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- Comment on Why do people hate video games so much? 2 hours ago:
And then there are also point and click adventure games and even visual novels. Who hates those?
- Comment on Why do people hate video games so much? 4 hours ago:
I hate online PvP FPS games, and I know it’s a 100% skill issue. I like to think that the same logic also applies to those who hate all games.
- Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. 11 hours ago:
Yeah, that would be nice. My previous car had a diesel engine, so you can imagine how much I would have loved to have a heater in there. Also, the windshield was totally old-school too, so no heating there either. Just start the engine, and start scraping. Every. Morning. Well, at least the seats were warm, but literally nothing else was.
- Comment on Ergonomic keyboard + laptop? 12 hours ago:
For a small desk just big enough for a laptop, ergonomic keyboards aren’t an option. However, if you have a large desk but still can’t fit a nice keyboard, consider decluttering to create more space.
- Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. 1 day ago:
In colder parts of the world you actually drive with mittens on. I have no idea how’s that going to work with modern touch screen cars.
- Comment on Ergonomic keyboard + laptop? 1 day ago:
I use both. Switching is easy, because you get used to it eventually. If you need to type a lot, an ergonomic keyboard will be a lot nicer, so you’ll end up preferring that.
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 4 days ago:
I believe societal expectations of masculinity and femininity have become distorted over time. Conforming to these rigid categories will just lead to sadness.
If you’re a woman who enjoys tinkering with electronics, go for it. If you’re a man who feels comfortable expressing your emotions, do so. Why not explore both while you’re at it?
In matters like these, it’s perfectly fine to disregard cultural norms and follow your own path. There’s no reason to conform to societal expectations that contradict your true self. You don’t need to identify with any specific gender; simply be a human and engage in human activities.
I think gender has become another “tribe” that people naturally gravitate towards and identify with. It seems quite human to desire such social groupings. Thousands of years ago, your family and literal tribe fulfilled this role. Today, we seek similar social connections through other means.
- Comment on Why do some website logins have the username and password entry on different pages? 5 days ago:
This is usually the right answer. In the past, logging in was a simple pipeline with no forks along the way. That’s why a simple username + password did the trick. Nowadays, logging in has become a complicated journey with several ways to get to the destination. Once the site knows your email, it knows what’s the next step in your case.
- Comment on Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’ 1 week ago:
I only know one method. You just destroy the rivet completely with a small metal drill. It’s not clean or nice, but who cares as long as it works.
- Comment on Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’ 1 week ago:
And if glue isn’t holding it together, consider using rivets or screws instead.
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve tried reading my local and federated feeds but found little value in them. While most posts are interesting, they’re either too niche, too boring or just fly straight over my head. Consequently, I prefer to stick with the subscribed feed almost exclusively. That’s where I can reliably find stuff worth my time.
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 2 weeks ago:
Haven’t asked the admins, but here’s my guess.
Being the most well known instance means that you get a lot of traffic. Let’s say that 1% of the people using your instance are annoying morons. In a smaller instance that 1% translates to maybe one ban a month or whatever. In a bigger place, it becomes a constant onslaught stupid idiot bullshit nobody has the time or energy to deal with. Either you get a bunch of admins and mods to deal with that nonsense or you start banning users more aggressively.However, some part of that drama is public on https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.world. Have a look. Just scroll down to censures given and read the reasons why lemmy.world has defederated from so many instances.
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 2 weeks ago:
I took a look at those stats a while back, and the defederation procedure totally goes both ways.
As far as I can tell, bigger instances have bumped into issues that were resolved through defederation. Smaller instances haven’t faced those kinds of problems, so they haven’t defederated with any instances yet.
If all the big instances have defederated your instance, that’s clear sign that there might be something wrong with that place. If your instance has defederated from a bunch of other instances, take a look at the size of that instance before drawing conclusions. For example lemmy.world is a special case and a clear outlier.
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 2 weeks ago:
That is a good point. Some instances have special rules and settings like that. Sounds a bit rare though. I haven’t heard of many instances that put the extra effort into customizing the experience on that level
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 2 weeks ago:
Just a side note: The instance you’re on doesn’t really matter very much if you never read the local feed. If you do, you’ll definitely notice the local vibe sooner or later.
If you’re on an instance that is widely defederated, you may also notice that it’s difficult to find communities. Also, people may comment on your instance if it happens to be particularly notorious. Other than that, instances don’t really matter that much.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts.. 2 weeks ago:
I’m assuming RAM factories are investing in new production lines to meet the increased demand. This means there should be ample capacity to spare when demand decreases. That’s the ideal time to purchase those 500 GB of RAM for all your Chrome tabs.
