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juliebean , to asklemmy in Is there a specific religious term for the belief "God exists and he is evil"?

the term i always heard was maltheism. reading the other comments though, i’m surprised how many other terms there are for this.

fun fact: renowned mathematician Paul Erdős referred to God as the SF, or Supreme Fascist, who kept all the best mathematical proofs to himself.

esc27 ,

Hmm. Does God know the largest prime? Does God know the last digit of pi?

Urist , (edited )
@Urist@lemmy.ml avatar

The premises of the questions are wrong, hence they do not speak to the knowledge of anyone but yourself unfortunately. There are no last element in an infinite chain, because that is contradictory to the fact that they are infinite. Even questions such as the barber’s paradox, that are not logical fallacies, do not imply the nonexistence of god.

Mathematically speaking, everyone knows the last digit in Pi due to there not being one. We call this concept that something is vacuously true. Similarly a nonsense statement such as “all ants on the moon eat people for breakfast” is also true by default.

CanadaPlus ,

Knowing they don’t exist would count.

juliebean ,

so the proof of the irrationality of pi is a bit more than i want to get into here, but there’s a very simple proof that there are infinite prime numbers which i will share here.

suppose that there is a finite number of prime numbers. write out a list of all of these prime numbers, and multiply them together. add one to this product, and you now have a number that is not divisible by any of our list of prime numbers, and thus should be another prime. this contradicts our initial assumption of finite primes, and therefore there are infinite primes.

any god is not above mathematics.

CanadaPlus , (edited )

Erdos was fucking weird, lol.

Death_Equity , to nostupidquestions in Would you drink breast milk if it was commercially available?

You can buy breast milk in America.

I would rather get it straight from the jugs instead of out of a jug.

ThatWeirdGuy1001 OP ,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

I’m ngl I completely forgot milk banks existed but I was also meaning as more of a regular item in the dairy section of whatever grocer you frequent

NegativeLookBehind ,
@NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world avatar

Wow, look at the milk banks on her

Noodle07 ,

Imagine being like “hey I saw Mary today, got her milk to make a cake for tonight, it’s always a great one”

ivanafterall ,
@ivanafterall@kbin.social avatar

"Karen, I'm sorry, but I'd like to ask for my money back. This milk is so bitter..."

Plopp ,

I’m picturing women in every work kitchen with their tits out and some tap-like contraption attached to each breast, just sitting there idling next to the coffee machine.

ivanafterall , (edited )
@ivanafterall@kbin.social avatar
Death_Equity ,

Office wet nurse could be a post-boobie sexualization side gig. Glorious or dystopian future, you decide.

QubaXR , to nostupidquestions in What produced the old dead channel tv static audiovisuals on tvs?
@QubaXR@lemmy.world avatar

This is a very non scientific answer, but when I was a kid (good 40 years ago) I remember having a science book that called TV static “an echo of the big bang”. I guess that would mean just randomly scattered energy bouncing around on all bands?..

I could probably Google it and give you an answer, but I’ll just wait for someone with a more convincingly and authoritatively written reply.

ALostInquirer OP ,

Now that you mention it, I remember something similar! I may have to follow up on that to see (but I’m also curious of others’ responses, hence asking).

bjoern_tantau ,
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

Not all of it. But parts of it really are due to the cosmic microwave background radiation. Light from the moment the universe was transparent enough to let light spread. It’s from about 300,000 years after the big bang if I recall correctly. It’s the earliest image of the universe we have. And it’s more or less everywhere.

Lemminary ,

but I’ll just wait for someone with a more convincingly and authoritatively written reply.

Pfft sprayed my drink lol

lando55 ,

Probably because of how accurate it is

FeloniousPunk ,

If it was milk, you basically created tv static on a dead channel.

dylanmorgan ,

Well apparently now astrophysicists are saying maybe the Big Bang didn’t happen. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Trollivier ,

Just so you know, double the left “arm” and the full arm will appear. ¯*(ツ)*/¯

kamenlady ,
@kamenlady@lemmy.world avatar

Since the last Lemmy update, if i delete a comment, it stays there sayin’ “removed by creator”, just like yours.

Anyway, i wanted to see if I could still reply to a deleted message and I could, as i am writing this reply rn.

Very confusing for me is that, at least on my client on Android, your deleted message is displayed full and clear above the reply box.

Is this the intended behavior of deleted messages on Lemmy, it just hides the message, but it’s still available for anyone to read if they hit reply?

Uh Oh

kamenlady ,
@kamenlady@lemmy.world avatar

See what i mean?

Trollivier ,

Interesting.

anarchy79 ,
@anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

This has been bothering me too for some time.

pythonoob ,

But it is still the result of background radiation, which is caused by something.

Matriks404 ,

That’s false. Most of them still agree that Big Bang happened, it is just that the first extra small fraction of a second of Big Bang can’t be explained with our current understanding of physics, and there is still a lot of some unanswered questions about it.

homoludens , (edited ) to asklemmy in What is your favourite Open-Source game?

Battle for Wesnoth - a turn based tactics game in a fantasy setting. It’s also available on Steam and itch.io. Coincidentally, version 1.18.0 was released yesterday.

