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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps a privileged take but I’d be completely willing to pay way more for games with no micro transactions or other “live service” BS. Like if economics make it so that it doesn’t make sense to sell most high budget games for $70 without micro transactions then sell me one at $100. Video games were way more expensive when I was a kid and prices haven’t risen with inflation at all. Consider that Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time retailed for $59.99 in 1998 while Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom cost $69.99 in 2023. That is a 16.7% increase over 25 years, or an average increase of 0.619% each year. Meanwhile, average CPI inflation is usually ~2% per year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss the real issues.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Zoom out those graphs lol. Precious metals are very clearly a bubble right now, and international stocks are mostly finally catching up to US pandemic recovery. The stock market situation is a little more complicated because major US stock indices are extremely top-heavy with AI stocks right now and being influenced by the AI bubble, but this narrative is not particularly accurate. Neither are Bondi’s absurd ramblings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dogs welcome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  My local grocery store now has big ass signs on the door saying no dogs unless they’re actually real service animals like seeing eye dogs and that emotional support animals don’t count. I think they must be actually enforcing it too because it’s one of the few places I don’t see people’s fucking dogs running around. I love dogs, probably more than the average person, but they don’t belong in most stores especially because the overlap between people bringing their dogs into stores and the people who actually train their dogs is pretty small.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If nothing else I feel like more people would be killed with Shinzo Abe guns and similar hardware store contraptions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does this thing work? (wrong answers only)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh God it’s a Seebeck effect fan isn’t it? That’s almost nothing anyway lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does this thing work? (wrong answers only)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m 90% sure this thing effectively does nothing and just spins when hot air flows over it due to natural convection to make it look like it’s doing something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Welp that sucks time to find a new platform

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Praise Be⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Homie it was literally 2000 years ago and social norms have changed dramatically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top of the world, ma⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yo why does the “Chad” in this meme look like Jeffrey Epstein?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I might actually be a respectable member of society⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does every comment section on Lemmy seem to have at least one person who seems to have never gone outside

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am looking for a Linux OS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I recommend Mint if it’s your first time. It’s really easy to set up and use and there are thousands of guides online for fixing any issues you encounter with it. I do not recommend Bazzite like others are recommending because you literally can’t change anything with it. That is fine if everything works out of the box and you’re basically just using it for gaming, but if literally anything is wrong with your install or you have a device where the drivers that come with Bazzite don’t work, you literally can’t fix it. Not as in “it’s really difficult” I mean it literally won’t let you do it. Updating drivers on Linux is notoriously frustrating, but it’s very often required especially if you have older USB peripherals you want to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Right but it literally doesn’t work on my system and I literally can’t make it work by design. It’s not a matter of liking “tweaking my system” it literally doesn’t work at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah it was pretty easy to update the drivers. I had to look up a guide but compared to updating windows it was nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t recommend Bazzite. You can’t install new drivers if something doesn’t work right out of the box and that is just a complete no go for many people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am done with Windows at home. I spent a whole weekend convincing my computer that it was allowed to install windows 11, going into my BIOS and changing settings, having to make a live USB drive with some windows setup tool, navigating numerous outright wrong guides on Windows’ on website, and at the end of it, I was greeted with the worst OS I have ever used in my life. I had thought complaints about Win11 were exaggerated like complaints about Vista back in the day- Vista was bad, but usable. Windows 11 is legitimately awful. Everything runs like shit on it. That day I resolved to switch to Linux for everything I could and started dual booting. Was the Linux install process difficult and complicated? Yes, but compared to what I had to do to get my computer to run Win11 it was a piece of cake.

  What’s worse? Thanks to advancements in Wine and Proton, Windows software runs better on Linux now than it did on Windows 11. I have games that ran fine on Windows 10 that run like shit on Win11, and run fine on Linux. Sure, I am a technical person and I am very comfortable with the command line, but legitimately nothing I’ve had to do with Linux has been as frustrating as what I have to do to try to get Windows 11 to do anything right. I thought I’d be dual booting into Windows at least some to run some programs but I legitimately haven’t found anything that doesn’t run fine on Linux. Plus Linux doesn’t spy on my and sell my data, and Linux isn’t owned by a pedophile who hung out with the Epstein gang.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone explain why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Legitimately I think it’s because Gen Z and below are horribly anxious and not very social. We really fucked these kids’ confidence over at every opportunity and now we’re wondering why they’re not going out to parties and stuff and why they’re not really dating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thank you fb⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyway, these people aren’t following established Biblical lore, they’re totally brain melted from 24/7 conspiracy content on Facebook and YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buttcoin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While it is true that Bitcoin is bad at being a currency, it was definitely intended to be one from the beginning. The people who created it and early adopters had weird libertarian beliefs about currency and intrinsic value. Bitcoin was supposed to be like a digital version of the gold standard rather than a modern fiat currency. Of course, this has a lot of problems and there is a reason nobody uses the gold standard anymore, but these people did actually intend for it to be a currency. The whole thing is designed around the ideological belief that scarcity and work are what create value, and that value derived from these is intrinsic. It’s kind of hard to grasp if you’re not immersed in the weird online libertarian culture that created and adopted Bitcoin early on but these are things that people very sincerely believe, although these days most crypto people aren’t into that idea anymore and you see it among people who buy gold and silver

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thank you fb⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These guys are so far out from mainstream that you can’t really know what the hell they’re thinking. That said, Leviathan isn’t actually an end times figure. It’s a sea monster mentioned in the Old Testament in various points. The most famous passage is Psalm 74, a song of praise to God, which contains a reference to Him saying Leviathan, which appears to be a metaphor for taming the waters of the Earth

  Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

  You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters[d] on the waters.

