Tonava

@Tonava@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  While I would say that the language barrier is squing things a little

  To go on a tangent from this; this is literally the problem I’m constantly struggling with tech stuff. I am not fully illiterate in things (I’ve build my desktop, I’ve booted from USB, I’ve done quite interesting things with php etc. etc. small stuff) but I’m also not on a “Lemmy level”, for example never installed or used Linux, I don’t know Rust, nor do I understand a lot of the talks here.

  But; English is my second language, and I’ve never had any formal schooling in IT. There are a lot of tech words that do not translate literally into my native language. So if I want to understand something, searching for things is an absolute nightmare. I often don’t know the English term, and I usually don’t know the proper tech term for it in my native language either. Translating doesn’t help since translators don’t understand the terminology but will translate literally, which again, doesn’t help in either direction. So I’m left guessing and trying to piece things together based on vague descriptions by people who understand what they’re talking about and expect the reader to understand as well.

  On top of that the FUCKING SEO has made everything so much worse since trying to search anything with the word “optimizing” will only yield completely irrelevant things about SEO. I hate it I hate I hate it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I went insane already in the early 2000s, when I realised nobody gave a shit about climate change and ecological destruction and nothing I could say or do made people understand or care. I had a good chuckle when the whole Greta-thing happened and suddenly more people cared, even though we’ve known this is happening for decades now. Too little, too late. There’s always war and genocide going, now we just know it’s happening in real time. Knowing changes nothing, we don’t learn from history, too few care and those who do get in power too rarely for any lasting change to happen.

  I was about to kill myself for the first time in 2013 and honestly I should just have done it, it’s the decision I now regret the most in my life. I already died that day anyway, I have just been sort of lingering remnant after that, barely a person anymore. At least my parents could have had a decade to grieve me, now I’ve just dragged more people to care about me and will hurt them as well with my death. My suffering has just gotten worse and worse together with my physical and mental health; sometimes thing not only don’t get better, but just get worse. I don’t even know how I’m still here, probably just out of spite and lack of access to handguns. Eventually I’ll get to see what will manage to end me first, my body or my mind, I don’t even know which one is leading the race.

  To conclude my insane and personal rant: not everyone can get a happy ending. Enjoy and do good if you still can

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My friends!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Befriending wild animals on their terms is awesome, no matter are they slugs, deer or birds. I’ve been bribing the neighbourhood corvids for about three years now, and gotten a few friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody gets one [choose wisely]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, finally one without any downsides!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even got their own island⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I get it. Never felt really welcome in those spaces, even though I’m trans and very much on the left as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unrelated, but this just brought back memories from long ago when I was a kid and used to watch the advertising channels on purpose. Endless stream of useless gym equipment and weird kitchen tools; they painted such a bizarre and surreal world full of repetition, forced plastic smiles and all sorts of almost otherwordly things that had nothing to do with reality. It was fascinating, almost like watching something of the fae folk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True Story⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I only care about them because of dr. Doom - and they somehow immediately fucked that up yet again. It takes some serious skills to make such bad decisions, thrice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deserved honestly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just the risk that has to be taken when threatening to bite, if the threat is bluff it’s not wise to try it. I mean it’s probably not wise to try it in the first place, but sometimes idiots just need some bared teeth at them to learn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deserved honestly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Verbal warnings are for when the touching attempts haven’t yet happened. When the hands get close, the first snap is the warning. To have aura of insanity there are no second warnings

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deserved honestly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People are prepared for punching or screaming and shit, but usually nobody is prepared to get bit, so probably even if the risk of violence is higher. But getting a chunk out of some jerk has its own satisfaction, they will remember it even if you get hurt worse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deserved honestly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just quickly lean towards their hand and snap your teeth like you’re going to bite. Works with all sorts of unwanted touching, just be ready to actually bite if they’re also nuts and try again to call your bluff. Even if they get angry they’re much less likely to want to throw hands with the high possibility of getting bit hanging in the air.

  The downside is you will look even more insane than with just fork stabs, but on the plus side you will look insane enough people will stay the fuck away in the future too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If anyone wants civil discussions about antinatalism stuff, the best bet is probably trying to find places that have strict bans on efilist ideologies (those are the “everything should die” people)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried sandbox-like games, or just games that basically have no story line? Or is the more “adventuring” type of gameplay the one you enjoy the most? Personally I seem to find most games kinda boring outside puzzlegames and sandbox-things, since the typical stuff always has at least some form of grinding and I don’t really like fighting either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think his reasoning was to see how far the sign holding folks would go for money, and they apparently didn’t really have any limits. Should he have done and shown it on youtube is the thing he can be criticized for

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people have it worse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never understood the argument that you shouldn’t complain about the environment you interact with because other people interact with worse environments.

  I call this the “children of Africa” -argument. Basically, it’s an argument that you can never complain about anything or do anything to better something, because “some kids are starving in Africa”; someone always has it worse. It’s purpose is to belittle and brush aside either the problem worded out or the person saying it (or both).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the worst spelling you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The downside is, neither can any adult. I think the first name limitations should only apply to kids; legal adults should be able to change their names to whatever they want, no matter how stupid it is. It could only hurt themselves after all