latenightnoir
@latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 13 minutes ago:
I mean… everyone’ll want the D once they’ll standardise it:-?
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 2 days ago:
In all seriousness, this would make the most sense in terms of progression in design. It already sorta’ is just that, but it’s been stepped on.
Hah! Just hit me, if I’d seen a USB-C plug back in the day, my first thought would’ve been “oof, someone isn’t playing bootleg cartridge games for a while!”
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 2 days ago:
It would be hilarious if they made it exactly like a headphone jack, but the USB-D slot wouldn’t support headphones.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 2 days ago:
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 2 days ago:
USB-D!😎 Shaped like a crescent moon!
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 5 days ago:
Our free market’s good, yours is the problem!
- Comment on You DID feel dumber than what you are feeling right now, there's no "I've never felt dumber in my entire life." . 6 days ago:
Counterpoint:
As I get older, I gain more knowledge and wisdom. As I gain more knowledge and wisdom, my perspectives develop. As my perspectives develop, my comprehension of my own limitations grows as well.
Ergo, old me saying that old me is dumb has way more weight than younger me saying that younger me was dumb, because youmger me had shit for brains and barely any idea of what it means to be dumb. But older me knows exactly how much of the dumb there is!
In short, if I say I’ve never been dumber, you’d better fukken believe I haven’t!:))
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Think you took a wrong turn somewhere, this is the Technology community…
- Comment on The worst part of getting old is that you get less and less "first experiences" and are always comparing current with previous ones 1 week ago:
Eh, maybe in other countries, my folks would’ve probably killed me if I’d presented an interest to delay University:))
But you’re right, it’s objectively better to take some time and get some perspective, and those 4.5 months really do sound like a good learning experience! Most definitely a lot more immediately useful as pertaining to living in general!
And can relate to your experience of returning home post-University, my home town is now… tumorous, for lack of a better word. But, yes, home is where one is, best way to go about it. Everything changes, the only thing which is somewhat constant is the fact that we’ll have to live with ourselves until we won’t:))
- Comment on The worst part of getting old is that you get less and less "first experiences" and are always comparing current with previous ones 1 week ago:
Funny, I always felt that the old “one can never go back home” adage holds true precisely due to the continuous addition of layers of context, in that I’m never the same Me going “home,” which means it can never be “home” for the new Me. I do know that comfort of familiarity, though! For me, it’s getting back to my own bed:))
Either way, your experience sounds wonderful, and I kinda’ envy you, tbh. I’ve always had trouble appreciating new places and contexts, because I see the familiar everywhere I go, in people, in tendencies, in shared cultural elements… Maybe it’s different for everyone, I guess, or a matter of perspective. Very good food for thought!
- Comment on Someone should make an anticapitalist Dexter. A serial killer who kills evil rich people. 1 week ago:
This is very true, but people still need a significant push to get there. They still need to first be angry enough to not want to take it anymore, before they actually start looking into what can actually be done.
- Comment on Someone should make an anticapitalist Dexter. A serial killer who kills evil rich people. 1 week ago:
I think entertainment is one of the poorest means of distribution, because, as it is now and in my opinion, entertainment exists in a state somewhere between not being taken seriously, and being taken seriously enough to pacify the subconscious.
On the other hand, populist means of distribution would be far more effective for this. Appeal to the average citizenry, make the message clear and simple, easily digestible, but frame it still within the context of reality.
As a concrete example, I’d offer stuff like House Of Cards, The Fall of The House of Usher, The Boys, and many, many other shouws with a “calling out truths through metaphors” theme. All of these shows are on point as far as having the metaphors parallel life, but even so they are heavily misinterpreted at worst (see people being downright surprised that Homelander is supposed to be the bad guy), or consumed then forgotten at best.
We need to go beyond metaphors and tackle the Concrete, the what-is, as-is. Show the numbers, show concrete examples of how life is made worse by actual people, and call it out directly - as opposed to the luke-warm and abstract wording of news, that dilution of the truth to make it inoffensive enough as to be easily swallowed then excreted by readers, as the truth isn’t the point of news anymore, it’s getting more and more eyes on your webpage.
- Comment on Let me Google that for you is dead. Long live Kagi that for me. 1 week ago:
Duck Duck Go look it up yourself.
- Comment on The worst part of getting old is that you get less and less "first experiences" and are always comparing current with previous ones 1 week ago:
Blessing and a curse, yeah… fewer new experiences and the world becomes less immediately “Wow!”, but the increase in depth stemming from all of that accumulated context makes old experiences even better in many cases.
I’m thinking here primarily of books, movies, games, music, relationships of all sorts, even of our own persons. One can start to see the multiple layers beneath the surface which were difficult to see due to a lack of life contexts.
- Comment on Google Gemini is coming for your private apps. Here's how to stop it 1 week ago:
- Comment on Windows 11 finally overtakes Windows 10 1 week ago:
“Thing set to die soon now worth less than the only other option remaining.”