  You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

  You split open springs and brooks; you dried up ever-flowing streams.

  Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.

  You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth; you have made summer and winter.

  Some people believe that there is a reference to Leviathan in Revelation but it’s not direct. Anyway, these people aren’t following established Biblical lore, they’re totally brain melted from 24/7 conspiracy content on Facebook and YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a bit more complicated but essentially only a third support him, a third oppose, and a third are either too stupid to know what side to choose or too lazy to do anything. In my opinion it’s this third camp that are the worst of the worst. At least the Trumpers are doing what they think is right, these guys are just lazy and willing to just let anything happen to them as long as they can watch Netflix and buy Funko pops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone tells you "you support socialism, yet you use products of capitalism", what would you say?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I explain that isn’t really what socialism is about and actually engage. Most people don’t actually know what socialism is in practice and especially in the US their ideas are from actual propaganda they had in schools. Even self described socialists in the US often fall into the “socialism is when the government does things” trap and most people believe the lie they were told in school that socialism is necessarily the complete abolition of private property and money without questioning how that would even work in practice. I would say fewer than 10-20% of the US population even has a functional knowledge of what socialism even is in practice despite having extremely strong opinions about it.

  Things like the quote in the OP are “thought terminating cliches” that serve to stop thought and dialogue before alternate ideas actually get discussed rather then form the basis of actual ideas themselves. For this one in particular I ask if they have ever actually read what Karl Marx believed and if they know that even Marx agreed with the premise that capitalism breeds innovation and economic growth, at least at the start. That this is true is not a problem for socialism intrinsically. You’re never going to change someone’s worldview or undo a lifetime of propaganda in one conversation, but you can crack the door a little and maybe spark some doubt or get someone curious enough to read on their own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean it’s not illegal for someone to tell someone else to take more drugs. If two guys are hanging out and one says “hey I think I think I should take more drugs” and the other says “hell yeah brother do it” they aren’t responsible if the first guy ODs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IV:XX blaze it cinaedus⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Less fancy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dating⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the bumble experience lol. The man still has to do the real first message because the woman’s first message is going to be “hey” 99% of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the same culture that decided that X was a better name than Twitter. These people are so far removed from regular society that this idiotic shit actually makes sense to them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insider trading, but make it worse⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kalshi is the other big one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh. It really depends on the topic. I am a Wikipedia addict and I would never tell anyone that Wikipedia should be used for anything beyond surface level familiarity. Ideally you start with Wikipedia then move on to better quality sources. The problem with Wikipedia isn’t necessarily inaccuracy, but lack of information and bias. I’m not talking about right wing conspiracies saying Wikipedia is too liberal, but rather I am talking about things in history where a specific view is presented and alternate views are not. This is especially common in situations where modern scholars are questioning historically mainstream views. I suspect this is because the editors simply aren’t aware of these developments and are accessing more available older sources, but it can bring in bias. This can also happen in science and engineering as well. Plus there is the classic Wikipedia problem where some random B list Marvel superhero or star wars extended universe side character has an extremely high quality Wikipedia page and a relatively important historical to figure has a very basic overview. Wikipedia is incredible and one of the greatest achievements of Humanity, but it’s got some flaws and I don’t think that it’s wrong to tell students not to rely on Wikipedia. It’s kind of like all the same issues with ChatGPT but way less severe and way more subtle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I legitimately don’t understand how someone can interact with an LLM for more than 30 minutes and come away from it thinking that it’s some kind of super intelligence or that it can be trusted as a means of gaining knowledge without external verification. Do they just not even consider the possibility that it might not be fully accurate and don’t bother to test it out? I asked it all kinds of tough and ambiguous questions the day I got access to ChatGPT and very quickly found inaccuracies, common misconceptions, and popular but ideologically motivated answers. For example, I don’t know if this is still like this but if you ask ChatGPT questions about who wrote various books of the Bible, it will give not only the traditional view, but specifically the evangelical Christian view on most versions of these questions. This makes sense because they’re extremely prolific writers, but it’s simply wrong to reply “Scholars generally believe that the Gospel of Mark was written by a companion of Peter named John Mark” because this view hasn’t been favored in academic biblical studies for over 100 years, even though it is traditional. Similarly, asking it questions about early Islamic history gets you the religious views of Ash’ari Sunni Muslims and not the general scholarly consensus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone has a LOT of dusty computers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a theory that Lemmy commenters are dumber than you’d expect and this comment section doesn’t help their case lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone has a LOT of dusty computers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Canned air is not actually pressurized air in a can though. It’s a liquid refrigerant.