MystikIncarnate

@MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not going to throw doubt on the 90% number. Statistics are made up and generally don’t mean anything. “90% of games” … In what context? Games on steam? Games ever made? I don’t think I’m going to be playing sierra titles from the 90s… What about Flash based games that used to run in a browser? Do they count?

  I don’t know and it doesn’t matter.

  The only thing I want to say is that the “10%” that don’t work are usually pretty popular.

  I’d like to see this metric based on average player counts. What percentage of gamers, playing games right now, could play on Linux.

  IMO, that would give a much more relevant indication of how viable it is for most gamers to switch to Linux.

  I’m still using Windows 10 and no, I didn’t buy their extended bullshit. I don’t even run the latest version of Windows 10. I also have an update server setup so I don’t usually get updates often because I need to go approve them. But I also work in IT and I’ve seen every social engineering attack type that’s been used since the 90s and I know when to not click on something. I haven’t needed an anti virus on my personal system in 20 years.

  To say I’m not worried about it is an understatement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno why where it’s being used would be relevant… Unless horses are scientists

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it really worth the BS for a couple more years?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Would if I could. Implants would be far too expensive for me.

  I agree that humanity is most likely a mistake. What have we done that’s so great that warrants our continued, independent and unchecked existence?

  Yeah, we’ve done some cool stuff, like making big buildings, and technology… But I can’t think of anything humanity has done that benefited anyone other than us. We are the benefactors of everything we do. No matter how much we to to do for nature, it’s only mitigating the damage we have caused, at best. We are a disaster for the Earth and for nature.

  If we were to stop existing, the plants and animals would take back the land, slowly but surely, and almost everything that made us special or unique would erode away. Our entire history would be lost to time, and nobody would care in the slightest.

  Our existence is nonsense and pointless beyond whatever purpose we assign to ourselves.

  I realized this many years ago, in my early 20s. Since then I’ve been working to make others happy, since I don’t really have any goals of my own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fix the problem just change the parameters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t say it was always the case.

  This statement just seems like agreement to me… Idk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it really worth the BS for a couple more years?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s already too late for my teeth. most are falling out already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fix the problem just change the parameters⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To the title, that’s always been the case.

  “no child left behind” turned into “make it easier until everyone passes” Shit isn’t new. it’s been going on for a long, long ass time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fix the problem just change the parameters⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “little hand”, “big hand” kind of stuff… yeah, I vaguely recall going over that when I was in JK/SK, possibly in the first few grade levels. IDK, I’m old now, so I don’t remember a lot of what happened when I was around 6.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fix the problem just change the parameters⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t undersell all of the life lessons you learned from being the age you are.

  Part of the reason why kids seem so dumb is because they don’t have that life experience yet. They’re still figuring it out. I’m sure that when I was a kid people looked at me and thought I was pretty dumb, just like many adults do to the kids now. blave has the right attitude about it; teach them. Someone has to. If everyone shrugs it off that someone will do it, then nobody does it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fix the problem just change the parameters⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree. I grew up in the 80s and 90s, and I had to read cursive all the time, since my boomer parents used it constantly. When you read it regularly, it doesn’t take any longer to read than block letters.

  I never used cursive because I never got into enough of a habit of using it before technology made the skillset unnecessary. I think I write down one thing a month? if that? I use computers the rest of the time, whether it’s the small rectangle that fits in my pocket, the larger folding rectangle that goes in my backpack, or the larger cube like one that sits under my desk at home… I use computers about 1000x more than a pen.

  That doesn’t change the fact that I can look at cursive and know what it says as instantly as if it were typed text. Me not being able to, or simply not writing cursive is entirely a me problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They do. Ever have “banana flavor” stuff that doesn’t seem to taste anything like a banana?

  … well, it does, it just doesn’t taste like a Cavendish banana. It most likely resembles the tates of the gros michel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not lost forever. They have seeds in the global seed vault, and there’s a few small growers still producing them.

  You can actually buy a box of them still. They’re expensive as all hell, but you can do it.

  Get a few friends together and put some money into a pot, then buy a box and have a banana party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At least it’s tasty blood?

  Idk, I’m trying to find the silver lining here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and it’s still pretty common.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Progress⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like you need to play country music in reverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Progress⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve spent way too long on the Internet.

  Because I actually understand this.

  I should probably spend less time on the Internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#environmentalist⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.

  (Sorry, someone had to do it correctly)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know there’s doubt as to the validity of the claims. I only want to say this: when “AI” takes jobs, who is there to plug things in to make the “AI” machine go?

  Sounds like Amazon fucked around and found out… Allegedly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GoFundMe CEO says the economy is so bad that more of his customers are crowdfunding just to pay for their groceries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t start a go fund me for groceries. If I can’t afford them, then I don’t expect anyone who would give enough of a shit to donate to a go fund me for my groceries, can either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in IT and far be it for me to tell you what OS to use on your own computer.

  The only thing I want to die right now, is the AI bubble. Just pop already. Holy fuck what a worthless endeavor this has been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We live in wild times

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not paying $8 for a pack of Skittles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The people in the video media industry…

  I thought that would have been obvious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High fashion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! I hate it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not paying $8 for a pack of Skittles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For years and years they convinced us we need bigger, better TVs with surround sound and all the add-ons. That every person should build their own home theatre

  Then they get mad that we stop going to their theatre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been meaning to donate to those guys.

  I use their site frequently. I love it, and it can’t be cheap to keep that stuff online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  From a neutral viewpoint, the world is more divided than ever, no matter what values you have, there’s someone who opposes them with few, if any exceptions. Those opposing viewpoints have only grown in strength and number on the Internet, for years.

  Additionally, the “us vs them” mentality of everyone is blinding them to even understanding why someone would disagree with their viewpoint. Of course that’s not everyone, but it’s a growing and very loud group.

  Political violence is also starting to run rampant. Escalation after escalation. It keeps building.

  So in this time of having a global voice, that can reach hundreds of millions of people with a single tweet or comment or thread or post or whatever, and with so much growing hatred among different political groups, it’s unsurprising to me that conflict is rising.

  Additionally, Lemmy is growing. Not everyone that joins Lemmy will be the same type of person that joined Lemmy after the Reddit API incident. That influx of people had a very similar value set, because they almost all came here from Reddit for the same reason. So there’s at least a good amount of overlap in everyone’s values.

  Over time, more and more diverse people have been joining Lemmy, and it’s not surprising that they have differing opinions on a lot of things.

  This outcome was pretty much inevitable.

  As far as I’m concerned, as long as it’s done respectfully and civilly, then disagree. Debate. Try to understand the opposing viewpoint, even if you don’t agree with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE just bought new tool to monitor hundreds of millions of smartphones. Experts say it’s dangerous⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh. I have no doubt that a lot of people are vulnerable to the exploit, but I’m entertained by the fact that you can stop the exploit by simply removing a chat app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE just bought new tool to monitor hundreds of millions of smartphones. Experts say it’s dangerous⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. It relies on WhatsApp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if we were *just a lil evil*?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re given the opportunity to pay us money to get the same functionality you currently enjoy!