saintshenanigans
@saintshenanigans@programming.dev
- Comment on Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌ 7 months ago:
I think you’re missing the idea a little. Yeah its not the biggest problem, but these guys don’t just suggest Linux, the people that just say they prefer it in context and to look into it are fine.
Its the high schooners and early cs major - types who heard someone else suggest it, and now they’ve made it their entire personality and are physically incapable of refraining from going off about how much better Linux is than windows, while not particularly understanding what they’re even doing.
Example: When I started my programming degree there was one high school kid taking the courses, ANY time someone had an error with their IDE he would go off about how Linux doesn’t have any issues.
And then when the group went to go play games together, he’d attach himself to the party and spend like 20+ minutes crying about how the game didn’t run well cause devs only dev for windows while he struggled with his wine setup.
- Comment on What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk? 9 months ago:
Gamers demanding changes saying “it’s literally one line of code”
- Comment on WSJ lead editor annoyed that they don't control the narrative anymore: "We owned the news" 9 months ago:
Any time I look at Facebook or X(formerly twitter), I see two sides of the same shit-smeared coin.
On Facebook, feels like a majority of the random comments I see are all scum of the earth, racist, sexist, fascist etc. Every post about a new marvel movie is filled with comments about how the movie is going to be ahit because of “forced diversity” and “wokeness” - any political post is all about how dems should die, or aoc needs to be murdered, etc. And it’s never just a few people, its dozens, with hundreds of likes and supporting comments.
On the other site, it’s mostly blue-haired “bleeding heart liberals” who are so liberal they’ve come full circle back to fascism. Trying to restrict people’s rights because they have some shitty ideas, or completely ruining people’s careers over a rumor.
Before social media, you would be forced into public places to have these conversations, and you’d be forced to interact and learn what people who don’t agree with you have to say and think, and that broadened your worldview. Now facebook and xitter just feed you into an algorithm and spit you out in a bubble with other people with the same ideas, because you’ll all agree and converse and engage more, because there’s positive reinforcement there, and from that point its a feedback loop slowly making you more liberal or conservative, when typically most people would fall pretty close to center, give or take some hot button issues like guns and babies.
- Comment on 'The economy is different now': Parents pay grown-up kids' bills with retirement savings 9 months ago:
They don’t care that you have a family. Executives commonly say things in their shareholder calls about “extracting more value” from people or something along those lines.
They don’t care if it’s one person or twelve, they just care that people are still buying their products, and that the revenue they gain with price gouging is higher than the revenue lost by people fucking starving and not being able to buy anymore.
- Comment on Poignant post on the state of things 9 months ago:
It’s not even about money anymore.
I’m not positive that the world is going to be a comfortable place to live in at all in the next 40-80 years. I can’t be sure it’s morally acceptable to bring a new life into the world just to struggle until death. I know if I were given the choice I would have rather just not have been, it’s not worth struggling forever just to barely get by until the game changes yet again and you get knocked back down to the peg you started on.
- Comment on Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees 9 months ago:
Would love to if my favorite games weren’t all EAC locked on linux