folkrav
@folkrav@lemmy.ca
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 1 week ago:
Your first hint that this is a naive take is that you’re brushing off a societal issue to a single, external factor.
- Comment on We like music because our brains crave pattern recognition. 1 week ago:
Music (and other art forms) happen to trigger our brains to shoot the same happy/sad/etc chemicals other less abstract physical experiences do, for reasons we don’t completely understand. I’m utterly confused why being aware of them, or having the curiosity of wanting to learn more about it, is “what’s going wrong with society”. If anything, curiosity is one of the main things that kickstarted us as a species, and brushing it off to some abstract “deeper layers of human existence” like it was some sorcery we shouldn’t dare try to understand would be way more concerning about our state as a society.
- Comment on We like music because our brains crave pattern recognition. 1 week ago:
Jazz has patterns and repetition, like any interesting music genre. If it didn’t, it’d be called noise. They just aren’t as in your face and predictable as the ones employed by pop genres.
- Comment on We like music because our brains crave pattern recognition. 1 week ago:
Polyrhythms and polymeters are still patterns. They’re often harder to perceive and follow than your typical 4/4, but we’re still searching for the beat and bobbing our heads to the complex patterns it creates.
- Comment on Post your bandwidth usage 1 week ago:
That’s not “self hosting” related tho lol
- Comment on “Fly Me to the Moon” is a stupid song. You want to know what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars? Extremely unpleasant. 5 weeks ago:
Alpha Centauri A and B are closer from each other (~23AU) than the Sun and Neptune (~30AU). That’s basically next door in astrological terms, but still a whole freaking lot of empty space lol
- Comment on Why is the price of real estate rising so dramatically? 2 months ago:
The answer is very location dependent, and often multifaceted. However here in Canada it’s a combination of neglecting affordable housing construction for decades, a huge uptick in immigration, a total lack of political willpower (most of our MPs report housing income, many actual landlords), and an economy that’s over-leveraged on real estate in general.
- Comment on The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that? 3 months ago:
I don’t correlate much from job count. I have had 5 in the last 8 years, two of those following layoffs. Shit happens.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Two questions:
- Can you justify this position in any way that wouldn’t be fundamentally racist?
- How does this answer the question at hand at all?
- Comment on PlayCase Turns Your iPhone Into A Proper Portable Game Console | Time Extension 4 months ago:
They managed to patent the concept of capacitive buttons in a plastic case, for fucks sake. The whole patent system is broken beyond repair…
- Comment on Any non-tech-background self-hosters? 4 months ago:
It was self-fulfilling for me. I started self-hosting and messing with networking before I went into IT. I thought I’d be in a very different field until ~10 years ago.
- Comment on Saudi man earns world record for 444 game consoles hooked to one TV 4 months ago:
I don’t think practicality is the point of these types of records lol
- Comment on Where Are You Supposed To Buy Pajama Shirts? 4 months ago:
they’re not heavy enough to sweat in
This sounds like a challenge my body would lose. I just sweat all the time, regardless of the temperature or level of physical activity.
- Comment on N64 Platformer 'Glover' Returns As A Physical Switch Release | Time Extension 4 months ago:
Oh wow, I completely forgot this game existed.
- Comment on How does Ohio have stock for the new cannabis stores that just opened? 5 months ago:
If the law was coming into effect at a known date, there may just not be much interest in prosecuting going forward.
- Comment on Why is there no sense of "camaderie" in the workplace? 5 months ago:
I totally agree with you that I don’t need to make friends at work. I 100% clock out at the end of the day and make a hard cutoff between personal and work life. I can even work with people I personally dislike just fine, as long as they’re not making things harder for others.
But OP was talking about camaraderie, which is mostly just about being generally pleasant to be around - as Merriam-Webster defines it, “a spirit of friendly good-fellowship”. Nobody likes to deal with the moody guy who doesn’t want to talk to anyone either. At the other extreme from what you’re describing, one starts leaning into “making things harder for others”.
