Fedegenerate

@Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Working class trying to strip other working class of rights and privileges. Yes parents of children should get considerations according to their need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where do you draw the line if you ponder quitting a job?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pereto’s law is universal: ~80% of the work is done by ~20% of the staff. Either find a place where managers recognise who the 20% are and act accordingly, or don’t be one of the 20%.

  I’ve done both, I aim to be the 20% and see if it’s valued, if not I aim to be one of the 80%. Successfully moving from 1 to the other isn’t too challenging, you’ll find a lot of the extra work load wasn’t noticed anyway and a little weaponised incompetence sheds the rest. Just be better than the current worst person and you’ll be fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  New MAD doctrine: all belligerents in any international conflict gets nuked. Thank you coming to my ted talk, I have a proof but it is too large to fit in the comments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think being left-handed gives any unique qualities or advantages compares to other right handed?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No-one hates fencing a lefty quite like another lefty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Had to be me.”

  Also, there was a Warhammer RTS that had “AHH my spleen!!!” Which I never got over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought the headline was not conveying the emphasise. “We’re going to be ok” says member of the owning class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's never a bad time to check your biases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you imagine my fiancée’s dissapointment when I showed her my “finger tricks”…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i need an rv, and lab equipment, and a helper⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone identifying with Homelander would. That’s the real meme here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a beginner in self hosting I like plugging the random commands I find online into a llm. I ask it what the command does, what I’m trying to achieve and if it would work…

  It acts like a mentor, I don’t trust what it says entirely so I’m constantly sanity checking it, but it gets me to where I want to go with some back and forth. I’m doing some of the problem solving, so there’s that exercise, it also teaches me what commands do and how the flags alter it. It’s also there to stop me making really stupid mistakes that I would have learned the hard way without.

  Last project was adding a HDD to my zpool as a mirror. I found the “attach” command online with a bunch of flags. I made what I thought was my solution and asked chatgpt. It corrected some stuff: I didn’t include the name of my zpool. Then gave me a procedure to do it properly.

  In that procedure I noticed an inconsistency in how I was naming drives vs how my zpool was naming drives. Asked chat gpt again got told I was a dumbass, if thats the naming convention I should probably use that one instead of mine (I was using /dev/sbc and the zpool was using /dev/disk/by-id/). It told me why the zpool might have been configured that way so that was a teaching moment, I’m using usb drives and the zpool wants to protect itself if the setup gets switched around. I clarified the names and rewrote the command, not really chatgpt was constantly updating the command as we went… Boom I have mirrored my drives, I’ve made all my stupid mistakes in private and away from production, life is good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants to play a game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mop, wire coat hanger, pregnancy test.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Mass Effect⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Favourite game - 1, it was the first one I played and the one I’m most familiar with.

  Least is 3, it was the first game I encountered with day 1 dlc, so didn’t get any. Jokes on me I guess because I got the remaster instead.

  I enjoyed KOTOR/II before it and I was hoping for more of the same, more HK-47 really. No HK but the play is familiar: go to a planet do some quests, X person wants to talk and on to the next.

  Femshep is the only shep for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for RaspberryPI 4B case?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally running an Argon Neo on the pi 4, zero complaints. Flirc is better looking by half (imho), but the Neo out performs it thermally (with the cover off).

  I’m running it as a pihole/jellyfin&servarr passively cooled with zero problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Staying for the week at an AirBnB in Rochester, MN. This is what I just found out I'm stuck with.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “How does your network availability compare with your expectations”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New guide on Ico dropped on Gamefaqs⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Funnily, I just finished this game for the first time last week. Wonder what happened in our lives that it became relevant. I might use the guide for a NG+ if it tells me how to get the lightsaber.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazed these aren't real⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my day the punchline to this joke was

  Polo: the one with the whole… Shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games can you recommend that didn't get the appreciation that they deserved?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wildermyth is just so endearing I loved my time with it.

  Taking the same character through each campaign was pretty fun like I was making a serialised demi-god: Doofus and the mountain horde, Doofus and the ancient threat etc. Because characters age though the campaign, it has interesting implications in the world lore. Like we’re an archivist document the various legends of Doofus, acknowledging where they contradict and maybe speculating on how the differences in each culture’s legend of Doofus reflects back.

  Downside is I optimised the fun out of the combat in always having Doofus at the center of the strategy, each encounter then played out the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American bully XL dogs to be banned by end of year - Sunak⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I tried to summarise that in the what would prevent fatal attacks paragraph. I try to see through a “what effective measures have we done to regulate things that can cause harm” lense.

  Cars can cause harm, we demand training, licencing, registering, insurance, stoppages by police to provide proof of the above, etc etc. There are still fatalities though. I would accept every one of those measures being applied to dog ownership, you’re right it sucks for the peeps owning chihuahua’s, their insurance will likely be low though.

