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- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 1 day ago:
Yeah, I think I’ve met 3 murderers, two before they murdered, one after the fact.
One was mentally unstable and sad, then made fun of, second I met was kind and normal, third was dumb bulky drug dealer that was also kind.
None of them were evil or psychopaths or any of those typical traits and it made me think that to become a murdered you have to be both unlucky and triggered in a meaningful way.
- Comment on Seeing so many corn posts today 6 days ago:
It’s a sin doing that to an elote.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Gonna leave this here for those who need it. It’s surprisingly fun to grind arithmetic skill.
- Comment on Introverts Rock 1 week ago:
I’m introverted and I got invited everywhere all the time. People liked inviting me because I always showed up and was dependable. Those people who invited me are still my friends today.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 1 week ago:
It’s a commodity that’s widely used as a way to keep the value of a portfolio in case of inflation. Gold has a lot of utility but recently because of uncertainty about the US dollar central banks have been stocking up on gold.
Complete societal collapse is very unlikely and we have studied economics enough to the point where hyperinflation is avoidable.
For investors keeping some gold (10-20% of portfolio) can be very nice since it allows you to buy the dip and is inflation proof. On the other hand, gold can become a speculative asset so it’s value can be inflated just like any other commodity. So in a way currently it’s either a nice tool or a bubble (or scam as you call it).
Silver, used in solar panels, is also pretty good for same reasons.
- Comment on Simple test to see if you are normal or have a flithy mind 1 week ago:
I don’t get it, how do you see something that’s not a duck?
- Comment on ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack? 1 week ago:
I know about a funky thing where if you have equal amounts of sweet, salty, bitter, umami and sour you feel less full after eating it. It might be completely unrelated though.
- Comment on Why isint lemmy more popular? 1 week ago:
I’d say because it’s still new and the content is very nerd heavy as you have probably seen from all the Linux posts. Also, most user’s here come from the reddit exodus after the removal of third party apps.
One other thing is that when you link content from Lemmy you can just link the image directly instead of sending a link to Lemmy with a login screen. The adoption rate from people linking will be a lot lower since Lemmy is not sacrificing quality to increase numbers.
Either way, I like the size and it suits me, I can “finish” my Lemmy for the day in a reasonable amount of time and I get my fix of Linux news, memes and shitposts so it’s just a win for me.
- Comment on ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack? 1 week ago:
It’s science, I don’t know the specifics of craving but I know they spent a lot of money to figure out how give you that feeling.
- Comment on The phrase "edited it" is soo weird to pronounce 2 weeks ago:
I’m happy you like it, it’s been stuck in my brain for months and I still think it’s a bit funny.
- Comment on The phrase "edited it" is soo weird to pronounce 2 weeks ago:
I think European Union is weird with some accents. It sounds almost like “Europinyinyinyin”
- Comment on Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality? 2 weeks ago:
Nordic countries are the best example. A lot of Europe might fit depending on how low “low social and economic equality” is defined.
- Comment on Looking for a good Lemmy mobile app 2 weeks ago:
There are around 10% more settings. I really like the ones “Automatically save drafts” and “Separate up and down votes”
- Comment on Looking for a good Lemmy mobile app 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been using boost for the past year, and I just switched to Summit last week. Recommend trying it out.
- Comment on How could you do this to me? 2 weeks ago:
I have 1065 Ti without any issues. The nvidia not compatible is outdated and they started playing ball recently by working on open source drivers. Nvidia is huge in the AI space and AI computing is pretty much 100% Linux.
There are gaming issues though on Linux in the form of anti-cheat systems, but other than that running things with Steam Proton just works although specific games that use obscure windows APIs might not be as performant.
Dirt 3 used the NTsynch for the NTFS filesystem and once it got fixed the frame rate saw a massive jump for example.
