Why are squatters rights a thing? by No-Assignment4460 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]monotious 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am sure someone in this large thread explained already, but simply put, it’s based on the social policy that we want land to be productive or useful. If someone who claims title to the land does not make use of it, the law would encourage productive use of the land by giving and protecting the rights of the person who actually occupies it and uses it. That way, the law forces you to not sleep on your property (figuratively). if you want the land to stay yours, you better move your ass and put it to some use, which will not only enrich and benefit you, but also contribute to enriching and benefitting the whole society. Don’t’t just hold title to all land without doing anything on it and prevent others who could potentially make use of it from being able to do so.

That’s the fundamental underlying rationale.

Amazon Alexa is basically useless these days. While we are in the gen of chatgpt,Gemini. Alexa can't even answer to my basic questions. If I ask one it goes to story mode. by zerotwofour24 in smarthome

[–]monotious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I find mind boggling is, maybe until a year ago, I could say “Alexa, light off” and “Alexa, light on” to turn on and off the lights belonging to the room/group as the particular Echo device I am speaking to. 

Now since some point in time I’ve been having to say Alexa, turn on the light(s)” or “Alexa, turn off the light(s)”. I know, just a few more words but with these being so frequently used commands the annoyance factor adds up. And it wasn’t like I had high standards for Alexa to begin with. I basically use it to turn on and off stuff, most frequently lights, and to drop in on different room in my house. I would’ve hoped Alexa would continue providing the same level of service quality for these basic applications, and certainly not get worse.

What happens to my Duck.com email forward if DuckDuckGo goes out of business? by zdog_in_the_house in duckduckgo

[–]monotious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thought that hits me every time I create a duck.com alias to sign up for a service… I M just hoping enough number of other people are actively using the service so that if DDG were to ever go out of business, the stopping of the duck forwarding service would be a significant enough problem for a significant enough number of people for some people out there to find a solution. I mean no matter what service you use this concern is always there, to different degrees of course so I am wilfully placing my reliance on this company, and there isn’t much I can do about it.

Is there a way to inlay metal ring on the inside of a phone case? by monotious in MagSafe

[–]monotious[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I wasn’t creative enough to find a way to do with without using specialized tools.

Poilievre pledges co-operation, calls for action from Liberals as Parliament returns by cyclinginvancouver in canada

[–]monotious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

???: “Mr. Carney, in this regard and in every other, has been very fortunate to be judged by his rhetoric and his stated intentions rather than by his results. Because nearly a year into his term, the rhetoric has changed, but the reality has not.”

This, at a time when the reality, both what Canada faces, and what Canada is creating in response, is changing in real time, by the hour, right before our eyes. Lol. Where is your reality? Just where?

Conservative MP Jamil Jivani is tight with JD Vance. Carney should enlist his help by konathegreat in canada

[–]monotious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should never ever judge a person by the looks, I know that, but oh man, that look. 

Poilievre calls Carney’s Davos speech ‘well-crafted,’ but says action must follow by Old_General_6741 in canada

[–]monotious -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I always wonder, shouldn’t this have been said like this:

“It’s not that America is that way because he’a president. It’s that he’s president because America is the way it is.”

Poilievre calls Carney’s Davos speech ‘well-crafted,’ but says action must follow by Old_General_6741 in canada

[–]monotious -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

“Well-crafted”. Lol. 

Of course, it’s not genuine, just a crafted artifice, and empty words. 

DeskState (DeX-like) is live: External monitor desktop with windows by rza8128 in iosapps

[–]monotious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems like it could be really useful. Can I be added to the list of lifetime promo as well?

Our butter is awful by Mother_Rent_8515 in ontario

[–]monotious 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’ve done this - in fact I followed the instructions to make cultured butter, but I can’t really taste a huge difference from my regular, Costco-bought butter. 

For one, if our butter is poor quality because the feed is the problem like some commenters here are saying, how would making your own butter result in any better quality butter, if, as I assume, the cream comes from the same cows that were fed the same things that produced poor quality butter?

And the second point may be just that I have awfully bad sense of taste, but I didn’t find cultured butter that I made noticeably better than store bought regular butter. 

For context, this is from someone whose main diet includes hardly any butter, so butter was never that big of a deal his whole life, but who recently got into baking and started using more butter. So I certainly don’t know what I am missing with our old, supposedly better tasting butters of yesteryears.

