LainTrain
@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 6 days ago:
Lmao there are so many ppl on Lemmy who unironically think like this. Let culture grow wild and fuck the profits.
- Comment on School phone bans don't boost grades or wellbeing, study suggests 1 week ago:
But there’s a difference between a curated selection of books
Look up a listicle? Da-doink
in physical form in front of you
Fair, but that shit ain’t cheap.
and deciding to read a book on an electronic device.
If the book is good you’ll read it however you can. I once read the entirety of the Berserk manga at my desktop PC in a shitty wooden chair.
The former dissuades the reader-to-be from abandoning the idea over too wide a selection
This is pure pop psychological speculation.
other electronic distractions from asserting themselves over the reading material - I refer here to notifications that flash over the current window.
Turn them off?
Plus, there’s plenty of people who choose not to read, despite the option being available.
And so there were before phones. A lack of curiosity wasn’t invented in 2008, even if it may feel like it if that’s when you were born.
However - wider availability has almost always increased literacy other factors non-withstanding, from the printing press to the digital media of today.
Having the option physically there in front of you is far more encouraging, in my opinion.
I fully disagree. If anything - it’s about meeting people where they’re at, and today - people are on their phones.
And once they start reading, they might go on
Indeed, and you’re not gonna get them to start by making them go to a library like some nerd, but by getting them to be interested via the places they’re already at.
- Comment on School phone bans don't boost grades or wellbeing, study suggests 1 week ago:
I’m also neurodivergent. I actually had a library with access to infinite books, it’s called a telephone and/or laptop and the internet, where all books are free and easily accessible.
- Comment on Developers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines" 1 week ago:
He’s using windows.
But while we’re on the subject, ~/.local/share is cancer and shouldn’t exist.
The appropriate path is /usr/share.
I have a Cron job that will erase anything written to that folder, and if that breaks your shitty software then I’ll assume your shitty software doesn’t work and I’ll also spam issues about it until you fix it or find a different career doing something productive, like cooking McRibs.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
How wonderful, another AI thread on .world, a feast for my blocklist.
The block button hungers for the luddite with no basic reasoning skills.
- Comment on School phone bans don't boost grades or wellbeing, study suggests 2 weeks ago:
Was obvious to anyone. Nothing wrong with phones except isolating outcasts, neuroduvergents and minorities from the world and forcing them with no escape to suffer the bullying from their teachers and class etc.
- Comment on School phone bans don't boost grades or wellbeing, study suggests 2 weeks ago:
The latter.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
2025 is deemed the year of layoffs
Wasn’t 2024 the year of layoffs? Didnt like half a million people get laid off per layoffs.fyi? And workforce reductions have been ongoing since 2020.
- Comment on The opposite of hot girl summer 2 weeks ago:
Had no clue this was a thing.
Darndest southern accent impression “Mos-caw Idaho, home of the sohv-yeaaaht yu-nyon and huckleberry pie”
- Comment on The opposite of hot girl summer 2 weeks ago:
Mfer at least y’all have proper winter with snow. In the UK it’s just rain and shit.
- Comment on The opposite of hot girl summer 2 weeks ago:
When will this fucking cold end. Can ExxonMobil not pump up the emissions just a tad so my February can be not fucking 8 degrees all the time.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This is the funniest shit I’ve seen. Early Adulthood is 25-44 years old mhm lmao. You’re reflecting by 25 at the latest. Babies don’t ask questions either lol
- Comment on Europeans watching US/CA relations implode 2 weeks ago:
Can’t wait for the glorious clusterfuck of a CA-EU-UK-CN-JP trade aliance. Even Russia would be neutered, possibly NK too because both ultimately depend on China. EU could ensure it’s own security through independence from the very nation it needed to protect it.
Probably hopium though.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
At the school I went to we had a lad from Kazakhstan who had to constantly explain to the poor Norf FC staff that he was indeed from a real country that was not part of Russia, and that he just spoke Russian and thus would hang out with Russians and other Russian speakers like Ukrainians, Armenians etc. alongside other Kazakhs and then explain that all those were also all real countries and not regions or cities in Russia.
Eventually he gave up and just started degectedly answering he was from Russia.
- Comment on Is there any place with all of reddit's snoovatar assets? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know the answer.
- Comment on Is there any place with all of reddit's snoovatar assets? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah great content, guy asks a simple question and every answer is a circlejerk of idiots telling him he’s wrong for even wondering about something. Great website guys.
- Comment on Is there any place with all of reddit's snoovatar assets? 3 weeks ago:
copyright violation
Copyright Violation is a good thing. Fuck the rich stop being a cuck for corpos.
