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- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 3 days ago:
Men had privileged position in the society for millennia.
Other people had this privileged position in society for millennia. The people turning away from progressive politics aren’t wearing top hats, their hands are oil-covered. When you tell them they are privileged, that everything is just handed to them, they look around and wonder what you are talking about.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 3 days ago:
If 98% of Lemmy wants to kill all men, that’s a pretty shit state of affairs.
- Comment on Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports 3 days ago:
Yeah, that was a very, very odd choice.
You have Eve Online, a PC exclusive MMO. And you try to sell the playerbase on a PS3 game? Most of them literally don’t have the proprietary hardware to run that game but 100% of them have a gaming PC sitting right in front of them…
This isn’t to say don’t include the PS3, but why the hell wasn’t it on PC where the entire Eve fanbase is?
- Comment on Microsoft testing PC-to-Cloud-PC failover for those times your machine dies or disappears 3 days ago:
“Reserve Cloud PCs” will be preloaded with Microsoft 365 apps and a user’s preferred security policies and other Windows customizations.
You need a working PC to access this ‘reserve’ PC. Why not just install Office on your own PC and ignore this extra cloud thing?
- Comment on Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports 4 days ago:
CCP and their affiliates have been incurring sizeable losses instead. They released a mobile game, EVE Echoes, via NetEase shortly after the acquisition, but this has apparently fallen short of expectations, and CCP are now focusing rather heavily on “web3” games fuelled by blockchain bullshit. They are also still trying to make an EVE Online FPS, despite screwing this up three times in a row.
CCP had a one-hit-wonder and never again figured out how to make a game.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 4 days ago:
Drop policies that have been consistent long-term losers like expanded gun control.
Suppressors are a literally a hearing safety device/noise pollution reducer and Democrat politicians describe them like they get all their information from a John Wick movie. It would be so easy for the party to drop the matter entirely and throw politically-homeless gun owners a bone by taking suppressors off the NFA.
Force through policies that improve their lives at the cost of others, for example, healthcare paid for by taxing billionaires
Yep! Follow that up with policies that improve people’s lives and we have a ticket that writes itself.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 4 days ago:
Start by no longer telling men who have done nothing wrong they are responsible for the misdeeds of others. It breeds resentment and closes people to anything else you have to say.
- Comment on Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler 5 days ago:
This is a good change. One of my friends had some confusion over the install button not appearing for some small games, he had to go toggle this on. It being available by default for all games is great!
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 5 days ago:
I wouldn’t worry about it too hard, there isn’t anything fundamentally wrong with Ubuntu. Both it and mint are in the same family after all.
Sounds like you should just keep Ubuntu and get the non-snap versions of the apps that need codecs.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 5 days ago:
O, yeah. Snaps basically live in their own little system. Anything you do to your wider system, like installing codecs, will not affect a snap. Easiest solution is to remove the snap VLC and install normal VLC.
I have heard nothing good about snaps and Canonical pushing them is a big reason you don’t see people recommending Ubuntu, and instead recommending things like Mint (me included).
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 5 days ago:
Yeah, I’m not sure why anybody is mentioning Windows 10 IoT. When you lookup where to buy this, Microsoft themselves tells you to call a salesman; it’s an enterprise-only thing. Recommending this for individuals is misguided.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 5 days ago:
I know when you install Mint there is a ‘install codecs’ checkbox during the installer, not sure if the same exists for Ubuntu.
For Ubuntu, you could try this and see if it solves your problem.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 5 days ago:
Enhanced Privacy
Once again not something people strictly care about.
Privacy is exactly what got me and one of my other friends to switch. Many, many people don’t like being spied on.
The implication that carbon emissions is something an individual can do something about has been objectively disproven.
Not buying something new and using what you have demonstrably helps. There is no world in which throwing away a ton of perfectly good PCs just to manufacture and transport more is somehow better for carbon emissions.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 5 days ago:
Two of my friends switched recently precisely because Win 10 was going end of life. The ‘I have to change the OS anyway’ was the final motivator.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 5 days ago:
intimidating complexity of installing Wine
I would give that a shot. The full guide is install wine and winetricks the same way you install any other software you use. Then in winetricks, tell it to run an arbitary executable and point it to your .exe. That’s it.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 6 days ago:
Microsoft already lost enterprise servers to Linux, and has lost significant ground over the years in consumer PCs to ChromeOS and Linux. While I agree that business laptops will continue to be dominated by Windows for awhile, the market shifts we see everywhere have downstream effects on business laptops too. When you find yourself having to train more and more people on how to use Windows than you did in the past, the value argument for Windows quickly comes into question.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 6 days ago:
If you debate people and neutral onlookers find themselves agreeing more with the other guy than they were at the start, the answer is to re-evaluate your arguments. When you go to social shaming, while you may get people to shut up, you also solidify those people against you. You blocked off the mechanism for those onlookers to have their mind changed and created resentment for the social cost you impose on them.