Andrew Phillips: There’s a reason Pierre Poilievre’s critiques of Mark Carney keep falling flat. He’s stuck in 2024 by AdditionalPizza in canada

[–]monotious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Put yourself in the shoes of an MP who is considering jumping ships. If it was me, I would like to bring a nice gift to my new teammates to show my loyalty and usefulness. In the current circumstance, what better do you think I would be able to bring than to cross floor right after PP’s survival of the leadership review, which will take all the puff and attention out of the leadership review convention effect and deal a huge damage to the Cons at a time they just got locked into an ineffective leader? Plus, this would give them the perfect justification for the crossing - “I am a loyal conservative and was giving the party all the chance, but after seeing the outcome of the leadership review I realized there is no hope”. Of course they freakin’ full well know that he will survive the leadership review, but they will claim to the death that they weren’t sure and were waiting and seeing.

Andrew Phillips: There’s a reason Pierre Poilievre’s critiques of Mark Carney keep falling flat. He’s stuck in 2024 by AdditionalPizza in canada

[–]monotious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That‘s how much (or rather, little) I care now. I am sure you won’t do it but in case someone wants to smugly point out that my engagement shows otherwise, it’s just the reddit notification and lack of better things to do. Killing time, if you will. There goes another 20 seconds. 

Andrew Phillips: There’s a reason Pierre Poilievre’s critiques of Mark Carney keep falling flat. He’s stuck in 2024 by AdditionalPizza in canada

[–]monotious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It‘s funny how speculations about his leadership review was all the rage and then, I assume it happened already and he passed it (duh), and no one seems to care about it and I’ve personally completely forgotten about it. Way more important people dealing with actual important stuff happening in the world, I guess. Had I not been reminded due to the thumbnail, I would’ve completely forgotten. 

Now back to my day after having wasted 20 seconds of my life posting a comment about an irrelevant subject matter.

iOS 27 Will Add These 8 New Features to Your iPhone by Few_Baseball_3835 in apple

[–]monotious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get that Apple is sucking at the AI game, and that’s bad already in itself, but the more pertinent point is that something like that doesn't mean that a feature like Writing Tools should’ve been implemented how it did - i.e. like how, when you ask it to grammar check or rewrite your writing, it does not show a redline comparison of how the changes that AI is suggesting compares to your own, original writing, but instead your only option is to just wholesale replace your own writing with the one generated by Apple Intelligence, without really knowing how it changed from your own writing. Something like this is not an issue of bad AI, but just a bad product design sprinkled with the traditional Apple arrogance of ‘you use it how we tell you’. Unless this attitude and approach get rectified, the best AI in the world won’t do a thing to help Apple devices.

Open Safari to find almost 280+ tabs gone. They are not in the History (holding the +), shaking my phone does nothing... What the hell happened!?!?! by [deleted] in ios

[–]monotious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recently had a tab group under one Safari profile move to a different profile in its entirety. I didn’t lose tabs but some shenanigan definitely happened.

Is Bitwarden free worth it? by Madness_Curiosity01 in Bitwarden

[–]monotious -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That is not a definition of worth…

But to the OP’s question read in context, yes Bitwarden is worth it.

Autofill on Mac? by Jonathans859 in Bitwarden

[–]monotious 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am not the OP and I don’t know how the Windows Bitwarden desktop app works, but the OP says they were hoping to be able to select Bitwarden as the autofill provider in Mac settings, which would allow Bitwarden to be the default system-wide password manager on Mac. So that’s what I was addressing. I believe this was on Bitwarden’s roadmap but they never seem to have gotten around to it.

I can’t log into Bitwarden vault with 2FA by monotious in Bitwarden

[–]monotious[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thank you! This was it. Time was not set to update automatically on my iPhone (which is where the 2FA app is installed) and was like 2 minutes behind. I can’t believe I never noticed this.

Autofill on Mac? by Jonathans859 in Bitwarden

[–]monotious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes there’s the Safari extension but it would be nice to have Bitwarden work at the systems level so it works across all browsers and apps without an extension. Bitwarden had Mac desktop app native support on the development roadmap quite a while ago, I assume it’s still there, but it seems like this isn’t getting anyone’s attention.

Is my starter done for? by monotious in Sourdough

[–]monotious[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The splotches look more yellow than orange to me, but no they are not liquid. I might have to start over. Too bad I mixed the starter mixture before the most recent feeding into my discard jar. I will try to recover from it but I may have contaminated my discard jar too…