Cethin
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- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 hours ago:
Garuda is great because it comes with a tool where you can select a bunch of packages you may need (but also most won’t, so it’s not built in), then it’ll install them for you. You don’t need to search for what you’ll need because they’re listed with a description for you right on the first boot. It makes it very quick and easy to get set up, while still being Arch underneath.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 9 hours ago:
I’m using Garuda and it has a setup specifically for gaming. The gamer look it comes with out of the box is ugly in my opinion, but that’s easy to change.I highly recommend it. It’s Arch based, so the AUR and Arch wiki work great with it. It’s really great and (in my opinion) user friendly.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 9 hours ago:
It’ll let you upgrade to Linux. It doesn’t play those stupid games with you like MS does.
- Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production 2 days ago:
Eh, it’s likely not an issue. There’s radioactive material in water runoff and all kinds of places. A small amount is not noticeable. Even in the worst case, these aren’t an issue. If they can be near your body 24/7 without causing problems, them getting spread out into even smaller pieces can only be less significant than that.
People are too scared by radiation. It usually isn’t an issue and you’re constantly interacting with it. It’s only in very rare circumstances where you need to worry.
- Comment on First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80 2 days ago:
Honestly, I won’t bother. I only tried a few Switch games on emulator out of curiosity, and never played long. They don’t make anything interesting enough for me to want. I don’t get why people feel the need for Nintendo.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 2 days ago:
For now, they’re better than Google. I have some bad opinions about them, but anything better than Google competing with Google is an improvement.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 2 days ago:
Well, it does have to do with privacy and security, it just doesn’t matter if it’s legal or not for them. These people (in the US) always make a point that criminals will buy guns whether it’s legal or not, but then they’ll argue they need to destroy privacy because criminals are using it. It doesn’t make sense, but it doesn’t need to because honesty or consistency aren’t important.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 1 week ago:
It’s convenient to place my phone on at my computer and it’s just always charged. It is a little less efficient, but if you’re running a heater anyway then technically they’re both lossless (though gas heat may be cheaper for you if you have gas heat).
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 1 week ago:
I think you misunderstood most of what doesn’t agree with you (purposefully or not).
Waymo is an investment.
So is public transport.
One is more effective and better for more people.
Why are we investing in Waymo?
You want to know what’s harmful to discussion? Pricks like you telling people that their opinion is irrelevant.
Your opinion about right now is irrelevant to the discussion of how things should be. It is not irrelevant in a discussion about right now, only this one. Every time public transport is discussed someone like you feels the need to say “it doesn’t work FOR ME (currently)!” OK… I’m not sure why we needed to know that. No one said it was great for everyone right now so you didn’t add anything to the discussion. It only is a distraction from actually trying to fix things for you. Sometimes this is on purpose and sometimes it isn’t. Either way, it’s harmful not helpful.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 1 week ago:
So fuck everyone who can’t afford to, or doesn’t want to, live in the city?
What the hell? Were did you pull that from my comment?
We need to work to improve public transport everywhere. Switzerland can have timely consistent trains to tiny villages in the fucking alps. We can have it here. We need to push for it though.
People saying “it doesn’t work for me right now so shut up” are actively harmful to the discussion. They’re choosing to be in a position where it doesn’t work at all (though it doesn’t work well for almost anyone in America outside of DC and NYC). I’m not saying “fuck them” I’m saying “your opinion is not relevant if it’s only complaining about doing better because it’s bad for you right now.”
Its like saying we shouldn’t go to the moon because it’s hard right now, or we shouldn’t try to develop nuclear fusion technology because it’s hard right now. I don’t care if it’s hard right now. We’re discussing what could/should be.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 1 week ago:
That’s not out of necessity. It’s a design decision. You could have one nearby with the right elected officials and public effort. You also chose where to live, with the ability to know where existing stops are. If you chose the live away from a bus stop or other public transport then that’s on you.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
I could see the benefit if they wanted it to work on other systems, but I doubt that’s why they chose it. Someone up high just saw it as the cool new thing and forced it onto projects, even when it didn’t make sense.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
To an extent, but it isn’t a replacement. Talking to random strangers online is not the same as talking to real local people.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
That sucks. If I were you I’d try to move to somewhere more dense and it could help you out. I know, easier said than done. You can try applying for jobs online and maybe get lucky though.
Good luck out there!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’m willing to bet one of the largest factors is the isolation we now live in. We used to have third places on every corner, we interacted with our neighbors, and public transport made us connect during commutes. We also relied on talking to people for most of our news and information and generally just were forced to be part of a community, or multiple.
