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Turner makes permanent move to Nottingham Forest
  • What the hell was the point of Arsenal signing him? The ink was barely dry on the contract and they offloaded him already?

  • So tired of Adobe. They're part of the problem.
  • 350k? As in, 350,000 images? Holy shit, man. How do you have that many pictures? And how much storage space does that eat up? All of it?

  • So tired of Adobe. They're part of the problem.
  • Love and use them for Photo, Publisher, and Designer, but there's no alternative for Lightroom. And honestly, I like Lightroom. It truly is the best at what it does. Simple, easy to use, great features, thoughtful design.

  • What non-FOSS software are you using that you wish you could replace?
  • Yeah I've been seeing this reasoning for many years now, but as someone who lives in Word and Excel for office work, it's actually been a really long time since I couldn't use Pages/Numbers/LibreOffice in place of Office just as effectively.

  • What is your favorite operating system and what do you like about it?
  • macOS is just a great OS. It's polished, and thoughtfully designed with care, as are many of the apps available for it. I like that it integrates very well with my other Apple devices. Because of its BSD underpinnings, a lot of Linux-y things work very well with it. I use the Terminal (actually Warp, but same idea) on a daily basis for different things. A lot of the tools that I know and use on my Linux servers work here as well. I can write automation for it, and apps like Raycast and Alfred make building workflows and scripts, and tying those together, really easy. It's much more secure than Windows. I also don't have to worry about stupid shit like literal fucking advertising being built into the OS, as you have with Windows.

    As for Rocky Linux, well, I'm a co-founder of it (and the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation) and helped build it, so my biases there are obvious.

  • What is your favorite operating system and what do you like about it?
  • macOS for personal use, Rocky Linux or Ubuntu for my servers

  • Opinion | Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren: When It Comes to Big Tech, Enough Is Enough
    www.nytimes.com Opinion | Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren: When It Comes to Big Tech, Enough Is Enough

    We need a nimble, adaptable new agency with the expertise, resources and authority to rein in the tech giants that control our digital lives.

    Opinion | Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren: When It Comes to Big Tech, Enough Is Enough

    Must be a cold day in hell because I agree with nearly everything in this essay penned by Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren.

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    Hamburg: Climate activists let air out of tyres of 33 cars (mainly SUVs!) again
  • Public transport in a LOT of US cities is poor, or non-existent. Even where it's good, getting to the city, when you live outside of it, is often not an option without your own transportation.

    I appreciate your enthusiasm, really, and in fact I share much of it. But you are oversimplifying and dismissing the reality for many people in the US.

  • Hamburg: Climate activists let air out of tyres of 33 cars (mainly SUVs!) again
  • Except NOTHING is being accomplished by targeting individuals like this. You're not winning people over, you're not changing minds, you're not effecting change. You're protesting the wrong people. I, as an example, am a huge supporter of education and change regarding climate change. But I still have to live and work within the very system I am protesting. You're not doing anything by attacking allies like me. Instead, you need to go after corporations, and politicians. Those are the entities that are responsible for and have the ability to influence real action.

  • Hamburg: Climate activists let air out of tyres of 33 cars (mainly SUVs!) again
  • but I would hope the activists can decide between a polished up city-only SUV and an actual working-vehicle and act accordingly.

    People like the guy I replied to don't, though. See the other reply to my comment as evidence.

  • Hamburg: Climate activists let air out of tyres of 33 cars (mainly SUVs!) again
  • I drive a large truck because I truly need and use the bed on a weekly basis. I wouldn't be able to get by without it, being more than a convenience thing, as I have tried (and failed) for years to use my wife's minivan. There are a lot of things that you straight up cannot do without a truck. I live on 7 acres of mostly heavily wooded land. That kind of property has a lot of maintenance needs that you really need a truck for.

    But when I go to the city, I almost never go with anything in the bed. First, I think it can be unsightly to have my bed loaded up with rotting construction material or large bulky items that need to be taken to the transfer station.

    Second, it can be dangerous, depending on what I'm hauling. The load needs to be secured. I'm more likely to get into an accident in the city, so if that happens, now in addition to whatever comes off from either vehicle, now whatever else that I was hauling is going to be all over the place, impeding traffic even further.

    If my load is heavy, as it often is (think: maybe 1,000 lbs of cord wood), that has a pretty big impact on my gas mileage.

    And if it rains? Whatever is in my bed is going to get wet and soggy and nasty.

