AskReddit, being the best comparison I can make, had a lot of questions with an established theme. Usually along the lines of asking Redditors what they thought or experienced around some topic.

AskLemmy on the other hand never really established a particular culture, and not everyone here necessarily came from Reddit. So instead, it’s become more of a community for general, genuine questions, rather than one seeking subjective experience or thoughts.

Yes, I’m not sure if it’ll be ready by this year’s tax season or not, but it was happening. Last I heard they were doing some limited runs on it.

For those in the US: Learn how to file your own taxes. It’s really simple for the large majority of people, and usually just consists of copying numbers into boxes off a sheet your employer made for you. After you’ve done it once, subsequent times you’ll probably have it done yourself in less than half an hour.

You can do it for free on a ton of sites unless you make significant income, freetaxusa is typically the most highly recommended one.

Man, I already had a hard time justifying my YouTube Premium subscription. I literally only have it for putting on stuff to sleep to on my TV without some ad telling me Mr. Beast wants to give me $10,000 if i click.

But the worse this gets, the more I feel like an asshole for giving them a dime.

My coworkers look at me like I’m a monster for just grabbing a fork and eating the chef boyardee spaghetti and meatballs straight out of the can.

There are far too many ways for an immortality wish to make your life hell in ways that a money wish uh, wishes it could.

I assume you’re talking about tracking score on profiles ala Reddit? There’s nothing stopping anyone from making their own client or modifying lemmy-ui to do that if someone really cares.

But honestly, Lemmy has enough bots posting stuff that I wouldn’t want to bring more incentive for karma farming in.

Leaving Reddit gave me the opposite of FOMO. I’m glad to not be fed as much algorithm-tailored BS as before. I still use YouTube, but most of my YouTube viewing is at least related to my other hobbies.

The thing is, MS made a command line package manager that allows users to submit configs for new packages via GitHub. But they haven’t made a UI for it and don’t tell anyone that it exists. You have to go out of your way to find out about it, which 99% of users are not going to do.

I use it when I set up new Windows VMs and it’s a lot easier than manually navigating to websites for software installers.

I didn’t go full keto, but I did tighten up my sugar consumption once and tried to keep it as close to zero as possible for a couple of weeks.

I can’t say I had hallucinations, but the cravings are seriously real. I didn’t even stop because of the cravings though, I stopped because sugar is so ubiquitous in everything that trying to find a drink to buy while working that didn’t contain sugar and I actually liked was difficult. I tried drinking tea with stevia as a main drink, but the taste of it never really acquired for me.

If they’re going by user agent, then a VPN won’t help. But user agents can be spoofed trivially, especially on a PC. If it’s geographical, you could try parking in a place with low average income and look up prices with the browser set to incognito/private.

If I had to guess, they’re probably not doing it just because they want to. It’s entirely possible they got a threat letter from one or more publications about the topic and are doing it to avoid litigation. Or they’re afraid that they could face litigation if they don’t take action.

We shouldn’t assume ill intent unless there’s something to substantiate it.

No amount of ML expertise will let someone know how a model produced a result, exactly. Training the model from the data requires a lot of very delicate math being done uncountable times to get a model that results in something useful, and it simply isn’t possible to comprehend how the work inside is done in a meaningful way other than by doing guesswork.

I just want to know how saving passwords is a revolutionary new feature that needs a dedicated advertisement. We’ve been able to do that on every Web browser for what, 20 years?

I could see why someone would think it, though. My girlfriend got her license very late, we went to the same DMV 3 times to take the test. First time, bapped the pole during the parallel park, instant fail, do not pass go, do not collect a driver’s license. Second time, didn’t pass the parallel park but didn’t bap the pole, so continued. Got marked “Fail” on things. More practice, third time, again, tons of fails over minor errors. Note that there is a middle point between good and fail, but they literally never used it.

Fourth time, I said screw that DMV, we’re going to a different one. We went to a town with a tiny DMV with one little older lady running it, she literally had to lock up the office portion for every road test because she was alone. Girlfriend miraculously did the parallel park perfect, not a single fail on anything, and 2/3 of the middle scores. Passed easily.

First DMV had a lot of young workers, so my thinking is they like to mark everything they can to show their bosses how good they are at nitpicking other people’s driving.

I just have Spotify and, if it counts, YT Premium. Spotify is on the family plan where my dad has his own account tied to mine, and he can just pull up basically any music he feels like listening to instead of asking me to find it for him.

As for YT, I’m just too lazy to set up blocking the ads on my TV.

No, it’s just doing whatever it does by default for that. Being the only user does take away an element of anonymity, but I don’t think it’s to an unacceptable level. Sure, they might have a good idea of what I like to search, but they don’t know what links I’m clicking on or interacting with, and I’m not seeing any ads from the searches. So I’m a totally useless data point in that regard.

I run my own personal instance on a server, nobody else is really using it.

I like some of the ideas they have going, but I’ll be sticking to my searxng instance.

Baka and it’s various forms are actually stupid, fool, idiot, and the like. Calling someone stupid is a pretty common way to insult them, so if you see that, it’s probably pretty literal