The content on here went straight into the garbage the moment they were allowed back. I'm sure I'm not alone in demanding they be defederated again immediately. They serve no positive purpose.

Every social media site is overrun by hundreds of Russian bots, some worse than others (Meta products). What can we do to combat this? Should those of us who don't want to live in a fascist dictatorship be running our own bot farms? Something has to be done to change the iron grip they have on the narrative of history and reality to the common man.

How can I make leftist bots to fight this plague?

Edit:

ITT: "Why you think it Russian bot, comrade? Russia never hack!"

There's enough available research to show that Russia is running massive bot programs, you're either living under a rock, ignorant, or it benefits you to deflect from the issue.

Edit 2: The user with the name like dimesix (I've blocked them) has gone through and downvoted all the comments he could on my profile. I wonder why this thread upsets him to such a degree that he'd do that?

I'm fascinated by their steam system but it's got me curious, having so much steam being used for everything, is the city more humid than the average?

Edit: I appreciate the answers, but I was hoping there was some research on this instead of guesstimations. Also, some of your responses are really general as if you think I'm talking about any city in America, but you should look up New York Cities steam system, it's very interesting and unique and has been in operation since the 1800s.

I remember there being a website that listed all the good things Obama had done for people who constantly said he did nothing good, I'm hoping there's a place archiving all the stuff Trump is doing because it's hard to keep track of it all as an individual.

Anyone? Google is not helping me at all.

It may be too early to call, but to me it's looking like democrats are going to be losing for a long long time if leftists are stuck moronically fighting each other over invented strawmen. Honestly the interaction was so bizarre and nonsensical and polarized I have to wonder if the comm is an organized effort to disrupt leftists.

For me it's Zombie Panic Source, but I'd love to hear others.

Wipe is not an option, don't read further if you plan on suggesting it.

I don't necessarily think I'll get help here, but I love Lemmy and it constantly surprises me, so I'll shoot my shot.

The other day I downloaded and installed driver updates for my motherboard and then a BIOS update as well. I'm paranoid about stuff so even though I'm experienced with this stuff for the most part I still followed the instructions step by step to a T and made sure it was for my correct motherboard.

After rebooting my internet wasn't working so I checked device manager and it was showing an error for my network adapter which along with other drivers was among the updates. So I tried various things with that for hours and never made any headway. Internet over bluetooth doesn't seem to want to work or be detected, my phone won't tether Internet over USB correctly either or it's not being detected by the PC. So I ordered both a PCIe LAN card and a PCIe WiFi card. The lan card uses the same drivers apparently and so it's just an additional error'd out Realtek Family Whatever Whatever; the Wi-Fi card doesn't appear at all. Both the lans do light up during booting and in BIOS but shut down once Windows loads it's drivers.

I've rolled back my system as far as I can which unfortunately do to trying to many other things before the rollback I could only go back to installing one of the first drivers. I've tried different drivers and different BIOS. I've run SFC but it required Internet for some files, DISM requires Internet or a install image but I don't have one and don't have room on my phone to download one. I've tried in safe mode and I've probably tried 30 other things to no avail that escape my mind right now.

Any thoughts will be appreciated. Thanks for reading.

Let's keep it light-hearted. For me I've seemed to notice way more conservatives back their cars into spaces than their liberal counter parts.

For example, if I type out a sentence and decide I want to add asterisks around a word for emphasis, why does Gboard replace the space between the previous word and the emphasized word instead of just adding the new character? Is this added functionality for something I just don't understand?

Edit: I believe I have fixed the issue by disabling the "Smart Compose" option.

I'm using Windows and only asking here because Google says it's a Linux thing, but my question is what is a Bluez and why was it trying to connect to my computer at 5AM this morning?

Feels like all of a sudden every thread I open has the worst takes in the comments: religious apologists, conservative propagandists, people defending the worst abuses of power, people stanning for CEOs, middle managers and other corporate ghouls, people defending shitty landlords, etc.

Is this Reddit now? Is this going to be the death of Lemmy as a bastion of progressives?

I'm not a fan.