pumpkinseedoil
@pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz
- Comment on "I was born in the wrong generation" has turned from edgy to a sad reality for some 1 week ago:
In Germany you would’ve been drafted and if surviving you’d have had to help rebuild a bombed-down occupied country. I certainly wouldn’t want to be born before the ~60s.
- Comment on Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems 1 week ago:
RTX3060, no issues for me after installing the driver
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 weeks ago:
My Linux system uses about 1 GB idle and yet I’m glad to have 16 GB - not because I wouldn’t mostly be fine with 8, but because it just keeps more doors open. Can run more demanding programs, more programs simultaneously, can host something in the background, …
The OS itself is more efficient than Windows, yes. But that’s not a hard task, and it’s less efficient than many Linux distros. No matter how efficient you are, 8 GB non-expandable RAM is not enough nowadays.
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 2 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t the switch (locked down) be pants and pc handhelds (anything) be clothing?
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 4 weeks ago:
LaTeX
- Comment on 'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties 4 weeks ago:
You can see how much of an impact this has - in my (rich European) country only 30% use apple devices and everyone uses WhatsApp for communication (also not good but far better than imessage, and there’s a slow shift towards signal happening)
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 4 weeks ago:
Don’t tempt me into distro-hopping again ;)
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 4 weeks ago:
Oh wow, thanks!
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 4 weeks ago:
Was it dead? If it was: Yes. Last update 15d ago (on the F-Droid version).
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 4 weeks ago:
Firefox sync works on all Firefox forks (I’m using LibreWolf on Linux and Fennec on Android for example)
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 4 weeks ago:
Totally sounds like a waste of computing power and therefore battery life, but the concept of fascinating
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 4 weeks ago:
Oh wow, sounds impressive, thanks
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 4 weeks ago:
What had a 3d effect? Selfies?
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 4 weeks ago:
What’s dynamic perspective?
- Comment on Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank 5 weeks ago:
The reasons why China can produce so much cheaper than Germany are because Germany pays fair wages, has to get enough taxes to pay for free healthcare and the welfare system, provides free access to education (including universities), has very high environmental standards, …
You may be calling a social democracy “soul-crushing capitalist system”. I call it home (not Germany specifically but also a social democracy), freedom for everyone to follow their dreams (you can be completely poor and still study whatever you want (with a side job if subsidies aren’t high enough) to get the job you want).
When I need medical help I go to the hospital (or even call an ambulance if it’s urgent), get treated, and leave without having to pay anything. For university I’m paying 27€ (~30$) per semester. On the streets you barely see homeless people because there are places where they can go to find food, shelter and advice. Etc.
Paying 50% of my income (only like 30% when not earning that much) in taxes is well worth it. Sure, private insurance might be better for me personally. But it brings me joy to be able to support this system, all those happy people are well worth the slight extra cost.
- Comment on Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank 5 weeks ago:
Not regulating China when they did the same with photovoltaic cells is what destroyed the German photovoltaic industry, which before that was leading.
- Comment on Billionaires shouldn't exist 1 month ago:
People don’t have that much money. They have companies that are worth that much.
- Comment on Billionaires shouldn't exist 1 month ago:
How does that work when for example a single company is worth two billion? Does the government now own >50% of it?
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
Well, we were talking about pet cats, not cats that had to live on their own
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
Where I live there is practically no risk of them getting ran over. But yes they do catch 2-3 birds per yer.
- Comment on Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip 2 months ago:
Still a breakthrough for them, so still nice to hear. Yes its Microsoft, but its still nice to see progress in research.
- Comment on Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 2 months ago:
You’re welcome. Spread the word of the fediverse, may one day Lemmy be bigger than Reddit, Pixelfed bigger than Instagram, Mastodon bigger than Twitter, …
- Comment on Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 2 months ago:
Hi!
For Lemmy usage my preferred approach is always sorting by all and blocking communities (and instances) I don’t want to see instead of subscribing to the ones I do want to see. This way you get more content and dont miss new sublemmies! :)
- Comment on Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again 2 months ago:
I just always sort by all and block instances / communities I don’t want to see
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 2 months ago:
About a million active users each month
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
That’s what you should do anyway, the h simply elongates the o
- Comment on Le Reddit Army is Here 3 months ago:
Had me in the first half
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 3 months ago:
That’s already a thing in many countries, an opt-out program for organ donating, so by default they will take my organs if I’m braindead
- Comment on Fashion is cyclical 4 months ago:
If you have something that slightly resembles an amongus astronaut as your pfp people will think: ohhh are you “from the early 2020s”
You can’t dress up as it though when those trends happen over the internet.
- Comment on Fashion is cyclical 4 months ago:
Internet culture has very strong trends. MLG era, deepfried pictures, amongus era, whatever people on tiktok are watching (brainrot), …