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NanditoPapa t1_je9w4js wrote

Reply to Aptera’s Solar-Powered EV Is Finally Finished—and It Looks Just as Bonkers as the Concept by elister

"The Launch Edition Aptera doesn’t look dramatically different from the car that was first teased in 2019."

I agree.

They always need just a liiiiitle more money from "investors" and then BAM! they'll disrupt the industry. I've been hearing this about Aptera since 2009...and again when it was "reformed" in 2019. It smells like a scam in 2023.

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Kirilanselo t1_je9ucag wrote

Reply to Microsoft still doesn't know what to do with its messaging apps. Just look at Skype and Teams. by redhatGizmo

Teams has a lot of bells and whistles I gotta admit, some quite nice quality of life options. However the amount of RAM it devours is astonishing... it chokes lower end laptops, like some old versions of Skype did. It's buggy though it often breaks and you have to uninstall it and clear the %appdata% and often, this doesn't even help...

As for Skype the MSStore version lately was doing pretty light on RAM hogging. Which is surprising... Skype does dark mode far better than Teams. Five or so years ago I installed a Skype instance on Linux I was amazed on how well it was doing. Now I'm using it on windows... 3 devices... it sucks most of the time.

If I had a choice I wouldn't use both... alas. I'd opt for telegram or something but good luck, getting your contacts on other messengers -_-

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_makoccino_ t1_je9tsdk wrote

Reply to Has TikTok made us better? Or much, much worse? by ps1AzSu6NG

I hate Tiktok with a passion. The sheer amount of fake videos and "reaction" videos that people forward and post here and other platforms is the single most reoccurring source of annoyance on a daily basis.

Having said that, I don't blame Tiktok itself for people's stupidity.

Tiktok didn't make anyone into anything. It gave a platform for idiots to showcase their stupidity and rewarded them for it if they got a certain amount of views, clicks and followers.

It was easy money for the effort prompting copycats to emulate every viral video in hopes of cashing in on it as well, that resulted in a vicious cycle of people trying to out-stupid each other.

Some say Tiktok highlighted the stupid, silly, prank videos everywhere outside of China and did the opposite in China, highlighting and rewarding smart, science and educational videos. That maybe true, but they didn't force anyone into doing anything stupid. People did that willingly and viewers followed, liked and shared their videos willingly.

Blaming Tiktok is like blaming the camera for recording the stupidity. Or blaming WhatsApp for giving people the ability to share videos.

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beef-o-lipso t1_je9s7eb wrote

Reply to comment by NineSwords in Has TikTok made us better? Or much, much worse? by ps1AzSu6NG

Yes. I rather enjoyed my time on social media. But I also take steps to make the experience mine (as much as I can). I have met and conversed with far more people, and a greater diversity of people, on Twitter, for example, over the last 16 years than I ever would have IRL or using any other medium.

But social media also isn't necessarily critical, either. I left Twitter earlier this year because most of the people I talked to had left, and thus the value dropped, and I could see from their shenanigans that things were heading south anyway.

  1. Tailor the experience on SM as much as you can.
  2. Block and ignore things that you don't like.
  3. Use your brain to avoid scams and drama.
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thegreatgazoo t1_je9ryy7 wrote

Reply to comment by effieokay in Reddit cracked down on revenge porn, creepshots with twofold spike in permabans by thawingSumTendies

There were a bunch that weren't even questionable. /r/jailbait comes to mind, and I know there were worse out there. It wasn't quite as blatant as Usenet used to be/still is (there were/are such lovely groups as alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.preteens, .early teens, and .boys). I haven't been on it in 20 years, so I have no idea what it's like now. I wouldn't even want to look because I'd presume it's all honey potted at this point (basically if you go there, everything you do is logged)

That said, the only reason Reddit banned them was that they were embarrassed in the press .

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