cageythree

It was always the same. They came in saying they're looking for a small device. I showed them the small devices. They played around with them a bit, then slowly moved on to the bigger devices. No reason given, they just said they liked the smaller ones more and yet still bought the bigger ones.

Around 10 years ago I worked in an electronics store. You know, when actual small smartphones were still a thing (think S4 Mini and stuff like that).
Every day people came looking for a small phone. Always were very interested in the smaller devices. And yet most never bought one, they eventually decided for a larger one. For each new Samsung series during that time, I'd guess it was about ~50% of people interested in the Mini series, but only ~5% of our actual sales were the Minis.

It's crazy and I learned a lot about people and their purchasing behavior back then. People often think they want something and never buy it and vice versa. It's interesting, from a psychological view. In my current business it's the same - people keep asking for stuff, and once you offer it, nobody cares about it.

That's probably why Samsung kept on making these Minis until the S5 despite them not seeling. Customers kept just giving them feedback that didn't reflect their behavior.

Kommt halt aufs Land und die jeweiligen Gegebenheiten dort an.
In Tschechien wirst Du eher betrogen, wenn Du es so handhabst wie beschrieben, und bist sicherer dran, wenn Du sie einfach über die offizielle Seite vorher kaufst. Man kann nicht für jedes Land die best practice im Kopf haben.

Unabhängig von jeglichen Betrugsversuchen finde ich den Onlinekauf aber eigentlich auch weniger kompliziert als erst irgendwo hin zu müssen. Je mehr ich Zuhause vor Fahrtantritt erledigen kann, desto weniger muss ich bei der Fahrt aufm Schirm haben, wenn's soweit ist.

Kommt natürlich auch drauf an, wie viel digitale Kompetenz man hat. Das Szenario im Artikel klingt extrem nach "Betrüger haben sich Adslots gekauft und Opfer hat draufgeklickt". Nie im Leben war die Fakeseite das erste richtige Suchergebnis.
Ich würde daher mal behaupten, ein einigermaßen technisch versierter Mensch klickt gar nicht auf die Anzeigen oder blockiert sie ohnehin. Ist man das nicht, ist man vermutlich tatsächlich besser damit bedient, sie lokal zu kaufen.

Everyone's saying the need to sleep. That goes a bit too far IMO. Who knows it would work out as we think it to be? Maybe the 33% we sleep will just be reduced off our lifespan with nothing won.
Also, honestly, even if that wouldn't be the case - I wouldn't want to not sleep at all. It's like a regular break from life. Even if employers wouldn't exploit this, I don't want to be awake forever.

Now, here's my proposal: We still need to sleep, but we can control falling asleep and waking up like it's a muscle. Lay in bed and fall asleep anytime. No more falling-asleep issues for anyone, no more sleepless nights.
And also, we'd have a perfect inner clock and the ability to choose when we wake up. Fall asleep at 11 PM, have to get up at 7? Great, you know exactly when 8hrs are over and are able to just wake up, no alarm needed.

Yeah that or aliens.

Huh. Thanks for answering. But this kind of breaks the intentions of a federated construct, doesn't it?

In the worst case, I'd just block people from that instance, but not defederate it. That way my users could still interact with their community but their users couldn't disrupt my instance.

Many smaller instances have defederated from lemmy.world, for example

Why?

Thank you! I don't have apple devices but Sideberry comes very close to what I'm looking for, I think it will help me organize my tabs.

I have lots of different things I'm doing, not simultaneously but all of them regularly.
I have a hobby for which im using ~5-10 different sites regularly. And another hobby with ~3-5 sites.
Then I have a business where I keep all relevant tabs open, which are quite a few as well. Then all the general stuff (emails etc). And I probably still forgot something.

I'm still far away from the 100s, but I do keep around 20-30 tabs open all the time, and that doesn't include any temporary tabs that I do close right after using it. I have them all sorted and separated using Firefox' containers feature though.

Yes I could work with bookmarks too, but that has a few downsides. For example, for my business I am working with different Google drive folders for each project. It would be annoying to keep the bookmarks up to date or to navigate to the relevant folder each time when I can just leave the tab open and continue where I left off. Another example is one of my hobbies where I use the same 10 sites every time, so I'd have to open 10 sites when I do the hobby and then close them when I'm done, which seems redundant to me for just the benefit of not having tabs open I'm not using at the moment.
So ultimately, to me it's way easier to have an overview of 30 open tabs than managing endless bookmarks that I need to keep up to date.

What I would prefer is a feature where I can have different environments and all tabs of that environment open and close automatically. So I say I want the environment "work" and my 10 work tabs open, then I work, then I switch the environment profile and all current work tabs' updated URLs get saved and the other environment's tabs open. If there's anything like that I'd be thankful for a recommendation.
That's the only way I see me not having dozens of tabs open all the time honestly.

I think most browsers do this. IIRC Chrome puts a ":D" there if you exceed 99

I use it because otherwise I'd use ublock anyways. So it either does it thing and if not, it's the same result as ublock.

This feels like reverse psychology on a little kid.

"That's it, I'm not tracking you anymore! >:("
"Oooh nooo, what have I done! Oh how much I would wish to be tracked :("
"No, you won't convince me to change my mind >:("
"Oh well, guess I'll have to live without being tracked, what a shame that is."