I just realized something: When I search for something in Lemmy and get zero results, I sometimes go to Reddit and search there.

It would probably be better to make a new post in Lemmy about the thing I’m searching for. It would add content to Lemmy, and the content would be newer and fresher than the Reddit results that are sometimes 10+ years old.

Sure, I understand the moral arguments, but it’s very common to have legal consequences when taking something that doesn’t belong to you — regardless of morals.

Of course it would be morally better to give everyone permission to take the bananas. It sounds like that hasn’t happened though, so it seems very simple to understand that there would be legal consequences for taking them.

How is this not obvious? Did I miss some critical detail?

I never thought I’d ever defend UK laws, but if you take something that doesn’t belong to you, isn’t it generally frowned upon in most parts of the world? This seems pretty normal to me

Whoa, I didn’t know Visual Basic is still around. I remember using VB6, many years ago

I assumed it’s probably due to some creators becoming, or later being discovered as, “problematic” and/or some sort of brand risk. It would look more strange to unlist a few of them, so better to unlist all of them.

To be clear: This is speculation based on zero information 🙃. Just a total guess based on how things tend to go between internet culture and corporations. I’m probably wrong. It would be cool if YouTube would communicate things like this.

It’s unfortunate to see such cultural history hidden away. Though, tbh, this is probably the most that I’ve ever thought about YouTube Rewind, and I haven’t thought about it in many years.

How would that be easier?

Unless I missed something, it seems like the crows are doing it voluntarily. Is that not the case?

These questions are getting more broad, and the answer to all of them is “it depends on the job”.

Light duty trucks and box trucks are also commonly seen at various job sites. It’s also quite common to see a truck pulling a trailer – and there are lots of different types of trailers. Choosing the right tool for the job just depends on what the job is.

Here’s one example from a job I once had, long ago. If you fill one of these with water, it already exceeds the weight limit of the little truck on the left:

And, depending on the size of the job, some jobs would require more than two people to get the job done. Those crews would get the trucks that have backseats.

Sure, you might be able to find smaller IBC tote tanks and just use more trucks, but that would be pretty inefficient, especially if each truck/crew has to drive hundreds (or even 1k+, in some cases) of miles to reach each job site on its route.

We also used box trucks in some cases. Some job sites required using two IBC totes, which did not fit in any of the company’s pickup truck beds. For those routes, we rented box trucks. But for one IBC tote, a light duty truck is too small, and a box truck is too big.

The weight capacity of the truck on the right is much higher than the light-duty truck on the left. Jobs that require trucks of that capacity tend to require more workers, so it makes sense to seat more passengers.

The truck on the left might be more comparable to something like the Ford Ranger (the older generations). Many of those were single-cab (i.e. no back seats) models, but some of them would have two tiny, uncomfortable “jump seats” as back seats.

You’re not completely wrong though. I have known some workers who would also use their trucks as family cars if it was their only vehicle.

I’m still kinda surprised to hear that people are still having trouble with Nvidia drivers. I would have thought that Nvidia would have decided to improve that because of the AI boom. I wonder why they continue being so bad at this 🤔

This may sound dumb, but I honestly don’t know how to answer that, lol. The first answer that comes to mind is “for passengers to sit in,” but that just seems too obvious. Is there more to the question?

Ahh I think I get it now. That might be feasible in a densely populated city. Most of the truck guys I’ve known live in suburban or rural areas. The few who lived in the city center drove much smaller pickup trucks like Toyota Tacomas, Ford Rangers, etc.

I’m very confident that they wouldn’t. However, I suppose it’s possible that I’ve never seen transit that could be so good that people would choose it over their own vehicles. What would that look like?

I suppose a few of them might do it if there’s free coffee on board (or beer, but that would be chaos lol) and it ran on VERY convenient schedules.

People in the US place a LOT of value in convenience, so the public transit system would have to offer something that outweighs that. Do you know of any examples?

Yeah, good point. Owners of Samsung “smart” refrigerators started seeing ads on them recently.

I’m sure there was some sort of legal terms that users had to agree to to enable that, but it still feels like a scam. Some amount of those fridge owners would not have bought the fridge if they knew there would be ads on it at any point in time.

If nobody buys them, then they’ll exit the market. American companies value profit.

Not the same seating capacity though. Also, it’s hard to tell, but it seems like there’s a difference in bed widths?

Edit: Could someone help me understand the downvotes? The seating capacity is just an objective fact, so was it the speculative difference in bed width? Or something else? (Sometimes I have difficulty understanding people)

I’ve known plenty of people in southern US states who drive trucks for purposes that don’t require trucks. They’ll never choose public transit over their trucks, no matter how good it is.

…Though, realistically, that’s not exclusively a truck issue. If one can just step outside and get into their own car and be immediately en route to their destination, on their own schedule/convenience, it’ll be hard to convince them to choose a less convenient mode of transportation.

I wish companies would at least offer a “no data collecting/selling” price option. Like, how much would they make from selling my data? Just give me the option to pay that extra amount so I can buy a vacuum without thinking about how it’s spying on me.

Well yeah, it’s a fridge with a spacious screen and an Internet connection in the 2020s. Of course they’d capitalize on all that advertising real-estate. And of course they’d wait until after people have had them for a while. They’re unsurprisingly shameless.

I’d be curious to know what kind of data it’s collecting to optimize those ads.

My phone recently offered to summarize a text message for me. I’m talking about SMS, the messaging system that already has a character limit.

Also, when I last checked the weather in my area, there was an AI summary. It was an entire sentence or two, and offered zero additional details over what was already visually indicated by the raincloud icon and the number representing the temperature.

I’m looking forward to installing GrapheneOS when their support for my phone stabilizes.