Vaderhoff ,
@Vaderhoff@lemmy.world avatar

This! I have so many fond memories of epic Battle for Wesnoth sessions with friends. That was back in High School, 12+ years ago, I still have the itch to boot it up again.

SplashJackson ,

I wish that the original use-case for Battle of Wesnoth’s engine, Wargus, was still being actively developed

bufalo1973 ,
@bufalo1973@lemmy.ml avatar

Wasn’t Wargus an StarCraft like engine?

SplashJackson ,

Wargus and Wesnoth both run on the Stratagus engine, which was originally developed as a reimplimentation of Warcraft 2 . The engine split to allow for new games to be made, and the War2 functionality was shunted into Wargus where the project remains to this day

bufalo1973 ,
@bufalo1973@lemmy.ml avatar

Last commit in Stratagus is 12 hours ago.

SplashJackson ,

Stratagus is the underlying engine. My lament was directed towards Wargus. I like me some Warcraft 2, hwat can I say

Shadow , to linux in I'm facing segfaults with waybar and have come up with a ridiculous solution, is there a better way of doing this?
@Shadow@lemmy.ca avatar

while true; do waybar; done

Communist OP ,
@Communist@lemmy.ml avatar

Thank you!

dgriffith ,

😬 😄

tsonfeir , to asklemmy in What's your secret ingredient that makes your version of a common dish better than anyone else's?
@tsonfeir@lemm.ee avatar

MSG. It’s amazing.

wildbus8979 ,
Teknikal ,

Honestly improves everything I add to any type of meat or sauce.

wildbus8979 ,

Put it on your popcorn too!

wren ,
@wren@sopuli.xyz avatar

Why have I never thought of this? I use MSG everywhere I can and this never occurred to me - thank you!

d00phy ,

Try Greek Seasoning on popcorn. Has MSG, and a bunch of other goodness.

vankappa ,

what’s MSG?

LucasWaffyWaf ,

My sugary gonads

Dirk ,
@Dirk@lemmy.ml avatar

MSG is the king of flavor!

the_dopamine_fiend ,
@the_dopamine_fiend@lemmy.world avatar

Metal Sear Golid

Pea666 ,

Make Shit Good

d3Xt3r ,

Mobile Suit Gundam

CarbonIceDragon ,
@CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social avatar

Monosodium glutamate. Makes things taste more savory. Also causes furries to make in-jokes about family unfriendly topics.

muffedtrims ,

MSG

johannesvanderwhales ,

Basically a salt that triggers pure umami flavor. It’s an easy add for dishes where you don’t want to use another umami booster like worcestershire or fish sauce.

OhmsLawn ,

Along those same lines: Chicken bullion powder with MSG.

ClockworkOtter OP ,

I really need to grab a pack next time I hit the local Asian supermarket.

Mwallerby , to asklemmy in What would you bring to an adult show and tell?
@Mwallerby@startrek.website avatar

Maybe my little DIY walnut cased ESP32 universal remote https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/765b57f3-93f6-4582-a113-19d4ad0f8a01.jpeg

SnotFlickerman ,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I can’t tell you how much joy I get at the crossroads between technology and woodworking. This is an excellent choice.

Mwallerby ,
@Mwallerby@startrek.website avatar

The inside - I hope y’all like cable management!

https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/42bf23f1-bae9-4fdb-b102-1c5f0b2c9433.jpeg

MrQuallzin ,

Loving the look is this. Got a guide for making one?

Mwallerby ,
@Mwallerby@startrek.website avatar

Thanks! Fraid not, it came together pretty ad hoc as I was building it.

Essentially the process was breadboarding the major components to get them talking and sort out the software, then built the main board to hold everything in position, then built the box to fit around it all

Dave ,
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

Better charge that thing!

Is this universal remote in terms of IR to your TV, or more like connecting to Plex/Kodi/etc?

Mwallerby ,
@Mwallerby@startrek.website avatar

Yeah the battery management board is a bit flaky so keeping it charged is a pain! Yeah it’s just doing IR for the various living room devices, sound system, TV etc so I didn’t have to keep tabs on 4 different remotes

Dave ,
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

Ah that’s really cool!

Is it nice to use? For a bit I used a Kodi app on my phone but it gets annoying having to unlock your phone, open the app, then hit pause or whatever you’re wanting to do. I presume this is much nicer.

Mwallerby ,
@Mwallerby@startrek.website avatar

Its great to hold! Very chunky in the hand. Functionality wise I only gave it the on/off, volume and input selection from the media devices, and then it talks to another esp32 base unit that controls some lighting over WiFi, but as far as actually driving the media controls I shamefully just use the Google Chromecast controls, I’m not savvy enough to set up a FOSS alternative yet

BertramDitore ,
@BertramDitore@lemmy.world avatar

I LOVE this. I’m pretty sure I’ve tried every single media/pc remote available, and they all suck for one reason or another. Been thinking about building my own, and this is totally the direction I would go. Thanks for the inspiration!!

stoy , to linux in Rant: My recent experience of trying to install windows for gaming and why I'm really thankful for Linux

Wi-Fi drivers don’t exist

They absolutely exist, but perhaps isn’t part of the installer.

Every single driver needed sourcing and installing.