Now we drive alone in a car to work, drive alone back to our house that’s isolated from others and don’t speak to neighbors, we have no third places left, and we get all our information from the internet or TV. Most people don’t have a community larger than a handful of close friends. We can’t organize and we don’t see the struggles other people are going through or help each other out. There’s no social bonds, and everyone only looks out for themselves.
I order to progress, we need to figure out how to form communities again. We need to be able to organize. This is all constructed to keep us thinking about ourselves as an individual rather than the collective us. We think about what I can do, which is pretty minor, not what we can do, which is almost anything we want.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 1 week ago:
I used Vivaldi for a while. It’s still Chromium, so I would recommend against it. There’s too many good Firefox options to use anything Chromium.
- Comment on Differences between humans and AI: Why The CAPTCHA May Be The Ultimate Battleground Between AI And Humans. 1 week ago:
It’s Spyware. It isn’t meant to stop bots.
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 1 week ago:
They are parenting. This is what parenting looks like. You don’t just give them everything they want. Sure, you can also choose to give them a phone, and you can choose to lock it down. You can also choose to give them nothing. Parenting is about making those decisions for your child. It isn’t about listening to random people tell you stupid things online who act like they’re more knowledgeable about your situation.
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 2 weeks ago:
In the US they’re aggrigated so, if someone really cared, they could see how many people wrote in. It won’t be counted until the votes that actually matter in the election are done being counted though, but it can be used to give insight to political strategists.
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 2 weeks ago:
The majority of people who fell into this camp of refusing to vote for her were Palestinians.
Yeah, no. We don’t have that many Palestinians here.
- Comment on Brother Says It Was Falsely Accused Of Bricking Printers That Use Cheaper Third-Party Ink Cartridges 2 weeks ago:
If you have a platform, which he absolutely does, you have a responsibility for what you put out. He needs to check if it’s true. If he can’t, he needs to hire someone that will. Either he doesn’t deserve the views or he needs to be responsible for his content. He doesn’t deserve to get views with no responsibility. Everyone should be held to this standard. He collects and edits news for media. He is a journalist.
- Comment on Brother Says It Was Falsely Accused Of Bricking Printers That Use Cheaper Third-Party Ink Cartridges 2 weeks ago:
Apologies don’t make up for being wrong in the first place. Usually they don’t have the same reach, so the mis/disinformation spreads and many people never see the correction.
It’s the same bullshit “news” companies do to sway opinion. They’ll say something wrong, then a few days later put out a correction that a small fraction of people who saw the first part see. This let’s them spread any lie they want while maintaining an image of being actual journalists to those not paying attention.
- Comment on Gaming has a polarization problem 3 weeks ago:
Yep. Most AAA gaming is too afraid to appeal to a specific segment of the market. They make games that everyone is supposed to like, which often ends up being uninteresting at best.
Smaller games can target a smaller audience and still be successful. They take risks and do new things, and it’ll push some people away but many will enjoy it a lot more for it.
- Comment on Gaming has a polarization problem 3 weeks ago:
The thing is, those reviews must be left by someone who purchased it. It’s got a self-selection bias. People purchased it presumably expecting to like it. They thought it would be a style of game they enjoyed. Most people who think it isn’t something they’ll like will just pass over it and not buy it, and obviously not effect the score.
- Comment on Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon 3 weeks ago:
I meant check it out if you want to be informed. Otherwise, why comment if you’re admitting you are wilfully ignorant?
- Comment on Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure they didn’t expect it to land sideways. Yeah, there are a lot of craters. They can be avoided. Check out how Firefly’s guidance system was able to change landing locations to avoid hazards.
- Comment on Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon 3 weeks ago:
I’m certain they were aware of that. They got to the fucking moon. They aren’t stupid.
- Comment on Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’d matter much. On earth the poles get less light, even in summer, because the angle of the sun is low so it has to pass through more atmosphere. This isn’t true on the moon, obviously. The angle will be really low on the south pole, but as long as it’s in sunlight it doesn’t matter where it is. There are locations on the poles of the moon that never get sunlight, but I suspect it wasn’t going there.
- Comment on From the trailer of Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014) 4 weeks ago:
I think they lost their mind.
- Comment on How would a stateless society handle serious threats such as mass murder and terrorism? 5 weeks ago:
Here’s a good page that goes into more detail, but no. Anarchism is not a total lack of government. It’s the removal of hierarchical systems and exploitation (inside and out of the government).