Draegur
@Draegur@lemmy.zip
Poly-Panro-Ace It/They
friendly neighborhood wholesome degenerate abomination from beyond the stars (mostly harmless™).
Atomic energy enthusiast. Architecture enjoyer. Mecha appreciator. Sci-Fi reader.
Winged caniform cybernetic biped techno-lich in its dreams.
- Comment on OS/2 isn't dead: ArcaOS update brings the 1980s-era OS to modern UEFI PCs 6 days ago:
Microslop: *messily committing public suicide* Literally every other OS: “MY DAY HAS COME!”
And I’m not even saying that as a criticism; there has literally never been a better time to make a move in DECADES.
- Comment on PC upgrade woes 1 week ago:
“AI Booted” in the same way a car can get booted, eh? That describes it quite elegantly.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 week ago:
This future fucking sucks
- Comment on Moats are back! 1 week ago:
If the US actually invades Canada, I personally preemptively forgive all Canadians for letting their inner “Crazy Canuck” out and inventing some new war crimes to make my vicious, sadistic, deranged countrymen regret fucking with y’all.
It has become clear to me that the 21st century must be the century of United States Humiliation. This place needs to learn a god damn lesson that it will never forget.
- Comment on Moats are back! 1 week ago:
But it’s barbaric for us to even think about our own self defense. Funny how that works. If it weren’t for double standards they’d have no standards what so ever.
- Comment on Moats are back! 1 week ago:
No, they actually ARE seriously stupid enough to kill us all because these DENSE MOTHER FUCKERS honestly believe AI will do everything for them and that they don’t need bodies anymore.
- Comment on Moats are back! 1 week ago:
I’ve been thinking about this on and off for the past two weeks and you know what?
You are being too kind and giving them too much credit.
They aren’t THINKING that far.
THESE DENSE MOTHER_FUCKERS_ HONESTLY BELIEVE AI WILL DO EVERYTHING FOR THEM
AND THAT WE ARE ALL WORTHLESS
NOT EVEN WORTH EXPLOITING.
so yeah
They aren’t even pretending anymore: cruelty literally is the point and they want us DEAD.
- Comment on happy international womens day💜 1 week ago:
I’m sorry, It turns out I’m not a man u.u
But that does explain why I was so turned off at the prospect of getting sucked (yuck) Because this junk on me is the wrong parts!
The most fun relationships I’ve had, my own body was hardly even acknowledged and I made it all about what I can do for my partner ^^
Besides, receiving sexual gratification of any kind is aggressively mid to me anyway, because I’m pretty sure I’m on the asexual spectrum.
I want to please my partners solely because I’m panromantic and when anyone i love has a good time i get the warm fuzzy giddy mushy sappy tingles~ :3
- Comment on the world 1 week ago:
Real Life.
- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 1 week ago:
Good grief what a stupid future we live in.
And “sad bits” makes perfect sense.
I’m glad i switched to mint on my laptop, I hope it only continues to improve. If only we could self-manufacture the hardware, too…
- Comment on bold words 2 weeks ago:
Oh I’m not a girl either.
I’m an it: a THING. :3
The big revelation i had in recent years is that although i may not know what i am, i know what I’m not.
I wasted decades living like a fish who was tricked into thinking its life’s purpose was to climb trees.
I could have spared myself a great deal of inconvenience and confusion if i had realized sooner that I’m asexual and genderless because divesting of those labels has drastically reduced the discomfort of my existence in that i no longer feel bizarre self-inflicted pressure to fulfill archetypical roles toward which i never related and which I never understood in the first place.
A lot of social issues i had came from externalization of internal dysphoria. The deep, overwhelming disgust and discomfort I felt when merely even conceptualizing masculinity that purports to be ‘mine’, let alone any actual participation in such an identity. Being in “boy” spaces, being present for “boy” events, every stereotype and statistically emergent pattern associated with maleness, all of it–ALL OF IT–made my skin crawl.
The utter revulsion that overwhelmed me regarding masculinity spilled over into how I treated others, and that absolutely sucked. It’s not their fault they had an intrinsic understanding of themselves that felt intuitive and made sense to them…
…
And also even though I don’t particularly feel interested in pretending to be a girl either i know i definitely would be more comfortable in a more androgynous body. I even want bottom surgery, not for anyone else’s sake but because it feels less wrong conceptually.