- Comment on Someone should make an anticapitalist Dexter. A serial killer who kills evil rich people. 1 week ago:
Let’s make it even more interesting, then!
- Comment on Someone should make an anticapitalist Dexter. A serial killer who kills evil rich people. 1 week ago:
And I think Luigi would have done nothing had he stayed submerged in escapism, is my point.
- Comment on Someone should make an anticapitalist Dexter. A serial killer who kills evil rich people. 1 week ago:
I honestly wouldn’t. Not because I disagree with the concept, but because more on-point escapist media would just ensure that people will get their revolutionary fix without ever leaving the couch. We don’t need that. We need people to be angry, to be fed up, to have no other escape than to fight for it.
Capitalism has done wonders at keeping us sedated by selling us our fantasies of change and better days. It’s time we stopped taking the meds.
- Comment on Q anon was a psyop. 1 week ago:
Oh, no doubt! This mess is perfect for somebody’s business! Money has been and will continue to be more powerful and more important than politics in this, our Capitalist hellscape. Hiding in plain sight.
- Comment on Q anon was a psyop. 1 week ago:
Divide Et Impera will never not be an effective control method. Keep the Basics arguing amongst themselves, and they’ll never have the time to pay attention to the ones pulling the strings in the background.
- Comment on Say what you will about totalitarian dictators, at least they’re human. 1 week ago:
I mean… speaking concretely, sure, they’re biologically human, but… when delving into the abstracts, this is at least highly debatable…
- Comment on Are our societal problems being caused because modern technology allows people to be old for longer? 1 week ago:
I’m sorry to say, but I disagree. I remember older people having been more respectful ever since I became aware of the world around me, even those only slightly older than myself.
I used to hang out with the “older kids” during high-school, Seniors and beyond, and these groups have been calmer and more polite, even when out drinking and doing stupid things.
On the flipside, the generations immediately after mine started behaving like… well, like animals early on… I still remember entering a 6th grade class while I was in the 8th and witnessing one of the students being hit in the head with a chair. I knwe most of my generational peers and can tell you with absolute certainty that no such thing ever happened for as long as I was in school with them.
This extended throughout University as well, as the dorm in which I was staying got a lot (I mean, a LOT) noisier and more chaotic, to the point where the surroinding neighbours started calling the police pretty much regularly, because the freshmen were throwing mattresses and fridges out the window (literally).
And it goes for what I’ve said about neighbourhoods, too, the only people pumping music and constantly yelling at all hours are usually teenagers, students, or people my age. Most 40s and above can barely be heard after 10PM.
- Comment on Are our societal problems being caused because modern technology allows people to be old for longer? 1 week ago:
Honestly, and surprisingly, it’s the older people who have the most decency nowadays, from what I’ve seen … A lot of people around my age (30-ish) and many, many younger than me seem to be exhibiting something akin to sociopathic tendencies.
I’m not talking about politics or other such grand scale stuff, I’m talking day-to-day interactions. More and more new neighbors are demonstrating a complete lack of respect for others in their neighborhoods, playing loud music at ungodly hours ,parading around in their overrevvved cars with the bass thumping directly into your brain stem, younger people (30-40 and below) are far more impatient in traffic, far more self-absorbed, self-concerned, and egotistic. Of course, the older people aren’t all good, with outdated and regressive mentalities still flourishing among their ranks, but in terms of habitual decency, they’re in the lead…
These are all purely personal observations, of course, but I genuinely think an innate sense of respecting other people’s existence has been diminishing, if not entirely lost generation to generation.
These can, of course, all be tracked all the way back to the voracious consumerism engendered by Capitalism. The main symptoms are not clustered around older people, though.
- Comment on The US House's CAO informed congressional staffers that WhatsApp is now banned on their government devices as the app is deemed “a high-risk to users” 3 weeks ago:
Everything The Zuck touches becomes high-risk to users…
- Comment on The Purge 3 weeks ago:
This would have been a useful upgrade during Uni…
- Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus 3 weeks ago:
Didn’t go into so much detail woth most people of faith I’ve met, but I know for a fact mum read both the Old and New Testaments and decided she doesn’t want to have anything to do with the Church’s interpretations, because they focused on essentially anything other than empathy and being human.
- Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus 3 weeks ago:
From my purely anecdotal experience, the people who actually want to follow Jesus’s teachings don’t go to church. Says a lot.
- Comment on Child Welfare Experts Horrified by Mattel's Plans to Add ChatGPT to Toys After Mental Health Concerns for Adult Users 3 weeks ago:
Oh, great! Wonderful!
- Comment on Child Welfare Experts Horrified by Mattel's Plans to Add ChatGPT to Toys After Mental Health Concerns for Adult Users 3 weeks ago:
So, we’ll get to buy a doll which’ll need to be hooked up to a couple of car batteries to have it spew nonsense at our kids?
