Zink

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We live wasted lives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’ve said this a few times, but honestly anybody who can interact with Lemmy is in the upper tiers of the scale compared with the vast majority of humans who have ever lived.

  Obviously that does not mean that individuals cannot have terrible luck and circumstances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon loves The Lord of the Rings⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to have to try that game. I played a bunch of the original but I think nothing in between.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We have a few dogs. One is a yellow lab. He is absolutely the empty skull of the bunch.

  This derpy wood knot dog face reminds me of him so much. If I had this piece of wood I’d learn some new skills and buy some new tools just to perfectly preserve it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a tragedeigh⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You make some good points, and even though the labels man and straight work for me, I have likewise been focusing more and more on the whole “know thyself and live life the way that really works for you” thing and loving it.

  But back to my quip: You make some good points. I can foresee how much my dumb angry conservative relatives would hate it! No labels? No categories? Next you’re going to tell me that humans don’t naturally need strict hierarchy in their society to survive!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might be time to find another job⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  this is indicative of a much larger problem(distrust amongst coworkers)

  The scope of the problem much much larger: the entire fucking culture IMO, assuming you are in the USA because I am and it sure sounds like you’re talking about this place.

  I think it goes beyond distrust though. It is a lack of respect for human dignity (which leads to lack of respect for oneself) and for just being decent to one another so we can all enjoy our time on Earth a little bit more.

  I have made a couple trips to Sweden of all places, and it’s wild seeing things like real glasses and silverware being available for any schmuck to use in a restaurant/airport/workplace. And then people put them in the dishwasher or return them to the kitchen when done! Little things like that seem so minor until you think about the deep seated issues it is revealing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, if your condenser unit outside just won’t turn on it’s always a good idea to check this capacitor. I think it was just last year that I replaced the one in my unit installed in 2015. I went through a few capacitors with the ancient system before that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh Lemmy, I saw all the lightning bugs in the trees last night, blinking fast as hell because of the high temperature, and I thought of you!

  I was just discussing my raggedy-ass yard and it’s contribution to the local fauna.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not okay.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just the other day my son was chasing the fireflies in our front yard.

  …That front yard I was feeling bad about not mowing because the weeds mixed in with the grass quickly grow tall flowers above the head.

  I think I want to keep helping those blinky-bois.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PROGRESS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The TIE Defender of the lunch box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PLASTICMAXXING⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sound like a futuristic black-mirror-esque solution to blood donation motivation.

  At Blood-B-Kleen, our machine will quickly and safely pull 8 pints of raw dirty blood from your vein and will return 7 pints of your cleaned blood with 99% reduction in plastics and PFAS, plus some hydrating fluids and vitamins. We don’t even charge you for it yet!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits a guy's house⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very well said!

  It’s like everybody wants an easy shortcut to living a good life, and they don’t know the secret, so they just go through life on autopilot letting society tell them what they should be into.

  Sometimes remembering to live in the moment and appreciate the simple things will be the best part of my day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Techno feudalism, here we come⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, unfortunately I think that both corporations and consumers have shown that they prefer the cheap option rather than whatever not-as-cheap options might offer in terms of quality, sustainability, environmental protection, lack of child slavery… you know, luxuries like that.

  And that is speaking in general, mass-market terms of course. There are often options for those who care about the things I jokingly referred to as luxuries. But when something like that is niche instead of a widespread basic expectation, it gets priced as a luxury. Ugh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On trees...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a nicely packaged little subthread to come across while decompressing after a super busy day, lol!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. Maybe that supports my guess.

  It’s not without precedent though. I remember seeing NT references for a long time from win2k on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought they were supposed to do the whole “last version of Windows that will be updated forever” with Windows 10, and of course abandoned that some time ago.

  My gut feeling is that their product management marketing folks came to the conclusion that Windows as a subscription was not going to work for the consumer market where the OS is something that’s just part of the device you buy. And in discussions with system OEMs they made the decision that consumers like it when the version number goes up, so increasing that windows number every several years will move systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that Steve Jobs with a Butthead mouth? Beautiful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and oftentimes they don’t admit why they really have a problem with the game directly

  I think in many cases they aren’t even admitting it to themselves. Self-delusion is kind of a recurring theme with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comfy cozy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that so many of us INSIDE the US still sleep like that, especially the ones who match homer’s kind of “dopey white middle aged boomer dad who raised a family on a single factory job” demographic.

  I match some of those demographics, like the dopey white middle aged USAmerican dad raising a family with his one income. I don’t match him in other areas because I am an over-educated tech worker living in an old cheap blue collar neighborhood to make it happen in current day.

  I am extremely unhappy and embarrassed about just about every single thing that has my country is in the news, to say the least. It makes me sad and worried for the entire world. Giving a shit about other people while evil morons are grabbing power will do that to you.

  But for people who look like me and don’t follow what’s going on in the world or care about other people? My day to day real life in my local physical environment is comfortable and privileged as hell, and so is a lot of theirs.