Windows Update solves 95% of that automatically these days, as long as you have internet it will sort it out for you.

Plug in my sound card OK it’s a bit old now UA-25 but nothing happens.

This an external USB sound card from 2004, Roland has drivers for it working on Windows 98/ME/XP/2000/Vista/7/8/8.1 it is a 20 year old card, it awesome that it works on Linux, but you can’t blame Roland or Microsoft for not supporting a 20 year old device on the latest versions of the OS.

OK plug in wheel again not new stuff G25 oh it works cool. Oh, no H-shifter OK download driver. “Can’t find device, ensure it’s plugged in”. Windows decided it knew better, downloaded its own driver that blocks the official one and loads the steering wheel as a gamepad…GG cool cool.

You are whining about a modern OS not being compatible with a 18 year old steering wheel? You can’t expect indefinite hardware support for every random little device you happen to find, this like the sound card above is on you, not Microsoft.

I do not understand why we still have this image that Windows is noob friendly.

None of the above quoted examples are noob issues, this is like you are talking to a person in old english from the mideval times and being mad that a random guy in the middle of Londing in 2024 can’t understand you.

A noob would realize that their devices were too old and buy new devices.

Windows is noob friendly in that most software have a Windows version, most people use it, it is a known variable.

Like it or not, Windows is the defacto standard, and that means that is it safe in the perspective of a noob user.

I am saying all of this as an IT guy who has worked professionally with both Linux and Windows, I ran Linux as my main OS for a year or two, I LIKE Linux, but this is not fair critisism of Windows.

beatle ,

It’s concerning that you think “just buy new stuff” is reasonable and that Windows should only work on new hardware out of the box.

jjlinux ,
@jjlinux@lemmy.ml avatar

You forget that he’s an “IT guy that has worked with Linux and Windows professionally”. Trust him, bro!

stoy ,

I am NOT going to post my business card or link my LinkedIn to win an internet argument, I have shown that OPs complaints are unresonable expectations, that was my goal.

jjlinux ,
@jjlinux@lemmy.ml avatar

You’re sure allowed to think you did, and sure as hell I dont care about your alleged IT professional background. Just like you say that Windows is noob friendly, I say Windows is NOT friendly, period. The OP makes a great case on yet another reason why Windows is complete and utter crap, and I’m an IT guy that has worked with Linux and Windows professionally. I HATE Windows. I’m not sending my business card either, and I know better than to have a LinkedIn profile. That’s hould be enough to tell us apart.

Dumpdog ,

Linkedin. How to tell me you’re not linked in by telling me you’re Linkedin.

accideath ,

Windows is noob friendly. If you do what noobs do and just buy an off the shelf PC and don’t think about stuff like drivers at all. Now, Linux isn’t much less noob friendly in those cases and just primarily suffers from lack of system integrators using it and, to a much lesser degree, from a lack of software.

pbjamm ,
@pbjamm@beehaw.org avatar

I have been in IT since the mid 90s and in my experience every OS can be a PITA to install. Both Windows and Linux will install smoothly if the drivers for your network, raid controller and mobo components are all supported. If not it is going to suck regardless of OS.

Windows reputation for noob friendliness, and linux’s unfriendliness, is mostly down to familiarity and that most users will never have to install their own OS and deal with problems mentioned in the post. Most will never even think about it because they dont even know what an OS is or that it can be replaced. If Windows gets fucked up they take it to a pro to fix or buy a replacement.

jjlinux ,
@jjlinux@lemmy.ml avatar

You have, so far, made the most logical address on this subject, out of any of the others, including myself. I am very biased against Windows, for reasons that may be irrelevant, and I’m also very vocal about it, so if I offended anyone, know that is not my intention, although I regularly come across as if it is. Having said that, I’m removing myself from this thread moving forward, just because I dont want to be part of any discord with myself or anyone else. Everyone should use what works best for them, which is why I’ll try to stay away from further “what is is best?” and similar discussions in the future, and will just keep to discussions that bring something positive or beneficial to the table. God bless you all guys, Jesus lives all of us, without exception. Enjoy.

mindlight ,

It’s concerning that you insinuate that 20 year old hardware just works in Linux.

Just because a 20 year old sound card happens to work in your favorite Linux distro doesn’t in any way mean that it will work forever or that there are drivers for all 20 year old soundcards.

Where does it say that it’s not allowed to create a Windows driver for a 20 year old soundcard?

stoy ,

This is the reality of the computer industry, you don’t have to like it, but you have to expect it and work within the reality of the industry.

If OP had complained about how their 10 or 5 year old devices didn’t work, then they might have had a point, but 20 years old? That is unresonable.

Dumpdog ,

Yes, the reality of the computer industry is that the industry changes. That has quite the dual meaning. I want it to mean it changes for the better…ahem…Open Source

If people want to use a working twenty year old device, it is completely reasonable to complain that Windows doesn’t allow that - because that is where Linux STANDS ON ITS OWN MERITS

accideath ,

And still, it is usually possible to get the 20 y/o hardware to run in windows. It might need a bit of trickery but in essence, windows has changed so little under the hood, in the last 20 years…

Recently I acquired a 20 year old film scanner. I had the choice of either buying a new third party scanner software for 100€ or just get the old one working. I found some script that made the old driver identify as something newer and it installed without a problem and has been working since. (Or rather it has worked until recently, when I switched to linux anyways because I want to use the pc for gaming exclusively, since for work related stuff, I have a Mac)

stoy ,

I consider it more like OP was lucky that the devices worked on Linux, and then reality hit when he got on Windows.

