Hey, thanks for reading my bio. You know, you’re pretty cool. I’m glad we got to share this moment together.
All I know is that I’ve never connected my TV to the internet and never gotten ads on it
Not saying more sinister things aren’t possible, but for my TV to connect to some kind of mesh net, it would probably need a firmware update, which its not going to get, because again, its not connected to the internet.
Iirc that’s specifically for amazon devices, this was regarding Samsung TVs
Don’t connect it to the internet
Voting sites really don’t cost that much money. They probably spent more money putting up this measure than it would cost to just run the damn thing.
When I work elections, the county pays me roughly 180 bucks for the whole day 6am - 8pm (I dont do it for the money, obviously). The smallest one i worked had around 3-5 people, so less than 1k in labor overall.
All of the devices and materials aside from the ballots get re-used for each election, unless there are equipment changes. The voting locations themselves are often donated spaces, like churches and schools. There are also election technicians, but they’re serving multiple precincts and dropping one location won’t make much of a difference. Everyone else involved is usually already a salaried government worker.
All this to say, closing a precinct to “save money” is a pathetic excuse. Everyone has the right to vote. It should be the first thing we make sure we budget for.
This is a good sentiment. Just because your specific in-group believes something doesn’t mean its common knowledge. It is still deserving of attention.
Man I fucking love this community sometimes. This is like the 5th fantastic self hostable open source software I’ve seen since joining lemmy, and every time, it gives me that feeling of discovering the internet all over again.
I’ve joined a few of these before and gotten payouts in the range of $100-$350, from Google and Meta.
Until I joined Lemmy I had no idea how militant vegans could be. I sorta just assumed they were a different brand of vegetarian.
I’m not opposed to their ideaology in any way, but after reading the comments on a few posts that found their way into my feed… I had to block their communities. It didn’t seem likely that I’d be reading any productive discourse there.
If you’re a fan of shenanigans, have some friends to play with, and know how to avoid the script kiddies, it can be quite fun.
Recent changes in GTA Online moderation now censor words like “meth” and “cocaine” in chat…
…in a game where large portions of the gameplay are focused around selling meth and cocaine.
I like it here. People are quite nice for the most part
Watching dune 2 in the IMAX theatre with my buds was perhaps one of the greatest movie experiences in my life
Ah, yes, neoliberals
I scan all my receipts and keep a digital record so that someday I can look back through them all and chart the prices of things I regularly purchased over time
Also useful for the occasional class action
I need to try this, it looks great!
I’ll be your friend. Not big on multiplayer games though, sadly.
As much as I’d love to be picky I’m barely hanging on here, I’m buyin whatever is on sale
True, but once they are recieved, they’re seperated from the identifying information. It’s not stored in a database somewhere.
The only time I’d argue this isn’t the case would be for provisional ballots, where they often will send you a letter after it gets processed.
I’ve been trying to find a more privacy-friendy alternative to Discord but I keep coming back to the issue of screen sharing. No other platform does it as smoothly.
The best I’ve found is using Parsec with some virtual audio cables to avoid voice feedback.