(Not holding my breath though)
I just sometimes think back to the 90s and wonder if i could’ve had more room in my head for more useful considerations if I hadn’t been preoccupied with an intrinsic inability to embody societal expectations and roles that, it turns out, had nothing to do with me. If i didn’t waste so much effort trying to care about something that i hated and turned out to not matter at all, goodness, i could’ve known myself so much better, been at least somewhat more comfortable in my own head if not in my own skin.
If future me had conveyed the message convincingly in just those three words that no good would come from struggling to participate with that miserable dead-end charade… maybe i could have better focused on things that did matter.
- Comment on bold words 2 weeks ago:
first choice:
PURSUE NUCLEAR ENGINEERINGrunner up:
YOU AIN’T MALE - Comment on SERIOUSLY THOUGH. WELCOME TO LEMMY. 2 weeks ago:
It’s neat here.
I’m actually here more often than on Reddit now.
- Comment on Moats are back! 3 weeks ago:
You need to be more alarmed about this.
Conservatives (and the rich tend to side with conservatives) have no imagination and project their own intentions on others.
I cannot possibly stress this enough:
IF THEY THINK WE’RE GOING TO VIOLENTLY ATTACK THEM, IT’S SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE THEY ARE PREPARING TO ATTACK US THEMSELVES.
They have THOROUGHLY demonstrated that they can’t imagine anyone wanting to do anything that they themselves want to do, are preparing to do, or are ALREADY DOING.
Mark my words:
The rich are preparing to exterminate us all.
- Comment on Palantir Technology salty about Swiss Magazine 'Republik' uncovering their failed attempts establishing surveillance technology contracts (you can donate to their defense fund) 3 weeks ago:
Oh, what’s that?
Palantir doesn’t like it when people know about THEIR dirty laundry?
Wow. Golly. Gee whiz. Color me shocked with a marker that is bone fucking dry.
Maybe they should’ve thought about that before trying to fuck with OUR private business.
Palantir has violated social contract and no longer deserves privacy.
- Comment on the wok agenda 4 weeks ago:
The cool thing about Barq for me, though, is that it functions as a proximity IFF transponder–or at least that’s how i think of it
because it shows you other furries within range. hypothetically speaking, if there IS a “local furry community” you’d want to connect with, some of them MIGHT be on Barq.
Like, by default, any fur you end up talking to on barq is going to be within hanging out / getting food / social activity range.
Just kinda wish it was a little easier to pitch group activities to the local area. I’d absolutely be interested in knowing if there’s any such events happening nearby but as it presently stands i have to actively search through fragnented and static message boards where the proximity feature has no presence, and there may be boards for your area that are not obviously named because the board names are user defined… And frankly, i have too much going on to set aside time for commiting to in-depth perusal on a regular basis where i might not even find out about anything actionable most of the time.
If the fediverse had an optional “see users near me in dirtspace” feature … I don’t think anyone would use it??? I dunno it just feels like the “meeting up with people” task and goal NEED to be compartmentalized to a specific system for that purpose so you can cut it loose entirely at a moments notice without destroying everything…
- Comment on the wok agenda 4 weeks ago:
I use barq!
sadly it isn’t terribly effective because there’s way too much friction when it comes to local interaction
two people have to like each other first before they can even say hi? that’s like … literally the opposite of how meeting people works though???
that isn’t to say that DMs should be unlocked but rather that there oughtta be a localized/proximity public channel where you can just sorta microblog to the void and others who are nearby enough to see it can comment.
i’d call that system “howling”. kinda like the twilight bark from the old animated 101 Dalmatians movie ^_^
- Comment on Why is GOG not as succesful as a Gaming Alternative? 5 weeks ago:
i figure it’s a momentum thing.
Valve benefited from being First To Market with this model. They were already well established before anyone else tried to make their own.
epic games store, ubisoft connect, and also whatever used to be origin, all these launchers were HEAVILY marketed and users were shoehorned into them as a mandatory condition of playing a game, and they are all floundering.
GOG, though? No marketing. No coercion. Mostly it’s word of mouth and good will. And they are doing pretty alright. I’d say that, for NOT being first to market, and for NOT wasting loads and loads of cash trying to push themselves onto people–hell, you buy a game from GOG and you don’t even NEED to install their launcher! All their game installers function perfectly STAND-ALONE!
I’d say, with all that in mind, GOG is literally doing better than anyone that isn’t Steam.
