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- Comment on Dodged the maga family visitors on 4th July by happy accident, now trapped with them at wife's birthday celebration. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Dodged the maga family visitors on 4th July by happy accident, now trapped with them at wife's birthday celebration. 1 week ago:
It’s only respect for my wife that gives me the strength to hold it in. She’s not got a lot of family close by.
- Comment on Dodged the maga family visitors on 4th July by happy accident, now trapped with them at wife's birthday celebration. 1 week ago:
When they do this just stare right at them, with a blank expression. Keep the stare for about 10 seconds until it starts to get uncomfortable for everyone, and then just say “hmm” while maintaining eye contact.
I kinda like this one I might try it! Though in this case I was granted a reprieve because they couldn’t stay as long as expected. 😁
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- Comment on GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down 1 week ago:
😁 Sorry. 🙂
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 1 week ago:
Proton developers are working on Wine code. Their patches go upstream. If you are using Wine, you have benefited (massively) from the sea change that has occurred (directly and indirectly) as a result of the development of Proton.
I remember the naysayers predicting that Gabe would never in a million years make the required investment because the state of Linux gaming was (in their assessment) that terrible.
And now we’re having argue about whether it actually did anything for us? In the comments about an article about how much it did for us?
That’s not an argument I’m having, I watched it happen.
- Comment on GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down 1 week ago:
Not only that, but can we stop trying to pretend that MS has changed and that those of us watching them since their inception are not just refusing to move on when we continue to remind people of EEE and their other business practices?
A tremendous number of people predicted this would be bad when it happened in 2018, and a surprisingly large number of tech pundits were ready to suggest we were just being being a little too hard on poor old microsoft and a little too predictable as longtime Linux users.
CAN WE NOT forget this time?
Same request on the whole Hitler/Trump thing actually. Let’s really remember it next time around, not somehow forget in a couple decades. At least the how and why will be tremendously well documented for historians this time around.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 1 week ago:
Do you know what I did last week thanks to Proton? Installed EndeavourOS on my freshly purchased laptop, installed steam, and installed a bunch of Windows games. Then I played them. At no point did I wonder whether they would run.
Now, you may think being able to do that isn’t something that is going to get more people using desktop Linux, but as much as I’d love to agree with you, then we’d both be wrong.
I say this as someone who used to care about convincing other people to use Linux. (Before shifting into “you can lead a horse to water…” mode, and now I just don’t give a shit.)
However, what I gained from that experience is this: In twenty years of being Linux-only on my personal desktop, the number of times I have read the phrase, “I’d love to use Linux, except for [some statement about a game or games]” is astronomical.
Now, is Proton going to make desktop Linux the best choice for everyone? Clearly not, duh. But it is remarkably disingenuous to suggest that it’s not had a massive benefit to the Linux community and ecosystem as a whole, including, and dare I say especially, desktop Linux. It is flat out impossible to imagine that a substantial portion of current and future Linux users aren’t people for whom Proton solved what they considered to be a substantial barrier to usage.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 1 week ago:
100% it can, and worse yet, it can be scraped and analyzed like this by Meta, or Reddit, or your nearest fascist dictator.
But that’s also pretty much the entire internet in any forum or social media platform, so although I don’t like it, I figure that’s more or less just part of using the internet.
To me it’s much like the whole “There’s no expectation of privacy in public.”
- Comment on YSK that you probably can tell a Policeman (or ICE agent) to go fuck themselves without legal repurcussions. 1 week ago:
I was alive in 2020 (and before) I’m well aware how little they often care about the rules.
- Comment on YSK that you probably can tell a Policeman (or ICE agent) to go fuck themselves without legal repurcussions. 1 week ago:
Hmm this is a good point, but I don’t entirely agree.
I know that I have wondered many times if I can drop a random (or not so random) ‘eff you’ as I pass, and I’m glad to know I probably can, whether I ever actually do or not. Knowledge is - knowledge.
Few of us here would align ourselves with the group trying to suppress information right now, so although I recognize this is not always a smart decision in every situation, I’m not really willing to get onboard with the idea that disseminating topical information from reasonable sources is a problem.
- YSK that you probably can tell a Policeman (or ICE agent) to go fuck themselves without legal repurcussions.legalclarity.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on My petty gripe: forced software updates just make everything worse 1 week ago:
Thanks, been reading those words from various commenters in a browser window on my Linux desktop for longer than some people at Lemmy have probably been alive. But it’s always nice to hear familiar phrases again.
- Comment on My petty gripe: forced software updates just make everything worse 1 week ago:
No one remembers how vulnerable windows server and windows desktop OS’s were before they revamped updates?
I remember how much it sucked when ignorant users ignored updates forever and MS didn’t really seem to give much of a shit about security anyway, yes.
MS is a great choice if you want to borrow a computer that someone else controls. Less so if you want a computer that is actually yours.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 1 week ago:
Same folks who couldn’t handle a Bishop preaching mercy, either.
- Comment on IYKYK 1 week ago:
I had the same recollection. Turns out it’s common-ish.
- Comment on Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem 2 weeks ago:
Jesus. How is this thing still a thing? (I guess that’s also part of the answer to my prior question…)
- Comment on Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem 2 weeks ago:
Thank you very much! I mentioned it to my oldest son (who is now in his twenties) a couple years ago because my youngest son (who is autistic) seemed like he might be interested in the game. He very emphatically said it wasn’t really what it looked like and that he would not recommend it. I didn’t ask for more details, but I guess I get it!
- Comment on Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem 2 weeks ago:
Thank you very much!
- Comment on Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem 2 weeks ago:
Can someone give me the out-of-the-loop on Roblox?
I understand that it’s an online gaming platform where there have been accusations of things being unsafe for kis. While bad, this is something that has happened before. Anything specific here that this is in the news so much, or just that it’s the biggest most current example?
- Comment on The regrets of life 2 weeks ago:
There was quite a surprising amount of that, I have to admit.
- Comment on The regrets of life 2 weeks ago:
Yes yes, thank you Mx. wet blanket. I think by now I have that part of living down.
- Comment on The regrets of life 2 weeks ago:
Sad Answer: I’m 30 years too late to find out!
- Comment on The regrets of life 2 weeks ago:
This is the sort of comment that no one believes but I’m OK with that.
The night I left for boot camp, I had not one but two longtime female friends throw themselves at me, within less than an hour of each other. I slept with neither of them, didn’t do more than kiss either of them, but we’re talking sudden, “OK, what is she-oh wow ok-5 minutes go by” kind of kisses. I’d known one of them since the first grade.
Now, here’s the part where you stop formulating your accusations of implausible humblebrag and it becomes relatable to OP. 😁
YEARS, and by years I mean DECADES of my life passed before I considered the possibility that it was anything other than “we’re probably not going to see each other again after this, let me give him a treat to remember me by.”
And let me tell you, when that sort of realization hits you decades later, it’s on a whole 'nother level.
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 3 weeks ago:
On nerdy sites like Lemmy people tend to fawn over Google and they can do no wrong
[Citation Needed]
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It does not seem like the most likely of possibilities at the moment though, I must admit.
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 3 weeks ago:
I know I know, so was my edit. 🙂
- Comment on Now it's stuck in your head too. You're welcome. 3 weeks ago:
Well, at least you finally got hmmm bop out of my head.
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 3 weeks ago:
I hope you applied this same level of rigor to your analysis of the reports of Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating cats and dogs.
