That and 8chan. Did we all collectively forget about 8chan? Functionally, I was hoping it would be like lemmy. It quickly turned into a place where every racist, violent, pedophile trickled into once they were deplatformed. Now they just use facebook/ Twitter.

I randomly applied to become a deputy once in SD. I just wanted to see what was happening. The first thing they sent people home for was for wearing JEANS (that was 1/4 of the applicants). They also had a rotating piece of propaganda, “when you’re not working out, they are.”; it was a picture of inmates working out with that text overlaid. You had to either be a jail guard or court guard for 2 years before you could be an LEO. They also would not stop saying,“they’re going to take your gun,”, “they’re going to take your gun and shoot you,”, “they’re going to take your gun and commit a mass shooting,”. That and SUPER racist conversations about demographics. The sheriff has his office above the entrance of the building and brags about watching the new hires. I have NO idea how people work for them. I’ve never really seen the SD police outside of downtown. Mostly, I’ve seen sheriff’s deputies, which is what I applied for. It felt so odd being able to walk into that place just because I filled out an application. It was honestly eye-opening. They really need to get paid more while simultaneously being held to a WAY higher standard. Also, security guards have a better understanding of de-escalation than cops. I did that for a bit. Racist as fuck. They had Facebook for security, and it was just people guessing races based on shitty security images. That was at Target, a company that sells their security systems. This country is fucked. I’m not trying to shill for the police at all, I just thought that might be a relevant piece of info you guys would find interesting.

Edit: I just caught the instance, lmao

Edit 2: random tangent: The only thing I ever did as a security guard that felt good was preventing gift card scams. That was the only instance where I felt like I was actually protecting people and not property. I lasted about 2 weeks at that job.

Edit 3: I found the poster. I was a little off with the quote:

Yeah, your data is the trade away. I’m trying to fork it rn and bake in the extensions.

It’s just a single install. But fair point. This allows you to create playlists, though.

I also use it to listen to podcasts/ lore videos without having my screen on when I’m falling asleep. It’s also nice for driving. If you make a playlist and have an ad blocker, it WILL continue on to the next song.

I’m actually thinking of forking Firefox and making a lite version mostly geared towards playing YouTube content without ads and without restrictions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowslit

Sick, I enjoy the dry brush technique.

https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integration-due-to-the-geopolitical-status-quo

I agree. I just worked there when I was younger. I no longer work there.

They do, but service providers don’t like selling them. There isn’t as much of a return on smaller/ dumb/ cheap phones. I used to work at spectrum, and we’d speak of the cheap phones in hushed tones like they were the boogeyman. It felt horrible because I was using my cheap android while selling people iPhone 15s.

I think that’s how people picture themselves

Why Christian Bale? It should be a guy who tried to trim his beard but gave up. Also, I’m a bit of a barber.

What if you stored the data in an unregulated country? Check out their career page.

Why wouldn’t they? Especially after the lasafare opinions expressed by their CEO.

Fair. I haven’t played “No Man’s Sky,” yet, but apparently, it’s awesome in VR.

If anyone can optimize Disney’s omni directional walking pad, we’ll be there. I’d give it 3 decades if it goes that way. I’ve heard it’s not like real walking. It feels very slippery. All that being said, you don’t have to wrap yourself in a harness and fight friction to simulate walking like other walking pads. It also seems simple enough, hardware wise, that it could be recreated using preexisting parts/ 3d printing. I’m honestly surprised I haven’t seen a DIY project yet.

Have you played VR? You might get that feeling again.

I worked for multiple non-profits that made a profit. That’s not how this works. It’s not the function, it’s the cost.

Nah, fair. Just based on the way Venezuelans described it to me, it seemed ubiquitous on the free end. I’m probably biased. I have no idea what their consumer demographics are, especially outside of the US.

They still offer free services, though.

It’s also worth pointing out the fact that they offer free services; most likely, your data is their real product. That’s to be expected with, say, a social media platform, but a VPN? That is a HUGE security threat. I’m just waiting for the proton security leak. The amount of sketchy data will be choice.