1984

1984 , 5 months ago

It would be great if cats could fix cars… :)

Even though we would probably employ them and make them work 9-5 like another species I know.

1984 , 5 months ago

American yeah?

1984 , 5 months ago

They don’t trust that medical companies have their best interests at heart, and are motivated by profits. Making people sick is profit.

It really isn’t so strange.

And if you google on vaccine side effects, you will find a lot of them. They are rare, but they happen, and when they do, there is no help to be had.

So why is it stupid to be careful? I think it makes sense.

1984 , 5 months ago

I think that’s up to each person to decide. Similar to how it’s rare to die in a flight crash and most people accept the risk, but not all.

Whats so complicated about probability? They know it’s a low probably, but it’s higher than zero, always.

Almost all people who didn’t vaccinate against covid are still alive and well you know.

People take a risk either way. Taking the vaccine or not taking it.

1984 , 5 months ago

The point of listing side effects on medicine is so the person can make a decision if it’s worth the risk.

I personally got some pain pills once and after reading the side effects list, I didn’t take them.

1984 , 5 months ago

Sure. I haven’t been truly sick. I would probably take anything if the decease was painful enough. But that’s not what we are talking about here with vaccines, specially vaccines against the flu or something that isnt dangerous to most people to get.

1984 , 5 months ago

Yeah covid was worth vaccinating against if you were above 50 or had other deceases since before, or were overweight and so on.

There was a lot of interesting info in the statistics over deaths. I went over it a lot during covid.

Basically just followed the numbers and made decisions based on that.

1984 , 5 months ago

I think it’s about having control over the risk too.

If you take a plane, you are not in control. When driving a car, you are. I think the latter makes a lot of people feel more comfortable.

Anyway, all these analogies are not really fitting. I think when it comes to covid, it’s each person’s decision what to do. Makes sense to me. :)

1984 , 5 months ago

Jeff Pezoz

1984 , 5 months ago

Well yeah, may as well. The people who start wars are never risking their lives. Maybe it should be a game of battlebots between the leaders and the leader who loses dies?

1984 , 5 months ago

Now we are solving real problems.

1984 , 5 months ago

UFOs are a conspiracy theory?

1984 , 5 months ago

I think it makes sense. No way they would share that with the public. But sure, doesn’t mean there are aliens. But if there is, they are not gonna share it. :)

1984 , 5 months ago

My account allows me to enjoy benefits, but not the actual benefit of not having an account. Or the choice to create an account or not. Got it.

1984 , 5 months ago

I really like self hosting too but Kubernetes is overkill in complexity. I use nomad. :)

1984 , 5 months ago

Yeah in a cluster with consul. Consul gives automatic service discovery and works with traefik so I don’t even have to care which node my service is running on since traefik knows how to find it using consul.

For the storage I went with a simple solution. I installed nfs on a machine running in nomad, and then configured the nomad clients to mount that disk. All of this with ansible so I don’t have to do it more than once.

1984 , 5 months ago

I have similar life but I cheat a bit. I have 4 days work from home per week, and often I stop working at 4.00 pm so I have a couple of hours to shop or do other things.

Not having to go home from work also gives me another hour of free time, so I feel like life definently is a lot nicer now than before covid.

9-5 sucks very much and we should all try to escape it.

1984 , 5 months ago

Capitalists don’t give, they take.

1984 , 5 months ago

So people post their private stuff to chat gpt? I always edit out the personal data.

1984 , 5 months ago

I’m fine with this, being a man.

1984 , 5 months ago

It’s controversy for some people who are looking for perfect companies.

Others like me realize that they don’t exist, and you should choose something, anything, other than Google that you feel happy with. Today.

1984 , 5 months ago

Best comedy ever made.

1984 , 5 months ago

Why are people in this thread fine with ads being played on their televisions. So strange.

1984 , 5 months ago

Yeah and books are never considered cool. So young people rather watch ad filled shows then pick up a book. Also you need to have some energy to read a book, and people are often tired after the 9 to 5 we are forced to do.

1984 , 5 months ago

Yes it’s illegal to drive on tires with worn out patterns. I thought it was the same everywhere in the civilized world.

1984 , 5 months ago

I lost it during covid, permanently. And I’m not joking. I saw things.

1984 , 5 months ago

One big part is because of Hollywood. The entire world image of America comes from movies.

Once you start to look into the prison system, the justice system, the financial system… Well, nothing actually builds on any feeling of caring about its citizens at all.

1984 , 5 months ago

I’m actually surprised by people who think others should just die instead of stealing, if that’s the choice. Who wouldn’t steal?

Guess we won’t know since those people are dead.

1984 , 5 months ago

Azure quality. :)

1984 , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Could be good money in this because who wants to do this… :)

1984 , 5 months ago

IBM… That’s the company that is never mentioned anymore.

1984 , 5 months ago

People are not too bright I’m afraid. I feel sorry for them, but it is what it is…

1984 , 5 months ago

Yes of course. If desperate, then of course people would sign up for this.

1984 , 5 months ago

Musk wants to turn the planet into the same mindless drone he is himself.

1984 , 5 months ago

I was about to say this. I never find any websites that doesnt work with Firefox so I’m genuinely curious.

I bet it’s their ad blocker, or they have set their Firefox settings to the privacy level that says “this will break some web sites”.

1984 , 5 months ago

Sounds like Microsoft. They did this all the time with Firefox before.

1984 , 5 months ago

Linux Mint is nice, but also check out Pop OS. :)

1984 , 5 months ago

It’s really slow progress on these things. Someone should make a better file browser with features like Dolphin for Gnome.

1984 , 5 months ago

No. :) Those are even less full featured than nautilus.

1984 , 5 months ago

Oh and I thought Avengers was a documentary.

1984 , 5 months ago

How? Unless you are joking.

1984 , 5 months ago

I bought The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow since Amazon refused to publish it. Talks about how big tech is out of control. Nothing new but still a good book.

1984 , 5 months ago

Yeah it’s there now actually. Interesting…

1984 , 5 months ago

I never thought of using nfs over wireguard. Very nice.

1984 , 5 months ago

Forcing people back to office, firing thousands of tech workers… Yeah I don’t see why people don’t love working for these guys. Nobody wants to work!

Let’s all go to the office for the “collaboration” and team spirit. We are all a family here. :)

The Musk tells people to sleep on the factory floor, that’s how much he cares about people.

1984 , 5 months ago

"Helping their stock prices so there is no reason to stop ".

No reason to stop… :)

If you are the kind of person that thinks collecting money is the reason we exists here, I guess it’s hard to see a reason to stop. Lols.

1984 , 5 months ago

My favorite kind :)

1984 , 5 months ago

Lemmy is pretty centralized in practice and people are on Lemmy.world, mostly.

It’s like hotmail or gmail. Default choice.