Guy Fleegman

@ GuyFleegman @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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2 yr. ago

Guy Fleegman @lemmy.dbzer0.com 12mo ago

Defederate. Zero tolerance for Nazis.

12mo ago

PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now

Guy Fleegman @lemmy.dbzer0.com 12mo ago

New AAA games suck.

I either play indies or old AAA games. It all went to shit around the beginning of the PS4/X1 era, so yeah, my upper bound is about 2013.

1y ago

Rule

Mint is very good. Seriously. If I had to daily drive Linux on the desktop, I’d use Mint. But even Mint is a far cry from a Mac in terms of usability and software compatibility.

I’d also have to go back to x86-64 to use Mint, and that’s a big step in the wrong direction. I’m sure that won’t always be the case, but at the moment, the ARM Linux situation is still quite fragmented.

1y ago

Rule

I use a Mac precisely because it lets me do what I want. Linux is endless configuration and poorly designed UIs, Windows is an incoherent mess that needs to be wrestled back to a usable state with every major update. Mac does what I need without any fuss.

Truth be told, I have a PC for gaming and a Linux server for Plex, *arr, and home automation. But when I need to get work done, it’s the MacBook. No question.

1y ago

When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?

This is just a long-winded way to ask “how do we pay for it?” The answer is taxes. That’s always the answer.

Let’s call it 10 trillion total: 20m rental properties x 500k average home price. If we allocated half the annual military budget—400bn—to buying private rentals and making them social housing, it would take 25 years to get through the whole market.

The financial scale of the solution is not so large as to be insurmountable. The US government’s priorities simply lie elsewhere.

1y ago

When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?

If you're aware of public and social housing then why are you asking how community ownership and management works?

In any case, yes, of course all rental housing should be publicly owned. Vienna's Gemeindebauten and Singapore's HDB, among others, have proven that pretty definitively.

I'm not certain that all housing should be public, though. Privately owned primary residences are probably fine, in the grand scheme of things. But rental housing for profit should obviously be abolished.

1y ago

When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?

Public housing is not a novel concept.

1y ago

End of year view and fundraising drive.

Got it. I almost exclusively use Voyager to access Lemmy so I didn't realize there was an emoji menu. I see it now.

In that case I'd like to request a Guy Fleegman emoji.

1y ago

End of year view and fundraising drive.

TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world

What's a custom emoji? Just a small image I can put in my posts and comments? Will it render on other instances?

2y ago

Torpedoes are stored in the balls

2y ago

Shooting on season 3 has wrapped

2y ago

i hate this meme

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Based and friendpilled

2y ago

He's just... unbearable

2y ago

Lemmy.World federation is on the fritz again

Thank you for looking into it!

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2y ago

Lemmy.World federation is on the fritz again

2y ago

I just want to view the recipe

It’s extremely easy, you just install AdGuard.

2y ago

Sunbird beta to relaunch and rejuvenate iMessage for Android

In the US you either had unlimited SMS or no SMS plan at all, in which case you got charged for every single message, sent or received. But I remember having unlimited SMS as early as 2003.

If you had no SMS at all then you certainly didn't have a data plan, which ruled out WhatsApp entirely.

2y ago

Sunbird beta to relaunch and rejuvenate iMessage for Android

That’s easy: unlimited SMS was common on most mobile plans in the US as early as the mid-2000s. Unlike the rest of the world, Americans had no financial incentive to use WhatsApp.

2y ago

Meta: Can we talk about non "Apple Enthusiasts" dominating the threads on c/apple_enthusiasts?

Yeah, exactly. I find criticism of Apple products from people who are deeply familiar with their products to be quite entertaining, but that's not even close to what's happening here. Most of the comments in this community are one step above "DAE Macs can't right click??"

2y ago

One of the Enterprise's transporter chiefs was played by Mae Jemison, an actual astronaut!

2y ago

What was Into Darkness trying to say?

2y ago

What is your favorite alcoholic cocktail?

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I dunno about favorite, but my go-tos are an Old Fashioned in the fall and winter, and a Tom Collins in spring and summer.

Those become a Manhattan or an Aviation if I’m feeling fancy or just want to mix it up.

2y ago

MRW my instance fixes federation with Lemmy World and I can see Ten Forward again

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2y ago

Federation with Lemmy.World is spotty since LW updated to 0.19.3

2y ago

/c/StarTrek@lemmy.world is under refreshed management

Creator or Daystrom here: the conditions that created Daystrom eleven years ago don't exist on Lemmy. More simply, Lemmy isn't big enough to host a new Daystrom.

I made Daystrom because /r/startrek was so full of memes and jokes that it was increasingly difficult to have an actual discussion about Trek. Discussion posts were drowned out between low-effort posts like memes and jokes and even if you did get a discussion prompt to garner some votes, the thread itself would have a bunch of jokes at the top, because jokes are easy to upvote. If you wanted actual discussion, you had to go hunt for it.

On Lemmy, the meme subreddits have already taken off and so it's unlikely that StarTrek@lemmy.world is going to be flooded with memes. StarTrek@lemmy.world is so small that if you posted a discussion prompt right now, it would very likely be the top post in the community for the next 24 hours.

Now of course, there's no guarantee that if you posted a discussion prompt in StarTrek@lemmy.world, the answers won't be jokes and dismissive replies. For whatever reason, Trekkies love to respond with comments like "the real answer is 'don't think about it!'" which is mildly rude, honestly: if someone makes a thread about it, obviously they would like to think about it. But, outside of the very largest communities on Lemmy, there is so little comment activity that it's easy enough to sift through the replies and discuss with people who would like to discuss.

One could make a community that enforces Daystrom's two key rules: only discussion prompts allowed, and no memes/jokes/dismissive comments. But daystrominstitute@startrek.website exists... and it's pretty much dead. Enforcing these rules in a place as small as Lemmy comes across as heavy-handed.

So, tl;dr if you want "Daystrom on Lemmy," I invite you to post discussion prompts to StarTrek@lemmy.world.

2y ago

What went wrong with the Ambassador class?

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2y ago

Kataan seems like a pre-industrial society until the end of the episode, when all of a sudden they're launching a rocket. What's up with that?

2y ago

And in some timelines, it's a mouse

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2y ago

Jellico and Riker didn't get along. Who's fault was that?

2y ago

The Alternative Factor. The Dauphin. Fair Haven.

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2y ago

Star Trek: Discovery | Season 5 Official Trailer

2y ago

Or the Defiant. Or Voyager. Or Discovery. Watch your back!

2y ago

Is this community going to host weekly episode discussion threads for DIS Season 5?

2y ago

early 2020's rule