I still love tech but only because I realize that it can actually empower us. The dark patterns that corporations use (for me personally and especially when it comes to customer service) are what ruin it, but maybe I’m still naïve.

I work from home, love my job and make a great salary. I also have ~10 years of food service experience and would prefer to go back to that than to hear my office-working coworkers complain about the same shit I hear in the monthly meetings every day.

Just moving the 3 over makes this obvious: 77 + 3 = 80. Taking the zero off both 80 and the remaining 30, you get 8 + 3 which is so obviously not 10, therefore not 100.

Why?

77 + 3 = 80
80 + 30 = 110

I don’t understand why it’s upsetting:

500 ÷ 2 = 250
50 ÷ 2 = 25
250 + 25 = 275

I’d totally check it out but I have 100% of Google blocked. 💀

I don’t have a great answer but I’m sure most modern browsers have locked down their address bar (and bookmarks) enough that it’s not possible without enabling developer features.

You cut out your eyes for fun?

I think the part you’re missing (and others haven’t addressed) is that you don’t send 100% of your traffic to one endpoint (much like how most use VPNs). You can route different things to different places.

For example, I’m in the US and have two Tailscale exit nodes. Both are located on VPS machines in the US, but one sends traffic down a double-hop VPN back out into the US, the other does the same but to Switzerland. My “default” route is through Switzerland (better privacy laws) but I am forced to route some things through the US exit node due to websites that won’t work outside the US. For my personal devices, traffic routes directly to them via WireGuard tunnels.

In addition, my wife doesn’t care about blocking everything that I do (social media, tracking) but her phone still needs to update sensors in Home Assistant. She can choose not to use the exit nodes but can still communicate with our nodes on Tailscale. She also uses it to print documents at home from her laptop while she’s at work.

Recently I was waiting in a hospital with public (unsafe) WiFi that blocked UDP traffic, but Tailscale does some magic that will relay traffic via TLS. I was able to access services at home with a 20ms latency. The tech is very, very nice to have.

Seek therapy 😂

Yeah that was kind of a weird take, I’ve never felt it being slow nor heard it is from anywhere else.

I only have experience trying to run two Tailscale containers on the same machine and hit so many roadblocks that running it containerized just wasn’t worth it.

Containerizing is probably only worth it if you have an explicit need for it.

I finally get it, yikes that was a big confuse

Do people use Lemmy for porn? I remember this stereotype about Reddit too and it always seemed like a super strange medium for porn.

Wouldn’t “UN-authorized” make it only authorized for use by the UN?

The unnecessary hyphen in “un-authorized” really grinds my gears.

You’re probably right 😞

You sound like me any time I have to get support from anywhere. I don’t often need support, but when I do it’s always crazy stuff like this that irks me.

In the rare case you do find an email address it oftentimes just goes to some ticketing software that no one can be bothered to care about.

Most recently I emailed my bank’s support because when I try to switch my debit card’s checking account (something they do) I just got an HTTP 500. Four days later I get boilerplate about “how to switch your card’s spending account.”

I hate that this is so black and white that you’re being downvoted. I’m the exact same way, but I’m by no means a bootlicker. I very much enjoy my job and love the work that I do, but I also don’t think most jobs are meaningful.

Two things can be true at the same time.

I’ve seen English subtitles of Spanish media making this mistake too. Ventilador is fan in Spanish but they always translate it to ventilator in English (where it should be fan). It’s always a good laugh. Also the mil/millón mixup is funny too.