I’m pushing half a century in an industry that is not kind to old guys. I try to fend it off but every now and then it hits me. I’m pretty sure this is not unique to my life experience, or it wouldn’t have a term :-)
Whenever I think of the future I get it bad. Disabled, poor, parents are my carers, couldn’t afford to live on my own even if I could. And every year the bushfires get bigger and closer to home. If I let it it constant dread would become my default state, but I am aware of this and try to focus on the now.
Not to say I don’t do my best to safe guard the future, have plans in place for if I ever need to navigate the things that scare me most. But I try not to dwell on it. Someday my parents will die, failing some sort of miracle I will end up in a care home without my pets. But I might also drop dead tomorrow in which case all my worrying will have been for nothing.
Right now at this very moment things are going ok and the number one thing that makes it not ok is worrying about a time in the future when its entirely not ok. But why meet it in the middle? I can’t change the rivers current, best I can do is try to steer on the odd occasion where the path splits.
I think the main trouble makers for consumers are the odd network or bluetooth controllers, especially in laptops, which often come with some exotic bullshit.
I’m still dualbooting Windows to play games with a controller until I can get off my ass and buy a USB hub. Reason being that the Xbox Series controllers has issues with my mobo’s Bluetooth chipset, even when updating the firmware. Bluetooth support is particularly inconsistent with these.
But outside of the odd app that needs Windows (and I can just boot a VM for that), Linux has been really good on the desktop.
In the Oneshot she wouldn’t often just sit quietly while panicking and glaring but would say weird or odd things trying to get a point across or ramble for the entire page.
I know this might seem an odd request, but I'd like to celebrate the removal of my first novel's #Kindle edition from #Amazon. It was published by a now-defunct small press that went out of business in early 2019 and orphaned a lot of books, so if anybody had bought the Kindle edition of Without Bloodshed since then I wouldn't have gotten paid.
I registered and logged in, but it didn’t make it easy
After registering, it didn’t say anything about verifying the email. When I went to the Login screen, it just did nothing after pressing the ‘login’ button. After I went to my email and clicked the verification, it came up with a message ‘saying Email Verified’, and then it let me log in, to a screen that said ‘Verify Email’. Obviously, I just had to click on something like ‘Communities’ to see the main page, but it was a bit odd.
I’m using the Brave browser on an ancient MacBook Air, if that helps.
That’s literally what I thought about installing Chrome and sharing my browsing history with Google. Why would I get a Facebook account and share my name, my face and my daily activities with the entire world. I thought that this is just pure insanity, and nobody will ever go along with this level of stupidity. Oh, boy was I in for a surprise.
Look who is laughing now that Chrome is the number one browser and many websites are only tested on Chrome. FB has so many users that people think it’s really odd that I’m not there with everyone else.
I don’t have any energy or motivation to play games anymore, even though I used to play avidly.
That sounds like me. You know what was happening to me. I was diagnosed with depression. I’m not a doctor and I can’t diagnose you over a internet forum post, but you might want to to see a doctor for potential health issues, or perhaps you might be dealing with a depression issue, like I am.
I used to write and worldbuilding for my story, but ideas have run out and I just have no energy to continue writing. That’s probably due to depression.
Asking for the meaning of life? Lemmy’s great and all, but I don’t think I’ll find it here lmao
The meaning of life is what you want it to be. The universe has not given us one.
Biologically? It’s to reproduce. For your DNA to continue existing (or at least part of it).
Evolutionary? For our species to survive and go on conlonizing the solar system, galaxy, universe… etc. (hopefully doing so peacefully unlike in the past)
Technologically? To achieve immortality.
Philosophically?
To find happiness. Do what’s pleasurable to you (Hedonism).
To be a good person. Make the world a better place (even if only slightly).
To acquire more knowledge for yourself and share the knowledge to progress humanity. (Eg: Conduct science experiments, find fossils, identify unknown species (there are still a lot of unidentified species, oddly enough), etc.)
Personally, I just try to find happiness, being happy makes everything else more meaningful for me.
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There’s also another community where you can just talk !chat about life and stuff.