    And then there's the winter. I live in New England. You may have heard about the snow we get here. My driveway is 1/4 mile long, and REALLY steep. I use my truck to keep it plowed. There's no other way we're leaving our property when the snow falls. But obviously I don't have my plow attached in the off-season, so it wouldn't be obvious to you that I also use it for that.

    So for many reasons, I need a truck. It is almost never loaded when I have to go into the city. It's not lifted, I don't have obnoxious wheels, but it's a big truck (they don't seem to make them any other way these days). Now I have to also worry about people with attitudes like yours taking their misguided vigilante justice out on my vehicle because you're not thinking beyond your nose? Do you really think that's fair?

  • The internet has become soulless and i hate it
  • The personalized, colorful web pages became streamlined, conforming to modern design standards and sacrificing individuality for uniformity.

    There are some pretty big advantages to 'modern design standards.' For one, they make the Internet a less hostile place to users with accessibility needs. I don't have problems viewing clashing colors, flying gifs, jumbled pages with no sanity, etc, but a hell of a lot of people with various disabilities sure do. I don't want to even think about how screen readers try to deal with pages like that. Web1.0 offered absolutely nothing for those users who needed accessibility.

  • Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed
  • There's no need to be so nasty, friend. I'm removing your comment because this isn't the in line with our community value of 'be(e) nice'

  • Goldman Sachs wants out from Apple Card partnership
    appleinsider.com Goldman Sachs wants out from Apple Card partnership

    Apple's relationship with Goldman Sachs led to the creation of the wildly successful Apple Card, but post-launch friction and a change in priorities has crashed the relationship into the rocks.

    Goldman Sachs wants out from Apple Card partnership

    tldr: Apple prohibits bullshit fees on their Apple Card that predatory lenders like Goldman rely on. Goldman isn’t able profit because they can’t fuck over customers, therefore they want out of the deal they have with Apple as the servicer of the Apple Card.

    Boo fucking hoo, Goldman. Eat shit.

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    Elon Musk rebrands Twitter as X
  • LOL @ Star Wars kid comment. Gave me a good chuckle. But, that’s not fair to the real Star Wars kid, my brother was just enjoying being him, living his best life! You do him dirty by debasing him to Musk’s level 😂

  • The Pentagon doesn’t need $886bn. I oppose this bloated defense budget | Bernie Sanders
  • This is a particularly low effort comment, provides no value, and is therefore unwelcome here. It’s also demonstrably nonsense, as others have shown you.

    Please consider engaging intelligently, and in good faith.

  • RIP Twitter’s iconic bird logo
  • It’s not even enshittification. If it were that at least would be understandable through a capitalistic lens, a natural part of an investor-owned process. It’s the actions and thinking of a man-child with all the brilliance of a 40 watt bulb. No logic is to be had here.

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    If you like [@technology](https://beehaw.org/c/technology) you gotta check out Posy.
  • I'm removing this post because I don't think it really fits /c/technology, and it does seem rather low effort and somewhat spammy.

  • Artists across the US grapple with an unforgiving housing market
  • Join the club. Everyone is struggling, not just the artists.

  • Corsair acquires mechanical keyboard specialist Drop
  • Sad there isn’t an alternative to it :/

  • Which actors are serial killers?

    If you learned that an actor was a serial killer, who would surprise you the least? (Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Walken, Tom Cruise, and Jack Nicholson don't count--everyone knows they're stacking bodies somewhere)

    I'm gonna say Chris Pratt. I don't buy that harmless goofy schtick AT ALL

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    A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished
    nautil.us A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished

    At first Adam Smith couldn’t believe his calculations. Then it sank in.

    A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished

    Like many of you, birds are very special to me. I connect with them like I don’t any other living creature, save my wife and kids. I photograph them. I’ve covered my body in nothing but bird tattoos.

    To see that a THIRD of them have disappeared is like a knife to the heart.

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    A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished
    nautil.us A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished

    At first Adam Smith couldn’t believe his calculations. Then it sank in.

    A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished

    Like many of you, birds are very special to me. I connect with them like I don’t any other living creature, save my wife and kids. I photograph them. I’ve covered my body in nothing but bird tattoos.

    To see that a THIRD of them have disappeared is like a knife to the heart.

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    A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished
    nautil.us A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished

    At first Adam Smith couldn’t believe his calculations. Then it sank in.

    A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished

    Like many of you, birds are very special to me. I connect with them like I don’t any other living creature, save my wife and kids. I photograph them. I’ve covered my body in nothing but bird tattoos.

