nemo
@nemo@piefed.social
I like American music. Do you like American music? I like American music, too, baby.
- Comment on Why does everyone hate Income tax ? 3 weeks ago:
I don't hate it. I think it's one of the better taxes.
People hate it because it feels like a bait-and-switch, the difference between salary and take-home pay. They also hate it because it comes with paperwork.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 3 weeks ago:
Windows 10 is no longer receiving security updates
Not all machines that ran W10 are capable of running W11
W11 is full of AI integration, always-on data collection, and other no-sell bloatware
Linux is easier to use than ever and free
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 3 weeks ago:
Jumping on to also recommend Chirp, the Chicago Independent Radio Project. Live volunteer DJs, no ads.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
yisss I was also jamming on the C64, a hand-me-down from a cousin
Eventually I had read all the books I was interested in at the local library, and the second nearest library, and the downtown library, and I was riding eight miles each way to get to the far side of town. As long as I was back by dinnertime!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
We read Ripley's Believe It or Not and the Guinness Book of World Records instead of Wikipedia. Urban legends were rampant. Everyone lived in constant fear of "the gum disease gingivitis".
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
90s kid introvert here.
I would hop on my bike of a Saturday morning, explore the town for an hour, hit the library, come home a few hours later with as many books as I could fit in my backpack.
I'd stay up late learning to code from paperback manuals, save my games to floppies and swap them with friends at school or make my brothers play them.
I ran a year-long pen-and-paper fantasy wargame with my friends from the Scouts, I'd spend an hour every week tabulating the results of everyone's orders and updating the map.
- Comment on Is feigned happiness remotely similar to actual happiness? 1 month ago:
What do you mean by "feigned happiness"? Cheerfulness?
Because I know unpleasant people that are happy that way, and depressed people who are very cheerful. Happiness is something you have, cheerfulness is something you do.
Though in my experience, being cheerful tends to help other people feel better and helping others makes me happy.
- Comment on “Production” to describe multiplication? 1 month ago:
IIRC that is a synonym already; and Factor » Product isn't a pun, just the what the words literally mean.