Franconian_Nomad
@Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 5 days ago:
I like their older stuff. „Clocks“, „Trouble“, „yellow“ or „The scientist“ are fucking awesome.
After that I listened to them less and less.
- Comment on The universe has no concept of happiness or sadness. It is up to us to find things that make us happy (or sad if that's what we want). 2 weeks ago:
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett:
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right," said Susan. “I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need… fantasies to make life bearable.”
REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
“Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—”
YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
“So we can believe the big ones?”
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
“They’re not the same at all!”
YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME…SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
“Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—”
MY POINT EXACTLY
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- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 1 month ago:
Was listening to some computer podcast a while ago and the co-host and ex- hacker was saying that more and more VPNs are getting targeted and it’s just a matter of time we see quite a bit of them owned. (I think he was talking about implementation of VPNs for remote workers, rather than actual VPN providers. Sorry, it was some time ago)
Anyway, the host asked „What about wireguard?“
And the co-host: „Oh yeah, wireguard is solid! But all the services building up on wireguard? … They’ll get popped.“
Doesn’t have to be true, but something to keep in mind.
- Comment on Shadowgrounds haunted my Steam library for 10 years. Last weekend, I finished it. 2 months ago:
Very well written! Makes me curious about the game, thank you!
- Comment on YouTube Music wants me to verify my age. 3 months ago:
Not german. Maybe swedish?
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 3 months ago:
True, but 10% is probably higher average than usual.
- Comment on Thank you Gary ❤️ 3 months ago:
Green Monster. Not saying white monster is healthy, but at least it’s without sugar.
- Comment on Thank you Gary ❤️ 3 months ago:
Ah, breakfast of the Champions. And since the white monster was released, the line cooks on /r/kitchenconfidential have a breakfast that’s 50 percent healthier.
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 3 months ago:
I think it’s funny.
- Comment on Strava closes the gates to sharing fitness data with other apps 8 months ago:
Probably not, but I consider „come outside!“ ssmpretry creepy.
- Comment on Strava closes the gates to sharing fitness data with other apps 8 months ago:
Fuck Strava. After not using it for a bit it’s now pestering me to start the app again. The begging starts to get a bit creepy to be honest.
- Comment on Did you know that you could block communities you don't like on lemmy instead of spamming downvotes? 8 months ago:
And Nazi. Don’t play cute on me.
- Comment on Did you know that you could block communities you don't like on lemmy instead of spamming downvotes? 8 months ago:
Yeah, but maybe people want to downvote a community dedicated to a nazi?