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- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 22 hours ago:
They simply don’t exist anymore. The only choice is to do this with a smart TV and never connect it to the internet.
- Comment on Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? 3 weeks ago:
It feels to me like you don’t hate progress, but you hate late stage capitalism.
If progress happened without it being forced on you, without you “having” to adapt to not “fall behind”, when all your needs were provided for without having to compete to satisfy them…
Would you really mind progress that much?
- Comment on I just finish to see all TNG movies. 2 months ago:
Semi-unrelated question: I’ve watched Star Trek Voyager with my gf, she doesn’t know any other Trek. I don’t think we want to watch TOS, but will probably continue with TNG and DS9 next.
Do you need to know the TOS characters like Kirk, Spock etc before watching the movies, or are they adequately introduced in the movies so you can watch them as someone completely ignorant?
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 2 months ago:
But it’s absolutely clear that the first definition is meant by the person that is being responded to.
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 2 months ago:
Well that depends on your definition of curved… If I look at this image from a 3 dimensional coordinate system that includes the sphere, the edges are definitely curved. Of course, if you look at this from the coordinate system “surface of the sphere” then I would agree with you. There are 2 ways to look at this and decide if it is a triangle.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
I agree. But is a statement like “everyone in hexbear is insane” helpful in any way at all? The only thing it serves is to further any divide and cause more hostility.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
The times I went there with differing opinions I never got insulted. They think their views are right and (sometimes) mine wrong. They also shared their reasons and tried in their way to educate me. They have their own culture over there that is more rude/direct than normal, but it’s certainly possible to speak normally to them.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
I think all people deserve respect by default. Only through someone’s actions may the respect for them be rescinded. Calling a whole bunch of people something is just almost never correct and only furthers any already existing divide.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
You can do these things while talking face-to-face with somebody.
Calling a whole bunch of different people with different opinions than you, that you don’t all know, “insane”, seems to me like you feel you are smarter/better than them.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
They’re not insane, they’re just victims of tribal thinking like the rest of us. Very narrow worldview reinforced by the others around them, bashing outsiders, thinking “they” are smarter than everyone else. Mostly, they see themselves as good and everyone else as bad, which isn’t very unique among humans either.
- Comment on I think I am socially ostrasized, what should I do? 2 months ago:
If you’re autistic: social settings have a plethora of unwritten rules that you have to follow to not seem weird to non-autistic people. Without knowing exactly why anyone would be badmouthing you, it’s likely that you already violated dozens of them without knowing it.
It’s possible to learn it though, I did it through reading about it and carefully observing soap operas scene-by-scene, watching every movement they make, every way they express themselves, guessing the purpose and seeing the effects.
The quickest way to learn is by having someone with the necessary skills observe you and giving you pointers, but this is hard to do apparently since you have no one you can trust?
I could help, but to help you, one really needs much more and much more specific information about your situation.
- Comment on Are there any differences between hosting a .onion site and a “normal” site? 2 months ago:
Providing both a clearnet and a onion domain is not to protect the website’s privacy, but to protect the user’s privacy.
- Comment on Are there any differences between hosting a .onion site and a “normal” site? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Are there any differences between hosting a .onion site and a “normal” site? 2 months ago:
You simply follow the steps for both. But when it says in the steps to set up a webserver, instead of using 2 different webservers, you use 1.
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 2 months ago:
I mean the specifics like who you hate, in what way, is learned, but the hate itself is basic. You can’t tell me hate isn’t one of the most basic human emotions.
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 2 months ago:
Short answer: it’s basic human nature if you don’t specifically work against it. Many people work against it, but not everyone, mostly because of an environment they grew up in that doesn’t do this.
- Comment on Private voting has been added to PieFed 2 months ago:
Do you really think it would matter to a malicious botter if they have a documented API or simply look at the requests the browser makes?
- Comment on I feel like a flashbang went off in my head, so the only question that I can think of is, "What now?" (Details in body.) 2 months ago:
Kids are the best observers, better than adults, untainted by any preconceived notions. The daughter almost surely knows that something is going on and is watching very closely how her parents handle everything, that’s exactly what children do.
