Unlikely. I was trying to contact support and that was completely broken also. Unlikely if they were just trying to make cancellation harder. Likely if they were overloaded.

It’s two or three years old. Maybe you just have lower standards than me, but just because it puts a 150” image on the wall doesn’t mean it’s actually going to be watchable at that size. And just because a projector advertises something also doesn’t mean that’s gonna be the case.

I think you misunderstand what people are looking for when they say privacy. They don’t want any company having their data. If you set up a blog and post about yourself on that blog then yes, you understand you are revealing your private details and that’s a choice you make.

You coming on here and telling people that a platform they are using is private when it isn’t is a completely different scenario. Those people reading here might have no understanding of how federation works. They think “oh this is like email, my email is private, this must be private as well” when in reality every detail is sent to every other node in the network, including votes. That’s not something you would expect a privacy conscious service to do. And pretending like it’s the same as a blog is disingenuous.

Currently lemmy and piefed are not private and do not pretend to be. You are the only one saying that.

Like I said, I have a $600 projector (might have been $700, hard to remember, it’s a Benq stored away), and it’s not doing 150”. It says it can do 100”, but that’s generous as well. It would be best at something like 80”. And then you’re back to just competing with OLEDs. Sorry but that part of the argument was just so disingenuous.

LTT has many videos about trying to use projectors. You would think they would use them more if they actually were that much better. They have spent tens of thousands of dollars on projectors. And yet they still use regular TVs for almost everything.

You are the one that said:

And then there’s cost. You can get a cheap 1080p projector for under $100—something that instantly delivers a big-screen experience for next to nothin

So no, you’re not getting big screen performance for under thousands of dollars. If you’re at the point of buying an oled that costs 6k dollars then you might want to look into projectors. Until then, lol no.

…those advertisers can literally set up a server themselves and collect all the data that is being federated. It’s arguably easier for advertisers to get your data from here than from Reddit or Facebook.

They’re not cached images, they’re stored images in your database. If they deleted after any time then your server wouldn’t function, since any old post you loaded would have the images deleted.

I have a $600 projector and lol no, it’s not going to compete with even a $100 tv of any quality at being visible during daylight hours. It’s hardly visible even nearby a campfire.

Looks funny!

Apple Card (or Goldman Sachs maybe) do require the customer to validate (I just went through like 6 chargebacks because a company continued to charge me $130 a month for something that I had cancelled 6 months ago when they raised prices without telling me). So it seems that stripe isn’t doing it, not banks in general.

Oh great. That’s my exact issue right now. Except it just started happening even moreso with both my hdmi monitor and my display port monitor and it will stop the whole display from showing, even with an unplug. I have to hard restart

Holy cow that’s an expensive pillow. I thought mine was expensive lol

Oh interesting. I’m not sure about the sliding down, I’ve not had that happen. The one I linked holds it shape very well, the recommendations actually say you should fluff it every night but I have only fluffed it like 4 or five times since getting it years ago.

You’re welcome for the recommendation!

An adjustable, removable fill, cutout, side sleep pillow. https://a.co/d/aXcI4Wx

I’ve even bought one for my step mom. The brand is amazing, and removable fill is the way to go.

That’s true but they wouldn’t be able to see their comment still available if that were the case.

In any case I was just commenting on the shadow banning part. Seems that OP didn’t understand what shadow banning was so I was explaining.

That’s what shadow banning is. Hence “shadow”. Other banning you get notified about. Shadow banning essentially black holes you so that nobody except mods and admins can see your content.

The top comment I replied to stated that this was a black and white issue. Either you are a landlord and that’s unethical or you’re not and it’s ethical. You seem to have taken this conversation in a completely different direction. It is solely about whether you can be a landlord ethically.

I also did not assume the majority want to do anything.

I know people (including myself who actually owns a house) who would love to (or already do) travel the world. Buying and selling houses in every location you travel would be a hindrance not a help.

There is no black and white, this is an ethics discussion, there are shades of gray for everything. Just because you want to stay in one location and never move doesn’t mean others want what you want.

Edit: adjusted sentence to make it easier to understand

you say this as if most people would be like that. whereas most people don’t want to travel all the time

I do not, I say it because it has to be involved in any discussion of ethics. It isn’t a binary problem. There are shades of gray to everything, which people hate talking about.

I know many people that like renting because they want to move every few months or years. Their job affords it (which any reasonable nation also allows), they work remote, or they’re mobile, etc.

Acting like everything is black and white when it literally never is is making it impossible to have actually discussions that enact change.

Wouldn’t you like to travel the world and see the sights? Would you want to have to buy a house and sell your old one every single time you changed countries? I think not.

That’s not my assumption. I know people that only want to rent, they don’t want to own. In that worldview someone owns it.

In regards to paying for shelter, unless you get rid of money, things have to be maintained, that costs money, and someone has to be paid to fix it, even if it’s the government paying a contractor.

The government doesn’t like owning things that require enormous amounts of maintenance. It’s a liability, because they can’t then focus efforts on actually serving their citizens. So if the government is already going to pay someone to maintain buildings, it’s better to not own the buildings and instead regulate in a manner than serves everyone.

That means there will still be landlords. There are still people that want to rent, the government doesn’t like owning buildings, so there will still be people owning and renting their places out.