Scarce developer resources
He wants to make it, his resources are his to waste. I wrote a bash script that sends cowsay to mail, it’s utterly useless, but i liked making it. I didn’t waste shit except my own time and it’s mine to “waste”.
- Comment on Is there any place with all of reddit's snoovatar assets? 3 weeks ago:
Oh fuck off man let the guy do what he wants. Are you like literally upset by something that vaguely looks like the logo of some website? Log off man.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Worth noting it is that way in many ways we see in our modern world not because of innate or natural or genetic causes, but due to a very purposefully built system designed to aid some at the expense of others, no more sacred or divine than the right of kings.
- Comment on Camping with the far-right: What I learned from a year undercover 3 weeks ago:
These same people vote for trump and they would support Reform, to them Musk doing the nazi salute is a signal that it’s their time to take the stage.
- Comment on Robot packers and AI cameras: UK retail embraces automation to cut staff costs 4 weeks ago:
What staff costs? They pay them like 10p for getting up at 6 in morning, half an hour before they’d gone to bed in their rolled up newspaper, then slice them in half with a breadknife and dance about on their graves.
- Comment on An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off 4 weeks ago:
Bleak as the world may be, Stewart’s writing always gets a smile and a laugh out of me. He’s got a remarkable ability to put the absurdity of our moment into simple and funny English, his famous “thrown in jail” sketch being perhaps the best example.
He’s absolutely right, too. We’re all here so on some level we already know that. This is no time to dilly-dally, we need to cultivate our alternative online spaces and cooperate and work together.
- Comment on Bloodletting recommended for Jersey residents after PFAS contamination 5 weeks ago:
I’m curious - why would someone need to bloodlet? I’m ignorant AF on this but I thought this was like, dark ages medicine?
- Comment on UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance' 5 weeks ago:
I totally agree, I think to encourage enthusiasm for work he should make all his employees equal shareholders with a stake in the business so all can benefit and run brewdog as a worker owned co-op, but something makes me think he won’t.
- Comment on Anon remembers kindergarten 5 weeks ago:
Title
YEEEE
- Comment on Anon remembers kindergarten 5 weeks ago:
Yeeee
- Comment on DeckSight: OLED mod for the LCD Steam Deck 5 weeks ago:
Yeah which is absurd, considering every other phone and mobile device (e.g. PS Vita) had OLEDs since 2011 at the latest.
- Comment on Anon remembers kindergarten 5 weeks ago:
I don’t remember either. Never even went to kindergarten. In my country it was just pre-school at like 6 then normal school at 7.
I remember getting a sega/Nintendo bootleg thing at 5 that broke almost immediately with some looney tunes game on it and some bootleg unlicensed figure abomination combinations of Spider-Man and power rangers.
I remember getting a PS1 eventually in around 2004, then PS2 a year later, a PSP a year after that and a PS3 in around 2008, plus the first Full HD TV we replaced our Samsung CRT TV/VCR with, I was apparently also responsible for busting the VCR part of that by shoving a tape in backwards as a baby.
I remember breaking my childhood best friend’s nose and it’s how we became friends. I remember being bullied for being different, mostly by being not a muslim and not as poor as some of the other kids.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 5 weeks ago:
It’s called sample bias. You’re only talking about the artists you’ve personally met, not the statistics of artists as a whole.
I know what sample bias is.
If you read my linked comment carefully, I’m not talking about just people I’d met IRL personally, I genuinely don’t know of any actually struggling contemporary artbros.
Statistics lie, like I said, they may earn less on paper as a wage, but they are raking it in otherwise or have QoL far superior to even the top wagies, if they couldn’t, they’d be working at a factory.
And when I am talking about artists, I’m not talking about the small fraction that are in “high” arts with museums n shit.
And did I mention or imply I meant anything of the sort? No by artbros I just meant (like in the linked comment) people who are professionally doing things like animating, drawing, 3D modeling/CGI, writing, film or music.
also think you’ve got a bias in favor of tech bros because you see them as hard workers, and see artists as lazy elites.
Prove me wrong then.
It sounds to me that you you don’t really know a lot of artists and don’t really know a lot about this whole situation but still managed to form an opinion.
If that were the case I’d still know way more than you it seems.
Or do you have an actual counterpoint, like an example?
- Comment on Negotiations over AI are still holding up video game development - Mass Effect's Jennifer Hale explains why 5 weeks ago:
Course they do. So do users, nah? Files are files. Once you give someone info you can’t really take it back.