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ijeff@lemdro.idto Sync for Lemmy@lemmy.world•Now that we're on Lemmy, the different categories aren't called "subreddits" anymore. What are they called now? Communities? And is there a way to link them like we used to with an r/ ?English11·2 years ago!android@lemdro.id is the standard way of linking to a community on Lemmy and magazines on kbin/mbin (!community@instance.domain).
ijeff@lemdro.idto Technology@beehaw.org•Pebble Shuts Down...But Starts a Mastodon Instance?English6·2 years agoI’m surprised nobody has taken on bringing compatible hardware to market. I feel like there would (still) be crowdfunding interest.
ijeff@lemdro.idto Technology@beehaw.org•Pebble Shuts Down...But Starts a Mastodon Instance?English61·2 years agoI hadn’t heard of Pebble the Twitter competitor. It just makes me miss the Pebble watches.
ijeff@lemdro.idOPto Technology@beehaw.org•Arm Acquires Minority Stake in Raspberry PiEnglish22·2 years agoI found this interesting in the comments:
Hmm, Raspberry Pi Ltd. joins RISC-V group (Jan 2019). Raspberry Pi Ltd. releases Rpi5 with a unified Rpi1 I/O chip (Oct 2023) freeing them from being tied to a particular SoC family. ARM Ltd. invests in Raspberry Pi Ltd. (Nov 2023). Hmmm… Really seems like a “here’s some cash, stay ARM.”
Can you imagine the marketing impact of a RISC-V RPi board after all these years of it being ARM based? Sure, the number of boards effected isn’t huge, but it’s the marketing impact of losing a flagship product that needs to be considered.
Source: https://www.anandtech.com/comments/21120/arm-acquires-minority-stake-in-raspberry-pi/790281
ijeff@lemdro.idOPto Technology@beehaw.org•YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockersEnglish49·2 years agounlock origin
I prefer uBlock Origin myself.
Why? It’s collapsible btw.
ijeff@lemdro.idOPto Technology@beehaw.org•Intel doesn’t think that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop marketEnglish3·2 years agoImpressive!
ijeff@lemdro.idOPto Space@beehaw.org•China's youngest-ever crew of astronauts heads to space stationEnglish3·2 years agoInterestingly, it seems the average age is around 44.
ijeff@lemdro.idto World News@lemmy.ml•White House Seeks $105 Billion to Arm Israel, Ukraine, and TaiwanEnglish122·2 years agoThis is true for any health system (labour and technology costs are huge components to health care, even in systems with universal coverage). However, there are also huge and significant costs inherent to any system that doesn’t provide universal coverage (e.g., people delaying care leading to more severe illness costlier to respond to). Private insurance systems also introduce significant cost pressures even for non-profit and publicly funded providers by driving up staffing costs and requiring more support staff to operate.
All this to say, the US doesn’t have a budget problem when it comes to health care - the primary obstacle is the policy challenge of switching to a system that does a better job at delivering care for everyone based on need rather than ability/willingness to pay. Massive cost savings follow when people are kept healthier.
ijeff@lemdro.idto World News@lemmy.ml•White House Seeks $105 Billion to Arm Israel, Ukraine, and TaiwanEnglish111·2 years agoThey actually do spend a lot of public dollars on health, it’s just spent into a system that isn’t efficient. Universal access to care drives down costs significantly across the board - instead they have piecemeal coverage and a system with overall costs inflated by administrative staff hired solely to manage insurance billing and delayed treatments.
It’s an interesting area of policy where expanding coverage means lower costs overall.
ijeff@lemdro.idto World News@lemmy.ml•White House Seeks $105 Billion to Arm Israel, Ukraine, and TaiwanEnglish1810·2 years agoThey already spend a ton of public dollars on health. The problem is that it goes to insurance companies, administrative staff, and the downstream health costs of inadequate early access to care.
ijeff@lemdro.idto Technology@beehaw.org•Twitter's lost 13% of its daily users and its rebrand has failedEnglish19·2 years agoA must have browser extension to avoid accidentally adding to their traffic volume: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/nitter-redirect
ijeff@lemdro.idto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Netflix on AndroidTV still blocks me with wireguard connectionEnglish41·2 years agoNo experience with this setup myself, but you may want to try !askandroid@lemdro.id.
ijeff@lemdro.idto Gaming@beehaw.org•Well, Cities: Skylines 2 is here, and it's another broken game release.English10·2 years agoWell that’s disappointing. Also noticed this review: https://www.gamesradar.com/cities-skylines-2-review/
ijeff@lemdro.idOPto Technology@beehaw.org•Meta now lets you block Instagram from collecting your data - SamMobileEnglish2·2 years agoThanks!
ijeff@lemdro.idto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•I died. This made me laugh for 5 minutes. I couldn't breathe.English14·2 years agoOh what! I definitely need to get caught up!
ijeff@lemdro.idto Gaming@lemmy.ml•Microsoft closes $69 billion Activision Blizzard deal after Britain's nodEnglish118·2 years agoNice.
ijeff@lemdro.idOPto Technology@beehaw.org•How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet - WIREDEnglish1·2 years agoInteresting… thanks for flagging!
You might want to relocate the litter box or add another.