Long term people are supporting Linux gaming a lot more since it’s already 3% of the playerbase and requires pretty minimal effort for added 3% audience to make Steam Proton play work. Also with the release of the Steam Machine 2026 is going to be the Year of the Linux Desktop™
- Comment on Tattoo Ink Moves Through the Body, Killing Immune Cells and Weakening Vaccine Response 2 weeks ago:
Sure, the study would be best if we did a randomised double blind study on a sample of 100 people that all are going to get a tattoo anyway but that doesn’t make the mouse study irrelevant.
Mice and humans, although very different in appearance have biomechanics that are very similar. For every human study you could make a 20 mouse studies with the same funding so you could do a lot more exploration.
This study found something, notably that ink in the blood affected the immune system. This just means that future studies are needed like injecting people with tattoo ink and blood samples diagnosis after tattoo to see how much ink is in the blood. If confirmed this will push tattoo ink manufacturers to develop a new ink that eliminates the effect and we can all enjoy safer more effective tattooing.
This study is not flawed, it’s pushing human knowledge forward like it always does.
- Comment on Another angle of this modern art installation 2 weeks ago:
It’s a deadlock situation and can arise without any screw ups. Imagine the buses being 5x as long and all reach the intersection at the same time as an example. All have space to enter the roundabout but they’ll reach the same situation as in the picture.
To fix this people uses signals and can be done by having the buses follow “Only 1 or 2 articulated (double) buses are allowed into the roundabout at a time”. A rule like that might be required if you have a lot of articulated buses. The risk of this happening depends on how many ways you can enter a roundabout no a bus like that, how long the buses are, how frequently they run and how big the roundabout is.
- Comment on 🐑🥁🐍 3 weeks ago:
They’re used differently, which trumps historical meanings.
- Comment on 🐑🥁🐍 3 weeks ago:
It’s based on usage. R word is tainted now, this might change in the future or not. Language doesn’t care about etymology, only about usage. If the usage is generally negative and implies inferiority of a minority it’s a slur.
Calling someone an idiot doesn’t imply that disabled people are inferior, which makes it ok to use.
- Comment on This comic is missing a chunk of asbestos. 3 weeks ago:
Wikipedia agrees with you. Commonly viewed as a psuodoscience. The equipment is very good at amplifying subtle hand movements.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 3 weeks ago:
It’s true that the ears receive stereo input, but brain postprocesses it to make surround sound. It uses the time difference from sound hitting your right and left ear to do some black magic and figure out at which angle the sound is coming from.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 3 weeks ago:
That’s the neat part, the brain does that using some black magic. You just have to add all the sounds individual waves together and the brain deciphers it.
- Comment on Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians? 3 weeks ago:
One potential organisation type to do this would be a labor union. If multiple unions pool their resources they could make a super PAC and lobby hard.
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 4 weeks ago:
This is my impression also. Most people are just “Meh” about it since it’s not that noticeable. A bit more ads, bit more bandwidth use, bit more ram use and a bit slower CPU when performance of websites sucks ass is not that noticeable.
- Comment on Well that showed them 4 weeks ago:
Ah, the power bottom.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 4 weeks ago:
Fuck it, just make them work like Flatpaks or snaps and run a minimal android session on top of virtual hardware and install like normal.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 4 weeks ago:
On the steam hardware page it says the CPU and GPU are discrete although also “semi-custom” which I think means it’s not Gigabyte and has some cooling features that are tailored to the form factor.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 4 weeks ago:
I know my case is specific but having a Jellyfin running on a Steam computer looks to me as good case for having a computer in the living room. Adding a TV applications to Steam such as Netflix is also a case. Then there are people who have their workstation close to the TV so they can use it instead of their laptop and just switch displays with one of these HDMI branching dongles.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, and once you get going it’s easier to keep going because of momentum
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 4 weeks ago:
Only good way to get a house by age 30 is to become a plumber, electrician or other type of job that pays well with minimal study and save up while living at parents or sharing a flat with 3 mates.
Then you need to save heavily and invest in stocks and/or bonds with the saved money so you can beat inflation. With around 30k saved per year it’s possible to get pretty early onto the property ladder.
Going to college and living somewhere in NYC for example will get you nowhere close to 30k a year with student debt and if you have a kid you’re screwed.
