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- Comment on A Black Eye at the White House: Did Somebody Punch Elon? The list of possible suspects seemed long. 4 days ago:
“I was just horsing around with little X, and I said, ‘Go ahead, punch me in the face,’ and he did”
"Oh the black eye? It's nothing, I was just teaching my 5-year old to punch me in the face, because that's a normal and healthy thing to do"
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
A rule of thumb for weirdness in age difference is age/2+7, leaving you at 51/2+7=32,5. So going by that, 30 is a bit on the young side, which is obvious also from the fact that you felt the need to create this thread.
If one person would be in a position to judge you for it (or rightfully feel weird about it) it's your daughter. It's safe to say she seems cool with it, so whatever.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 6 days ago:
Users report that clicking the Start button can spike CPU usage by 30% to 70% on at least one core, depending on the hardware configuration.
Good grief. And that's coming from a GNOME user.
- Comment on Stunt Performer Sues Kevin Costner and ‘Horizon 2’ Over Unscripted Rape Scene 1 week ago:
Moreover, given that Hunt and LaBella are members of the performers union SAG-AFTRA, their intimate scenes would also be subject to the labor group’s regulations, which call for prior notice, consent and a closed set.
...so for non-unionized talents the industry assumes it doesn't need prior notice or consent?
- Comment on Tom Cruise Really, Really Loves Movies 1 week ago:
Maybe the question we should ask is not "how much does Tom Cruise love movies", but rather "where is Shelly".
- Comment on Tom Cruise Really, Really Loves Movies 1 week ago:
I love that Christian Bale based his portrayal of Patrick Bateman off Tom Cruise.
- Comment on Fairphone 4 is not getting Android 14 after all 1 week ago:
Might not be easier, but if there are unforeseen problems at this point maybe it doesn't make sense to prioritize the launch of 14 when they'll immediately have to start catching up to 15.
Fairphone maintains a stock version of Google Android. They've teamed up with Murena to offer Fairphones sold with /e/OS, but they're not responsible for software updates on those devices. My Fairphone 5 with /e/OS is still based on Android 13, for what it's worth. I guess that might change with the launch of /e/OS 3.0 in June.
- Comment on New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview? 4 weeks ago:
on many communities and instances
Bingo!
We have no ambition of being more lenient than Reddit, it's just less centralized. If you want to be a bigot you can find yourself an instance and a community for that, and other people can choose not to be exposed to your bullshit. That's the whole point.
Also, the UKSC judgment is a pseudo-scientific piece of junk. Agreeing with it is a big-ass red flag.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
What is it like?
For me, it's my favourite thing in the world. I feel more at home when I'm in the middle of the mountains not having seen people for days than when I'm in any building I've ever lived in. We evolved for these conditions, and at least for some of us it resonates with our souls - much like the ocean calls to others.
The experience of hiking is a bit like running, just dragged out over days. In the beginning you have energy. At some point you get tired, and you might want to stop for a while and you're worried if you're going to make it. And then you push through, and suddenly your body is in walking mode. So don't get too worried if you start feeling tired early in the hike.
As for the tent, the experience varies a lot. Is it raining? Are there lots of mosquitoes or midges? Is it cold? Are you walking until sunset, or do you have time at the camp site? What is the terrain you put your tent on?
You generally don't have the answer to those questions. I have had a wide variety of experiences in tents - crazy tent pole-breaking winds, thunderstorms beyond anything I believed was possible, floods, cows trying to graze underneath the tent in the middle of the night. Most of the time though the biggest event is waking up to the view, or going out to take a leak at night and enjoying the night sky.
The important thing is to always be flexible and open to improvise. When you're in up there you're at the mercy of the mountain, and you adjust your plans accordingly. Many mountain folks believe that the mountain has a will of its own that needs to be respected, and I don't hink it's too far from reality. Following from that is that the experience is never completely predictable, which is part of what makes its appeal infinite.
Enjoy!
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 5 weeks ago:
It, uhm, predicts tokens?
- Comment on Annoyed ChatGPT users complain about bot’s relentlessly positive tone 1 month ago:
How do you do, fellow humans 🤖🛹
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 month ago:
The Android keyboard always worked well for me, but I don't trust them one bit. So I changed my phone keyboard into something that is worse at guessing what I'm trying to say, but I'm somewhat confident I am not being surveilled through it.
I started using it a month or two ago, and ever since I have started making a billion typos when writing on mobile.