Also, I know you are busy with college and stuff, but when I had an existential crisis, I found this show called The Good Place, it helped me process some thoughts regarding existence and stuff. You might want to watch it when you find the time to do so.
Workmanship. They say to write what you know. They also say that you get a lifetime to write your first hit and six months to write your second. To them I say: Superbad’s spec script, partially inspired by true events, was penned by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg during high school. Our heroes’ names are Seth and Evan....
Chinese policymakers are facing calls to do more to prop up the ailing real estate market after the largest property developer, Country Garden, warned of multibillion-dollar losses and missed bond payments....
On what would have been Pierre Seel’s 100th birthday, Euronews Culture commemorates the incredible life of the French Holocaust survivor who defied social conventions to reveal an uncomfortable truth: the experience of Nazi Germany’s gay victims.
Aware of his burgeoning homosexuality from a young age, he felt at odds with the world that surrounded him, and ended up confiding in a friend - Jo, whom he’d eventually call his boyfriend.
To add insult to injury, pervasive homophobic attitudes among prisoners meant that gay inmates could not expect any solidarity, and were burdened by a profound sense of shame.
By 1994 - the same year that Paragraph 175 was finally abolished in a newly reunified Germany - Seel came out with his memoir, which he worked on alongside French journalist Jean Le Bitoux.
He was invited to interviews and events, and at his story even received silver screen treatment at the hands of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, in their acclaimed 2000 documentary, Paragraph 175.
Speaking to Euronews Culture, David Cupina from Les Oublié-e-s, a French association commemorating the Holocaust’s queer victims, talked about Seel’s legacy and impact on the LGBTQ rights movement.
On what would have been Pierre Seel’s 100th birthday, Euronews Culture commemorates the incredible life of the French Holocaust survivor who defied social conventions to reveal an uncomfortable truth: the experience of Nazi Germany’s gay victims.
Aware of his burgeoning homosexuality from a young age, he felt at odds with the world that surrounded him, and ended up confiding in a friend - Jo, whom he’d eventually call his boyfriend.
To add insult to injury, pervasive homophobic attitudes among prisoners meant that gay inmates could not expect any solidarity, and were burdened by a profound sense of shame.
By 1994 - the same year that Paragraph 175 was finally abolished in a newly reunified Germany - Seel came out with his memoir, which he worked on alongside French journalist Jean Le Bitoux.
He was invited to interviews and events, and at his story even received silver screen treatment at the hands of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, in their acclaimed 2000 documentary, Paragraph 175.
Speaking to Euronews Culture, David Cupina from Les Oublié-e-s, a French association commemorating the Holocaust’s queer victims, talked about Seel’s legacy and impact on the LGBTQ rights movement.
I think there was a brief time with algorithmic feeds were actually good, and I remember getting quite a few recommendations from news aggregators and the like which actually were of interest to me, but those days are long gone. These days... no.
Odd example here, but bear with me: I have a separate Twitter account just for following ahem adult content. Even before Elno bought them out the "For You" section was completely nonsensical. I followed nothing but adult artists and performers showing T&A, and every 8th entry in my "For You" feed was Sports or Politics or rage-bait in general. It wasn't what I wanted, it was what Twitter wanted me to want.
But somehow gun laws work in every other civilised country... Odd.
Well if you are sure it's not the gun laws then instead fix the other laws which are putting people in poverty and creating the gangs.
North Korea has said US soldier Travis King crossed into its territory last month because of “inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination” in the army.
North Korea seems an odd place to escape to, especially after this poor schmo delivered “a profanity-laced tirade against Koreans.” But what the heck, I’m not offended by his defection, treason, wanderlust, whatever you call it.
I sincerely wish him a happy life in his new home.
I don’t think demanding quality games is inherently at odds with wanting studios to not abuse their workers. What we really should support is broad labor protections and labor unions for developers. Because clearly the AAA studios don’t need the excuse of high demand for features from gamers in order to abuse their people since they have been doing that for years while churning out trash titles.
Faced with new legislation, Iowa’s Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books ‘contain a description or depiction of a sex act.’
“Hallucinate” seems like an odd vocabulary choice when talking about an AI. It implies much more sentience than an AI can possibly have, plus the ability to spontaneously create from whole-cloth. (Which AI can’t do, at all.)
