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There are isolated cases of EVERYTHING. People will do anything with everything and that is why OSHA et al are such complicated messes.

Its the difference between possible and plausible.

This definitely reeks of intentional stupidity and bernard and styro are both part of the group of maker youtubers who are openly doing whatever it takes for views.

That said, this one is at least somewhat plausible. Someone cleans a part with a small amount and a scrub and figures that they'll just burn it off because they are lazy and don't care about residue ruining the weld. Whether that will be enough to be meaningfully harmful is an open question

But I can't think of any situation where you would need enough solvent to remove the rust AND not wipe a part down because it has been soaking for an hour before you took the wire brush to it. At which point this is mostly in the same realm of "only weld in well ventilated places and consider a respirator under that mask" which everyone should do but nobody does.

So I'm not ready to burn it all to the ground just yet. Mostly because chromium is still so much worse but also because, at least so far, I can disable that and I understand that "ai is money" for fundraising.

But... anyone have any thoughts on the various forks like waterfox and the other one? I don't mind grabbing the extensions I need on a new install but I DO need a way to be able to send tabs between devices. In theory that is something I can selfhost but I am not aware of a good solution.

Television and Radio are 75% advertisement.

They always have been

Most of my favorite youtubers from 2010s are gone replaced with nonstop politics, drama, reaction, and streaming content farming.

Find better youtubers? But also understand that people are going to talk about what matters to them and most people aren't privileged enough to ignore the political hellscape (or are so privileged they think they can benefit from it...). Same with the "drama" since so much of that is intrinsically tied to how the platforms they rely on for their livelihood function.

I feel it in my heart that short form content is damaging everyones attention spans especially my tablet ridden younger family members.

I very much agree. But this has been going on for decades. TV led to a decline in movies ("I only have time to maybe watch five episodes of a show. Not a full movie") and "book reading" has been on a decline for about as long.

When I go into the search bar on YouTube I see stuff literally called “brain break” and “brain rot”.

Okay? I mean, everyone always made jokes about how TV would rot our brains. It is nothing new

I switch on the news and its 90% pure political propagandano matter the station.

... the news is discussing politics? Gasp, shock, and amazement?

Even the memes suck now, say what you want about caption memes and dancing babies and troll face, Pepe, me gusta but that shit was at least comprehensible in humor. go on 67 Wikipedia and it literally says “It has no fixed meaning.”

"I'm Rick James, bitch". "Whatchu talkin' bout Willis". "Can you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth".

Kids are fucking stupid. At least this crop aren't racist? Yet...

Even the steam store just feels different now. Its full of gooner porn bait visual novels and mundane activity sims and 1 season relevant fps shooters.

Don't expect stores to curate themselves for you. Find others who like what you like and let them trawl through the steam slop. It is no different than being a PC gamer who wanted to buy KOTOR back when every store would shove WoW and Halo down your throat the second you entered.

All the stuff I enjoyed is gone,

No, it's not. Retention of media is at an all time high and you can very much sit down to watch or play the things you live

and everything they make now seems so empty and pessimistic now.

Again, curate better.

Is this just me getting old yelling at clouds, or is something wrong?

What's wrong is that you think the world must revolve around you. It doesn't. But that doesn't mean people out there aren't making content you would love to consume. You just have to put a bit of effort in. Because The Algorithm was never about giving everyone exactly what they want. It was about matching people up to personas and feeding content along those lines.

1. Unplug the power immediately
2. Shuck the drive out of the external mount
3. Leave the drive in a warm dry place for a few days
4. Plug the drive directly into a computer (I suggest a usb harness)
5. Pray

De facto, no.

Yes, there are still some services where there are absolutely zero questions asked and all you need is a prepaid card that doesn't need to be activated at all. Those are quite rare and have a very limited number of phone numbers allocated to them and pretty much are all flagged as spam/bots by every single system out there.

The next tier up are services where you technically don't need to provide any ID to use a prepaid card... but the store you purchased it from needs your ID/credit card to activate the card when you buy it. Those ALSO tend to have the same problems with burned numbers.

What most people have as burners these days are just the same phone service as anyone else. They just pay a rebranded t-mobile at the start of the month rather than the end of the month. And those have all the same restrictions, and capabilities, as "real" phone plans.

It still does make sense considering that russia is literally invading Ukraine (at least once a decade...) and continue to probe NATO nations. Because, in that regard, it is less a "military base on foreign soil" and more just a NATO base on NATO soil. And, in theory, it is a good idea to let the country dumb enough to spend most of their GDP on a massive standing military to foot the bill.

But considering that the US is just as likely to be on russia's side in WW3...

In fairness, that is a different situation than this.

This is google basically providing a mechanism for employers and parents to pull text messages on devices on their plans. That wouldn't impact BYOD as that is still not on their plan.

But all the management software and spyware already have those capabilities. Which... is the other aspect of this karma-bate post.

Considering I have to deal with these kinds of security concerns on the regular as part of my professional life... kind of.

But you are just switching to ad hominem because your non sequitor "gimme updoots" response to a thread title is nonsense and you can't admit that. So... I strongly encourage you to wipe your work phone and install graphene with an isolated partition for google/work android and see what happens.

Ah. So graphene DOES have a system where it takes your entire existing OS, shrinks all the partitions on disk, installs itself around that, AND prevents the monitoring software from reporting that your 512 GB device is now actually a 128 GB one?

Well color me surprised.

Or, you know, more likely you end up wiping the existing OS by effectively factory resetting it. And then you ping the management software server saying "I need to reinstall your spyware" which triggers a flag that IT may or may not care about. Similarly, said spyware now wonders why your phone's storage shrunk so massively and raises another flag.

Yeah... having to reprovision a phone because it just got reformatted is going to raise a red flag. And if you are installing a rogue OS on your work phone to prevent your employer from seeing what you are doing... I actually side with them when they fire your ass.

Your nonsense makes sense if it is a personal device that you are using for work purposes. Which... I strongly oppose for a range of reasons. If your work wants you "on call" then they can provide a device. Otherwise you can never be off call.

Sexist is debatable but... yeah

But everyone worshiping the rich? Yeah, that is Switzerland in a nutshell. A decade or so ago I spent a week in Switzerland on holiday and... even the state funded museums kinda felt like "And then so and so developed a really cool technology that saved countless lives. AND THEN THEY GOT RICH!!! FRANCA FRANCA BILS Y'ALL!!!! And here is what they bought with it and the house they lived in and how much paper it takes to print out their monthly statement and... Oh, the tech? Whatever, nobody cares about that"