Also, I guess the demography of the communities you're in matters. I think quite a few of us over here are not native speakers. Sometimes I'll also write with my keyboard set to the wrong language by accident, "leasing to all mines" of freaky autocorrects.
- Comment on Is this picture idea immature? 1 month ago:
Especially if they don't take themselves oversly seriously.
Be your goofy self, if people are turned off by that you would never be happy with them anyway.
- Comment on How exactly are people lighting Teslas on fire? 2 months ago:
One criticism is that in some models the manual release of the back seat doors is near impossible to find, rendering them a death trap.
- Comment on Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue 2 months ago:
What an amazing site.
We won't ask why you would want to glue ceramic and leather together - we just give gluing info.
- Comment on Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue 2 months ago:
- Make car out of stainless steel
- Glue it together
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It's farmland, you see the plowmarks in front and in the back there are fields.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It has clearly been used as farmland already. And in most places where farming is common we could traditionally rely on rain, though I guess climate change is making everything funky.
- Comment on what instances allow you to follow users? 2 months ago:
There's no following of users in PieFed, so in that sense it's more like Lemmy.
- Comment on Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming 2 months ago:
A generational divide, seen in newer lawmakers’ impatience with bipartisanship and for colleagues who don’t understand new media
The man is 74 years old. They're talking about "newer lawmakers".
I think "young" here refers to people who can't remember the moon landing.
- Comment on Meta mocked for raising “Bob Dylan defense” of torrenting in AI copyright fight - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
Referring to the song Sweetheart Like You:
Steal a little and they throw you in jail
Steal a lot and they make you king. - Comment on How can a military buy fighter jets that the seller has kill switches for? 2 months ago:
Yeah, I was being a bit cheeky - I wouldn't step on any jet plane that hasn't had access to official spare parts for a few years.
I just found it amusing F-14s were bought in the mid-70s, which I guess is around the time many would say the quality of American cars also began dropping.
- Comment on How can a military buy fighter jets that the seller has kill switches for? 2 months ago:
Turns out America's greateast weapoin in its fight against terrorism is the quality of its engineering.
- Comment on Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait? 2 months ago:
There are good replies here already, but I just want to emphasize the role of bragging. It seems boasting about yourself is quite accepted and sometimes perhaps even expected in the US. In Europe it is not at all, and we tend to react strongly to it.
Whenever I've found Americans to be insufferable they've always been bragging or taking themselves too seriously.
Not all Americans obviously. And I guess a lot of Americans can't stand these people either. But it's still a common American trait that very few Europeans will have patience for.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I guess it depends on the art style. But generally, if you want to do it the hard way:
- Get a drawing tablet. The ones where you draw directly on a screen are the best, but they are also way more expensive.
- Get some powerful software that can imitate brushes. Krita is good.
- Practice, experiment, watch videos and gather knowledge on both the art style and your software of choice. Copy pieces of art in the style you want to reproduce until you master it.
With an emphasis on the third point. Digital art done manually is not so different from traditional art - it takes practice.
- Comment on Will threads affect lemmy or just mastodon? 3 months ago:
Lemmy does not display microblogs. So the only way we'd see content from Threads here is if someone on Threads somehow stumbles over content from here (for example if it's boosted by a Mastodon user they follow), and leaves a comment.
So basically it expands the theoretical reach of the comment section, but in practice it's unlikely to have a huge effect.
- Comment on mbin instance looking at lemmy community showing "magazine [community] is not receiving updates" 3 months ago:
Did you subscribe to it? Updates from communities are only received if at least one user is a subscribed to them, so you could probably fix this by subscribing. :)
- Comment on mbin instance looking at lemmy community showing "magazine [community] is not receiving updates" 3 months ago:
It could mean your mbin instance has been defederated from the Lemmy instance the community is hosted on, or that the community is hosted on an instance that has gone offline. For some reason or another, Mbin used to federate with the community, but it doesn't any more.
It could be usful to know which Mbin instance you're on, and which communities appear broken.
Also, welcome back! :)
- Comment on Job related: Am I being stupid? 3 months ago:
It seems you have accidentally found some meaning in your work, something your old self apparently couldn't imagine. Meaning is incredibly important - life is too short to sit around doing as little as possible in order to make money. Humans need meaning, and you're still human even while at work.
So you're not being stupid at all.
Where it becomes tricky is if you are offered positions with less meaning but more money/career opportunities. It's important not to be run over; meaning and wages needs to be balanced. But it seems the wages are the same here, and neither option is a health risk, so I would pick what's meaningful for you.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Wouldn't the right wing of the Democratic party be pretty standard Tory?