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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait?⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This is itself arrogant.

  Are you American? If no… Ever heard of stereotypes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I consider myself bi or should I just say straight if I want to date women but just can’t find any that attract me?⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a thought:

  Tell the people you have feelings for that you have feelings for them. This act needn’t be sexual inherently.

  Then ultimately, get freaky with the people that accept you and that you accept.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's infinitely worse to be the oldest you'll ever be than the youngest you'll ever be.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I am never the oldest Ill ever be until I am dead.

  I am already older as I finish this post as compared to when I began it.

  When I review it later, I’ll be older yet.

  I am the oldest I’ve been, but those are different things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe Im off base here but I’d say like 10% of music means right if center?

  This idea sounds dumb. Just don’t listen to kid rock or ted Nugent, or most country, and you’re basically all set.

  Then there’s like 3 bands per genre that are dog whistlers or overtly shitty humans.

  Done?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do i see so many americans obsessed with the concept of "this is a thing that [Ethnicity] does"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Our brains are masterful at categorizing information and externalizing information for efficiency (i.e. wow your car smells like my babysitter’s car from when I was 4—that’s weird).

  If you want actual scientific discourse on this, I implore you to look into social psychology, which presents this in a brilliant little pipeline.

  Stereotypes emerge from a “kernel of truth”—which may be false, socially constructed, or only true in a narrow context. When generalized, they become prejudice (pre-judging), which leads to discrimination. When embedded in systems, this discrimination reinforces racism, sexism, and other structural inequalities.

  Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The metric counterpart to mouse DPI would likely be cm⁻¹.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Millimeters?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I stroking it in my sleep?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Only one way to find out. Cock cage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thousands of exhibits showing how sundials work, or how any other non-click time-keepung mechanisms work, would immediately reveal something is amiss.

  You have dozens of social media posts showing the same anomaly.

  I give it ~3-4 hours before it is trending globally, maximum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I find it funny that American republicans seem to want a king, when the definition of republicanism is a government without a king.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to get off Mr bones wild ride.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Job related: Am I being stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The evil you know is often better than the evil you don’t know.

  Patient transported seems great. What’s a bad day like? All jobs have bad days.

  Will you be crushed by an obese immobile incontinent elderly man as he empties his bowels onto your helpless wriggling body? Is that worth the downtime?

  Option B sounds obvious. Is it too good to be true?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Up for it; down for it. Same thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Waitll you find out about uptown and downtown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeserver advice: i9-14900KS vs. i9-10940X⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’ll be running Linux and trying to use steam to run games, at all, avoid the 14th gen is.

  If not, the 14th gen i9 is your bet.

  Something with Proton, the layer that makes steam work with Linux, has been causing tons of people a lot of grief myself included. Any games that rely heavily on vulkan shaders will cause my whole system to crash under heavy load. It’s a known thing and Intel still seems clueless as to what to do to resolve it, afaik.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a supportive parent doing their best to understand something they seem to nearly realize they’ve been brainwashed to have a knee jerk reaction to.

  If that ain’t love… 😊

  I sure things aren’t perfect, but this person respects you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My answer isn’t gonna resonate. It’s so frustrating how being depressed makes getting off the couch to go for a walk just feel like… Jumping into a mosh pit ot something.

  Find a 2 mile walk to do every day. Must include at least one hill or set of stairs or something. Works best if in nature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If God's in charge, He's in the process of shutting down the operation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the main flaw??

  I humbly disagree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I'm at threat to lose my job because I never shut up about politics free speech means nothing to me.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When everyone sucks but you, it’s almost ALWAYS you that sucks.

  This one’s clear as day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you all handle security and monitoring for your publicly accessible services?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Auth portal for VPN tunnell -> Authelia -> fail2ban -> VLAN with services only.

  Keep that VLAN segmented. You’re good unless you’re a DOGE employee, then I’d recommend quite a bit more security.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I lose a beer belly working out one day a week?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  130 lbs???

  Beer belly?

  Are you like 5’3"? Otherwise… What???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am required to pay taxes to the US government, not elon musk running a fraudulent government agency, why should I pay?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100% doing this.