Isn’t it weird how when you talk to someone online they generally won’t go against the grain, yet Trump now won a second term? And not only that, but he won the popular vote this time around with 14,317,752 more votes than he got the first time around.
That is what social shaming does. Instead of trying to convince people, you force them against you.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
race does not have an inherent physical or biological meaning
Physical traits are passed through genes onto kids. The kids have much the same traits as the parents. Asian parents have asian kids. Why are we doing elementary biology here?
This really isn’t the argument y’all should be latching onto.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
doesn’t make much sense to group them so roughly
Just as I would not generally group people by eye color, the fact remains eye color is real.
tell them race isnt real
This is the shit I was responding too. And rhetoric like this is painfully contrary to even elementary biology.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
tell them race isnt real
Regardless of culture/ethnicity: two asians have a baby, you get an asian baby.
Regardless of culture/ethnicity: two slavs have a baby, you get a salvic baby.
Race is most certainly real.
- Comment on Can you clear a straight line of malfunctioning pixels on a phone with a lighter? 1 week ago:
That sounds like the connection itself somehow got fucked up. A flame probably isn’t going to fix that.
You can put a flame to a screen for a few seconds and they are usually fine. But really, you should be looking into a screen repair or new/used phone.
- Comment on Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say? 1 week ago:
It’s actually a specially made glass that is thin and flexible
The foldable screens scratch at a Mohs hardness level of 2. Glass doesn’t scratch until 6.
- Comment on Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say? 1 week ago:
Advantages:
- The screen is protected when the phone is closed
- It allows for a larger screen while maintaining portability
Disadvantages:
- The screen is plastic, instead of glass. Meaning it is very easy to scratch
- The screen has a hump where the hinge is
- The hinge can get dirt in it, at which point you start developing lots of problems
- They are very expensive
I personally buy mid-budget phones, which means these aren’t even a consideration. But, I probably wouldn’t buy one even at the same price due to the plastic screens being very easy to scratch and a larger screen not having much value for me. But, really it’s up to you what you value in your phone.
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 1 week ago:
Why the hell would we need AI summaries of a wikipedia article? The top of the article is explicitly the summary of the rest of the article.
- Comment on Do you think my co-worker will hear about this? 2 weeks ago:
This morning I walk into the office and she greets me with a “hey!” and huge smile
Your cute coworker is greeting you with a huge smile. Almost no matter the cause, she is brightened by your presence which is something you should default to being a good thing.
Go have lunch with her and enjoy your day. Don’t stress over stuff you can’t change.
- Comment on Browsing Photos on Samsung TV with TizenOS 2 weeks ago:
My suggestion: Raspberry Pi (or any other computer) with a photos screensaver.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 2 weeks ago:
It’s the framerate jumping around that causes it. A consistent 30fps feels better than 30, 50, 30, 60, 45, etc. Many games will have a frame cap feature, which is helpful here. Cap the game off at whatever you can consistently hit in the game that your monitor can display. If you have a 60hz monitor, put the cap at 60.
Also, many games add motion blur, AI generated frames, and other things that really just fuck up everything. You can normally turn those off, but you have to know to go do it.
If you are on console, good fucking luck. Developers rarely include such options on console releases.
- Comment on autofocus glasses 2 weeks ago:
You go to an eye doctor, they do the various tests and create a prescription with the necessary details to get you the right glasses. For the next year, you can use that prescription to buy glasses anywhere you want.
- Comment on Submitting an App for iOS approval 3 weeks ago:
For the money angle, something like a Digital Ocean droplet would be appropriate here. They are $4/mo and you don’t even need to run the thing all the time, just when you need an app version approved.
- Comment on Submitting an App for iOS approval 3 weeks ago:
You don’t need to give them a premier experience, you aren’t trying to sell them on the features of your app. It just needs to function.
Load in those 20 royalty free songs and let the algorithm suck at picking the next of the 20.