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  • Album@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird?
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    9 minutes ago

    As a Canadian it’s insane to me to have a bill at all after going through some sort of health ordeal the last thing you need is a big scary bill with something to do.

    if I honestly can’t pay my share. I can walk into the billing office at the clinic /hospital and explain I honestly can’t afford my share. The hospital will bill the insurance what they can, then look for extra funding. Most hospitals have a charity fund. It is based on my income. If I am broke and make crap wages, my share might be reduced to 0 usd.

    So the ask here is for someone who already need to work every waking moment, and then just lost a bunch of hours being hurt/sick, to then spend their time explaining multiple times to the billing dept that they cant afford it (this is degrading) and then their bill MIGHT be reduced but it also MIGHT go to collections and which further goes to damage the individual by hurting their credit. just seems like a burden on the poor.

    But yeah i mean its a difference in systems. I think about how canada builds it into taxes - everyone pays in at a rate consistent with their income levels and benefits similarly - but the US way is donations. And I hope that works too. It seems to work from what i’ve seen so far. but it seems like a round about way to get it done.

  • Album@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird?
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    1 hour ago

    1. The intense income disparity.

    2. Healthcare bills.

    I suppose these are cliche topics but as a non-american non-tourist the first thing that has stood out to me is that the highs are so incredibly high, and the lows are so incredibly low. Being a Canadian, it’s not like we don’t also have income disparity…but the gap is not as insane. The rich in the US have yachts that are 100’s of millions of dollars, and the poor literally carry their kids on their backs while selling fruit on the side of the highway. You can see both in the same day.

    Also I don’t think Americans truly understand that you can get weeks of hospital care in Canada and not even receive a bill. Like a month in a private hospital room and i paid for a phone bill, a wifi bill, and some parking fees. In the US if you even so much as flash your eyelashes at a doctor you get a bill for hundreds of dollars.

  • Album@lemmy.catoFirefox@lemmy.ml•What are your favourite extensions?
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    1 month ago

    You misunderstand. They’re calculating a fingerprint that identifies you across sessions despite you changing up a bunch of values on your browser with an extension because that’s all highly detectable. They know it’s junk data they don’t use it. It actually is worse because you stop blending in with the crowd.

    You’re better off blending in then trying to look unique with every visit. The latter is a flawed concept.

    Read the arkenfox guide they get into it. Most extensions just reduce your ability to blend in to the crowd and thus should be avoided.

  • Album@lemmy.catoGoogle Pixel@lemmy.world•Pixel 9 low Bluetooth audioEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Sometimes I get a thing where my bt audio doesn’t connect properly and the audio controls like volume aren’t properly synced between my devices.

    E.g. turning the volume up on my phone is like a seperate volume and then I can also turn up my headset on it’s own controls.

    This is a legacy support thing. You can force the unsynced mode in developer settings.

    When my devices are connected properly the volumes are synced together as one control.

    Usually turning the headset off and on again is the quickest fix.

    Fwiw I have a p7.

  • Album@lemmy.catoFirefox@lemmy.ml•How to Switch From Chrome to Firefox (and Why You Should)
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    1 month ago

    Arkenfox is a set of Firefox flags.

    Librewolf/mule is essentially pre-packaged Firefox w/arkenfox and some things stripped out.

    The devs work informally on it which is why some releases lag. Like the jump to v128 lagged on mule because Firefox switched the way their repo worked and mull is based off of the Firefox source with some build scripts to change the logo, branding and add arkenfox settings by default.

    The flags used by Arkenfox are largely funded by the tor project as they work to upstream many of the tor browser changes back into Firefox which enables efficiency for future tor builds.

    This benefits everyone as the privacy preserving features of tor can be used off of the tor network too.