[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I would hardly consider that pricing insane. Consumer TVs are massively subsidized by the smart tech built into them, in some cases by up to 60%. Plus, they are often fragile with cheaper components because they are expected to be mounted in “safe” places away from unusual conditions or extreme temperatures.

Considering the more robust construction (for commercial use) and lack of subsidization, I would consider those prices to be spot-on and rather reasonable.

[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

Plenty of companies make display TVs that only display commercial content. You see them all the time displaying menus in fast food restaurants.

These can also have all smart tech turned off because some companies also use them as digital whiteboards to display proprietary or confidential information.

[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Oh, FFS. It’s supposed to be a Daemon, not a penguin!!

[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 31 points 3 days ago

This saved the taxpayer a lot of money.

[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

It also utterly lacks the required vector for it to actually be, you know, useful to the recipient.

There are billions of ways that you can “work on yourself”, with only a minuscule subset actually having any benefit whatsoever. And that beneficial cohort changes radically from person to person.

[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca -1 points 4 days ago

Any attempt to build “male spaces” for male-only socialization have women screaming that these places are misogynistic because it excludes them, and then when they finally have access they push all the men out and make those places all about them and their problems.

[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 days ago

And predictions mean absolutely nothing until the evidence is in.

Problem is, people frequently celebrate predictions, and build policy with those predictions. That’s called jumping the gun.

[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca -2 points 5 days ago

Norway has one of the most aggressively traversing-hostile geographies on the planet. It has 1,200 fjords compared to about 240 for Canada. Plus, their mountains are far steeper and more impassable, and the fjords are deeper.

If Norway can run dedicated fibre optic to every hamlet over 500 people there, Canada can run fibre optic to any hamlet anywhere in our country for half the price.

[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca -3 points 6 days ago

You can’t reach everywhere with fibre. Some areas of the far north are too remote and too sparsely populated for it to ever make sense to put in fibre, and it will remain that way for the foreseeable future.

Norway saunters into the chat, shakes its head over this ignorant drivel, and walks back out while tapping it’s temple with a forefinger

[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Until that graph curves over, it isn’t true.

Evidence trumps wishes and fantasies and wild guesses. I refuse to get ensnared by hopium, especially when the hard evidence isn’t even in yet.

[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 days ago

Until that graph curves over, it isn’t true.

Evidence trumps wishes and fantasies. I refuse to get ensnared by hopium.

[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 days ago

The execution of a man later found to have been innocent should automatically generate a murder conviction for all the key players (those who could have done something) in the chain that put him to death.

So that would be the key witness at the trial, the prosecutors at that trial, the judges on the state Supreme Court, and the governor that refused to grant clemency.

The system needs to be held responsible when it knowingly makes mistakes and intentionally fails to correct those mistakes.

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submitted 8 months ago by rekabis@lemmy.ca to c/avelon@lemm.ee

This happens both on a feed as well as within a thread.

Happens both on my direct instance as well as on a random instance out there.

I go to scroll, and there is a nearly one-second pause before the screen jumps to where I have scrolled. If I start very slowly, there is no pause, but I am talking about an unreasonably slow start to the scroll.

Working with an iPhone 15 Pro Max, hardware limitations should not be in play here.

Working with the latest version of Avalon.

Curious if I am the only one.

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submitted 8 months ago by rekabis@lemmy.ca to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

I have seen these before, but for the life of me I cannot seem to recall what they are called or what they’re for.

Google search - especially image search, where I’m trying to bring up similar items - is now a total potato and seemingly capped at one screen of results in a secure and sanitized browser.

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submitted 8 months ago by rekabis@lemmy.ca to c/avelon@lemm.ee

When I bring up an image by itself, I can do a long press on the image and get the app Safari drop-down interface (see attached), which gives me (along with other tools) the option to download the image to my camera roll or to copy the image for pasting elsewhere.

Unfortunately, the Avelon app blocks this action entirely.

If there is a workaround, it gives no indication as to what it is, forcing the user to thrash around and discover the box with the out/up arrow in the lower right.

If there is a way to whitelist this behaviour, there is also no way to inform the user on what setting they need to adjust.

At any rate, this is a noticeably frustrating suboptimal UI/UX, and should be addressed.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by rekabis@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

This is why Galen West is a card-carrying member of the Parasite Class.

And yes, I confirmed the no-shipments, zero-stock with the store manager. 5 days and counting with no stock so far, when the sale started there was maybe 12-24 bottles for 128,000 residents in the city.

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I have been trying to create a post in the Canada community. Scuttlebutt is that the post limit was set to 10,000 characters, but has since been set to 50,000 characters. My post has 9961 UTF-8 characters (9969 characters overall, 8396 characters excluding spaces) and when I hit submit the submission never completes.

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The Rot Economy (wheresyoured.at)

I particularly enjoy how Google got savaged:

Google has a similar yet slightly different story, where their core product - search - has gone from a place where you find information to an increasingly-manipulated labyrinth of SEO-optimized garbage shipped straight from the content factories.

Google no longer provides the “best” result or answer to your query - it provides the answer that it believes is most beneficial or profitable to Google. Google Search provides a “free” service, but the cost is a source of information corrupted by a profit-seeking entity looking to manipulate you into giving money to the profit-seeking entities that pay them.

The system almost 100% works as intended! But it doesn’t work for me. It doesn’t work for you. It doesn’t work for a vast majority of human beings across the globe. But yet it absolutely works as intended for the Parasite Class, the 0.01% at the very top.

And this is why it’s a cancer of our society. Until it has been excised and replaced with something more humane, human civilization is doomed to collapse. You cannot have an economic ideology that demands infinite growth on a planet with finite resources.

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