- Comment on What are your favorite Nintendo 64 games? 5 months ago:
Hot take: Perfect Dark took everything that was great from GoldenEye, expanded on the formula, and is a much better game overall.
StarFox 64 is always gonna be an all-time favourite of mine. The gameplay is so simple yet very rewarding. Very arcade-like game loop, in a good way.
Diddy Kong Racing is one of the first games I discovered the… joys (?) of completionism as a kid.
I played Wave Race a ton with my father, he loved that game. Mario Golf as well.
Mario 64 is insanely good in retrospect, but I sucked at it too much as a kid to enjoy it.
- Comment on What are your favorite Nintendo 64 games? 5 months ago:
Pleasantly surprised to see Mario Golf mentioned ❤️
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
You may consider them a friend, but the behaviour you’re describing shows they aren’t treating you like one.
- Comment on Is it normal to be disgruntled? 5 months ago:
We’re up to 5 layoffs in the last decade in between my wife and I. I’m obviously extremely biased towards “job security” being a freaking joke lol
- Comment on Is it normal to be disgruntled? 5 months ago:
This. I’ve been laid off at the beginning of the month as well. Three of the four interview leads I have right now are through references from old colleagues I’ve enjoyed working with and never completely lost contact. All other companies I’ve applied to have either completely ghosted or rejected me pretty damn quickly lol
- Comment on Why don't we put butter and sour cream on French fries? They're basically like tiny skinless baked potatoes... 6 months ago:
We’re used to white vinegar up here. First time I asked for vinegar in the US and got this malt thingy I was very disappointed lol
- Comment on Should I use a reverse proxy in a homelab? 6 months ago:
I’m curious what made it that complicated. Was the Synology OS (DSM they call it right?) fighting you along every step or something? As far as I know it’s a custom Linux OS but I have no idea what it’s based on, or if it’s even based on a specific distribution…
- Comment on how are some people able to fall asleep anywheres? 7 months ago:
I have 0 merit in this. I just… can. I always could, apparently. My parents organized dance competitions when I was a baby; they used to make me sleep in the DJ’s booth as it was the quietest-ish place in the venue. I slept through all of those like a (literal) baby. I don’t know why or how.
- Comment on how are some people able to fall asleep anywheres? 7 months ago:
This was a life changer for me. I had an AHI of 69. For those not familiar, AHI means Apnea-Hypopnea Index, which is an average count of “events” per hour. An event is either a complete blockage of respiration for 10s or more, or a drop of 30% or more in blood oxygen level.
I went from sleeping 10-12h and not feeling rested ever, a literal zombie, to sleeping 7-8h regularly and feeling good.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 8 months ago:
Most of what differentiates a distro from another is one of:
- package manager
- default packages/configurations (including the desktop environment)
- init system
The rest well… it’s Linux.
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 8 months ago:
There’s an episode of Behind the Bastards touching on the subject - “How Conservatism Won”.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 8 months ago:
Oh I don’t think I’m particularly old, statistically speaking I’ve got about the same amount or a bit more left to go… We just all have those moments that make you realize time flies, don’t we?
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 8 months ago:
My first non-prepaid plan must have been around 2006-2007, with a slide phone and the very minimum plan I could get which was, IIRC, 50 minutes, unlimited nights and weekends, and exactly zero text messages included, no caller ID nor voicemail 😂 First time I had a data plan was in late 2011, when I got my first smartphone (Galaxy SII), and that was definitely less than 1GB/month…
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 8 months ago:
As far as I could understand, North American carriers charged through the nose for mobile data for the longest time, but usually bundled SMS with some plans in some form, be it a set number of messages, or unlimited nights/weekends (oof, I don’t feel younger typing that one out). In most of the rest of the world, data became cheaper faster, but SMS was/is still expensive. This, combined with iPhone’s popularity in NA making people use iMessage, led to a lot of people just sticking to the defaults and use SMS on one side of the Atlantic, while the rest used WhatsApp or similar.