And in my view, they are ever improving, even now.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
i dunno if it’s the same one, but the feelings OP described are how I felt about bronies.
there was a time before the infestation of predators took hold when almost every person you’d meet among them was unflinchingly, unashamedly, relentlessly wholesome, sincere, and genuine. people who really took honesty, loyalty, kindness, and generosity to heart. but that kind of environment was not hostile enough to defend itself from exploitation. an object lesson in the paradox of tolerance: there are some things that no society will survive tolerating, and there truly are some behaviors that cannot be rehabilitated. there is hardly anyone around anymore from the height of the subculture around 2014…
- Comment on Tips 1 month ago:
Blankets are great because you only have to pay for them once, and now that you have them, they can keep you warm basically forever.
Now, when it’s HOT weather, fuck it I’m using electricity for air conditioning; it’s getting legitimately dangerously hot lately and THAT SHIT is what will kill me if I don’t pay up x.x
- Comment on Tips 1 month ago:
I’d say it’s because consumerism is a kind of brain rot all its own. The media landscape we’ve been living in for generations has sold us this ridiculous fantasy that happiness means owning (or at least temporarily renting) luxury goods.
The plurality, if not majority, of the population here has never had to adjust their expectations or really sit down and think hard about what’s actually worth acquiring. We treat desires for convenience and novelty as though they are necessities. But they aren’t.
What’s actually a necessity is having something fulfilling to occupy your time, as a counterbalance to keep you sane, and that activity does not HAVE to be of the sort that costs a lot of money. Take up art using cheap supplies–just sketch with standard number two pencils on white lined notebook paper or perhaps play music on improvised instruments made of household objects. It doesn’t have to be good in order to become meaningful and if you do it enough it’ll BECOME good. Walk outside when the weather happens to be nice. Learn to ride a bicycle again. Visit a library. Pretend to sword fight with a friend using a fallen tree branch. You don’t have to drop several grand on a resort vacation. You don’t have to go into debt for a fancy car. You don’t need to buy the latest edition of “triple a” micro transaction slop from so-called “studios” that don’t give one single solitary wet shart about actual creativity and fire all their devs immediately every time a project wraps.
Money can’t buy whimsy.
All it can do is, at best, remove obstacles from between you and being able to enjoy something. If it’s not being used to simplify your life, then it’s COMPLICATING your life: Giving you only empty distraction that does not provide your experience with any fertile ground for meaning. This is but one of the many ways we are socially “poisoned” and then told that conspicuous consumption is the antidote. It’s not. it’s just even more poison.
You know what the most enjoyable experience I had was in the past several months? Just sitting in the living room at a gathering of friends where everyone brought a little home made food and listening to their happy voices. It cost me next to nothing but turned out to be worth more than anything.
My computer is more than ten whole years old now but it handles old games i could find on sale just dandy and doesn’t need some suped-up rtx gpu to let me pirate some shows XD
I stopped mindlessly gorging myself on junk food, and now basically only eat either efficient daily maintenance nutrition OR choose to visit a small locally owned restaurant no more than once per week. I’m never spending upwards of fifteen fucking dollars on a fast food burger “meal” ever again.
Divest of tacky opulence. Defy Wall Street and its siren song of ruin disguised as prosperity. Embrace the elegance of simplicity and spontaneity. If this sprawling parasitic infestation we’ve mistaken for an *economy" can’t survive without sucking the life out of us all then maybe it deserves to collapse.
- Comment on Tips 1 month ago:
I’ve been losing weight, which has been good for me. But someday … I’m going to run out of stored calories. For the very first time in my life, it has crossed my mind to wonder if I might starve someday ._.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 2 months ago:
You are based for stanning gog and thus are absolved <3
I love their zero tolerance for DRM so much
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 2 months ago:
…
oooooookayyyyyyyy.
billionaires, man: they not like us ._.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 2 months ago:
huh wow. i was going to presume it was a storage volume quantity calibration of some kind. neat.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There is no kind of person who obsessively fixates upon the subject of penises with a frequency or intensity greater than that of a transphobe.
- Comment on Lemmy and PieFed users in 50 years 2 months ago:
🧅
(the style)
- Comment on Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision! 2 months ago:
Fact: 90% of all leftist infighters MUST quit as a prerequisite before the movement can be capable of revolution, irrespective of “purity”.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
All these fucking chuds complaining about censorship. I wish they fucking WOULD get censored so i could stop hearing them BITCHING about it.
- Comment on Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal 3 months ago:
I really wish someone would cure our civilization’s cancer. I’m tired of Altman, Thiel, Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg.