MonkeMischief @ MonkeMischief @lemmy.today

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fake Christian bullshit.

With utmost sincerity, God bless you for making this distinction. People who actually paid attention to Jesus' words have got your back, friend. ❤️

I'm so incensed at these corporations spouting "Christian values" while they treat their fellow humans like disposable trash. More Christians need to be calling out this bullshit instead of siding with it.

The bad guys win when they wear the mask of belief and turn us against each other, and we say nothing.

Thanks for this really thorough breakdown. It all really does seem to stem from the core idea that they view their clientele as idiot consumer-cattle rather than human users.

Not only do they do that with prices, like you said, the rest of their user experience practices have had devastating ripple effects on society as well.

I was so excited for the idea of "pocket computers", but the i-garbage phenomenon I think is what super-accelerated our current tech economy of the 6-month-cycle disposable privacy nightmares designed primarily for "content consumption."

That of course, evolved from their "You're not allowed to touch it, you're too stupid." appliance-like ethos from the very beginning. Special screws, special dongles, special ports, special cables, control, control, control.

Then that got paired with forcing everyone to need an "app" for everything from shopping to government assistance, and here we are, barely a generation later, and nobody has any idea how a computer works anymore.

Nobody on either side of "Millennials" seem to understand how files and folders work, or what the Internet actually is, or how email works, and I blame Apple's smoke and mirrors for the majority of it, because after their profit margins could be whatever they wanted, like you said, nobody wanted to innovate anymore.

They all had to be Apple.

And since Apple's profits relied on ignorant and dependent users, everybody's profits suddenly did.

Apple said "fuck what the market can handle. If people are stupid enough to pay us a 300% profit margin while they're on food stamps...that's their fault.

And on this point, it reminds me when I worked at the public library. A father asked my opinion on getting a computer for his young school age daughter. Dude was on a budget, and kids break things.

I suggested that ~$200 could get him a used ThinkPad on eBay. They can handle spills, sometimes drops, last a long time, and so forth. Incredible deal (the market has since seemed to wise up to. ☹️ )

Dude comes back the next week asking how to set up a freaking $2000+ MacBook. Daughter's like 6 or something.

What the heck, my dude. 95% of Apple's R&D must go into marketing and mind control.

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Anyway...yeah, It grates on me when people talk about modern computing like keyboards and mice and folder structures are "obsolete" and "only for technical people" because "everyone's on tablets and phones now" as if that's a linear progression of technology and we're just getting old.

It's a progression of technology heavily manipulated by marketing and propaganda forced as "The Future(TM)" because friggin Apple said so, and everyone else (including Microsoft) feels like they have to follow it to stay relevant to the slobbering ignorant consumer-being customer-base Apple has bred...

If only they cared about building better products rather than untraining decades of computer education so they could play Hungry Hungry Hippos with mind-slaves.

That's a REALLY good point. It is really strange, since we've come to expect him to constantly renege on "the very biggliest best deals" and then say "So what? Winning lol."

I can't recall any time he's ever put pressure on or even vaguely threatened Pooty either, and half the air out of his face is vague threats at people. Lol

Yeah, anything that involves a bunch of complicated relationship interaction between PHP scripts I just don't mess with too much.

Right now I'm hosting it through Docker on top of OpenMediaVault which is hosted on Proxmox.

If an update absolutely borks NextCloud and for some reason its BorgBackup function doesn't work, I can at least hope to count on the ProxMox snapshot of the whole volume!

And besides that, I don't actually store anything essential in NextCloud's volume itself. It's all an external mount that I could browse with any file explorer, so worst case, I'd just lose a lot of convenience. :p

Sure, even with its gaps in contemporary understanding, psychology still does explain his behavior.

What I meant by evil wasn't to use it as a "superstition word" so much as a philosophical one. I say "he's evil", because he's well aware of the harm, misery, and grief he causes countless people, and not only doesn't care, he actively accelerates that behavior whenever possible.

This is a person who enjoys being a villain, a malady, a negative force on this earth that actively avoids not ruining someone's day if he can help it. Not even to gain some kind of advantage or because he believes it's "right" in some twisted way. He just literally enjoys being a dick, and will tirelessly seek out the most ruthless way to do so.

Mustache-twirling cartoon bad guys seem rational by comparison. Like, man, after seeing Musk and Trump, I'd bet He-Man and Skeletor could just talk it out. LOL

Sure, there's plenty of rational explanations of thought patterns and pre-existing beliefs behind it, but on a fundamental level, morally, ethically, philosophically, "evil" is a very apt shortcut description for the man and his cohorts.

But of course, I'm not trying to dive into semantics or write some kind of provable thesis here. Just contributing to conversation. :p

So treasonous, I could be convinced he got rid of his neck on purpose, so the hangman's noose wouldn't have anywhere to hold on to.

