So here’s the important bit, I know where you’re coming from on this as dems have been courting the right by watering down their policies in an attempt to appeal to them. That’s not what Walz is doing, much like Bernie, he’s preaching the progressive ideals to the right to try and show them how and why it would actually benefit them, along with attempting to dispel republican lies.

Also apologies on the tone of the original comment, I didn’t have enough time to explain and was just irritated.

That’s absolutely not what he’s doing jfc

It’s so sad, I remember hearing him talk pre-stroke and he really did seem to be a progressive ally in most ways, to see how it’s turned out… Ugh.

Probably will trick a lot of lurkers

No, the roadster was really cool, the S was neat too, then the 3 being at a relatively good price point really pushed the market toward EVs in general. I am glad for that at least.

The only AI thing I use on my Fold is the photo cropping, definitely nifty to just pull out a subject, it’s not perfect ofc but way easier then manually trying to cut it out lol.

It’s funny because I’m either dead tired or very awake after doing the deed

I swear I’m nocturnal

That’s how it works in China

Edit: Japan and Korea as well

Ah yes, the bastions of ethics, third party dealership owners.

Yeah you do you, I got away with using sync for 9 years off only a small up front cost. So when I migrated to Lemmy, I did the lifetime sub. Feels like I made up for that time a bit, but on the flipside I’m not too upset if the updates are slow going. I absolutely understand why one would cancel their subscription.

Lmao alright bud, there’s really no reason to get so worked up about this.

I did read what you wrote, just gave alternate aspects of the conversation from my viewpoint, that’s generally how discussions work.

I find it a bit funny you say the windows store is fine yet haven’t/don’t use it, not sure how you can talk about it’s functionality from a point of ignorance so strongly.

I understand your viewpoint and even agreed, simply also stating I appreciate portable applications, some things they can implement that mitigate the need for a centralized update location, and some of the downsides I’ve come across while using them (that do play into your point, that a centralized way of managing them is cleaner if implented properly)

Honestly not uncommon with the dev, I bought Lemmy sync dev back in 2015, I do think as mentioned in other comments that because of Lemmy moving a bit quicker with changes, that update cadence might bite us in the ass, but so far the app has remained functional for me, aside from not marking some posts as read from certain instances, and being aware to not report DMs.

I have faith an update is coming

It absolutely can, I have several portable apps with self updating ability built in, when I use them it prompts me if I want to update or not, I personally appreciate that in certain cases.

I do dislike when they throw config files all over the place, so cleanup becomes very messy if I need to remove something.

Again tho, natively on windows there isn’t a great way to do that anyway, the windows store sucks and not many will use the package managers via cmd either.

The documentation fucking sucks tho,

Kind of a moot point since most windows programs don’t have a centralized hub for updates either, even when “properly installed” in program files.

Same

It sucks that niche things like that haven’t picked up yet, however be the change you want to see, create a community and invite like minded people to post there.

I think the biggest barrier of entry is that people don’t understand it, and they’re not going to until they try in all honesty.

There’s absolutely diversity of opinion, I see trans and Tankie arguments pretty frequently.

What is generally true is the majority of Lemmy users seem to lean left and are generally more techy, makes sense given the main reasons why you’d seek out the fediverse vs a centralized social media.

Llm: *“Okay, so you think the United States is just a country, right? With laws, a government, and people who vote? No. The United States is actually a massive, over-leveraged brand, built on a combination of nostalgia, marketing, and a complicated system of political derivatives that nobody really understands. And just like the financial system in 2008, it’s being held together by confidence.

Now, let’s say the USA starts running into problems—declining trust, political instability, social fragmentation. Normally, in a functioning system, you’d fix these things. But instead of actual reform, what if we just repackaged the entire thing and sold it as something new?

So we take all these existing structures—government, media, economy—and bundle them into what we’ll call ‘America 2.0.’ It’s the same thing, but we slap on a fresh narrative: ‘Innovation!’ ‘Resilience!’ ‘Democracy!’ Boom. People feel reassured. But underneath? It’s still the same risky assets, just rebranded and resold.

The best part? If it fails, the people who repackaged it already made their money. And the rest? Well… the system’s ‘too big to fail,’ right?”*