CharAhNalaar @ CharAhNalaar @lemmy.world

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That's definitely a valid concern, I don't think private enterprises should hold the secrets to protecting people from deadly diseases.

I'm amenable to the idea of getting first dibs on an idea you came up with (software, hardware, fiction...), but it's been clearly abused to an insane degree by corporations who want to make a quick buck.

"Your body, your choice" has a limit once a super dangerous pathogen shows up and people start refusing the best tool we have to stop it for increasingly batshit reasons.

If you choose not to vaccinate, you're directly putting everyone else you interact with at risk. So there's a limit

I'd give you a pass if you said the NSA... but we clearly need something like the FBI. Who would stop child exploitation? Human trafficking?

Yeah, the lack of MTG players is really sad.

Idk, I've consistently seen that the instances defederated from (at least on lemmy.world) are either full of trolls or bigots.

Yeah, that's definitely what I'm feeling. It's a lot more irritating browsing here than Reddit.

Exactly! It goes like this to me:

"Billionaires and landlords are bad for society." Hard agree!

"There should be less billionaires and landlords." Okay, I agree with that too.

"We should kill them!" NO! FUCK NO!

I understand that if society is going to change for the better, that some people deliberately stand in the way and others will inevitably be forced to stop them. But there's this new school of thought that says "My enemies are ontologically evil and all harm done towards them is morally good" which sickens me.

An act can be justified, necessary, and still immoral.

How would you recommend average users back up their content in case of hardware loss or failure?

As much as I'm skeptical about the unchecked power of corporations, I feel like Lemmy tech enthusiasts are completely hostile to the more mainstream kind of enthusiasm that actually like a well designed product.

Like, you can whine about the theoretical problems of a centralized service all you want, but if you're not syncing with OneDrive (or an alternative, though those are kinda worse) on your Windows computer you're literally sabotaging yourself. I could go on about other examples, but I'll limit myself.

I don't care if you think Linux is better. For the average person, Linux is incomprehensible. Now don't get me wrong, I like Linux too! I use Linux for my servers, and it's a great option to have. But the ideologues who push it to everyone are infuriatingly dumb, and serve only to push people out of the tech community.

As a whole, this site has too many ideologues, and not enough nuance. It's like the whole "Reddit atheist" phenomenon but worse: people here are unquestionably critical to an absurd degree, and refuse to accept that there may be alternative viewpoints on what they're saying.

And I'm not fond of capitalism either. I just think that the constant negativity is draining.

You want a broken Windows install? This is how you get a broken Windows install.

Yes, exactly. That's the point.

It's not surprising, started with the Nexus devices really.

Oh, I've noticed that. Does the dev know about it?

I completely disagree with this, but that's probably because I actually have a photo gallery as opposed to a set of files.

What actually happens is that it normalizes making fun of people like him. I do feel the socialization angle is important, but remember that classroom culture is very much predicated on kids making fun of those who are "different".

I'm not necessarily saying the content of the picture is ideal, I just think there's something to be said for clean interfaces that aren't jam packed with text.

Corollary: I hate websites that refuse to provide native apps for commonly used functionality.

Am I the only one who likes this? It's much better than New Reddit and Old Reddit.

Here's an issue that people won't talk about that they need to: the right to commit crimes. Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it's immoral, and the growing belief on multiple fronts that a criminal justice system should be "perfect" is what's driving a lot of the erosion of privacy rights, among other things.