dojan
@dojan@lemmy.world
Software developer by day, insomniac by night.
- Comment on Honestly, I couldn't even imagine living in such a country lol 6 days ago:
That’s why the saying goes “Well I am here to fuck spiders.”
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
I don’t think we view this quite the same way. I don’t see a problem with something being a defining part of someone’s identity, because it’s not up to me to decide how other people ought identify. We all have identities so on some level everyone identifies with something. Just because say, you and I don’t get how diet can be an significant part of someone’s identity, doesn’t invalidate it being significant for someone else. It just means that we haven’t lived the same life and that’s fine.
In a way we do have to accept other people’s identities, because what else can we do? We can’t force change on others, all we can really do is acknowledge the situation and then choose whether or not we want to continue interacting with them.
It doesn’t really get problematic until you have someone that does try to force things on others. My mother was one of those militant vegans, and she lost a lot of friends for it. She’s the reason I am vegetarian, and the reason I was vegan for a long time. Back then I never had much choice in either regard.
Being vegan wasn’t even really a defining part of her identity. Her trying to force it on others was also less about trying to change others, and more about trying to place herself in some sort of morally superior position to them. She pretended to care about their health and the environment - hell on some level maybe she genuinely did care - but it really was more about making herself look and feel better about herself because she was (and is) a deeply insecure person pretending to be otherwise.
As a final aside; what I’ve written above is what I consciously believe, but I’m obviously not an infallible person. I’m an extremely cynical, nihilistic, and definitely a judgmental person. I try my best not to be, and to see things from the perspective of others, but some days I succeed better than others.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
As a life-long vegetarian, this has been my experience as well.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Speaking as a life-long lacto-ovo vegetarian who did a ten year stint as a vegan (I’m 30), it’s because there is a subset of the vegan population that’s very gung-ho about their diet and wants to proselytize about it, and no one likes being told what they should eat. When you remark on people’s diets, people tend to get annoyed and defensive about it.
I grew up being told that my food looked yucky, how I can’t call something meatballs since it doesn’t contain meat, how since I don’t eat protein I’ll die, so on, so forth. It got annoying fast, so now I don’t generally discuss my diet unless it makes a contextual sense. e.g. when planning a restaurant outing with people - though to be frank I often just avoid social situations where food plays a role.
I think where the big clashes really happen is when someone has made veganism/eating meat a core part of their identity, having that criticised, however gently that might be, will cause friction and often cause people to double-down on it; even though they may know on some level that the criticism might even be valid. You can see this in the fat pride movement as well,
- Comment on Checkmate 1 week ago:
Why was Taylor Swift not in the Oval Office during 9/11? 🤔🤔🤔
- Comment on There was such a simple solution all along 2 weeks ago:
That’s almost what our drug policy is!
- Comment on my humps 2 weeks ago:
I lay breakfast for the mean apes.
- Comment on Why are male social workers so different? 2 weeks ago:
What the hell! I thought the previous example was miserable, this is even worse! Does he have a supervisor you can report him to? That’s not acceptable behavior for a person in his position.
- Comment on Why are male social workers so different? 2 weeks ago:
He sounds like a miserable person to have to deal with.
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 weeks ago:
It sounds a lot more scandalous than it was, but yeah. I found this photo.
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, a UV camera/filter for the front camera would be useful for things like applying sunscreen. I’ve contemplated making a smart mirror with that type of functionality.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 2 weeks ago:
“Quiet quitting” is a bullshit term meaning to do your job but nothing above or beyond that. Joshua Fluke has done multiple videos on this BS, and at this point there are plenty of other idiotic terms thrown around to try and make workers look bad.
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t OnePlus have a special camera which ended up being updated away because it would see through people’s clothes?
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 weeks ago:
Would that I could, I’d trade years of my life to get some extra years for my dog. It’s insane to think he’s a third of the way through his lifespan already.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 3 weeks ago:
Well then, my greetings to you and your adjascent friend! :) Good catch!
- Comment on Can I lick it? 3 weeks ago:
Yesss, someone finally caught it!
- Comment on Can I lick it? 3 weeks ago:
I wanted to tell a joke here, but all the good jokes argon.
- Comment on we have a problem 3 weeks ago:
But not before the ability to make materials that can withstand the sun blasting it for millions of years without degrading.
Neat!
- Comment on The best thing to show 4 weeks ago:
Well this was a delightful idea.
- Comment on Curious 4 weeks ago:
The only solution to this conundrum is adoption I guess!
