Blahaj slowly realising that turbolibs don't give a shit about trans people, they just say something performative and then expect all their "innocent questions" to be answered on demand or immediately declare being an ally is impossible.

Sorry , god forbid some trans people choose not to talk to you - I wonder if there's a reason why?

The r/196 crowd was an enormous part of the problem, maybe once they go rejoin Reddit.world, refedding really is an option again.

What would it even mean to run an ad for a guy who has literally been voted president? It would be like running an ad for clouds; Everyone already knows about it and what possible further end could you want to achieve?

You very much summed up what I wanted to say, but far far more succinctly than I could.

As someone who's also been here for many years over many alts, I do feel like I largely relate to your experience. Blocking some comms slowed my exposure to the dumb shit, but it grows and leaks into main ever more.

I actually have had no issues with the administration of this site at any point, only problems I've had are a couple comment removals where my tone, intended to be playful, has been a bit too vague and came across harshly. I think that's fair and as much on me as anything else.

My biggest issues remains with a small section of users, those who are obsessed with 'dunking' on users who say anything they perceive to be bad. Both libs who wander in here, and Hexbear users who are just trying to speak honestly. I speak of users who are more interested in getting upbears by calling someone an injoke word in pursuit of "winning" the argument, rather than actually having a genuine conversation. These people really, intensely detract from the 'community' feel and are happy to destroy any good vibes of the site in pursuit of a moment of a fleeting "haha".

Some years ago, we used to far more closely observe the "assume good faith" rule, and I think we should massively return to enforcing that and pushing it as a good attitude - Like 80% of arguments I see on this site were totally unnecessary and stem from people immediately taking negative interpretation and trying to one-up it.

That is what has stopped me wanting to interact on Hexbear much at all in the past months, I've done it a bit but honestly most times I comment feels like lapsing back into a bad addiction, I wish I didn't. I would happily forever , but for me personally, this site is unusable when Slop and Badposting aren't blocked from one's feed.

As someone who has spent half their professional life looking at network packet drops, I may be biased, but it's interference.

There's no directly "geographical" causes, but there's a 99% chance the fob works in 2.4Ghz. Depending where in that 2.4-2.5 spectrum it functions (which will depend entirely on the car model), something else at your apartment is filling that frequency too.

Sadly that something can be just about anything - power lines, telecom wires, lights, any faulty/poorly shielded electronics or electronics using constant wireless comms, someone else's car, nearby antennae you name it. Only way you'd likely find where it is is with an RF meter/Spectrum analyzer and a lot of patience. My neighbour used to illegally over-power their network router which fucked up most wireless anythings in a 20-meter radius.

We're supposedly making and pushing our own amazing replacement standard to the CE.

But given that no other country recognises UKCA and its requirements are identical to CE. We've basically spent millions and 5 years pushing a redundant, unused, literally useless standard. So everybody still just uses CE.

Your actions have displeased the almighty advertisers. Take a pilgrimage to the seven shrines of consumer-friendly guidelines and prostrate before them.

I know I'm late to the party, but I do want to honor the CCCP, the Combined Community Codec Pack. As being an amazing set of open-source codecs that made most of my media work, pre-VLC. They used the hammer and sickle logo and all.

Good. Shoplifting like this makes the only way to be a profitable shop is to be invested in uplifting the local community out of poverty and have them actually respect you as a positive actor. Not sure any big business would ever actually do that, but it has to push things in a slightly positive direction.

For every person that signs up with your referral, they get one entry and you get one more entry. Unless they're willing to try and fail to contact loads of fake details in quick succession. Even if they do intend to pay out on this campaign, they're very unlikely to ultimately pay out if the first few 'winners' are fake entries, and then your effective chances of winning actually goes down when people use your code with fake details.

So, signing up with fake deets may be a statistically bad choice.

Yeah okay the doomerism is too much

But that isn't Capricornus

Yeah cool! This is a bunch of ways that GPS has meaningfully improved the way some things work. I totally agree with that.

I'm really not, but aight, just assume bad faith I guess.

Either you're being obstinate or we're just talking across purposes. I'mma out 'cause this conversation now sucks :(

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Instantly knowing where you are on a map has fundamentally changed several aspects of our lives? I really disagree.

I could well be the weirdo but it's fundamentally changed no aspects of my life. I would love to know how it has others.

This statement confuses me somewhat, is it a bit? The "crazy" difference in my life without GPS would be: I'd have spent some more hours of my life looking at maps to work out where I am. That's what we did when I was a child and it really didn't take long.

That's honestly it.

Well sure. But at no point in history did nobody ever have significant others. If you're including that in your assessment then only humans who've lived their whole life in solitary confinement have nothing to lose.

I'm very over the childish tendency to condemn colloquialisms as a lib/redditor thing. I'm using words to communicate a point. You understood that point. So they did their job.