Dumpdog ,

I also consider it lucky but that’s not the point. The point is that he has the right to complain about Windows. The point is also that he has the option to ask the Linux community to build a driver to make it work if it didn’t work. The point is Microsoft does not give two shits about what OP wants because it has an extremely large share of the market. It no longer has to do good by its customer because it is no longer neccessary.

The point is… he can complain because he tried doing it with Windows and it didn’t work. Your mileage may vary.

Dumpdog ,

“Just buy new stuff” is the mindset of the perpetually boring and uncreative. Break shit and build better stuff.

caustictrap ,

Happy to see lemmy linux community not blindly hating windows and providing facts. Also you can use a package manager like choco to install apps from terminal so you dont have deal with clicking next.

stoy ,

Treating Windows unfairly in these kinds of comparisons is a disservice to Linux as it implies that Linux can’t win in a fair comparison.

Windows/Linux/MacOS are all best at different things and for different persons, let the best OS for the task and person win on a fair test

Dumpdog ,

Treating Windows unfairly? Blindly hating Windows? Microsoft is a corporation designed to MAKE DOLLAZ SON. They aren’t your unfairly treated friend who wants to make sure you have an amazing gaming experience. They are part of a corporate duopoly. Meaning…dun dun dun - One of two shite options. I don’t include Linux in this because it is the exact opposite of this market dominance. It is a free market of choice - which you can choose to better by contributing code, monetarily, or promotional support.

Windows is actively user hostile, actively contributing to planned obsolecence, and overall an ad infested spyware pile of bloated inefficient garbage.

As an IT Professional you should have first hand experience of the waste that comes from technological churn.

Linux standing alone on it own merits… Yeah right. Linux standing up against hundreds of millions of dollars spent in PR, Advertising, and the business practice of embrace, extend, and extinguish. You want better shit? Be a part of a community instead of brainlessly buying a solution.

OP - I salute you and your 20 year old peripherals. At least you are creatively making something you have work rather than buying shit that causes more problems.

I will happily shill for the Linux project and any other open source project - for volunteers trying to make something they want to use.

caustictrap ,

Most of the people don’t think about capitalism when they turn on their pc and start a game. They just play their favourite games like cod and have fun. And windows just works. I use windows 11 and I don’t see ads on my pc.

Navigator ,
@Navigator@jlai.lu avatar

You are a power user yourself, of course you dont see ads. But most of the people will see ones because they aren’t power users.

caustictrap ,

Yes that is true. But all i did was uninstall one drive and other microsoft apps i dont use from my pc, i didn’t do any reg edits or terminal commands.

Navigator ,
@Navigator@jlai.lu avatar

Do you think regular people uninstall apps they do not need?

Specially Microsoft apps, you know you can uninstall them, most people won’t remove them by fear of breaking Windows, thinking theses apps are here for a good reason…

caustictrap ,

Apps that will break doesn’t provide a uninstall option to begin with. For example edge.

Navigator ,
@Navigator@jlai.lu avatar

It’s not the point.

People see an app marked as Microsoft, they are using Windows by Microsoft so they assume the app is part of the system. Therefore they won’t even guess they can uninstall the app to begin with.

Dumpdog , (edited )

I would also prefer not to think about capitalism when shooting people in COD (the irony). No one has to think about capitalism but we all feel the effects of capitalism. Were you on Reddit? Why have you migrated to Lemmy? Does this make you think more about the effects of capitalism? I can agree that we all just want to escape into gaming but these things are there whether we choose to look or not. We chose Lemmy so that doing something.

caustictrap ,

Linux and jellyfin community is very active in lemmy. Not everyone use lemmy as a reddit alternative. I continue to use reddit.

Dumpdog ,

Sorry, I just assumed you migrated. Yeah, communities that are built for the members are great. Reddit was once like that for sure. Maybe a better example would be - where did you migrate from before Jellyfin? Why choose Jellyfin over Netflix or another subscription service? Has capitalism provided a better service that is designed to benefit the user in those cases?

caustictrap ,

I am from india. Our film industry is huge, the amount of local movies and tv shows is very hard to manage and watch through multiple streaming services (and this is not including the already popular netflix, prime, disney). I also watch foreign movies and tv shows. It is not that i can’t afford, it is the ease of use. I use gamepass and steam and those are all part of capitalism.

Dumpdog ,

It is not that i can’t afford, it is the ease of use.

That was my point exactly. I agree with you.

stoy ,

Microsoft is a corporation designed to MAKE DOLLAZ SON

Yeah? Most companies are designed to make money, is it wrong to want to earn money?

Oh and I am not your son, please don’t refer to me as such.

OP - I salute you and your 20 year old peripherals. At least you are creatively making something you have work rather than buying shit that causes more problems.

To me it sounds like OP had the stuff working on Linux and decided to try Windows, then when some random 20 year old device didn’t work decided to bash Windows to hell and back.