- Comment on Progress! 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think so. It probably just screws with the perception of time, I doubt it actually speeds anything up. If it did, we’d be able to use it for way more things than punishment, like for example, doing a deep delve into a subject in a matter of hours.
- Comment on Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity 4 weeks ago:
Unity’s modus operandi is to develop a feature halfway and then deprecate it and replace it with something that’s not yet released. Such a mess of an engine.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I see a few Teslas in town, and I always wonder about this. There was a time when Tesla was a viable option, but now there are so many better EVs on the market, more affordable, and that doesn’t come with the baggage of crazy that Tesla does. Plus, buying one now with the strikes that are going on is just unethical.
- Comment on Why did they move the comments to the right 5 weeks ago:
I’ve not encountered Privacy Guides before, but that’s a really lovely website!
- Comment on Anon watches LOTR 5 weeks ago:
Go back, Sam! I’m going to Mordor alone.
Of course you are. And I’m coming with you!It always makes me tear up. Fantastic films.
- Comment on it works! only 99.99$! 5 weeks ago:
Mozilla recently announced some kind of partnership with Qwant. Hadn’t heard of it before, and I was highly skeptical (I’m a very cynical person). I tried it out and honestly I think it gives me on-average better results than Google and Bing does. Since it doesn’t track you it doesn’t personalise the results at all, and as far as I can tell it doesn’t have any ads, though I do use an adblocker so don’t quote me on that. It’s also very snappy. Bing often has long loading times for me, which was incredibly frustrating.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 1 month ago:
Haha, you remind me of a brief period in 2014-ish when I tried to use Linux on an AMD laptop. It was a complete nightmare, nothing even remotely similar to my current issues with SuSE Tumbleweed. Fans going haywire, backlight issues, overheating. Gosh.
I’ve heard good things about the System76 laptops, it’s definitely enticing. Though I’m also interested in those modular Framework laptops, but they’re not available in my country.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 1 month ago:
I don’t get why you’re being downvoted because these are in general good tips.
I assembled my PC myself, off the shelf parts of course (I don’t really do electronics) but it’s not a locked down SOC or anything like that. My first foray into Linux with it was a bit too early because the kernel on the OS I tried hadn’t been updated to support my CPU. That was a bit of a headscratcher because the problems manifested in an interesting way.
It doesn’t change the fact that setting things up with Linux is a lot of extra manual work, which at some point the benefits of doing it will outweigh the inconvenience of it, but I’ve not reached that point yet.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 1 month ago:
I’m fortunate that I have a lot of background and experience in the industry, and I can understand people don’t want to go to that trouble, just like people don’t want to learn to cook.
I’m kind of in that boat, it’s not that I can’t solve the issues; I’ve used Linux for years. I work as a software developer, my entire day is about solving problems, sometimes it’s IT related, CI, dependency updates, build tools that cease working properly because of it, integration scripts, migrations, etc. and sometimes it’s more of a workflow thing; how do I best implement a solution that gets a user from A to B in the smoothest way possible?
In that way I’m like a professional cook that spent all day cooking for others, so when they get home they just don’t have the energy to put all that effort into themselves.
Having said that, I found the way windows was going, adding crap into the os that I don’t want, and constantly changing where settings are etc. Changing my defaults, and so on. There’s just too much I don’t like about the way it’s managed. Also, winsecure.
I can get behind this 100%, which is doubly funny because I make my money as a .NET developer. I work with various Microsoft platforms on a daily basis. As a developer the experience is honestly really comfy, they’ve done a good job there. Teams can fucking go die though. What a nightmare product.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 1 month ago:
I wish I felt this way. I installed SuSE Tumbleweed a while ago, and while I overall liked it, it was so finicky. My bluetooth ceased working after updating a bunch of stuff and I never got it working again. I feel like things are very rarely plug and play with Linux, something Windows has gotten pretty good at since, well at least XP.
Back when I used Linux as my daily driver, around 2007-2011 I was okay with that. Sure I had issues every so often, but I didn’t mind spending time to solve them. Nowadays when I spend 8 hours in front of the computer for work, if I want to spend more time in front of the computer it’s generally because I either want to enjoy a game, or experiment with music, what have you, and having things spontaneously crap out on me would drive me nuts.
Maybe SuSE Tumbleweed wasn’t the right choice. My thinking there was; a rolling distro will always be up-to-date, no more big OS upgrades ever, I’ll just set things up the way I like it and that’s that.
