ToyDork

@ToyDork@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researching alcohol interventions for a friend. I’ve seen more ads for alcohol than ever in my life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If that’s the case, I’m glad I keep my goddamn smartphone’s permissions locked as tight as I can. I’m so pissed off that Samsung decided to lock down their phones’ bootloaders that I bought a 512GB Google Pixel Pro and installed Graphine OS.

  I will never use will be my last smartphone unless Fairphone starts doing business in Canada; I’d buy from a UK reseller but if I’m going to buy a phone I want to have access to the official warranty, which was not offered by the reseller I found, and repairable by even the best right-to-repair standards still means nothing if the local repair shops tell me they can’t order in Fairphone parts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple security updates could be banned by British government⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and Orwell fucking aced it, sad as that is. He’d be rolling in his grave to know the only prediction that hasn’t come true is that creepy vaguely nazi-esque logo from the 1984 movie they actually made IRL that year, which I don’t think he had a had in designing?

  Unfortunately, dystopia comes in many, many forms and no one forsaw internet dragnets or that smartphones, unlike “telescreens”, would be too useful to not have and too universal to not use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do they also know C++ or Python?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. I mostly posted that mini-rant because I’m unhappy with the current political divides here in Canada and in the US being reduced for too long to “self-righteous and toxic” and “intolerant and arrogant” to such a degree that memes like this are championed by the former while the latter use it as confirmation bias to justify their fear-motivated hatred.

  Personally I would say I’m close to Center-Left and call my political philosophy Neutralism since Centrism seems to mean “compromises with both sides, even if one side is not governing in good faith” and I honestly care less about the social side of politics and more about its effects on people’s happiness.

  So basically, I just feel sick of having to tell all the Woke, TERF and Conservative internet assholes that they are not entitled to having their opinion catered to and that I’m no more a right-winger for something like only knowing English than I am an SJW for knowing slavery in America was only 100% (99.9%?) eliminated in 2012, or a TERF for wondering what the basis is of the public opinion that J.K. Rowling is transphobic.

  What a person does and doesn’t know is not what makes them ignorant. Willing ignorance is when you refuse to accept the truth because it’s uncomfortable, but that doesn’t mean finding the truth is easy. As far as many people around the world knew for decades, Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves at the end of the American Civil War and that was the end of the slavery part of racism, when in actuality the assassination of Lincoln was done deliberately so that the Vice President could undo everything Lincoln tried to fix. If you found that out, did that make you a racist until you realised it, or were you just human?

  tl;dr: People who are extremists seem to have unreasonable expectations of what a good person is, ironically due to their own unwillingness to question what they believe. I’ve been silently trying to ignore it and I think today I just said "screw it, this clearly isn’t Reddit, I’m going to point out that this meme is actually and unreasonably taken as an ideal to be followed or fuel for the hate machine too often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do they also know C++ or Python?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, fair enough. In North America everyone who was born here knows English even if they’re African-American or First Nations, but I could see why in most African nations it’s unfair to be focusing on English as anything more than a highly-recommended option in schools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do they also know C++ or Python?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck off, pinkdrunk. I was just trying to make a point about the meme, even I know bi_tux was being sarcastic. And no, I did have to ask someone wtf he said in German, I don’t understand it so much as know like three words (“Deutch” and a couple others) and recognize the similarities between English and German because I play transport simulators and the logistics sim game communities are pretty much centered around Germany and the UK.

  Also nice post history, I see you’re ready and willing to attack anyone who disagrees with you. Blocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I listen to ~1500 different tracks from the 19th Century all the way up to the present. I loved iTunes but the “share with friends over the internet” capability has become indispensable recently.

  If Spotify keeps going downhill (and let’s face it, it probably will) then I hope someone creates a decentralized playlist-sharing service so that I can put stuff up. Not even necessarily a piracy service, it would be nice to just have links to buy a friend’s playlist’s content on such a service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They are watching⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Technetium sounds like a name for the cool new superscience material in Iron Man’s ARC Reactor that makes Tony Stark get a last resort dark side superpower, not the 43rd element on the periodic table… I already called dibs on naming an armored superhero Technetium though, sorry!