If that happened it’d be the year of the linux desktop.
Lay them on me
Submitted 7 months ago by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to [deleted]
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DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
It is the year of the Linux desktop
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 7 months ago
It’s the two certainties of life:
- Death
- Taxes
- It is the year of the Linux desktop
- Half Life 3 is just around the corner
- I’m terrible at maths
orphiebaby@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I think they mean “mainstream”.
the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Refer to someone you’ve never met by their name if you can. This usually works best in a school or work setting. And when they ask how you know their name just simply reply:
“Everyone knows who you are.” And walk away.
Vilian@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
that’s ypur hobbie? lmao
mossy_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
the post is asking about insults. it’s not really an insult either but it’ll certainly make people feel worse…
Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This happened to me. I was really really into AI when nobody even knew what it meant, and now everybody talks of llms like they even know what the f they are.
thantik@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nah, nobody talks about LLMs. If I approached an average, everyday person about this topic, 99% of them wouldn’t know shit about it, while the tech-nerds all would.
It’s not mainstream at alllll yet.
Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What I mean is that “back in my day” there were maybe 10 people in the world seriously investigating strong AI
misterdoctor@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You look like someone who eats hot dogs the long way
Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Wait, but, uh… what?
wunami@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m pretty sure it’s about inserting hot dog shaped object in to the end of the digestive tract opposite the mouth.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 months ago
Cycling? Great, increased funding for infrastructure and increased general awareness. Amateur radio? Lower prices for rigs, innovation, and more contacts to be made.
If your interest in a hobby is based on its exclusivity, it may be that you’re more interested in exclusively than in the hobby itself…
Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think they were more likely referring to how when the public eye is on something many companies will start churning out low-effort products to capitalise on the interest. The market would be flooded with cheap and inferior products in that niche, potentially threatening the smaller business that actually cared about making quality products for those hobbyists. I know this won’t apply to every hobby, but there are definitely a number of them that will.
AdmiralShat@programming.dev 7 months ago
It’s not that some hobbies are based on exclusivity or even some other hipster rationalization, but there definitely is a period where a shit load of new people come in, read half a wiki page, then proceed to argue and talk down to people who have been at it for years. It ruins communities if the audience widens too much at once. I’ve been online long enough to have seen it happen multiple times.
It also sometimes a cringe ass youtuber sudden gets into a thing and introduces an extra fifteen thousand 12-15 year old who are just now realizing they have self agency and enough anonymity to spam bullshit without consequences. Or 4chan decides to troll the national news and makes your community a hate symbol.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Well, some people don’t do well with the higher speed and more social interaction it can lead to. It doesn’t have to result in giving up that hobby, but leaving communities related to it.
Infynis@midwest.social 7 months ago
I would love for my hobbies to be more mainstream. More merch, more people to share the experience with, and presumably more content
shikitohno@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This works up to a certain size, then you start having to contend with more shameless money grabs, scalpers catching wind of things and making it impossible for actual fans/users of the product to get stuff for a reasonable price and more scammers.
DogWater@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And the opposite end of that is the corporatization of your previously small cozy wholesome authentic cottage industry sized hobby. It happened to videogames in the late 2010s.
InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 7 months ago
Its also implying that the hobby will eventually burn our or become cringe in the eyes of the public. As most fads do.
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Thrifting used to be fun Now everyone thinks they’re a flipper and goodwill and other places have jacked up their prices to unreasonable levels.
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not to mention the fact that it’s (sort-of) taking materials that were attempted to be gifted to the less fortunate
RecitalMatchbox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
In ny area it’s in reverse: there’s no supply shortage but it’s much more socially acceptable to buy second hand clothes. The stigma on thrifting is way less.
Cosmos7349@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Fr 10 years I was cool, but I kept doing the same things and now I’m just basic lol. Even the undercut became a popular hairstyle.
lseif@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
linux? lets hope so!!! 2024 year of the linux desktop!!!
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The thing is that the mainstream aspect will burn out, like most fads do, but the people who really love it will keep loving it, and some (usually small) amount of the new influx will also stick around permanently and enrich the community. It’s just about surviving through the fad part that is hard.
TheLameSauce@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Honestly, homebrewing becoming a mainstream hobby would be pretty great, I’m always interested in trying a beer someone else brewed and it would probably make sourcing ingredients a lot easier if there was enough of a demand to necessitate a local shop in my area.
Num10ck@lemmy.world 7 months ago
maybe start a local group with the goal of opening the local shop yourself?
AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 7 months ago
Based on your looks I expected you to be smarter.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 7 months ago
All the sharp wit of a perfect sphere.
MrNesser@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Its nice that you tried
OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I was just hoping you’d do better this time…
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Insult? That’s a straight up curse.
eezeebee@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Wow, you have such a beautiful mind
Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
I will be happy if that happens; the only way to make any hobby go mainstream is to make it cheaper, which benefits all those who indulge in it.
ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 7 months ago
The rapid growth will destroy your hobby by warping the culture beyond recognition and forcing you to act the their norms. I’ve seen it happen more than once.
Gabu@lemmy.world 7 months ago
MTG/Yugioh would like a word. In fact, of all physical collection card games, I think Pokémon is the only affordable one.
MalachaiConstant@lemmy.world 7 months ago
For me it depends entirely on 1) which hobby and 2) how the mainstream audience shapes it; if investors believe they can make more money by promoting certain aspects of the hobby, they can change it’s entire landscape. And that’s not even getting into what can happen when IP law gets involved.
It’s a shitty tradeoff to have to make, because sometimes I just want to everyone to enjoy what I enjoy. I’ve also seen hobbies die from too much exposure.
daltotron@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I dunno, I think my favorite insults are the ones that don’t require any creativity or effort. There is something to be said of just using the old standbys because the person you are insulting is worth so little to you that you really can’t even be assed to come up with anything specific for them, or because the subject you are insulting is so inherently devoid of originality that they’re like a negative creativity vacuum. How many different ways can you really insult the same copy-pasted balding thumb headed shrimp dick moron? It gets tough after the one thousand three hundred and twelfth time. They make writers and dominatrices to insult people, there are careers. Me, I’m not gonna waste good material if I’m not paid for it.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
… What’s the insult?
hOrni@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You may be right. It’s a curse, but not an insult.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
When God was handing out brains, you heard “games” and said “no thanks, I prefer touching grass.”
Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
“Bless your soul.”
PatFussy@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Your mom never loved you
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I will cut you.
DarkMessiah@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You sound like you’ve eaten the Roundmeal regularly since childhood.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Procrastination is a hobby?
TCGM@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Why would I lay one on you if you can’t lay
banazir@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
[deleted]KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
ah yes [[REDACTED]] my favorite take.
imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 7 months ago
That’s not an insult it’s a curse
Insult:
Your elevator doesn’t quite go all the way up.
You have all the creativity and emotional intelligence of a manager
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
One that I like that is also a curse rather than an insult is “I hope the rest of your day is as pleasant as you are”
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
May your children grow up to be like the politicians you voted for.
pseudo@jlai.lu 7 months ago
This is both
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You fight like a dairy farmer.
Andonno@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How appropriate, you fight like a cow.
(because someone had to)
Bgugi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I don’t get what that’s supposed to mean… Wouldn’t dairy farmers tend to be more jacked than average?
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 7 months ago
NEITHER DOES YOUR DICK! YOOOOOOOOOOO!
😜