This is like the bicycle meme where OP is biking fine, stops, puts a Windows pipe in the spokes and blames Windows for his issues when he falls over.

This is not being creative to find a way to keep using his devices, they were working, this is not being creative to find a way to do what he wanted to do on Linux, this is going back to the standard recipie with 20 year old ingerdients and expecting to make a beautiful and tasty cake and complaining when it tastes like rot.

Dumpdog , (edited )

OK bro. Just adding some friendly banter to a very serious topic.

Dude. The old “is it wrong to make money argument?” No. I’m stating it is DESIGNED to make money in a way that is making the actual product shittier and shittier (insert tired Cory Doctorow quote here) to the consumer.

Sigh…As stated below… The point is that he has the right to complain about Windows. The point is also that he has the option to ask the Linux community to build a driver to make it work if it didn’t work. The point is Microsoft does not give two shits about what OP wants because it has an extremely large share of the market. It no longer has to do good by its customer because it is no longer neccessary.

The point is… he can complain because he tried doing it with Windows and it didn’t work.

Yes, it is creative as is your tasty cake rot analogy. I will upvote that even though I disagree

Dumpdog ,

The bike analogy is weak tho.

Just add… he got back on bike (the one with the 20 year old handlebars that he loved) after he fixed everything and learned not to stick Windows in his spokes.

stoy ,

I thought the bike analogy was quite apt, but I can accept that OP didn’t actively know about the issues he would see untill he got started with Windows, so I can accept your argument here

syaochan ,
@syaochan@mastodon.online avatar

@stoy oh the joy of bias. Some random device does not work in linux? Linux is shit.
Some random device does not work in Windows? It's user's fault

stoy ,

Eh, I see it more like this:

20 year old device doesn’t work in Windows/Linux: “Oh, well time to get a new one anyway.”

20 year old device works with Windows/Linux: “Sweet!”

OP took it too far when it didn’t work

systemglitch ,

I stopped reading when you become condescending and called him son.

Get over yourself.

Dumpdog ,

Yeah, you are probably right. I apologize. The tone was meant to add to the point not make it unreadable. I stand by the points I was trying to make but I agree the tone is off putting to some.

tabular ,
@tabular@lemmy.world avatar

If one values their software freedom then a fair test is not only how well it performs a task because having unjust power over your computing negates it as an option. If one don’t value their software freedom then it’s more imperative to talk about what’s in their own best interests.

Linux (kernel) fails that test too as it includes proprietary binary blobs.

stoy ,

If one has the luxury of being able to manage with only free software, then I yeah, they should so their damndest to make sure to use free software.

Most people don’t have that luxury (myself included) and for them Windows is fine.

However, if I need a server or need to test something, I will allways spin up a Linux machine first.

tabular ,
@tabular@lemmy.world avatar

You should expect the creator to abandon the device eventually but indefinite hardware support is possible - that’s why it’s important that drivers be open source. If enough people care to use the device then a community can be created around it to support it on whatever OS they want.

tritonium , (edited )

Windows is still fucking ass though and it’s so bad that I can not respect the opinion of someone that claims they are an IT professional and don’t main Linux. Like what? And what does that even mean, that’s ridiculously broad, what do you do? I’m a network engineer and sysadmin.

Linux is objectively superior to Windows in almost every way. It has vastly superior workflows. It’s more customizable. It’s insanely more efficient. It’s more secure. I feel like I’m wading through 3ft of shit anytime I boot into Windows. Not to mention the ability to actually have ownership of your computer. And that’s just talking about the ways Linux is better. That’s not getting into why Windows is ass like… telemetry data and ads in the OS and configs reverting from updates and the dumbass way software is installed on it and how shit docker runs in it and I can go on and on. The workflows of Windows are actual dog ass and literally every single popular Linux DE has better workflows and customization.

If you in IT and use Windows for anything other than a gaming machine or something like Photoshop, then I don’t want you anywhere near my tech.

stoy ,

lol.

neo ,
@neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space avatar

I’m going to have to place you under arrest, you just fucking murdered that guy. Down to the slammer with you.

stoy ,

That guy had allready made up his mind about me and wasn’t interested in anything but self validation. With his ridiculous criteria for people being IT technicians needing to run Linux on their main machine combined with his insulting attitude there was just no reason to discuss anything with him.

“Don’t argue with idiots, they just drag you down to their level and beat you to death with experience”

sawne128 ,

Ridicolous. You act like this is the first person to realise Windows is jank. How many USB steering wheels have you bought during your lifetime?

stoy ,

None, I was gifted a Sidewinder Forcefeedback steering wheel by my dad when I was 8-9 something, but it used the old gameport.

I don’t see how this is relevant though…

nat_turner_overdrive ,
@nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net avatar

you can’t blame Roland or Microsoft for not supporting a 20 year old device on the latest versions of the OS.

Why not?

You can’t expect indefinite hardware support for every random little device you happen to find, this like the sound card above is on you, not Microsoft.

Why not? Linux development is mostly volunteer, and these things are easily compatible with Linux. It seems like you can absolutely expect support for every device, it’s just that Microsoft isn’t willing to provide it.

