own 3.5mm accessories. Fewer and fewer of today’s younger generations own any 3.5mm devices at all, as more and more devices are unifying toward USB-C. In fact, fewer and fewer people today own any type of wired headphones.

    The e-waste is now coming from the older, holdout consumers who are sticking to their 3.5mm accessories, as they’re the ones requiring extra dongles to keep their obsolesced technology functional.









  • Chozo@fedia.iotoAsk LemmyHow you all doing rn?
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    Thanks, and I agree. I’m not sure what grounds they have to withhold that sort of information from a lessee on. The lack of information from all angles makes it really difficult to prepare, because I have no idea what I need to be preparing for. It’s been a very difficult week. :(





  • Chozo@fedia.iotoAsk LemmyHow you all doing rn?
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    Pretty bad. I found out recently that my roommate has been lying to me and spent the rent money I gave him on something else. He hid it from me long enough for it to be irreparable. I can’t get my roommate to be honest with me, and the apartment management are refusing to share any information with me (despite me still being on the lease) and won’t even accept a payment from me or even tell me what our debt is, so now I’m almost certainly going have to go to court soon to be evicted.

    I’m bipolar, so usually a major event like like this would send me either into a manic or a depressive episode. But for the first time that I can recall, I’ve been finding myself going rapidly between the two states throughout the day.

    I know I will be fine. But right now, I’m not fine.


  • Chozo@fedia.iotoFediverseBluesky is more open than you think.
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    PDSes and relays exist at the whim of Bluesky’s corporate entity. Having all of the endpoints on the network controlled by a single agent is what makes Bluesky centralized. If Bluesky decided so, your server can be removed from their network and is functionally useless at that point. They decide who is and is not allowed to be a part of Bluesky.

    For contrast, no such governing body exists with ActivityPub networks. Nobody can decide whether or not an instance should be removed from the network, they can only choose whether or not to federate with that instance. If you wanted to truly silence a Lemmy instance, for example, it would take the cooperation of all the major Lemmy admins to defederate, and is an entirely democratic process as a result.

    EDIT: To clarify, ATProto is not what is centralized, “Bluesky” the platform utilizing ATProto, is what’s centralized.




  • Given that they’re in masks and civilian clothing when they kidnap people, there apparently is no official “ICE uniform”. Would be interesting to see them attempt to charge somebody with “impersonating a federal officer” when they’re just dressed in normal street clothes.