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- Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia 1 year ago:
A few years ago, I set up a monthly donation. Of all things I can use for free on the internet, Wikipedia deserves it the most.
- Comment on PI is what 1 year ago:
Then let’s teach kids to use Wolfram Alpha.
- Comment on Microsoft’s big Windows 11 update drops on September 26 with Copilot AI baked in 1 year ago:
I was like you until windows 10. I opted out of that. It just felt like losing control over my computer. Windows 11 even more so.
- Comment on Microsoft’s big Windows 11 update drops on September 26 with Copilot AI baked in 1 year ago:
I swapped about a month ago. I’m running Ubuntu on desktop and openSuse Tumbleweed on laptop; both with KDE Plasma desktop environment, which makes the transition from windows easier. It’s a little bit of a learning curve as the names of software packages are unfamiliar to me, but I’m liking it.
My partner who never even contemplated anything else but windows did some work on my computer and I expected questions and frustration from her, but alas she did what she needed to do and I doubt she even noticed.
Mind you, I don’t really do gaming.
- Comment on Amazon to introduce ads on Prime Video in 2024 1 year ago:
Time to ditch Prime.
TBH, it was a long ago, but this is the last straw.
- Comment on 5 Games Made in Godot To Inspire You 1 year ago:
You’re the real MVP.
- Comment on ‘Largest number of claims ever filed’: 17M people validated to receive Facebook settlement payment 1 year ago:
It’s not a deterrent, it’s a business expense. I bet it’s even tax deductible.
- Comment on Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them? 1 year ago:
What? You have nothing to say now? I would appreciate if you stated your position to my replies to you.
- Comment on Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them? 1 year ago:
Thank you for your open minded approach. Obviously I don’t save posts or comments that annoy me, but now I see one of those as a response to my comment (large gif/jpg with no text). Earlier today I saw a post about brigading that was stupid, but I’m not throwing all hexbears into the same basket, a bunch of the comments were completely nuts. I couldn’t find it again, instead I found this one: hexbear.net/post/502637 Again, it’s not a crime, people can circlejerk however they want. What really annoys me is when I come across a post where I’m interested in reading people’s opinions one the subject and the comments are filled with stickers. Strangely enough no other community does that.
- Comment on Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them? 1 year ago:
If you put down the thesaurus and actually think about things you will perhaps start to understand. I grew up in former Czechoslovakia until my adulthood under the rule of the communist party until we overthrew them in 1989. The effects of that time are still with me. The human nature that came to light during communist rule would make your hair stand on end. All in pursuit of ideology. You can’t comprehend what you’re advocating for further than some utopian theory you read.
- Comment on Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them? 1 year ago:
I’ve grown up under a communist government in a socialist republic. So while I have no degree in Marxism-Leninism, I can assure you that all of my schooling was infused with it. Same goes for most of popular culture. I don’t despise communism, as is often the case with people like me, the idea is noble, if utopian. The ideology, like all ideologies, is scary for its intolerance and disregard of human nature. I will therefore gatekeep any pure ideolog, just to save my own faith in humanity.
- Comment on Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them? 1 year ago:
My apologies, I was generalising. I’ve had perfectly normal interactions with hexbear users, but I also saw a bunch of very circlejerky threads populated by hexbear users which I found unbearable (or should it be unhexbearable?).
- Comment on Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them? 1 year ago:
They’re just an annoying bunch of wannabe communists who sound incredibly smug and post a ton of stickers in comments. Having said that I’ve moved to lemm.ee when lemmy.world defeterated from hexbear.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Which episode was this in?
- Comment on Hexbear federation megathread 1 year ago:
Thanks for the write up. I came to lemmy.ee because lemmy.world is defederation happy. That’s how I first heard of Hexbear. Several defederations later, here I am. You’re right, us, users can block communities and users from whichever instance they come from. We all curate our lists of communities. We are in charge of our experience if we are allowed to. I did not feel like I was in charge on lemmy.world and that’s why I’m here. Defederations should really be thr very last resort and even then considered super carefully and perhaps put to discussion like here or a poll.
- Comment on Google search is over 1 year ago:
Yeah, kinda like reddit used to do sometimes. From over a decade ago I remember “santorum”.
- Comment on Google search is over 1 year ago:
I typed in “what countries in Africa start with k” and got Kenya. When I tried your search term I got your result also. Weird.