  I’ll be an old man telling 16 year olds to withokd 0 and create a savings account for tax day sounding like a depression era grandma telling you to reuse the trash bags.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is the actual name of this type of „logic”?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Syllogism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would a UTF-8 MySQL backup contain invalid UTF-8 characters?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It could be a lot of things! For example:

  A PDF or other binary file stored in a text field might get misinterpreted as non-UTF-8 characters during a backup.

  Similarly, audio or video files—or any kind of binary data—stored inappropriately in text fields could cause issues.

  It could also be due to corrupt data or improper encoding when the data was inserted into the database.

  Essentially, anything non-textual or incorrectly encoded could result in invalid UTF-8 characters showing up in a backup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemmy should tots let you post things to your own user profile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am vehemently against it.

  Just make a community. Build it, they will come.

  Not everyone needs a personal board. When reddit did it it made me think of how discord does the same thing and all it does is muck up ux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man where to start.

  No tertiary devices. No GPS or iPod in my car. Just my phone. For so many useless gadgets. Cameras, video cameras…CALCULATORS, All in one place. That’s number 1.

  2 would be that these devices are all a part of an ecosystem that grew so fast… Not only did our phones suddenly all have GPS, but it’d tell us about traffic. That used to be someone’s news beat. Gone, overnight

  3. Mobile browser. What?! You mean every time that annoying know it all friend starts confidently talking about something they know nothing about You can just Google it right in front of them instead if having it be some annoying thing.

  4. For better or worse, I am never bored.

  That’s just the first few that come to mind…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would tools/services would you recommend for hosting without self hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re into developing and stuff, GitLab

  Plex server

  Jellyfin server

  ELK stack or security onion

  Get steam working, connect via steam link.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just Linux with extra steps

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where to start as a beginner⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone is gonna learn best differently. There’s no best place to start.

  Id start with solving a problem. For me, this was not wanting to make a backup to transfer my data from my old machine to my new one. So I built a little Ubuntu Server, setup a rudimentary samba share, setup users/groups, and figured out how to access that data from my network.

  Docker is easy, you’ll learn it by mistake. It’ll haunt you like it’s some complicated thing until you realize you’re doing it and it’s literally incredibly straightforward.

  From there, Id maybe say go to WordPress and follow instructions about setting up a WordPress site in a docker container. Oops, you just learned docker.

  Id hold off on hosting email. I mean it’s a noble goal but it’s a fucking headache. But that’s just me! Like I said, everyone’s different.

  Piece of advice, before you go hosting a monero server, dig into cybersecurity. Particularly server hardening. I recommend Hack The Box. There’s tons of platforms, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why should we have to continue seeing people's replies when we block them?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I block someone, I want to see [blocked] instead of what they are saying. I want to receive no notifications for this. I should be able to view what other people in that comment thread are saying. I should be able to toggle the ability to read these people’s replies, but not reply unless I unblock.

  They can still see my shit. That’s fine. Just stop making me see theirs in my inbox. And stop blocking the rest of the conversation where other good folks are continuing to discuss something I was interested in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Crosses?! No, those are lowercase it’s, for “Time to leave.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Amazon has different prices for different people⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is not the best adblocking by far, that is not accurate.

  It is better than the free AdBlock extension, yes. It is not better than AdBlock premium. No more cookies popups, no more floating video players on news sites, no more mailing list popups. These are three things that you do not get with ublock origin. I know because I use both.

  I already use adgaurds DNS, which is free.

  Lastly, I’m more than happy to pay $15/yr to a company fighting a fight I believe in. Now, I wouldn’t pay $40/yr, but if all I need to do is change my VPN from New Jersey to Montreal to get more than 50% off that price, it’s a no brainier.

  My only complaint is they don’t have a Firefox mobile extension, so when I’m on my phone I’m stuck with janky-ass ublock origin and nothing better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Amazon has different prices for different people⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am using mullvad vpn as well.

  I am saying that AdBlock premium has a different cost based on your location, which you can switch with your VPN.