Carighan

Carighan , 1 year ago

Every day on two machines, I dunno, it’s piss-easy. In fact that’s my one big argument for Windows ,that stuff that works out of the box.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Ouff.

Carighan , 1 year ago

I had one XIAOMI phone, the Poco X3 NFC. Worst phone experience I’ve ever had, entirely due to their supremely shitty OS mutation.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Well then change the owner and toss the old folders. Or just format it?

Carighan , 1 year ago

You can nuke a linux-permission-controlled folder from an account that does not have that permission? How did you misconfigure your linux to allow that?!

Carighan , 1 year ago

Aaah, I get it.

Yeah of course that works. If you disable the entire permission framework, naturally permissions can no longer stop you (this is where something like Bitlocker would step in so that even if someone takes the physical drive out they cannot just read from it).

But importantly the same would of course work the other way around. Linux permissions mean fuck all if there’s no Linux around to enforce them, you can just delete whatever then.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Well how else would that work? You need a piece of software to enforce the permissions. Once that Software is gone, nothing exists to stop you.

Carighan , 1 year ago

The library card itself is mostly meant to make sure the people borrowing books are known for purposes of late fees etc. It’s nothing else than an account registration, the only reason it sometimes costs money is because the library is meant to attract only a small specific area of a city (the others have their own libraries) but due to a lot of communter traffic they’re worried about X-times the amount of estimated people getting books from this particular place.

So they make the cards cost a tiny amount (I think I paid €5 before) so that you won’t just want to get a card from every single library in your city.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Is this identical to the PWA other than being packaged with a browser?

Carighan , 1 year ago

What do we do about the frankly insane wind speeds?

Carighan , 1 year ago

Gordon Ramsey on his worst tirade is basically Linus just wishing you a good morning in a cheery tone.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Never seen that on reddit either but I suppose I wasn’t in subreddits where that was common. 🤷

Carighan , 1 year ago

Honestly just using Lemmy in a browser (or Tildes even more so I imagine) I keep wondering why apps are a big deal to begin with. They both work 100% perfectly fine.

It’s the same with Mastodon, in fact their official PWA gives a fair few apps a run for their money.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Well there are this one and this one who both seem to be unable to replicate the results.

Carighan , 1 year ago

How do I go about disproving something then?

Carighan , 1 year ago

Exactly. Freedom of speech* means you are free to speak something.

Not free of the consequences of the effects of what you are saying. It also means you are not free of social consequences of your speech (i.e.: people not listening, walking away, ignoring you, shunning you). You’re also not free to speak in a private context, as the First Amendment only pertains to the state, not individuals and their private property. Meaning a social media platform is free to ban you for whatever view you are stating.

Freedom of speech, not from consequence.

*: With limitations in regards to genuinely illegal things, such as denying the holocaust as a citizen of Germany.

Carighan , 1 year ago

It also depends on whether it’s about a pingpong table in the office, or whether I get one for at home and we’re talking a fully remote job.

Getting a free pingpong table isn’t a bad bonus! I’d prefer a decent crokinole board though, tbh

Carighan , 1 year ago

Eh, I dunno. You can wipe your tears with money, light cigars with it, sew clothing from it. Many uses! :P

Carighan , 1 year ago

In fact all three are valid answers. Cruel manipulation as it is, additional even uncompesated responsibilities often do drive retention as people are invested too deep and too stressed out to consider switching or find time for the process.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Shut up and sit down has a video where they rave about it. It’s a dexterity game that uses a large board and sliding pieces.

It seems simplistic, but it is genuinely amazing to paly.

Carighan , 1 year ago

What happened on the 29th of July that it had another big jump?

Carighan , 1 year ago

You are doing exactly the thing the person you are replying to is calling someone out for, so if anything you are underlining the point. Pharmaceuticals is a vast industry, and the matter they work with is not homogenous.

You cannot infer from the cost of insulin to inhabitants of uncivilized western countries what the actual cost of providing a still in-development medicine will be. More specifically, you cannot expand from being ripped off in one country for one medicine and the myopic view that provides to pharmaceuticals as a whole.

As a counterpoint in your case, I pay nothing for my insulin, as its included the base medical insurance everyone has to have. As are a vast amount of other pharmaceuticals.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Not only that, it’s also important to consider just how vast pharmaceuticals as a branch of industry and research and medicine is, overall.

Sure, some exec at the top might be a money-grubbing arsehole who couldn’t care any less if 8 billion people died so long as they made 2% more profits.

But there’s a giant apparatus of often very serious and very altruistic researchers, doctors, nurses, workers and helpers underneath that, too. Lots of bad apples, lots of shining examples. Just like, well, any other industry.

And sure, one can easily argue “but you’re playing with people’s lives here, it’s not okay for it to be like this”. And of course I agree. But it’s utopian to think we can fix this with reductive, as you say, “pharma bad”-arguments. And it’s not like the transport industry, the power industry, the the military-industrial complex (intentionally) or the tourism industry don’t habiutally play with people’s lives. We just tend to not notice it as directly.

And sure, I get that for americans in particular this is a sore topic of particular import because they’re so vulnerable to exploitation due to a lack of social support structure and regulated and standardized insurances.

But anything can be reduced to a simple “is bad” if we want it to. It’s important to not think in such simplistic us-vs-them terms, otherwise nothing can ever be improved.

Carighan , 1 year ago

I find it a bit reductive to call palliative care a moneymaking scheme overall. Especially cruel to workers in the field, which is one of the toughest one as far as mental health goes.

Carighan , 1 year ago

I noticed when watching Good Omens on Amazon Prime that they offer a language option “Original + Dialogue Boost”.

