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Cake day: July 6th, 2023
  • udon@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Devils Panties 02/28/2025
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    3 months ago

    This can have an effect in exactly two ways:

    1. retailers lose a bit of profit because they cannot optimize their staffing for this one day. They might be a little less profitable because they have one person at work who is not needed, for example. They might also get mad customers the next day when everybody goes back shopping and they haven’t prepared for it. Similarly, they might have to throw away a few fresh products and not have them in stock later.

    2. if (and only if) people buy the stuff they need somewhere else instead. If this is about grocery shopping, well, you need groceries at some point. Doesn’t matter much for the retailer when you buy it (apart from 1), as long as you buy it consistently at their place.

    I support the protest, but if you want to make an impact, use that day to find alternative places to do your shopping in the future.

  • udon@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Tough choice
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    10 months ago

    Good luck! The way I see it: Linux has its issues, but so do Windows and Mac OS (and others). The cool thing with Linux though is that for many problems you can create/find some form of error logs, google them, and someone online will help you. In most cases they have solved that problem already.

    Windows problems often feel like black magic: Something doesn’t work, but all you can do is knock on your laptop, turn it off and on again, and pray. Unless you’re lucky and find a shady program online that you can download and install, hoping the programmers mean well.

    With Mac OS, you can often solve problems by throwing money at them. But sometimes that doesn’t work and then you can’t do anything about them and just have to accept the one way to use your computer correctly.

    So in that sense I don’t think Linux is “harder”. There are problems of course, but you learn to think differently about them and are often able to solve them.

  • udon@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Tough choice
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    10 months ago

    Totally next to the linux guy. In fact, I was in such a situation on the train before. I was just there working and the person sitting next to me noticed I had a linux desktop (in fact, GNU/Linux, btw). They were curious and vaguely interested in switching to linux for a while, so we had a nice conversation about this.

    I would not bring this up myself, but it’s cool that this happens sometimes (i.e., once in a few decades of life so far)

  • udon@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Firefox CTO Responds On Collecting User Advertisement DataEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Much has been said about this already, but I’m really annoyed how they repeatedly try to twist this into a technical question like:

    “This is better for privacy than how it used to be. Here are 20 reasons why, and we have good scientists who say it offers good privacy. Do you have any technical arguments against these privacy claims? We welcome a discussion about possible flaws in the reasoning of the scientists/engineers in terms of assuring privacy.”

    To me, that is a secondary question. More important:

    • Don’t introduce tracking features against my will, with only an opt-out (ironically, while explaining in the same post why opt-outs suck)
    • Give room to a discussion about tracking-based advertisements, whether we want to have that in the internet (IMHO no) and support it in firefox of all browsers (IMHO no)
    • If they go this way, who is supposed to continue using their shit browser after this? The only reason left is that it’s “the reliable other/good browser”. People who don’t care about these questions are using Chrome anyway.

    This is such a self-destructive move, it’s painful to watch.