TeddE
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- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 1 week ago:
Back at the beginning of the modern LGBT umbrella, gays were given the stereotype of all being hookup obsessed kinky motorcycle enthusiasts, the ‘leather daddy and boi’ look. It’s good to look tough when protesting for your right to exist.
Around the 90s the jazzercise fit athletic picky eater gay became a trope on television - your classic twink.
The problem with both those poster boy stereotypes is they’re both positioned as kinda in-your-face and combative, so gays that just wanted to live life emerged - fat, unthreatening, and likely to invite you to their BBQ - the modern bear.
Meanwhile, the internet is just becoming a thing and in the early days ‘nobody on the internet knows if you’re a dog’ as the expression goes. Without a corporal body as reference, people are reduced to their chosen name/handle, their profile pic and whatever thoughts they posted. Internet culture filled the gaps with anime girls and cats - creating the perfect culture for mascot suiting to evolve into a new niche.
Finally, pup play stems from the biker boi kink of gimp play (sensory deprivation), someone stitched leather ears onto a gimp hood to reduce a (consensual adult) person to ‘just an obedient animal’ with the original look meant to dehumanize and anonymize. Ironically this play has gone through radical transformations and softened as most modern pup hoods are colorful expressions of individuality. Today pup play is a great sampler platter of kinks and adult activities in general (including many that are family friendly). It’s a great way for stressed adults to step away from adulting for an evening and just play.
Also, don’t take my description as fully gospel, all of these movements are complicated with regional variations, and since these are generally voluntary labels and useful stereotypes, you’ll find plenty of people who see these differently or wish to gatekeep, etc. So take this all with grains of salt
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m being tongue in cheek pretending that pup, furry, and bear aren’t often just the same type of person in different moods.
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 1 week ago:
They could be a furry. A wholly different thing. 😅
- Comment on I assume it's corn 2 weeks ago:
Bubba?
- Comment on Santa is working on those lists 2 weeks ago:
Sata Clausen
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 2 weeks ago:
Ain’t that the naked truth?
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 3 weeks ago:
Hindsight is…
- Comment on Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN. 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what to tell ya. A cheap ARM device is the CanaKit 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 starter kit costs $110, but the JetKVM I recommended above including the ATX adapter is also $110
www.wisdpi.com/products/jetkvm
www.wisdpi.com/products/atx-extension-board
The only setup I can imagine that’s technically cheaper is an esp32 flashed with firmware, as discussed by another user (you already replied to it): lemmy.world/comment/20842145
But the esp32 (regardless of if you use a wire to simulate a button press, or have the device generate the WoL packet) is gonna be a pain to setup and flash by comparison to the other options.
If you already have a pi, it just needs to be flashed with Raspbian and install the app etherwake ‘sudo apt-get install etherwake’ and run it with ‘sudo etherwake [target MAC]’.
- Comment on Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN. 3 weeks ago:
For a reliable and useful remote control solution, you’re looking for an IPKVM with ATX power control. To setup the power control, you effectively set up a parallel circuit where your power switch connects to the motherboard, letting the KVM effectively press the power button ‘normally’. As a bonus, you can connect to the video and data of the KVM for even more remote control options, like be able to troubleshoot boot issues or load a virtual CD/DVD to upgrade the OS.
For tinkerers, I recommend the PiKVM, either DIY or Preassembled. It’s important to know that a RaspberryPi is energy efficient compared to an x86. This guy crunched the numbers
If you’re looking for a product instead of a project, I’d recommend JetKVM.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 3 weeks ago:
I’m making popcorn for the first time CoPilot is credibly accused of spending a user’s money (large new purchase or subscription) (and the first case of “nobody agreed to the terms and conditions, the AI did it”)
- Comment on Chasing the Elephant 4 weeks ago:
Or because the idiom “the elephant in the room” is being depicted literally (insinuating their medicated autistic child is ‘an unfortunate unwanted fact’ - which I personally feel is derogatory to the child)
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
You can also setup Jellyfin in parallel to Plex and give it a whirl.
Usually. When Plex leaked that they were selling user data, I was running Plex server on an Nvidia Shield, a unique build of Plex that ran as a core service of the Android device. There ain’t no Jellyfin analogue of that monstrosity.
- Comment on I can't eat it all! Don't be shy! 4 weeks ago:
Why did they want to hurt you?
There is an art to preparing vegetables - a greenbean side could be done up in a fancy fat (butter at least), salt, and a good sauté, but if they dumped factory canned ‘beans in water’ into a saucer, heat, and serve as a dish? That’s basically a slap in the face.