The plan is that when interest rates rise again, investors won’t have access to cheap loans and AI companies won’t be able to build more data centres. This should lead to a demand collapse and manufacturers being left with surplus capacity. I doubt they can reduce production quickly enough, so they’ll likely push cheap products onto the market for a while.
- Comment on If the US was partitioned, what new states would you want to appear? 2 weeks ago:
How about drawing a grid on the entire country, and labelling each new square state in chessboard style? American streets try to be sensible and consistent like that, so why not just apply the same idea on a federal level too? If you’re in the state D5, you’ll know that D4 right next door.
- Comment on Why isint lemmy more popular? 2 weeks ago:
Also the client situation is confusing to normies. Search for Lemmy on the spyware cancer store and you’ll see what I mean.
Pixelfed and Mastodon have already figured that out.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 weeks ago:
After hearing so many recommendations for Sidebery, I finally had the perfect chance to test it out. I was searching for a specific YouTube video I’d seen almost a year ago. Zero idea who made it or the exact title was, just the general topic and a few probable keywords. Even with Gemini’s fancy AI crap and Google integrations, it was a dead end.
I tried various search terms and ended up with a mountain of tabs. That’s when I realized I needed to organize the chaos, and Sidebery was a lifesaver. RAM usage hit about 14 GB, but I finally found the video.
I created three tab panels: one for the main topic, another for interesting but unrelated finds, and a third for random stuff to revisit later today. Sidebery can close duplicates and move tabs between panels, and that made it much easier to manage everything. Regular tabs just can’t handle this kind of workflow.
This experience really drove home why people use dedicated tab managers. Keeping everything in a single row still feels bizarre to me, but with the right tools, having a 100 tabs open is completely understandable.
- Comment on OpenAI plans to enshitify ChatGPT with adverts 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, you gotta crank up the GPT in this genre. What was previously seen as a flaw has become the central tenet.
- Comment on OpenAI plans to enshitify ChatGPT with adverts 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality? 3 weeks ago:
When I visited Oslo, I bumped into some pakistani lads, and we had a nice long chat about the history of immigration in Norway.
Back in the 70s, Norway imported lots of workers for the oil industry. At the time, most of them imagined that they would go back home sooner or later. if you live like your mind is in Pakistan, but your body is in Norway, it’s just not going to work long term.
In the next 30 years, more and more of them realized that they actually quite like it in Norway, since they have a job, house, car, family, children and so on. In the 00s they also started acting like it. Now, the immigrants and their children have been living like regular people for about 20+ years.
However, that applies to the fraction of immigrants who have already spent about 30 years in that country. Contrast that with the Afghani, Iraqi and Syrian immigrants in Sweden. They haven’t been there for 30 years yet, which means that they haven’t fully come to terms with the fact that they’ve left their home country behind and they aren’t going back. Once they cross that mental threshold, they begin to act like this is their new home country. Before that though, you can expect to see all sorts of nasty side effects.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 3 weeks ago:
But I have seen some offices with enormous stacks of books and papers reaching all the way to the ceiling. I don’t know how that system works, but these people claim they can somehow find everything in there.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 3 weeks ago:
Same. Having a logical subfolder structure and maybe even tags just makes it so much nicer IMO.
However, that’s not the only way to roll. Lots of people here prefer to use tabs instead.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 3 weeks ago:
In other words, that’s the kind of stuff you need to reference frequently, so having those tabs constantly open is quite useful for the task at hand.
Other people seem to just neglect and abandon a bunch of tab. That’s a very different crowd though.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 3 weeks ago:
Out of sight, out of mind, which means it comes with pros and cons though. If you feel like 500 tabs is consuming too much of your mental bandwidth, then offloading some of them to bookmarks should help. The idea is that only active stuff would be in the tabs, while everything a bit less active would be in the bookmarks.
Some people just don’t roll that way, and this thread has some interesting comments about that style too.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 3 weeks ago:
That’s what I thought, but many people here say otherwise.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 3 weeks ago:
Fair enough. Smooth workflow matters too, and tabs certainly provide that.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 3 weeks ago:
Oh, so maybe that’s why Linus couldn’t open more than a few thousand tabs in Chrome. He used a server board and 2 TB or RAM, but the system got ridiculously slow long before he could utilize all of it. The whole system was specifically designed to sacrifice speed for capacity, so I guess that was a mistake. There could have also been software related issues with the setup. who knows. Maybe Windows or Chrome just can’t handle absurd tab counts gracefully.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 3 weeks ago:
I have a few tabs open all the time as well, but I also have bookmarks for them so that I can easily reopen them after updating and restarting. However, I think Firefox can remember my tabs, so maybe I don’t necessarily need to do it that way. Should probably try that out at some point.
Other people here have suggested using bookmarks, tab groups,tree style tab, OneTab or even Raindrop for keeping things organized. Do you think some of those might serve your purposes?