- Comment on I feel like a flashbang went off in my head, so the only question that I can think of is, "What now?" (Details in body.) 2 months ago:
The only thing therapy is supposed to do is allow you to be happy/content with your decisions. It doesn’t suddenly make you stop caring about your wife or your daughter. It should allow you to find the best decisions. You’re still your own person with your own decisions that nothing will take from you.
If you don’t want to end the marriage, then therapy will never mean you’ll suddenly want to end your marriage.
- Comment on I know Mormons can't have alcohol, but couldn't they just dip their tongue in a glass of beer and not move it? 2 months ago:
Are your dumps really smaller than a tampon? If they aren’t, why do you think your hole would need to be especially gaped?
- Comment on The Verge Under Fire For Publishing Info About ‘Deadlock,’ Valve’s Secret Shooter 2 months ago:
There isn’t even an informal agreement. It simply says not to share anything. Not even “by playing this, you agree not to share anything”. It’s just “please don’t share anything”.
- Comment on He really wants to kill that platform lol 3 months ago:
Wait I don’t understand, didn’t they do exactly that? Just the pricing was outrageous
- Comment on Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google 3 months ago:
I wish Lemmy were searchable better. The search function actually works decently well, but it’s not on the same level of actual search engines, it doesn’t seem to look for related/similar terms and also relevancy doesn’t seem right.
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
Aren’t they legally required to indicate that an ad is playing? Should be almost trivial to detect.
- Comment on Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs 3 months ago:
But what classes as excessive?
That’s a good question, one that I have not defined for myself perfectly.
I think part of it is the nature of the transaction. When you sell something off your Etsy shop, you create a thing, you sell the thing, you can’t sell the thing again. A shop like Steam continuously takes money from you for the exact same service. Of course it takes money to run the servers and any other running costs, and I’m not saying those shouldn’t be covered. But theoretically, if they have set their automated systems well, Steam runs by itself without intervention from anyone. Whoever owns Steam basically makes money on their sleep. They created it once and it continually makes money for them.
When a game sells well, this game will be downloaded more often, so the relative load/usage of the Steam servers increases. So it is fair to take more money from games that sell better, so tying it to “amount of games sold” makes sense. But does the load on the Steam servers really change if a game is sold for 50€ or 10€? No, what really matters is the size of the game, the amount of updates the developers push and so on. So tying the costs to sale price is also not necessarily fair.
Apart from that, it’s hard to define something as “excessive” without comparing it to other things. As I mentioned once, I don’t think a teacher is doing a less valuable job than a CEO of some big company. Most jobs are benefitting others/society in some way, so I actually value most jobs roughly the same. In conclusion, I would define as “excessive” anything that is a large deviation from mean income, completely arbitrarily I might say if your income is more than double the mean, it would be excessive.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
If they laugh at your failures, they don’t deserve any of your love.
- Comment on Does voting for Biden change anything if I live in a deep red area of my state? (Ohio) 3 months ago:
Uuuuh byyy… Republicans not voting anymore?
- Comment on Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs 3 months ago:
If the amount of money massively outweighs your bills, then I would say yes. Also if your “bills” are extreme luxury, then even without that. We really need to stop with this massive wealth inequality. Our economy works on transactions. If the profit margin on any transaction (including labor) is exorbitantly high, then something is going wrong.
- Comment on Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs 3 months ago:
Exactly. The question is how much is really necessary to operate that service. We as a species really need to stop thinking about constant growth and more and more wealth, and that includes growth and wealth that is “reasonable” compared to other extremely greedy people. Right now it looks like Steam is growing to infinity and making more and more money. They’re the same like everyone else trying to make more and more money. Of course they’re more ethical and they return value for that money, but they’re still part of the same system of infinite growth that is not sustainable.
This infinite growth is happening because they extract more value than they require. If they extracted as much value as they require to sustain their business, they wouldn’t grow. But of course constant growth is what is what everyone expects and thus no one sees a problem with it.
I see it as stealing.
- Comment on Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs 3 months ago:
Who said anything about costs/bills? I’m talking about excessive wealth extraction. If a group of people gets massively wealthy by taking lots of money from other people, one should think if they really need all that money.