None of the above quoted examples are noob issues, this is like you are talking to a person in old english from the mideval times and being mad that a random guy in the middle of Londing in 2024 can’t understand you.

Notice that you had to exaggerate a 20 year timespan into a 500 year timespan to make this analogy work?

stoy ,

Why not?

Because it is a paid OS and it’s developers are writing code for financial gain, if they are not being paid to write the code, it doesn’t get written.

Voulenteers write the code because they want or need to, if there are no drivers for a device in on Linux, you need to write it yourself.

Notice that you had to exaggarate a 20 year timespan into a 500 year timespan to make thisnanalogy work?

Yes, that was deliberate. Have you ever noticed how much faster technology develops compared to languages? That is why the analogy works.

nat_turner_overdrive ,
@nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net avatar

The analogy doesn’t even work if we ignore the massive difference in time scale. Languages develop organically, they are not managed. Comparing a managed and developed system and a twenty year timespan to an organic language system over a five hundred year timespan is just ridiculous.

Because it is a paid OS and it’s developers are writing code for financial gain, if they are not being paid to write the code, it doesn’t get written.

They are being paid to write the code. Microsoft is just choosing which code they should write, and it doesn’t include any old devices because they want you to buy new devices.

It’s perfectly reasonable to expect compatibility, and lay blame when there isn’t any. Microsoft simply doesn’t provide it.

stoy ,

I disagree with you, but don’t have the energy to keep arguing, this argument has been going on for days, and I made my point back on day one.

sawne128 ,

Because it is a paid OS and it’s developers are writing code for financial gain,

No shit. But that only explains why Windows is bad. It doesn’t mean that Windows isn’t bad. We shouldn’t give Windows pity points just because poor Billy Gates is addicted to money.

TheRedSpade ,

old english from the mideval times

That would be Middle English. This is Old English.

stoy ,

Thank you for correcting me (:

TheRedSpade ,

Lol you’re welcome. We all have those things that bother us more than they reasonably should. That’s one of mine.

originalucifer , to fediverse in Why is defederation an option when Limit/Mute exist?
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because whole instances could suck, and admins need an easy solution.

dont like it? switch instances or setup your own. that is the beauty of the fediverse

farcaster ,

Moderation tools on Lemmy are supposedly seriously lacking. Defederation may sometimes be the only practical option even if it’s not ideal.

EdibleFriend ,
@EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

Even they can’t easily delete pictures? Or has that been fixed since that big story?

breden OP ,

Don’t you think it’s an inherent problem if the general solution is terrible UX?

originalucifer ,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

no, i don't believe blocking whole instances is a problem. i think you're struggling to find a problem where there isnt one. there are thousands of instances over dozens of different platforms that all intercommunicate. this idea that servers cant block other servers is shortsighted, insecure and frankly, brought by someone who apparently doesnt have experience managing servers or large volumes of humans.

breden OP ,

A user should be able to interact with every other user if both wish to.

That’s the problem, as that isn’t possible right now, unless your twitter circle took just the right instances for themselves. Sure there is self hosting, but down that road of argument eventually everyone will be self hosting.

originalucifer ,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

says someone completely ignoring the open architecture of the fediverse. youve proven my points, thank you.

breden OP ,

Please enlighten me then. I’m completely oblivious besides everyone here turning into condescending tones without giving proper answers.

Tippon ,

There have been instances that were defederated for posting nazi / racist content, and CSAM. Do you think that their users should be able to interact with everyone else, or that their content should be stored and hosted on other people’s servers?

As far as I understand it, content posted to one server gets stored on every federated server for the other server’s users to see. I certainly don’t want to see the sort of content that’s been defederated from the servers I mentioned.

breden OP ,

As far as I understand it, content posted to one server gets stored on every federated server for the other server’s users to see.

This is wrong, else every self hosted instance would’ve been a storage nightmare.

There have been instances that were defederated for posting nazi / racist content, and CSAM

I assume the later is something CP? Yes, those are legimite cases, just like spam/DdoS, but even then in every case i’ve seen yet, a Limit would’ve been enough. A pretty good example seems to be qoto.

Draconic_NEO ,
@Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world avatar

A user should be able to interact with every other user if both wish to.

No I think you’ve been misled as to how this place works or have misinterpreted information you’ve recieved. This statement seems to imply that the Fediverse is some sort of free speech haven where people can do whatever they want and say whatever they want, when that couldn’t be further from the truth. The Fediverse is not some decentralized free-speech network where servers work together to thwart censorship and user freedom is paramount (seen plenty of articles and videos claiming this or at the very least implying it).

The Fediverse is a collection of individually run websites which run a software using a decentralized ptotocol to talk to each other. These websites are individually run either by individual people, organizations, or companies, each instance on it’s own is not that fundamentally different to classic social media, but the fact that they can communicate with each other in a decentralized manner is what makes it unique and also more powerful. However it’s important not to forget the fact that each one of these sites are owned and operated independently and it is the choice of those site owners whether to federate or not with certain instances or ban users from participating or appearing in their instance. The decentralized or user choice aspect is that a user on an instance that has defederated or banned them, can simply go to another instance that they think fits them better, or they can host their own and call the shots themselves (within reason).

