sonofearth

@sonofearth@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streaming didnt exist in 1970⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I had a cool aunt like Veronica.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think you’re wanking too much, go to a therapist, talk to a friend or parents or just try to find a partner. What the fuck a computer program is going to do to get you to do stop wanking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  this is the way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Share it dude!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A person downloading a pirated copy of a book w/o any DRM for their own leisure use on their own device is different from a multi trillion dollar corporation who is using those books to train an LLM to make AI Slop and make money from it w/o even crediting the authors for their work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Imperialism⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol western countries are the ones who supported putting extreme islamists in power in the first place, creating a hotspot for terrorists and making life worse for the normal folks living in those regions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh don’t worry. Some AI boot licker will come to defend this as well. “WelL yOu SeE nOt EvErYoNe HaS tHe TiMe To PlAy GaMeS. ThIs WiLl MaKe GaMiNg MoRe EfFiCiEnT.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I built a self-hosted period tracker because I couldn't find one worth using⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You should add a disclaimer stating that you have used an LLM. I have done so for a tool I built with an LLM that I needed, because I don’t know jackshit about coding and I am not gonna pretend I do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox as a platform is officially dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh we do have a lot of Microsuckers in this world who will choose this over the Steam Machine because “It is well integrated into the system” bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol our store is doing billing customer management in google chrome on Debian With KDE Plasma on 8GB DDR3 pentium something. It was running Windows 7 6 months ago with 4gb ram for the same purpose. I then put a Sata SSD, increased the RAM to 8 and installed Debian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey, I Shrunk The Vids - a Windows transcoding frontend for FFMPEG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You are delusional, take yourself to the infirmary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine what the world could be if we had repairable Arch Linux Phones that can go full desktop mode just like the pixel rn. Aaahhh that turns me on!🤤

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp officially names Mullvad and Amnezia VPN as go-to tools for bypassing censorship⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuckers don’t even have a Linux Client.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s unsustainable for you, release the server and game source code for someone else to host it and patch it. Why waste developers’ time and effort into making of this game?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is spreading.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As in

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is spreading.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Distros are for noobs. Real men just use the kernel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ig then maybe they have just accepted that everyone will jump the OS ship sooner or later, so they are just trying to lock people in their ecosystem? That’s why they make us create a Microsoft account on Windows, the sudden “We Love Linux” moto, making Cloud your dependency stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point I believe Microsoft pays the likes of Adobe to not make Linux versions of their software. Strange how MacOS has Microsoft office despite being them being the biggest competitor for their OS. It’s just that MacOS runs only on expensive MacBooks. Microsoft might have thought even if Macs get better than Windows in every aspect, people, businesses, schools and governments still won’t but them as they are too expensive.

  But that’s not the case with Linux. Linux is pretty much better than Windows in almost every aspect. The only limiting factor is software support. And most people just use their computers for browsing the web and making spreadsheets and word docs — Microsoft office is the default here. If Microsoft Office were on Linux, Microsoft would have the potential to lose about half of their OS market share just because managers/CEOs will push it to save costs. Which will have a cascading effect — leading others like Adobe to make their creative suites available on Linux.

  So Microsoft’s only card at play here is holding off Microsoft Office from Linux users as long as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even your web browser is a decent PDF reader. Also LibreOffice Draw shows PDF pretty well and you can also edit it to some extent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope that but power users don’t dictate the technological development 🥲. Everything is made for people who want it “user-friendly”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It won’t die. My country alone will have almost a billion Android users and those cheap Androids are all they can afford and know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Until Linux Phones get good, we are seeing a very rough sail ahead. Or just hard fork Android ig if it’s a logical option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the comments I realised that you westerners don’t seem to have a concept of MRP (Maximum Retail Price) where you can’t sell the product for more than a specific price anywhere in the country set by the manufacturer per batch. It is inclusive of all sales taxes. Your prices seem to vary according to the demand lol. So if anyone charges above that it is usually added in the bill as Card processing fees and very few businesses do that because people get furious over here in India.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aaahh it hurts our business…. please don’t…. we can’t collect data now aaahhhh…. open source = communism = economic losss aahhhhhh…. why are you being anti competitive grrrrrrrr….

