RememberTheApollo_ @ RememberTheApollo_ @lemmy.world

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“It doesn’t count when I say you’re being emotional, ot only counts when I say it”.

Wtf.

Must’ve completely skipped the parts where plenty of people actually did the math. Or the author just scrolled the stupid parts of social media and ignored places where actual discussion takes place.

Which one, lol.

I despise videos in place of text/pic how-to.

I’m starting to run out of fucks to give when it comes to dealing with tech. Doesn’t matter what it is. Overcomplicated car infotainment. Burying features in deep OS menus. Shitty website design that hides info. Phone trees. “AI assistants” in pretty much everything. Etc.

I think most modern popular music absolutely sucks. No art, no ability to sing, all formulaic, a lyrical desert, and autotuned to shit.

It’s gotta be a mental illness, this constant need for public commentary via uploading everything you do to be viewed by others. Particularly things like “this is me crying because I got yelled at” kind of stuff. Vapid. Shallow. Go touch some grass and don’t fucking record it.

Yeah. I’m missing the more disconnected life we used to have.

(No, I’m not going to say it was all better back in the day. It wasn’t. Just our problems weren’t compounded by things like social media)

Yes. And we call that kind of person an “introvert”.

Probably most of those stating they’d run away already had Florida or other avoid-NY-taxes out of state license plates on their cars before the election.

Gotta kill the witnesses that could inconveniently testify as to what happened and what was on the boat.

“Liberalism is a mental disease!”

A phrase often said by MAGAs. It’s no distance at all saying the same thing about nationalism.

I don’t want to get too deep in the weeds here but there are a few things that we have to work around, chief problem being the story’s narrator saying they didn’t know what estrogen would do (it occurs to me it could be a tongue in cheek post by a trans person for lols? “Oh, look, I grew boobs! How’d that happen?” Dunno. Anyway…), then expend the effort to find a way to get them and take the estrogen…because? I mean sure, there’s always someone to find a way around getting something they maybe shouldn’t, but I kinda hit a hard stop when someone says they regularly took pills and they didn’t know what the result would be. Ymmv.

I used to be young and think the world could be saved with some recycling and we usually got enough rain. Yeah. I’m not young anymore.

Water does have tastes. Hard to believe others don‘t notice it.

I‘ve got this one too. It smells like dry hay or straw to me.

How come the line won’t keep moving up when we sabotaged the people that moved the line up with their buying power?

If it was a Muppet LOTR?

Wow. Corruption is out in the open more every day.

Good for that admiral. If there are any repercussions (however unlikely) a bullet was dodged.

Ok, in the context of the original discussion, there is no need to deride PC gaming if all the steambox is is just another PC and no reason to treat it as anything special other than a cheap-ish PC preloaded with linux.

Your response in a comment chain that derides PC gaming, says it would be good to get away from PC gaming, says people don’t have time or interest in building PCs, people don’t want to understand tech, is “this will be good for PC gaming”?

Ok.

I’m kinda surprised to read this. As much as Lemmings deride people for not wanting to change to linux, not understanding the basics of PC’s, not willing to learn tech, falling into walled gardens…here you are. Rationalizing for people who don’t want to learn tech and accepting yet another potential walled garden.

There needs to be a correction in college attendance. Too many go and get a degree at an expensive school for a profession that has shitty wages or wide pay gaps, and poor upward mobility. Unless you’re going for a profession that needs a certification or degree, like engineer, finance, or doctor, a degree should require some serious thought. Also, for the vast majority of people, nobody cares where you got your degree after your first “real” job. Don’t go spend big bucks at a school “known” (read: we charge a lot) for whatever degree if you can find one cheaper that will do.

But you can build a PC with linux. It’s every bit as possible. Upgradable. Repairable. Functional. Powerful.

You are cheering about yet another proprietary box like a console that affects repairability and how much of it you actually “own” it just because it has linux on it. Yet more “dumbing down” of games to conform to a console spec. You’re blind if you don’t think this will affect games developed to be sold on Steam.

I’m all for linux advancing in gaming, becoming more mainstream, and replacing Windows, but cheering for the demise of PC’s in favor of a proprietary box is a bad idea.

E: this is a very interesting discussion, but I can’t keep replying to the same responses. Lemmy criticizes walled gardens, lack of tech knowledge, anything that isn’t F/OSS, anything that limits ownership of the hardware or the OS…yet here we have people advocating for a proprietary box that has potential to steer game development (yes, toward linux, this is good) and confine it to the steambox’s spec. just because linux good and a semi-benevolent dictatorship is offering it. While I’m not against this console, anything that a BigCorp produces that has the potential to be a walled garden and indirectly constrain development should be met with guarded attitudes and absolutely not cheer the expected demise of PC building or use.

E2: pile it on boys. If lemmy is still here in a decade and Steam does some “bullshit” with the ‘Box I’ll read your complaints as the custom PC market shrinks and gets more expensive thanks to the console-ification of gaming. Consoles aren’t for you per-se. They’re to cheapen hardware, OS, and game development costs and make profits. I’m not against its existence, but leave replacing PC gaming out of your cheering for this box. Good luck.

Hm. Not sure how I feel about giving them clicks for pay even if it muddies my profile. I’d rather they not know at all.