- Comment on eat the rich and go to libraries 4 weeks ago:
What’s a ‘six, five thousand and forty’? I will never get meme culture. 😉! (=😉×(😉-1)×(😉-2)×[…]×3×2×1)
- Comment on eat the rich and go to libraries 4 weeks ago:
I’d quibble that any organization that acts to spread knowledge qualifies as free in the sense of expanding freedom of choice, and argue thus that if their operational costs as a public nonprofit have to be expressed as an at-cost service (or reasonably priced and used to subside their other related operations) - that’s still a meaningful free in multiple ways.
But on a more basic level - yeah, it is shameful that libraries (broadly speaking) often have to operate like they’re badly managed businesses. But that arguably in most cases is not the fault of the library itself but on society (late stage capitalism, billionaires and the other usual suspects).
Tl;dr: You’re not wrong, but also is that really the hill you wanna plant your flag in?
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI 4 weeks ago:
They’ll just have AI read it for them…
- Comment on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates 4 weeks ago:
I think you’re part right. I think they’ll attempt a bailout, but I don’t believe Trump’s appointments and the administration they’re creating have the skill to plan or execute a bailout (or admit to failure enough to identify that they need one in a timely manner)
They’re more likely to ram the economy full speed into rock bottom, then blame an outgroup (“the Democrats did this”) and pretend nothing could have been done.
- Comment on MAGA, splitting hairs. 5 weeks ago:
Laura Ingraham (of Fox News fame), put out an article that we should all relax, because Jeffrey Epstein’s victims were on average closer in age to 15 than 5, and spouted some technicalities about the definition of pedophile, as if that makes grooming children to sexually exploit and trade access to for favors any less repulsive.
The timing of the news release is right after a clever procedural move in the US House brought a vote to release the Epstein files and now all the conservative media is trying the “maybe we did, but it wasn’t really that bad” lines.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 5 weeks ago:
I appreciate that arch’s package manager is a bit of a monster - but that’s also what made it the prefect choice for me.
In the immediate aftermath of the release of the Steam Deck, there was many hot weeks where arch’s ability to turn on a dime was exactly the tool needed to run all the new things valve released (fast development to deploy is aur’s specialty). This advantage was destined to not last more than 6 months, as that’s the release cycle for other distros.
Nothing prevents ya from using Arch to install Flatpack, tho. It’s also really well documented at wiki.archlinux.org/title/Flatpak 😅
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 5 weeks ago:
To be fair - this mindset is hardly exclusive to self-hosters. The dotcom era itself kicked off because it was easier to get advertisers to pay for server costs than users.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 5 weeks ago:
Garuda was a great distro for a hot minute. It was right where it needed to be to access Steam on Linux right as the Steam Deck came to market. It got all the performance benefits of Proton immediately as other distros had to play catch-up.
It still is a great distro, but it’s lost some is that exclusivity.
- Comment on Cloudflare is down this morning 5 weeks ago:
AI: taking another hit of acid in preparation to research the reason why the last thing it did after taking acid didn’t work out.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 1 month ago:
I mean, then you’re describing bog-standard capitalistic exploitation, and it’s not exclusive to designers.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 1 month ago:
In FOSS world, this is only as true for the subset of developers (including both programmers and designers) that are contributing code as their job duties. Additionally that effect is only prominent in projects that are dominated by one organization. Both those things do happen, but there’s also numerous exceptions, too.
Some developers are paid to write unrelated proprietary code and the developer also contributes to open source on their free time. Some projects have so many corotate contributors that none of them can single-handedly direct the development.
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 1 month ago:
I don’t inherently agree. Gatekeeping often is a magnified issue for novice users. Perhaps they came over with the latest reddit exodus, saw recommendations for self hosting on the new platform, got pushback and created an account to complain. I appreciate the concern, but I don’t think it’s valid to assume because the account is new, it must be a troll.
- Comment on Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust. 1 month ago:
Good thing /c/technology@lemmy.world subscribers isn’t exclusively populated by those users!
Finding a group of people who don’t care about a thing is generally like shooting fish in a barrel. Caring is fundamentally hard.
- Comment on Be this guy. 1 month ago:
I contend a functional definition of privilege is the number of problems you can ignore. By this metric anon is likely privileged.
- Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation 1 month ago:
I appreciate the thought but which would you choose:
Full time minimum wage US worker at $7¼/hr or $15,080/yr vs $20,000 one time purchase?
I agree with you that these things are likely underpaid labor (maybe including literal slavery, or job conditions close enough to count anyways), but I don’t think your argument is going to be convincing to anyone actually considering getting one.
- Comment on Room for cream? 2 months ago:
Just label each with a cute yet distinct name. Then customers would associate each name with the blend they order, with bonus lore.
- Comment on another TUI 2 months ago:
What you’re advocating is called genocide. Genocide is bad.
We’ve tried this ‘separating mentally ill from society’ before - they were called asylums. We stopped doing that because they’re inhumane. (There is an academic debate on if they’re inherently such or simply attract/foster abuse, but were not having that debate today.)
What you’re suggesting is an international crime and violation of human rights. Please reconsider.