  That said, after engaging with the dog foster system, I have other reasons for wanting to limit access to dogs. I weigh the harm done to families that lose an opportunity Vs the harm prevention what I think the above will do to the number of homeless dogs as I would add all animals are neutered at the earliest possible convenience unless owned by a registered breeder, that registration being an absolute bastard to get, perhaps requiring yearly inspections to curb puppy mills too. I love dogs, I don’t see their ownership as a right but a responsibility first and a privilege second.

  I did think about banning characteristics, which then lead me on to blades as we regulate blades by characteristic. I have absolutely no idea if it was effective though, and didn’t care to check, so I didn’t include it. But how to apply it to dogs, weight maybe, biting force are objectively measurable but what happens if some family just lands an absolute chonk. As you say, the actual relevent characteristics are functionally impossible to police.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American bully XL dogs to be banned by end of year - Sunak⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice argument, I showed you the data the proves it wrong though.

  But beyond that the argument is flawed fundamentally, dog breeds aren’t static and the gog abusers don’t have to start with dachounds.

  My argument stands and is supported by the data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American bully XL dogs to be banned by end of year - Sunak⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Once again, someone didn’t read my first two paragraphs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major changes to most benefits systems from next year confirmed by DWP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I went through PIP twice, denied, appealed and won the first time. Second time I was denied I just couldn’t do it again. I’m also, lucky in that I have a supportive partner otherwise I don’t know. Currently rocking a part time job as enforced physio and some pocket money, but there’s no pride in that.

  What’s worse, if you’re denied PIP you can’t apply again for the same condition so I’m SOL now. If it hits the fan I don’t know what I’d do, an increase in hours at my current job to support myself would be such a decrease in QOL I don’t think it would be worth it, that’s assuming I could do it at all.

  I’m currently retraining but I don’t know how I can sell a recliner as a reasonable accomdation for full time work. Mostly I’m just broken… kinda just unloaded there, sorry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American bully XL dogs to be banned by end of year - Sunak⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure this is a reply to me. Difference in what is that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American bully XL dogs to be banned by end of year - Sunak⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This would go a lot easier if you would please read my initial comment. Both of your comments are answered in there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American bully XL dogs to be banned by end of year - Sunak⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I answered that. Or I don’t understand your question. Just keep banning what?

  I suppose I assumed the aim of the policy is “to stop fatal dog attacks in the UK”. I also assumed that was the reasoning behind the Pitbull ban too and look where we are. We could learn from history, or we could just keep banning them. This is all just repetition of my previous comment though.

  I guess if the aim is to ban breeds of dogs then sure, why not keep banning them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American bully XL dogs to be banned by end of year - Sunak⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, the people who abuse their dogs to the point of become dangerous will just move on the next breed.

  Playing whack-a-mole isn’t ever effective policy. Before this breed it was pitbulls, after this breed it’ll just be something else.

  Dog attacks won’t stop unless we ban all dogs, stop people who abuse animals to the point of of being dangerous from owning dogs, or stop people from wanting to abuse animals to the point of being dangerous.

  That said, this isn’t a harmful policy, just an ineffective one. If you want to own a dog, for good or ill, there are plenty of other breeds out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shoplifting an epidemic, says John Lewis boss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The BRC has previously told the BBC that these high level of theft cost retailers almost £1bn in the 2021 financial year, “money that would be better used to reduce prices and invest in a better customer experience”.

  Narrator: The money would not be used to reduce prices or invest in a better customer experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How common is it for atheists to be against homosexuality/abortion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That was me, I was raised Mormon so I had a lot of common sense that turned out to be unquestioned prejudice. Not a defence of who I was though, I was a prick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Organized Downvoting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Except you came to me and didn’t do any of those things that you said that you should. That’s fine, this is unproductive, I’m gonna go now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Organized Downvoting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  All roads lead to the same end though: migrate. If you care about your comment numbers migrate and the downvotes stop. Account numbers don’t grant you any special treatment so migrate because you don’t lose anything. Accounts are free and your score means nothing, just migrate.

  This very much seems an argument for arguments sake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Organized Downvoting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes it impossible to quickly assess whether a how-to video is legitimate or full of misinformation and mistakes.

  I guess if someone is operating under the premise “what is popular is correct” they would find value in votecounts. I dunno, I might browse weird though; I dont read community names, usernames or look at vote count.

  I always saw votes as being for the entity (YouTube, Reddit etc) so they can serve up what’s popular to users so they’re more attractive to users.

  Again, lemmy is rarely active enough for comments to be banished and all of which is ignoring the fact that the numbers are meaningless just migrate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Organized Downvoting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting you get alerts for replies on deleted messages. I deleted and reposted as a stand alone as that’s what I originally intended to do.

  I agree though, I think the correct solution for OP is migrate, and that’s what they said they’re going to do. Fortunately, accounts are free and the points meaningless.

  I don’t think ignoring is that bad a solution though. Rarely is Lemmy so active downvoted comments are relegated to the shadowrealm.