Jack_Burton
@Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 2 hours ago:
Stablecoins like USDC are basically x coins is the cost. It’s pegged to the US dollar so 1 USDC is equal to $1 USD, always. Something like Bitcoin on the other hand, it’s better to think of it as it’s own currency. For example, right now the equivalent to $20 USD would be 0.00016962 BTC. When BTC goes up in price, $20 USD costs fewer Bitcoins (sats, which are everything passed the decimal).
The real world equivalent would be exchange rates, like between the US and Canada. Say the rate is 1.33, so that $20 USD game would cost $26.60 CAD. The rate changes to 1.35, so now it costs you $27. Next week it dips to 1.28, so now that $20 USD game costs $25.60 CAD.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 5 days ago:
I’m in the process of switching myself. Threw Ubuntu Studio on my laptop (Samsung Galaxy Book3 Ultra) and I’m currently testing for audio and music production to see if I can make the switch on my main PC for work. I’m loving it so far, though it’s looking like a step back for audio production unfortunately. That being said, where there’s a will there’s a way!
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 6 days ago:
He didn’t just “study” he has a Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering and received a Fulbright Scholoarship at MIT. Pretty spot-on casting honestly.
- Comment on Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history? 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, I’ve read that the Texas proverb bit was him cutting himself off mid sentence to prevent a sound bite of him saying “shame on me”. I have no idea of the veracity of the claim but it’s interesting if true.
- Comment on YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead 5 weeks ago:
Disliking the video is engagement, that’s probably why they show up every so often. It’s basically the algorithm saying “hey, can I suck you into an anger spiral today? No? Ok, I’ll try again later.”
- Comment on People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people 5 weeks ago:
He also renounced his US citizenship in Action Comics #900 like 15 years ago.
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah most comments sections are cesspools that only feed the negative wolf inside us. It’s interesting that now that I’ve cut out most comment sections, I realize how absolutely tiring it is being a part of them, or just reading them.
Lemmy is pretty good overall, but I really am starting to love just a basic RSS feed. Looks like what I’m used to (Lemmy/Reddit) but only links to articles, no comments at all.
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 1 month ago:
This brings up an excellent point about addiction. A
quicklonger than I’d planned anecdote: over the last few years I’ve nearly completely dumped all social media (and big tech in general). Facebook, Insta, Twitter, all gone. The only social for the last few years I’ve had left was Reddit, and I dumped that a couple months ago (all social media is toxic, I learned).I swapped Reddit for Lemmy a few months ago and noticed a huge difference, not just the fewer toxic people, but in the lack of posts overall by comparison. I found myself scrolling through the same Lemmy posts throughout the day, my brain trying to repeat the cycle from Reddit, but stayed strong and didn’t go back to Reddit haha.
Anyway, there’s still toxicity on Lemmy, and I realized how much it affects me without the cloud of all the other socials bogging it down. Not a lot, but enough. So I made a decision and went back to my old nerd days. I didn’t want to miss out on legit articles I was interested in from social media so I set up an rss reader. I started checking out Lemmy in the morning, and my rss throughout the day, which doesn’t update often.
What I found at first was I was re-checking lemmy, re-loading rss, and thinking about what else I can put on my phone to scratch that itch. I was (am) still addicted to the dopamine hit of forever-feeds of useless garbage. So instead, I picked up a book. It’s been a long time, and it’s a slow adjustment, but wow is it ever so much better. Aside from some small interaction on Lemmy in the morning like this, I don’t see comments anymore, I read the info I’m interested in reading and make my own judgments without comments trying to sway me, and use my former doom-scrolling time to read a book.
To sum up, you’re absolutely right. Addiction is a bitch and the average person doesn’t even realize they’re addicted.
- Comment on Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct 1 month ago:
Especially in today’s sociop
oliticalathic climate - Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 1 month ago:
Anyone using Session? I finally got most of my friends and family on Signal so I’m not gonna switch but I just heard about it, seems pretty good.
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 1 month ago:
Strange, maybe it has to do with scale in phone settings? I tend to have mine set to the smallest. I’ve also learned to not care as much about UI since dumping big tech and moving to FLOSS/FOSS (Libre Office is amazing but definitley less polished looking than something like Microsoft Office) so maybe I’m just getting blind to it haha
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 1 month ago:
My Signal screen fits 8 chats, and looks simliar to any other messenger I’ve used. It’s a messenger app and the UI shows messages. I wouldn’t want it to do anything else.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 2 months ago:
OsmAnd. There’s also a new fork of Organic Maps called CoMaps after Organic had some drama. A bunch of Organic devs left and forked it into CoMaps.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 2 months ago:
SmartTube on streaming devices!