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RootBeerGuy, to risa in Ok everyone, time for a round of... koon-ut-kal-if-fee / pon farr / illogically take a life.
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RootBeerGuy, to asklemmy in After a lifetime against, I'm considering joining social media. Any advice?
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They recently switched some feed algorithms and it became completely useless. At least in my case if I use their “adjusted” feed, or whatever it is called, I sometimes see the same posts up on top for several days! I anyway prefer the chronological feed which you can luckily still set as standard, but there I get so many results, I do tend to miss those “high impact” posts of some of my connections.

So, neither is great and I have no idea how they think its usable in any way. Not using their app by the way, so maybe thats the issue, but I refuse to put that on my phone.

RootBeerGuy, to historyporn in WW2 weekly ration of sugar, tea, margarine, 'national butter', lard, eggs, bacon and cheese for an adult in the UK, WW2, 1942
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Wait, wait. I’m worried what you just heard was, “Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.” What I said was, “Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.” Do you understand?

RootBeerGuy, to asklemmy in What search engine do you recommend that isn't Google or Bing?
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I totally get the sentiment of saying when you pay you are not the product, however… what does any company stop from still collecting data anyway? I know that the kagi people deny that but why should anyone trust that.

Companies have fucked customers/consumers over so much, there is no trusting anyone when it comes to data collection. It is just so easy. Even if they don’t use it right now, why not just collect it anyway.

So, while I’d love to pay a little bit to support a service like that, I am so jaded by how dishonest companies have been about stuff like that, that I am not really willing to also give them money in addition.

RootBeerGuy, to piracy in Amazon's Prime Video will start serving ads on January 29 unless you pay extra
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Yeah, this is what is next. Another thing might be to split up one service into subcategories, like family, sci-fi, cinema or whatever and then charging for each individually. Obviously ending up more expensive if you get them all than what it is now.

RootBeerGuy, to upliftingnews in Iceland’s ‘bike whisperer’: the vigilante who finds stolen bicycles – and helps thieves change
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I wonder if some just go “ah fuck it, don’t talk to me, just take the bike back…”

RootBeerGuy, to memes in 11,144 Episodes and Counting
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Imagine being in the middle of the venn diagram for those.

RootBeerGuy, to lemmyshitpost in Northern star gang
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Yeah, like the fair ones? How does he do it?

RootBeerGuy, to lemmyshitpost in Sign now!
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I don’t need to live near one to realise that. Went to visit Vegas some 10 years ago and spent one of those days just walking from casino to casino, seeing those slot machine zombies depressed the fuck out of me real fast.

RootBeerGuy, to asklemmy in best app for lemmy?
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Thats great, thanks for linking that.

RootBeerGuy, to asklemmy in best app for lemmy?
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Whats that about backing up subscriptions? Haven’t heard of that, what does it do and how do you use it?

RootBeerGuy, to risa in It's the holidays, time to impress the family.
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RootBeerGuy, to calvinandhobbes in 15 December 1986
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Ok boomer

RootBeerGuy, to lemmyshitpost in An old painting
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Looks like one of the city hall murals in Pawnee (Parks & Rec)

RootBeerGuy, to lemmyshitpost in Motivational
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Think outside of the box, make pear.

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