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- Comment on Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party— Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real 2 days ago:
Oh there’s plenty of people out to get the average person. It’s just almost never the scapegoat that a political party selects.
- Comment on Why am I not Irish 3 days ago:
Oh my God, you can’t just ask someone why they’re not white
- Comment on [question] help me pick a game 3 days ago:
Sorry to say that I don’t have much of a preference unless you’re in a specific mood. They’re all good games but do different things narratively and I dont know if gameplay or cut scenes make you want tk really dig into it more.
- Comment on If Tyler Perry is a billionaire with his own successful movie studio then why are his films so bad? 3 days ago:
There is an extremely thorough (and long) video on this topic. I didn’t think I’d finish it or even watch half when I clicked it, but this guy is very informative and presents the info in a straightforward yet engaging way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpgqWZyAJtM
If you still noped out on that runtime, here is my less professional summary:
Ultimately it is about the race to the bottom of enshittification that we are experiencing in all aspects of life, and “art” transforming into “content” is chief among them. Perry’s built in audience is huge, yet one that is practically never pandered to: conservative black women. He’s not even particularly good at this and the way he does it is problematic, but it’s enough that he is attempting at all. His rise to being ridiculously OP and successful is propped up by black excellence truthers even though they may or may not actually like his content. He has spun his truly impressive success into deals with streaming services and deteriorated from mediocre to literal slop that rapidly produces enough episodes to get into syndication immediately, because the deals are signed for 100 episodes. Since he writes, directs, produces, and often acts in all these projects, and because the unknown actors do not grt a chance over several years of popularity to renegotiate their contracts even if thr show gets popular, he takes the lion’s share of the profits. 2 lion’s shares really.
He also makes some fascinating points about how he…kinda CAN’T get more deep with it. To start looking deeper about the topics he discusses would entail stripping away the patriarchy of the black Christian church, or to point a finger towards the societal problems and cycles of abuse that cause the villains of his stories (usually black men) to act the way they do. And as a true believer in capitalism, he can’t do that. Making his characters deeper may requirw addressing the ways that he’s a queer man one way or another, whether he’s gay, gender fluid, or both, which he can’t do as the church has a don’t ask don’t tell policy. So he’s stuck in a pretend world of bootstraps, one dimensional villains, and not just forgiving the cycles of abuse, but buying into it as a strength.
If even that is Tl; Dr: it’s the story of every other billionaire, really. He makes his money off of exploiting others. Usually young black people who are hungry for success. Just sucks that he can’t have empathy since he literally started from the bottom like the people he manipulates, unlike every other billionaire.
- Comment on M365 Copilot gets its own version of Claude Cowork 4 days ago:
Eww
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 5 days ago:
To clarify, some versions of Linux are lighter weight with resources, and macOS does tend to take up more RAM at rest to make things pull up snappier. But their compression algorithm is better, and if you are using near the limit, it will be more efficient with the use of the RAM you have available before lagging. With Windows and Linux, it feels more like if you’re out of RAM you’re out if RAM. It’s less likely to happen at all on Linux though.
- Comment on Historic Chat Control Vote in the EU Parliament: MEPs Vote to End Untargeted Mass Scanning of Private Chats 5 days ago:
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 5 days ago:
I use mainly Linux but Mac is more efficient with RAM than Linux is also. By a significant amount.
- Comment on Mastodon.social is not a good way to join Mastodon. If you’re already on it, you might want to move your account to a different Mastodon server. | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the F 5 days ago:
Got any good recommendations for Masto/microblogverse? I haven’t made an account yet.
- Comment on Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices? 1 week ago:
No, and that’s the beauty of Linux.
Desktop gaming PC: Fedora KDE (might try Bazzite if I stop dual booting Windows, but I already got Nvidia set up and that’s the hard part)
Old laptop: Zorin OS
Old as dirt laptop: antiX
Wife’s Surface: Pop!_OS 22.04. Maybe change it eventually to something lighter.
I will likely go with Ubuntu Server or Debian when I set up my home server. Ubuntu seems like it has better Docker support.
- Comment on Is there a game that combines Civ with Sims? 1 week ago:
The progression system sucks
- Comment on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips 1 week ago:
When ECC no longer costs a mortgage, I will look into upgrading.