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why didn't the mother just use her private doctor on her yacht?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In India we do have affordable public healthcare but 99% of it is so shit, corrupt, with pretty poor medical infrastructure, long waiting, unhygienic surroundings, poor security, poor air conditioning, and so on. So that one has to visit a private hospital or clinic to get treated. And most of the times they don’t accept public healthcare insurance coverage like ESI (Employee State Insurance) or Ayushaman-Bharat so you have to shell out extra out of your pocket to get a Private Health coverage plan. If you have a private plan, the private hospitals then submit invoices with higher fees to the insurer to mint more money from them thus reducing their cash to pay for other patients. The central government barely allocates any budget to healthcare and education.

  I heard about a case from Bihar (one of the least developed states) where they constructed a public hospital for millions of dollars (which is very high thus some corrupt official or politician ate that money) only for it to be incomplete and abandoned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top of the world, ma⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol if you can’t counter and actually bring new insights to this debate and instead accuse the other person that their response is pasted from some stupid LLM, then your cause of spreading veganism has failed.

  So this is the end of debate then. Please don’t reply. IDGAF about vegans at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top of the world, ma⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When the logic collapses so hard you have to summon a child sex offender.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top of the world, ma⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally answered your points of concern one by one with sources and you call it ChatGPT like some “gotcha” lol.

  Have a good day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top of the world, ma⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think veganism actually  solves major problems like ecological decline, climate change, antibiotic resistance, pandemics or any public health issues especially once you look at how these issues play out in reality rather than in an “influencer idealised” narrative.

  1. Climate Change & the “14%” number is very nuanced

  Livestock is definitely responsible for around 14-15% of global greenhouse gas emissions. That number comes from lifecycle assessments by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)that include feed production, enteric fermentation, manure, land use change and processing, not just the emissions from the animals themselves. (FAO))

  That figure is usually misinterpreted or understood:

  • It isn’t directly comparable to the way energy or transport emissions are counted; those are measured differently. (FAOHome)

  • Roughly 1/3 of total global emissions come from food systems overall, and within that portion, the livestock share varies depending on methodology. (ipcc.ch)

  • Other studies show the livestock share can fall closer to 12% of total global emissions when measured differently. (OECD)

  So yes, livestock contributes significantly but it’s misleading to treat that figure as a simple causal claim that eliminating meat will solve climate change. Deep cuts in fossil fuel emissions from energy, transport and industry are still the dominant needs.

  2. Reducing livestocks doesn’t automatically eliminate animals

  Even if people eat less meat, that doesn’t guarantee livestock populations disappear. Animals don’t just vanish because Williams decided to not eat meat:

  • They may continue to exist for milk, labor, manure, cultural or economic reasons.

  • Reductions in consumption don’t automatically translate into reductions in livestock biomass or methane outputs unless there are explicit policies to manage breeding and animal numbers.

  This means the assumed climate benefit is not automatic and depends on how production systems are actually managed, not just what people choose to have on their plates.

  3. Reducing livestock doesn’t mean Less Food

  Cutting livestock doesn’t reduce the need to produce calories or balanced nutrition. You still need to produce protein and micro nutrients at scale. That typically means expanding crop production which has its own environmental costs (fertilizer use, land conversion, water use, transport, processing). The narrative that plant crops are automatically lower impact ignores the fact that:

  • Many plant based proteins are highly processed and energy intensive.

  • Removing animals from small & mixed farming systems will actually reduce soil fertility and increase reliance on synthetic fertilizers.

  4. Antibiotic Resistance

  The core issue isn’t simply that people eat animals but it is how antibiotics are regulated, prescribed and used in both human and animal systems. The FAO projects that without policy changes, global antibiotic use in livestock could rise by up to 30% by 2040. (DownToEarth.org)

  It correlates with a lack of proper regulations and overuse of antibiotics in both human healthcare and industrial farming.

  5. Many problems are Western Industrial Systems problems

  A lot of the environmental framing around livestock comes from industrialised, Western models of agriculture (feedlots, monocultures, long supply chains). In much of the Global East, livestock production is integrated into local food supply systems and serve roles beyond just meat supply that provides manure, traction, nutrient cycling and financial assets (I don’t like to see living beings that way but that’s the way it is). Treating Western industrial problems as universally applicable heavily ignores these differences.

  6. Nutrition & Public Health vary by context

  Claims that veganism improves public health assume widespread access to balanced plant based nutrition & supplementation. In many parts of the world like big vegetarian populations like India, protein and micronutrient deficiencies (iron, B12) are widespread public health issues. Meanwhile animal source foods actually provide dense sources of these nutrients that are difficult to replace without reliable supplementation and access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top of the world, ma⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t get it why the people want to control what other people it? Eat whatever the fuck you want.