Some people may not like this top down moderation system, but in all honesty it’s the only method that really works. True free speech sites are horrible to be on because the loudest and most angry people rule those places and attack anyone who even slightly disagrees with them (look at 4chan and kiwifarms), that mentality hurts the appeal of a space, and so people gravitate away from spaces like that and towards spaces which exclude such content and have rules and some amount of censorship.

breden OP , (edited )

I like to emphasize " if both wish to".

If that’s included in your view, then what’s the point of using a unified protocol? At that point we’re more backwards than just using a SSO for everything.

You’re probably right on me completely misidentifying the fediverse for what it is, as i expected something like resources shared forums for everyone, but got greeted by admin drama as soon as leaving lemmy for a second. In that sense the fediverse really got a PR issue and users here acting high and mighty to someone not getting their perfect system truly isn’t helping it.

Gonna wait for bluesky to play out. ATproto seems a lot more than what i initially expected from activitypub.

Draconic_NEO ,
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I like to emphasize " if both wish to".

Your problem is that you’re still seeing the platform as ‘controlled by users’, which isn’t how top down moderation works, the sites/instances are controlled by the ones who own them, they are the ones who call the shots and it is their job to enforce the rules and their choice to choose to kick someone or a site out of their circle.

A user does not have a say in this anymore than they have a say in other moderative decisions on the site. If a user’s desire to interact with the other instance goes against their home instance’s desire they have the option of migrating elsewhere or start their own. The fediverse is about having options of different platforms that can communicate with other platforms, not catering to free speech and user choice demands. The whole thing is still up to the individual sites and the people that run them, and they are not obligated to do anything for users (many will gladly put you in your place if you try) who they are graciously allowing to use their service.

brbposting ,

Readers: can somebody who sets up a no-block instance let us know when the nazis plan a bombing?

I kinda want a representative experience on here. If 3% of the world is discussing racist evil stuff, maybe I want to see that evil in 3/100 posts. A dark reminder. An opportunity to inform others of what’s going on in the peabrains.

I think that’s what I want. (Maybe I’ll register for an instance which hasn’t defederated from anywhere, see if I’m wrong.)

Saigonauticon , to asklemmy in Besides Linux isos and piracy, what are some common uses of torrenting?

AI model weights. Patches for MMOs (World of Warcraft famously used this to good effect).

Modern_medicine_isnt , to asklemmy in What is a story were the main villain actually turned out to be the good guy?

The bible

RIPandTERROR ,
@RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works avatar

Damn… I thought I had a unique thought

JackGreenEarth ,

Who’s the ‘main villain’ in the Bible?

Jakeroxs ,
dutchkimble ,

Uhh…Satan?

yannic ,

Humanity.

Modern_medicine_isnt ,

If you were asked that on family fued, the top answer would be satan for sure. Though I like the other persons answer of humanity too.

FreakinSteve ,
RatherLemming , to nostupidquestions in Is it normal to forget your own age?

This is normal. As a kid, you’re asked about your age much more often, and you’re often thinking about it as you look forward to hitting milestones - reaching a certain grade, your next birthday, legal age for driving, voting, drinking, and so on. Once you’re in your mid to late 20s it starts to matter a lot less, and people tend to have to do math, or if you’re like me, just ask your spouse.

TheAlbatross , to nostupidquestions in Why are people so antsy to see others in person?

Some people really like in-person socialization. There’s something lost in the webcam only meeting. I’m glad you adapted well to the circumstances of the pandemic, but not everyone faired so well. I can tell ya I went a lil bonkers not being able to see people in person.

gdog05 ,

How you felt, going bonkers, is roughly how many introverts feel being around people. So, the three years that introverts felt good in the history of… forever, many of us would like to keep that. I just ask that extroverts respect how shitty the workforce is especially for introverts and maybe try to get their social needs met in their personal life and not demand that work time also fit only their needs. At the expense of others.

Ottomateeverything ,

As an introvert, as much as I feel weird aroind people, I feel even weirder video chatting with people I’ve never met in person. In that situation, I have no idea how to read people and the expectations are way harder to try to meet. This makes meetings even worse until I meet them.

While I agree that forced in person work daily is insane, the OP is complaining about meeting people in person once after many years, which feels equally as ridiculous. IMO even for widely dispersed teams, meeting a few times a year seems ideal.

Azzu ,

Some people do not care about reading people or meeting expectations of people at work. They just want to do whatever is strictly necessary to get some money to live, and then get away from the whole thing.

dmention7 ,

They may not care, but reading people and meeting expectations of your colleagues is pretty much a bare minimum level of functioning for most professional positions.

I’m a massive introvert and would love to not have to rely on those social aspects of work, but they undeniably make me more effective at my job and make life easier in the long run. It’s no different than physical exercise or any of the million other things in life that might be a bit unpleasant but are ultimately good for you.

Azzu ,

Well… no

As long as you don’t get fired, there’s no need to do any of these things, if you literally don’t care what happens at your job, then there’s no need to be effective or anything like that. You don’t need to be liked, you don’t need to care what your coworkers think, you just need to do enough work that it’s useful to employ you.

shalafi ,

We’re social animals, socialization benefits us. WFH is better overall, but meeting up now and again has clear benefits.