    To see that a THIRD of them have disappeared is like a knife to the heart.

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    How sex workers are fighting back against online deplatforming
  • I agree with this. I don’t have a problem with porn, but allowing it on your platform instantiates one HELL of a burden on you.

    Let them go to places dedicated to it, like PornHub. PH now has verification requirements, I believe, to protect people. I can’t be bothered to find the article right now, but in the last few weeks I recall reading something about a ton of child porn being traded on Facebook.

  • Check out this snakey boi friend I found in my yard!

    Cute little fella, soon as he spotted me he lifted up and stayed like that, motionless, looking at me as if I were rather sus!

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    Does anyone use Shortcuts on your Apple device? If so, what are you using?

    For me, I have shortcuts on my Mac to change the wallpaper based on time of day (light or dark), but that's it. I'd maybe be interested in using more if I could think of a good use case, so share yours, if you have one

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    WSJ: Goldman Sachs wants to bail on Apple Card partnership after $1B loss, in talks with Amex
    9to5mac.com WSJ: Goldman Sachs wants to bail on Apple Card partnership after $1B loss, in talks with Amex - 9to5Mac

    Apple has developed a deep relationship with Goldman Sachs through Apple Card, but apparently, it’s an unhappy marriage. According to...

    WSJ: Goldman Sachs wants to bail on Apple Card partnership after $1B loss, in talks with Amex - 9to5Mac

    How have they lost so much??

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    Gay Rights Ruling: Supreme Court Backs Web Designer Opposed to Same-Sex Marriage
    www.nytimes.com Gay Rights vs. Free Speech: Supreme Court Backs Web Designer Opposed to Same-Sex Marriage

    The 6-3 decision, which turned on the court’s interpretation of the First Amendment, appeared to suggest that the rights of L.G.B.T.Q. people are on more vulnerable legal footing, particularly when they are at odds with claims of religious freedom.

    Gay Rights vs. Free Speech: Supreme Court Backs Web Designer Opposed to Same-Sex Marriage

    Fucking Religious Reich and this bullshit court...throw it into the fire.

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    What search engine do you use?

    Data on search engine market share is available, but I wonder what that looks like for Lemmy users in particular, who I would assume lean more technical than the average user, so probably use DuckDuckGo and alternates more than Google.

    I use a mix of DuckDuckGo and Kagi. I'll also use ChatGPT, which can be good if you're careful to verify the answers it gives you as a check against hallucinations. It's useful for short, direct answers without ads or SEO bullshit.

    This article on Ars (and if you're not a subscriber, you absolutely should be, as they are the best tech journalists out there) inspired the question: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/google-admits-reddit-protests-make-it-harder-to-find-helpful-search-results

    Fucking Reddit. Enshittification ruins everything.

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    Why is Kamala Harris disliked so much as VP?
    www.axios.com NBC News poll: Kamala Harris hits record low for VP net favorability

    Just under half, 49%, of registered voters have a negative view of the vice president.

    NBC News poll: Kamala Harris hits record low for VP net favorability

    She has some criticisms for her past as an attorney, but I’m not sure why she’s so disliked now. What has she done to engender such distaste from the public?

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    Anyone else enjoying the Internet better, now that they’re off Reddit?

    Hadn’t realized how reliant upon Reddit I’d become for news and interesting things until after it turned to shit and I quit it. I’ve rediscovered RSS for ex., using reader apps to scan sources directly and read without all the noise—that actually came from someone’s recommendation here in the comments. I’ve found several new sites with deep, knowledgeable articles and discussions, like https://theconversation.com/us (free! No ads! Also discovered through the comments here), and my engagement with articles and their sources has gone WAY up. I’ve stopped reading garbage comment sections, too, and I’m just feeling better mentally as a result, disengaging from the endless, low effort memes/jokes and the mean, toxic comments*. Anyone else?

    (Thanks again, admins—really enjoying and appreciating how Beehaw is run!)

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    Texas will require parental consent for kids to use social media
    arstechnica.com Texas will require parental consent for kids to use social media

    The Texas social media law takes effect September 1.

    Texas will require parental consent for kids to use social media

    How do they even plan on enforcing this? What would possibly be the consequences for either parent or child if they violate?

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    SemioticStandard Leigh @beehaw.org

    #horror #writer. Stories in the British Fantasy Society, 2022 HWA Poetry Showcase, Flame Tree Press, Crystal Lake Publishing, others. Codex, HWA.

    Chief architect. Co-founder of Rocky Linux and the RESF.

    New England.

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