  Combine that with our culture where a “successful” life is constant stress over the rat race and keeping up with the Joneses, so that you are worried about making the payments on your luxury SUV rather than whether your government is destroying people you don’t know while funneling your resources to people who already have 1000x more than you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fax machine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “you’re responsible for your own happiness” can be a true thing even if you are loving and supportive.

  I’m in a similar situation now. I am in a pretty good place after having a very shitty handful of years 2019-2024. My wife is having some of the same issues now, and when I recognize the similarities it only makes me show her more grace and understanding. But then I am obligated to be honest about what I learned over the years, even if my solutions and techniques might not end up being hers.

  And the fact that happiness, fulfillment, contentment, peace with the universe, and all that stuff originates from somewhere deep within. It’s along the same lines as the saying that money can’t buy happiness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people have it worse⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I say “doing alright, how about you”l and that usually covers it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMERICAN POPE LETS GO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember my dad telling me decades ago how it was such quality because it was old enough to have forged parts rather than machined.

  I am nearly certain I don’t have easy access to a photo of it, but it was a classic look. Bolt action rifle with a dark barrel, all wood body and stock, modest scope, and a leather carrying strap.

  I don’t really admire the look of guns any more than I might with something like a power drill. But in this case it’s associated with nice memories of when Dad let me shoot the big rifle from grandpa, or just hiking through the woods with my dad while he was the one carrying it.

  For some background, I’m obviously American, but I also had an early childhood out in the country. I mean “I played in the corn field that bordered my giant back yard” country. I knew the farmer too, because he’d let my dad hunt on his land. Sometimes we’d hang out in his house and BS on the way in or out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMERICAN POPE LETS GO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  .270 is a neat caliber. I rarely hear about it (not that I frequent gun discussions) but am familiar with it because that’s the caliber of my dad’s deer hunting rifle which also belonged to my WW2 veteran grandfather.

  And yeah it’s not very comparable to a 22 except for starting with a two. It’s a high powered rifle. You can think of it like a .30-06 but with a slightly smaller and faster bullet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resistance is futile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad to see the meme creator was smart enough to keep their Printer Gun handy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well you can do that today. Find a tree out in the middle of nowhere and sit under it without any electronic devices. Then you are oblivious to all that stuff.

  There is much wisdom buried in what seems like a simple comment here.

  Even if you aren’t in the middle of nowhere, you can find or create your oasis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The performance of Jellyfin is so much better in my experience. That and the FOSS benefits won me over quickly, and I have had a lifetime Plex pass for years.

  The downside is that you have to do a little IT work if you want to share with family in an easy (for them) way and use https. For sure, it’s a thing, but for me as a non web dev it was worth it.

  Now I can give family and friends a URL, login, password, and one or more app suggestions depending on their device and type of media. And all of them seem to have snappy performance while not showing my people ads or hitting them up for paid services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Already done. I dual boot at work (translated: I have a dormant win10 partition just in case, but I’m more likely to use my win10 VM in Linux) and at home I’m Linux only, having wiped my windows partition to reclaim the space within weeks of installing Linux.

  I use Mint Cinnamon in both places. It’s a very polished, all in one, install and go OS. But it’s still Linux so I have the terminal available and I can find out how to fiddle with and change whatever I want.

  For all manner of 2D desktop use, I find it superior to windows. Even being a very full-featured distro, when the software is made to serve the user and not 50 competing corporate priorities, you can tell. It’s so much more responsive and nice to use. (It is not flawless of course)

  For gaming, I don’t play the newest stuff or multiplayer games with crazy anti-cheat, but I have not had any regrets so far. Many games have native Linux versions, probably thanks to valve and the Steam deck, but windows games running in proton have been smooth sailing for me.

  I think I’ve just dealt with enough computer crap in my life that I prefer using not just Linux apps but FOSS software for as much as I can. If some game or some photo editing suite will absolutely not work in Linux or work acceptably in a VM, I am fine with it not existing in my world. I used to not find that acceptable, but now I’m over it. In a chill way though, not an angry anti-Microsoft way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m the dude in that meme looking at the other girl, and she is my icon collections in Steam, GOG, even Epic, etc. Icons with native Linux versions get slight preference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What TV shows have aged the best, and what TV shows have aged the worst?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Babylon 5 had big multi-season story arcs in the era of self-contained monster of the week episodes meant for syndication and watching in random order.

  It also has some very good character development. The Londo/G’Kar dynamic is pretty epic.

  But it does have the random weak early episodes others mentioned, and of course it is a product of its time. It has a high episode count and 90s SD vfx.

  It’s still one of my favorite shows and I will do a watch through every several years, but it would have SO much potential as a modern remake with 6-10 episodes per season. Kind of like the expanse but with more fantasy and imaginary physics. The space physics were very good though, especially for the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's calendar is incomplete⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plurday is when me and the boys go to the clurb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's just eccentric⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My joke in my household is that no clean flat surfaces can exist.

  My medicated ADHD ass is still plenty messy, but my non-medicated wife will put any item down in any place when she’s done with it or it’s in her way. Then it disappears from existence for an hour or a month or so. Unless it’s outside or in a room we don’t use daily… then the possible range expands a lot.