I feel like our brave new culture needs a different word for the non-sensical/inaccurate products of AI; something with the flavors of “assemble” “fabricate” “construct” “collate” “collage” “grab-bag”.
Our vocabulary isn’t keeping up with technology. Is there a linguist in the house? We need more words!
Fake chicken - almost indistinguishable in many cases
MOST fake beef (especially the likes of Quorn which I quite dislike) is nowhere near yet, I agree. Beyond though? I’m really impressed, I can hardly tell.
Fake pork i.e. veggie sausages - long way to go. Oddly enough Richmond seem about the best. Most are way too dense and heavy for my liking.
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It’s a bit misleading to compare total numbers instead of percentages. The most people to ever summit Everest in one year was 800 in 2018, and an average of 4.4 deaths occur per year to do it.
That’s 0.55% mortality for this one mountain.
Of course, the more participants, the lower the percentage goes down. But we are still only talking about a handful of deaths vs hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of deaths from other ordinary activities.
If you apply the same odds to any other sport they would probably be banned. Could you imagine if 9 NFL players died every year? It’s roughly less than 1 per year at the moment I believe and that’s still pretty bad.
I’m sure it would, especially if the sport was accessible to everyone (which mountain climbing is not).
For us regular folks, I’m more concerned with how many people drown doing recreational activities, or die in car accidents doing non-important travelling, or die from legally accessible drugs and alcohol.
I think the outrage over “allowing” mountain climbing is misplaced. That’s my opinion.
How often do you get existential dread?
I’m pushing half a century in an industry that is not kind to old guys. I try to fend it off but every now and then it hits me. I’m pretty sure this is not unique to my life experience, or it wouldn’t have a term :-)
Windows 11 vs Linux supported HW (lemmy.ml)
[Opinion, Schneier on Security] UK Electoral Commission Hacked - Schneier on Security (www.schneier.com)
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In an alternative universe (lemmy.world)
Global water crisis could 'spiral out of control' due to overconsumption and climate change, UN report warns (www.cnn.com)
If it's OK (non-spammy) to ask, I'd be grateful if anyone could check the login screen at https://futurology.today/
futurology.today...
Twitter/X new ID Verification - First Look (lemmy.world)
Thanks to Popcrave twitter.com/popcrave/status/1691852136236327316?s…...
Is this it? Is there anything more to life, am I missing something?
Currently I am a uni student, working 4 days a week during the summer, moving to about 3 during term time....
32 Things I Love About Superbad
Workmanship. They say to write what you know. They also say that you get a lifetime to write your first hit and six months to write your second. To them I say: Superbad’s spec script, partially inspired by true events, was penned by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg during high school. Our heroes’ names are Seth and Evan....
China: Next real estate giant on the ropes (www.dw.com)
Chinese policymakers are facing calls to do more to prop up the ailing real estate market after the largest property developer, Country Garden, warned of multibillion-dollar losses and missed bond payments....
Remembering Pierre Seel, the French gay Holocaust survivor and LGBTQ pioneer (www.euronews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1521866...
"For you" isn't - The case against corporate algorithmic feeds (www.staygrounded.online)
Nearly 80% of Texas' floating border barrier is technically in Mexico, survey finds (www.cbsnews.com)
A joint U.S.-Mexico topographical survey found that 787 feet of the 995-feet-long buoy line set up by Texas are in Mexico.
Travis King: North Korea says US soldier fled because of racism in army (www.bbc.com)
North Korea has said US soldier Travis King crossed into its territory last month because of “inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination” in the army.
Noooooo you can't make a microtransactions free game and finished too 😭😭😭 (lemmy.world)
Google search is over (mastodon.social)
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School district in the U.S. uses ChatGPT to help ban library books (web.archive.org)
Faced with new legislation, Iowa’s Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books ‘contain a description or depiction of a sex act.’
Real meat vs Beyond meat (lemmy.world)
Round 1: grilled
Good riddance. (startrek.website)
Record-breaking mountaineer denies climbing over dying porter on K2 (www.theguardian.com)
Fellow climbers say video footage shows Kristin Harila’s team walking over body of frostbitten man during record ascent