- 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:
Your technical knowledge as described is unironically far beyond the average user so I’d say you’re probably good. Depends on what you want to do though. You can occasionally have problems if you need tk dk something specific. Word processing is down pat at this point. You won’t have the local version of Microsoft Office, but there are open source alternatives like LibreOffice that are compatible with Office file types. For formatting, you may have tk download some Microsoft owned fonts since they’re technically proprietary and not bundled with Linux/your office suite. In browser, Microsoft 365 and Google Docs works no differently than normal.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 1 week ago:
Which is why you buy a Windows machine, then put Linux on it. You said there’s no reason to buy a Windows machine. Even if you abandon Windows forever, there’s still a reason to buy it. There are use cases that Apple silicon is not good for, like gaming. And having competition is good.
Kind of a weird example to say that people won’t online shop too. That’s far more common for all types of people than walking into a store is these days.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 1 week ago:
Average people still game. And Linux is improving rapidly. Apple isn’t.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 1 week ago:
You known what, good job Apple. You’ve been winning me over lately. I’m not sure I’d exactly recommend this route to people, the 8 GB RAM is rough even with macOS being more efficient with it. But in the RAM-pocalypse we’ll take what we can get, and the rest is fire for budget range.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 1 week ago:
Sure there is, so you can put Linux on it!
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 1 week ago:
That is so true, and can’t be underestimated. The budget laptop market absolutely blows these days. I got a 1300x768 screen, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB storage (albeit HDD), and ~2 GHz CPU in 2016. That was at Best Buy, who tried to sell $100 HDMI cables at the time, and wasn’t even a great deal, though I was fine with it.
Now the budget market is…pretty much the same. Slightly better 1080p screen, same RAM, less storage (but usually an SSD), slightly better CPU. It’s GRIM out there.
- Comment on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable 1 week ago:
Hell yeah
- Comment on OpenAI Is Developing an Alternative To GitHub 1 week ago:
“What could be worse than MICROSOFT overseeing open source software? Wait no! It was a rhetorical question!”
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 1 week ago:
It’s supposed to be for Android 16 kn general once the feature is fully baked
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 1 week ago:
It works fine enough. It’s not going to replace my desktop PC any time. soon but it helps a lot for anything involving word processing/documents, as well as gaming on TVs and monitors.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
CryptPad is encrypted Google Docs/Office 365. Proton has been expanding their offering for this, but it’s not as good in my opinion.
- Comment on WhatsApp will now show ads. 2 weeks ago:
That’s why I like it actually. It forces me tk interact with the community, it’s more organic that way, and I need to eventually move in with my life instead of doom scroll. I get to the end and go “well that’s the end of the internet for a day or two”
- Comment on AI is the digital equivalent of an atom bomb. You can refuse it but you can't prevent others from using it... and there may be dire consequences if only the worst people have it. 2 weeks ago:
I can agree with that. As much as I’d prefer pressing the “delete all Ai in the world” button, it has some uses and doesn’t have to be predatory.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 2 weeks ago:
This is crazy to me. I would have gone insane as a child if I couldn’t have imagined badass scenarios in my head when I was bored.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think “the left” needs to abandon religion. I have the left in quotes because most of the time we’re actually talking about progressives. And you can’t be progressive while dictating the beliefs of others. Leftism, however, benefits greatly from being united in belief. Unity is what it’s all about. But they don’t, because leftists are usually more progressives than anything else. Even when it happens, the Jove mind mentality is what makes extreme leftism easy to fall apart and easy to slip into dictatorships at high population levels. And yet, we are approaching a post scarcity, post career having society, which demands socialism to some extent.
I don’t have an ultimate point in this I guess. I don’t know the solution, but it’s not stamping out religion and it’s not reactionary fascism that America is a part of now.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’m not saying it should happen. I’m just saying I’m surprised it isn’t constantly happening.
- Comment on AI is the digital equivalent of an atom bomb. You can refuse it but you can't prevent others from using it... and there may be dire consequences if only the worst people have it. 2 weeks ago:
I think that this is good and all for a regular person end user that might want to use it for efficiency. But the main problem OP is stating is that there will be people who will not use it so ethically, and we may not have the ability to “opt out”, as it were.
- Comment on Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon 2 weeks ago:
Let’s gooooooo