Just commented here, and the anti-social folks seem to disagree, even though I’m mainly agreeing with them. Go figure.

TheBat ,
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Fared

banichan , to asklemmy in What do you believe was the best era of the Internet and why?
@banichan@lemmy.world avatar

The infancy of YouTube and Twitch. Everyone made content for fun, pretty much no one was nude or in a hot tub, monetization didn’t censor everything.

It was nice 🙂👍

whynotzoidberg ,

Gah, I miss those days. I had a personal video on YouTube from the early days. Something or another flagged it — probably the audio I used for the cheap “credits” I put in — and the video went away.

More recently, grandmas birthday video. It got taken down a year later, likely because I had short, edited clips of Peanuts included. 🙄

Oh, and you mean Justin.tv.

stevestevesteve ,

Best era of the Internet was before the DMCA. At the time it passed I knew it would kill a lot of my favorite things about the Internet and I sadly wasn’t wrong

moistclump ,

What’s DMCA?

stevestevesteve ,

Digital millennium copyright act. It effectively moved the burden of proof for copyright infringement from the copyright owner to the accused, short-circuiting the existing IP laws, among other things.

It is where much of the drama around copyright online stems from. It’s used as a way to quickly stifle anything someone posts that’s something you don’t like.

It made circumventing DRM itself illegal, even if you’re not breaking copyright by doing so (even if it’s for your own research or backups).

Meltrax ,

Early YouTube and twitch, early reddit, pre-instagram. That was a good time.

Teppichbrand , (edited ) to asklemmy in What is something that gets a lot of hate for absolutely no reason?

VEGANISM!
It’s great for your health, we’d solve like 25% of the climate catastrophe overnight and it redeems billions of our fellow earthlings from the unimaginable suffering we inflict on them 24/7.
It’s a ridiculously obvious and easy step we should take as a species, yet even hardcore leftists turn into irrational idiots and go full Bullshit Bingo when you bring it up. Because they have become accustomed to a taste.

BonesOfTheMoon ,

Best thing I ever did for myself.

june ,

I think it’s less veganism and more how noisy and evangelical the loudest vegans are.

If you’d just said veganism, I’d agree, but you went on to emphatically tell us all the reasons why veganism is better. All legit, sure, but all the underlining gives it a particularly condescending tone. It’s not veganism that irritates me, it’s how condescending so many vegans become. Same camp as CrossFit for me. They’re both cultures I don’t really care to be a part of.

Teppichbrand , (edited )

Eating animals is doing so much harm on a personal and global scale, yet people mostly choose to ignore it. So we get louder to confront your cognitive dissonance. I know it is annoying to you, I was annoyed too. But it’s necessary and it’s working. We’re not a cult, quite the opposite: Vegans act according to scientific facts. Do you want to have a heart attack? No. Do you like torturing animals? No! Do want to wreck our planet to the point our children won’t be able to live on it anymore? If course not. Veganism is not the only answer to all this, but no solution will suffice without us stopping to abuse animals. Think about that when you’re out in the supermarket next time. It feels good to actually live up to you ethical values.
Also, #7 and , bingo!

june ,

Excellent example. Thanks.

For the record, there’s no dissonance. I know well what I’m doing and recognize that I am choosing the easier option. Call me a villain, I don’t care. I live my life as best I can and to the best of my ability which you’ve made it clear is immoral and lesser than you.

Teppichbrand , (edited )

So 10 years ago it was “STFU, you’re wrong”, now it’s “STFU, you’re right”? Changing diet is a journey, I didn’t go full vegan from one day to the other. I’m sure you’re not a villain and hope you change your mind sometime. There are many great plant-based foods waiting for you on the shelves.

PotatoesFall ,

I try to tell people to ditch beef as a compromise. I’m flexetarian myself and try to avoid meat, but beef is by far the worst offender when it comes to climate.

I think the average person doesn’t want to give up all meat dairy and eggs all in one go. Removing beef is highly effective and a first step into a more conscious diet.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Pretty much what I did. Meat once a week and almost always birds. Maybe a hamburger or pho twice a year, and always with my family.

blindsight ,

Eggs are a super food, too. They’re cheap, delicious, and have dense nutrition. And, if you live anywhere close to rural, you can get farm-fresh eggs from ethically treated, well fed chickens for cheap.

We minimize our meat consumption, but we eat lots of eggs, and I don’t see any ethical concerns with people’s backyard chicken coops.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Because they have become accustomed to a taste

I have been toying with baking the last two months and vegan bread is a challenge. It isn’t just taste. Take my basic bread and cut out milk+butter and all I have left is oil. The bread rises funny and the crust is totally different. Yes I have tried a good friend of mine has a dairy allergy.

Just saying it isn’t like there is a ready solution I can grab.

Teppichbrand ,

I agree, changing your diet is something you need to be willing to do, because it takes time to learn new things. Some take babysteps, some go all in. It is possible to cook and bake delicious food without animal products. So have fun learning!

LSNLDN ,

Vegan.bingo that’s amazing I’m gonna just refer to that for every one of those conversations from now on

Donebrach ,
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The dead animal flesh is already there and I honor its sacrifice by eating it. That is my position and my purpose.

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