Imagine passing out and then waking up mid loop.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/05/jack-dorsey-says-hes-no-longer-on-the-bluesky-board/

This happens a lot when on all major platforms, there’s nothing (not discussion, not ballot initiatives, not informational pieces about causes) that allow you to take direct action. When things broke out in Ukraine and Russia invaded there were people who jumped on planes to go fight. People were posting donation pages everywhere. People were actively rallying against actions they felt were wrong with avenues to help that were meaningful and available to the average human being.

We just don’t have that in any political election and since it’s a lot of the smaller elections that matter, it’s important to note this deficiency. People who feel a call to action, but not a way to enact change get overwhelmed and despair. Lemmy is one of the only places I see giving information about candidates in local and rural elections (and even that isn’t wide spread and mostly happens on community pages like the one for people from Maine or Chicago, or wherever).

It could be different. But different doesn’t necessarily mean better unless we design it to be better. It’s so hard as a little guy to get a foothold in search without one of the big 2.

This article gives basically no examples of what Gemini does better than regular Google Assistant Integration. It just claims it’s better and “more natural” and that you can change your mind.

The actual functionality of asking Google to set a timer for 5 minutes or three hours and then saying “no, make that two hours” isn’t super good exciting. I can cancel that timer and set a new one at just about any time. This type of thing isn’t enough to get people who don’t want Gemini (like me) to switch.

Their own apps?

https://lemmy.world/comment/13446861

It’s also worth noting that if Google has to pay, they may very well just not bother to show that information in search results which also hurts small search engines who rely on Google for part of their search Indexing.

I love seeing a Big Hit reference. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who’s ever seen that movie.

Mostly my problems with Steam OS (and windows Big Picture Mode) is the seeming lack of options for controllers that aren’t Xbox or steam controllers. Steam used to be excellent at this but more recently in Windows 11 (and in Steam OS) the controller support is great when it works but if you want a more granular experience it’s just not there). I somehow have less settings and options for controllers support than I did in Windows 10, and the way it detects controllers cannot seemingly be changed. So if you’re like me and own an SN 30 Pro2 controller with back paddles, you can’t configure them without jumping through a whole lot of hoops. And in game that means that you’re just not going to be able to use them which is a minor inconvenience but one that’s been bugging me.

Google Home used to sell smoke and CO2 detectors. What… Just. Google. What are you doing?

If I’m being blinded by the car behind me and I can’t pull off to let them pass I’m adjusting the mirrors.

I have questions about why you’d take an open cup of coffee into a public bathroom.

Listen, if it were a government website it would be unusable for the vast majority of users, and basically impossibly to navigate, so we got that going for us. Looking at you DTS.

And how many have been bought up by scalpers?

I did after the update. Their comment doesn’t account for people who are old enough to vote/and counted in the census but still are not eligible voters. 78.76 percent of eligible voters voted. The total number of people who voted is 10,999,265 out of a total number of eligible voters 13,949,168.

This is important context that was missing from both the original comment and the edited comment.

57 percent of the people who voted voted for abortion rights. That’s 6,269,581 voters. Since the bar for a measure to pass in Florida is 60 percent, we know that if the other 2,949,903 people had voted at all and they’d voted in favor that would have passed the abortion rights initiatives on the ballot. In fact the abortion rights initiative only needed 109,927 more votes in order to pass. It was extremely close to passing.

https://floridaelectionwatch.gov/CountyReportingStatus

22million people who are eligible to vote? I want to know if that’s everyone who lives in Florida (man women, children, citizens, non-citizens etc), or just eligible voters.

Also some of them are much better quality than the ones Google sells. As someone who has bought many a Google band (Fitbit band) that ended up being high priced garbage. I learned my lesson after 5, but that’s still too many.

Graphene OS has this option.

The matte screen is enticing especially with stylus support but it’s too big for what I’d use a tablet for. The pixel tablet I already have is too big, honestly.

Can they fix all the things that they promised that don’t work for the current gen? Like swapping accounts based on voice commands or fingerprints etc?