GenkiFeral

@GenkiFeral@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg's 'metaverse' business lost more than $10 billion last year, and the losses keep growing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  i disagreee with that. Targeting people who want to escape reality and then also knowing how impuslive they are, how smart, and which of their buttons to push is extremely powerful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg's 'metaverse' business lost more than $10 billion last year, and the losses keep growing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Think of how real other fake things we like are: bleach blone hair with dark roots showing (men still go for it), silicone boobs, fake nails, men's hair dye, fake tans, bras that make boobs look pointy.... People still use them and many other people still find the fakeness more attractive than the original state of things. Its the greater potential for controlling the population that scares me. yes, there are many morons, but sometimes we need their numbers to help keep authority figures (tyranny of any kind) in check. When people live outside of reality, they rarely participate fully in meaningful activities outside of their jobs. VR sounds like soma to me, a way to placate the dumb-masses (dumb asses).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What text editor are you using?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I do not code, so take what I say in that context. I use Geany because it does many things - and a guy who won a coding competition says he uses only Geany. Geany is far lighter than Atom (which is owned now by Microsoft). Geany handles markdown fairly well and I use mostly markdown. But, plan to learn a tiny bit of code. For terminal, i use use nano or something similar called micro. Both nano and micro can open/use markdown (.md) or .txt, and, though they cannot open .rtf, if i use Ranger terminal file manager, they can show the preveiwed contents of an .rtf file, but cannot open it to edit it that way. Geany can open .rtf if it has no graphics - so text only. If there is formatting added, though, it is an ugly sight. I am testing software on a slow HDD in order to have a very light, fast system and Geany does fine on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy Release v0.15.1: Private instances, New User Registrations, Email Verification, and Temporary Bans. 🎉⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, transparency. If we see the same 5 groups or leaders reporting 45% of the people on Lemmy to be banned, we might want to investigate whether these people aren't a bit intolerant of other points of view. It could be that they are simply diligent, but maybe not. Personally, I learn a lot from well-informed differing points of view that tell me facts in a patient, polite manner. People often jump to conclusions and think their values are the only ones that matter. Taken to extremes, this leads to intimidation and a type of witch-burning.