It works wonders. Almost feels like back in the days again when TV shows wanted dialogue to be understood.

Carighan , 1 year ago

What about Epson? Specifically I’m considering one of the ecotank ones because I need to print stuff for board games like info sheets and so on that need rich colours and designs. Might even look into A3+ printers.

Are those useful? The per-page cost looks crazy low for an inkjet.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Yeah but the immediate cause of death will be something else.

As an example, smoking generally does not kill you. It prepares your body to be trivially killed a by a plethora of other things, such as cancer or 2 tons in the face when you were distracted while driving because your cig fell into your lap. But the smoking itself isn’t the proximate cause of the death.

Carighan , 1 year ago

I mean she lasted 10 years on the diet, is the diet really to blame or is cholera to blame? Like I guess maybe she didn’t wash a few of them thoroughly enough and caught it? It does raise a lot of questions.

The answer is “Yes”. And no it doesn’t raise a lot of questions, tbh.

If you eat badly - no matter which way - your body is automatically weaker and less able to withstand hardship.

Make it weak enough, and then find the right hardship, and congralations, you are now dead.

Note that both of these are on a sliding scale: You can eat 100% healthy, a hardship such as a nuclear bomb exploding while pressed on your eyeball will still do you in. You can have the worst of diets for years, and as long as nothing at all immediately threatens you, you’ll survive. And somewhere in between, Zhanna managed to make her body weak enough that a simple cholera infection did her in.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Again, the smoking does not kill you. The cancer does.

Carighan , 1 year ago

What? The wouldn’t want a military to come in and displace them from their state?

Geez, I wonder what that would feel like…

Carighan , 1 year ago

I hate that its Kickstarter though.

Yeah, he sells it really well. “Stick it to the man, down with Amazon”. Sorry, but you’re one of the biggest authors around, you do not need some common schmuck barely making it through their monthly fees to carry your business risk. You can have ~any publisher you want in the world, and trivially have them release that book not on Amazon if you wanted to.

And that’s sadly the same in board gaming Kickstarters. Sure, the tiny mom&pop games that could never happen outside of Kickstarter exist. But the vast majority is big names and publishers using it to offload their business risk onto the consumer so they can have 0% risk 100% reward.

If the “I just want to get back at Amazon”-statement had truth behind it, the book would be sold independently. But not kickstartered. Shoulder the business cost in creating the product, then make the profit selling it.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Should note that it’s not Amazon that doesn’t want to carry the book, it’s the author hot having them carry it. The headline makes it sound way more antagonistic than the reality is, it’s just one author choosing not to publish on Amazon. As they are free to do.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Well, Trump is “disbelief of the current system” (and in a few cases of reality), so that should fit right in!

Carighan , 1 year ago

Saw this Legal Eagle video earlier today and yeeesh, how stupid can one group of people be. They asked a guy to delete the security videos who then of course immediately ratted them out because even among Trump’s staff there’s people there with a minimum moral compass.

Carighan , 1 year ago

I am confused, your headline is about one thing, but your post about another.

Please specify.

Carighan , 1 year ago

I’m not sure I understand.

You mean when you scrolled down, say, the newest 50 posts, then you have to click a load more button for the next 50 to load?

Carighan , 1 year ago

Oooh, sorry, I completely misunderstood. Yeah I agree, that’s indeed terrible UX. And sadly super common.

Carighan , 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

His whole point is that we should try not to think that way. Not “this side” versus “the other side”. There’s an endless space between “we’re already fucked no matter what” and “everything is perfectly fine no need to act”. And that’s the point.

And you can very much notice what he worries about already. People are already utterly numb to news about climate disasters. We need a better way to show issues and showcase solutions that makes people motivated and hopeful to keep everyone pulling in the same direction.

Carighan , 1 year ago

A close friend works in a pet shop, and half the time the customer could not be more wrong or more of an asshole if their life depended on it, tbh.

We need a new place in hell, staffed entirely by vampire monster bunnies, for parents who bring their kids to a pet shop to let them “play with” the animals there and knock on the glasses and shit.

Carighan , 1 year ago

So… since this account is spamming multiple articles everywhere, how do I report a user on Lemmy?

Carighan , 1 year ago

I will be honest, it’s been three phones since I had one that even still showed the option.

It’s all either the full 3-button nav, or the proper gesture navigation. 2-button was this hybrid Google did very briefly, but luckily it’s gone now.

Carighan , 1 year ago

We need to capitalize on the decentralized nature of the Fediverse and Lemmy instead of having everyone joining one instance

But honestly, social media naturally benefits from everyone being around the biggest totem pole. It means we can randomly run into people and topics and communities that we never knew we wanted to engage with.

If we decentralize, we need an already established community-web, or a very specific plan for which to find in the future. Plus, I’ll be honest, between Mastodon, Lemmy and (now) Firefish, I can say that finding communities on the fediverse is annoying in all the right ways to make someone just go back to Twitter/Reddit. I can’t blame people for not wanting to engage with that.

But, importantly: Most users being on a huge central instance solves that problem. Yeah it goes against “the spirit of the fediverse”. But for the user, it has effectively only upsides.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Content is up but users are down

I used the Point of View gun. It was me. Sorry. But now you all share my suffering. Hah!

Carighan , 1 year ago

We did the underground mining, and we’re done with it. As in, stripped it all. That’s what the whole Ruhrkohle was about after all, whose demise was a huge problem for the Ruhrgebiet as that was essentially their “thing”.

Carighan , 1 year ago

Also, usually heated. Self-heating, in fact.

Carighan , 1 year ago

I don’t think it’s too reductive, considering religion as a whole is always about exercising control.