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Tehhund

@ Tehhund @lemmy.world

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  • What are the most upbeat songs with kind of depressing lyrics?

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  • Oops, I messed up my capitalization. I just meant nearly every song by them.

  • What are the most upbeat songs with kind of depressing lyrics?

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  • Nearly Everything by Reel Big Fish. It's all fun ska and mostly about social anxiety, broken hearts, and substance abuse. I love them.

  • What are the odds that we are all in a simulation?

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  • U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector

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  • I was wondering recently if the idea of opportunity cost is the same for governments that can print their own money versus all other entities. I'm not entirely clear on how the that automaker bailouts were financed but would that money even have existed if they hadn't used it for the bailout? It's not like the government was going to create that amount of money and put it in a savings account.

    A more appropriate way to look at it might be whether the money earned more than it cost the government to service the debt. IIRC servicing government debt is not inflation-adjusted, so it's probably more informative to compare it to the cost of the debt not inflation adjusted-growth.

    But this gets pretty weird since it's not how finance works for entities that cannot print their own money.

  • LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.

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  • Over 1 billion people use Microsoft products, but let's all listen to @lefaucet@slrpnk.net 's anecdote about his IT dept. I genuinely believe your anecdote, but it's irrelevant. And until OSS evangelists (of which I am one!) realize that other people exist and have different preferences and experiences, MS will keep winning.

  • LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.

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  • Oh no, some crank who can't understand that other people have preferences won't take me seriously. This is a major loss. I am so owned. This definitely isn't emblematic of the problem with the OSS community.

  • LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.

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  • I started the name calling by saying "tech brained" so I apologize and I'll ease off on that.

    With that said, I have to strongly disagree with you. I use MS Office, LibreOffice, and Google Docs regularly, and IMO the ribbon was a huge improvement for word processors and spreadsheets over traditional drop-down menus. Drop-Down menus have their place but for document editing they are not ideal.

  • LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.

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  • This an incredibly tech-brained answer. "Sure, lots of OSS is difficult to install, breaks frequently, and lacks key features, but did you know Microsoft sometimes moves a menu item?"

    I love OSS and I want it to succeed but "an item moved" isn't in the same ballpark as the barriers to OSS adoption.

  • LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.

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  • The problem: our desire for convenience

    Bring on the downvotes, but: When it comes to tools like computers, convenience is synonymous with productivity. People aren't unreasonably demanding to have their hands held, they want to get stuff done. We need to stop acting like convenience productivity is just one of many concerns. It is the primary concern.

    Freedom is nice but to most people it's only important if it helps us do the things we want to do.

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  • I feel like promotion would ruin the point of the game though. If any pawns get promoted they should probably become the other player's pieces (i.e., class traitors)

  • For my mom the year of the Linux desktop it's already over

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  • Loool, all the people who are trying to help you troubleshoot are 1) probably correct and 2) completely missing the point. I have a Windows desktop, a Mac, and a Linux desktop at home and this kind of shit only happens on Linux these days.

  • 5 Open Source Apps You Can use for Seamless File Transfer Between Linux and Android

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  • Weird about Syncthing, it works for me on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. But I find file permissions difficult so that could be it.

    It's nice for my use case: I tend to download things on my phone but I often want them stored permanently on my computer, so I just dump them in a Syncthing folder and It takes care of the transfer automatically. Once it's on my computer my backup program (Backblaze) will back it up too. But not everyone has that particular use case so it's not for everyone.

  • What is your most lukewarm take?

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  • That's with cause.

  • Americans have been trained to hate foreigners by Fox News, which is owned by a foreigner.

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  • Billionaires and reactionaries have no state.

  • What book did you read last and what book are you currently reading? Would you recommend either of those books?

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  • Last: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

    Current: A Short History of Nearly Everything

    Lest you think I'm bragging, the one before that was Omegaverse fanfic.

  • Slavery rule

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  • When anthropologists study people who still hunt and gather for their food (e.g., the Hadza), what they do more than anything is... nothing in particular. Not hunting, foraging, building, repairing weapons/clothing/housing, socializing, etc. just... chilling.

    Their lives are incredibly hard and I wouldn't trade places with them, but the idea that the natural state of people is hustling is false. People hustled for their food, then rested once they had it. Some days they hunt from dawn to dusk, other days they found a beehive and chilled.

  • Everything you know is wrong.

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  • Black is white, up is down and short is long And everything you thought was just so Important doesn't matter

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  • i think that a lot of the value of art comes from the effort.

    Many things that we do are only worthwhile because of the difficulty.

    I think this is one of the biggest disconnects between people who create art and people who don't (me). I don't understand this sentiment at all. I don't care how much effort a piece of art took or what the process was, I care about the output. But I know lots of people who create art and this stuff about the process and difficulty really seems to matter to them. Which is fine, they are entitled to like what they like, but I just don't get it.

    I don't like AI art because it steals from artists and looks like crap, but the fact that it's easy doesn't matter to me.

    I wonder if this is part of the disconnect between artists and AI boosters (I am neither).

  • Everything web based

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  • This is an underappreciated benefit of the Web starting out as a bunch of documents, and then becoming an application platform. Even web apps are very text-first. Copy/past and crtl+F tend to work on most pages. And the fact that most views can be accessed via URL is handier than many people realize.