With all the blatant proven scandals, straight up convicted felonies, and international crimes, this guy still squats in the Whitehouse. Beyond all sanity, somehow this happened. I seriously wonder what kind of dirt would actually be able to control him at this point.

It could come out tomorrow that he hired Wagner Group personally to exterminate an entire island of indigenous people to put a golf course on it. There could be documents with his signature and recorded audio of the phone call, and that news would just blend in with the rest of his noise.

I dunno, I think he just sees other fascists as "fellow businessmen" and has an insatiable lust after his own ego. Like it's overly simplistic maybe but "He's just evil." Seems to be an ample explanation for everything about him...

Wow, thanks for the heads up! I use Nextcloud AIO and backups take VERY long. I need to check about those logs!

Don't know if I'm just lucky or what, but it's been working really well for me and takes good care of itself for the most part. I'm a little shocked seeing so many complaints in this thread because elsewhere on the Internet that's the go-to method.

Whaddya have when Kanye sits at a table with 4 nazis?

5 nazis.

It's like the sniveling cultust in stories that gets eaten first by the monster they summoned, ignorantly expecting some kind of reward from a thing that fundamentally wants them dead.

If only it didn't fund more pointless products and amplify their marketing. Wish they could spend it on mental health or education instead. :(

That's always the struggle, just like marching up to the manager's office to demand better. Yeah you all get fired up and heated in the break room, but when you actually hit the stairs, can you trust them to follow? Or do they just want to complain and keep the status quo?

This irritating effect of individualism and mistrust is why we struggle to cooperate. There's so few unifying ideals anymore.

The other problem is a simple matter of logistics. How do you actually make your stand to do something good, and not just be a group of easily snuffed rabblerousers that get quietly put down, or worse, hurt the people you're fighting for?

Idiot fascist movements seem far easier to motivate because you simply need to ask "Hate something? Hate everything? Blaming someone else? Show up and scream something to feel like you matter! Violence not guaranteed but encouraged."

True, we're collectively against President Musk and his weird little orange purse poodle, but nobody understands practical tactical leadership to actually gain any kind of momentum. Everybody's just trying to simultaneously shout over the crowd or worse, infighting each other over superficial ideals.

It's bleak.

We can legally dislodge them if we fight very heavily to install sane people in local and state levels, but the limp noodle Democratic Party must be seen as a broken better-than-nothing tool at this point. They won't save us, and they need to be replaced as soon as possible with something that's up for the job.

That freak show might actually believe the shit he spews.

He may, he may not, but the brain worm does, and he's given to its will.

Yeah, woah, that's really neat! I've added a bunch of these to my watch list. Thanks for that!

I like watching travel stuff about going to places I might be, frankly, too chicken to go to myself. Seems like he does that a lot. :D

I haven't had a website not work with Firefox for a long time.

Me too...mostly? But the cases I've seen or encountered are always government, financial, education, or medical websites with some super-bespoke "portal" that will simply act bizarre on Firefox.

It really sucks that it seems so common to just glance at some "market-share" data and, not just assume everybody must use Chrome, but go so far as to force them to.

I'm sure I have a bunch but two I haven't seen here:

OrdinaryThings - has shifted to MUCH longer form current-events / documentarian content. Humorous and pundit-y but also informative about world news I likely missed. His yearly "The ___ Business of 20__" videos are great recaps.

Harke - Found this channel basically by accident and fell in love with it. Admittedly pretty niche about a VERY specific kind of retro, but it's stuff I grew up with so I'm all about it. Retro adventure games and music and that kind of thing. Super underrated!

This sounds like the premise behind an absolutely delightful 2008 film featuring Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel.

I'm a bit biased as I started with Jellyfin, but the Roku Jellyfin app works flawlessly on the family TV.

I'd advise at least becoming mildly familiar with how you'd go about it, since corpos suddenly rug-pulling existing users and forcing subscriptions is pretty common, basically expected, behavior of American business now.

That way you have an "out" and your service can have minimal downtime. :)

On the other hand, you might just find you like how sleek and functional Jellyfin is. I can only see wins for you here. :p

I really miss the early mobile games days, when they were still experimenting with the format and you had games like Angry Birds, Infinity Blade, Peggle, and various Marble Madness or Monkey Ball clones, just for starters.

People were making games designed to be fun, and if they were addictive, it was because you were enjoying yourself. If you bought the game they didn't care how addicted you got or not, only that you didn't tell all your friends it sucked! Lol

Once it started taking notes from the casino industry, that was it. I don't even open the Play Store anymore.

Just now had a thought: If places like Newgrounds or ArmorGames were pay to play for developers like the mainline mobile stores are, I bet we would have seen a lot more of that nonsense a lot sooner. (kongregate seems to serve a perfect example of this.)