An update in the last year added a “feature” where, when I search something, if my query is even vaguely close to the name of an app on my phone, Android will open that app instead of doing my search. I, for the life of me, haven’t been able to figure out how to disable it. That alone made me hate Android.

Off the top of my head, not counting the plethora of gift cards:

• A first edition Kindle Fire a month after it released. For being tech-illiterate, she ended up loving it and upgraded a few times through the years.

• Several Roku boxes and Fire TV sticks, which are just now getting used because my parents are finally cutting the cord.

• Lots of concert tickets for various bands, including Foo Fighters, Green Day, and Kiss.

• 1-week all expenses paid trip to Nashville for some big New Year’s party that some celebs showed up to.

• $600 cowboy boots.

• $300 KitchenAid mixer.

• A full set of Paula Dean cookware, and she LOVES Paula Dean.

Not OP but my mom enters literally every contest she sees and has won a surprising amount.

He donated $3.1 million to his alma mater here in my city, and it was enough for the university to establish an animal studies program.

Good bot

3, 2, 1…

Yep, there is a vendor that shows up to farmers’ markets here called “CornHub” with the same design.

Counterpoint: Wearing and maintaining a clean mask takes nearly zero effort and provides peace of mind for a lot of people.

Yep, I’m never watching Linus after this.

In 2018, someone maintaining a ROM site was ordered to pay Nintendo $12 million.

In late 2021, someone was sentenced to 10 years of prison and to pay Nintendo $14.5 million. That person got out on good behavior last April, but 25-30% of their wages are going to be garnished until their debt to Nintendo is paid off - which will likely take the rest of their life.

Go sailing to build your magical fork collection.

Is there even anything new here? Everything mentioned in the OP link has been a thing on Reddit in a few communities for a couple of years now.

Edit: I just checked Wayback Machine, this page hasn’t changed since it was first published in 2021.

Small correction: They’re Arbitrum Nova tokens, not ETH tokens anymore.

Greatly saves on gas fees, but Arbitrum Nova has narrower support.

Kraken just added support for Moons and Bricks, so the methods of cashing out are becoming easier.

What’s for dinner today?

I realize that I’m in the great minority of Redditors with what I learned, but my experience modding on Reddit was enough to land me a job as a social media manager for a tech company, and I’ve worked my way up to director of communications from that. So, I learned actual career skills from Reddit.

The host of a tech podcast I listen to has had a Mastodon instance for years. I knew of the Fediverse because of that, but I always thought of it as decentralized Twitter and not necessarily a way to decentralize all types of social media platforms.

Same reason here. I convinced both of my parents to get Chromebooks over the last few years, and the number of “service calls” I get from them have dropped drastically.

I know that Lemmy is years old, but as this is my first day on the platform, it feels like a whole new world.