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  • Also, with large vehicles more generally, there's this awful snowball effect where people go "I get to sit up high and it's bigger, so I feel safer! Besides, when I'm in a regular car I feel like I'm going to get crushed like a beer can."

    This of course ignores that:

    1. Pedestrians are fucked
    2. With everyone buying bigger, heavier vehicles, the energy involved in most collisions is significantly greater and I doubt anyone's much safer for it. People in smaller cars just get screwed.
  • It's not even just "political", it is politics. Deciding to collaboratively make an operating system (infrastructure, practically) which is free for everyone and asking anyone using it to help out is doing politics, at least in a world where people are politically motivated to restrict people's ability to go and do that somehow.

  • Considering Lemmy's apparent deep-rooted technical issues, I'd be perfectly fine with Beehaw searching for something else. Leaving Lemmy doesn't mean leaving the Fediverse, which a lot of people seem to be misunderstanding. It's sort of a hard requirement for anything Fediverse-related to be about as advanced in terms of mod tools as Mastodon at least, and otherwise, what's the point? People are focusing way too hard on perceived ideas about "what the community is like" or whatever, look guys, it's the internet, it's always like that. Maybe stay away from places as general and wide-ranging as Technology (honestly I'd say that's the flaw of a good chunk of Lemmy instances and people need to start looking for / creating more specific stuff. It's out there, please god just look.)

    Ultimately the purpose of Lemmy is to be something like a traditional forum system, but networked in a way that makes those forums highly discoverable. Lemmy achieves that, but if there's actually technical barriers to content moderation, yeah, that sucks.

  • Uh... the whole article is discussing how "the western left's" sympathy for Palestine and criticism of Israel is being criticized?

  • Good article, I've been wondering why people are calling it populism...

  • ...Ah yes, the most grift-y place in the world, the Boston Museum of Science.

  • The guns didn't make them suicidal, but they provide a very easy way to be impulsive.

    I'm vaguely suicidal a good chunk of the time. I don't want to be anywhere near a gun.

  • Oh no!! BallisticNG is a wonderful game, shame that Switch players won't be getting it.

  • Que people arguing about GNU's importance / self-inflated importance or whatever

  • God the religion vs. faith thing, I'm glad to see someone articulate it. It's bizarre to me how many people are seemingly super hardcore into their religion as a social club, but if you observe them closely they come across like "believing it" is just a game they play for the sake of staying in.

  • Well, for a practical example, my Ryzen 5 5600x and Radeon 6600xt combo is juuust out of the running for games coming out right now, I'd say. The VRAM limitations at 8GB are becoming apparent and there's been a few instances where the 5600x struggles in games that hit CPUs hard. But I'd say that's because there's been an oddly big jump in system requirements, recently.

  • ...I mean, it's more like the web browser makes it easy to use the Tor network. The network is the slow part. Your requests are getting ping-ponged all over the world intentionally taking the long way around.

  • I mean, I've used it. It works. But I don't get why you would bother most of the time. It's slow as hell and while I'm generally fairly concerned about my privacy there is a point where I can't be bothered.

  • I'm this person and god do I wish I wasn't, sometimes. So many games have been way less interesting than they could've been for me because for me, fun is learning to play the game well. I'm not sure what frustrates me more, the way people who don't have that attitude say "I play games to have fun" as if I don't, or me looking at the recent LoZ games as failures design-wise because they're too easy to cheese.

  • I remember a video some dude put out where he discussed how he's pretty sure he discovered that those hats were just some other article of clothing rolled up which is why they're a little silly... I'd need to look for the video again. He'd made something, I forget what, and realized that it folded up into that hat exactly.

  • Counterpoint, sleeves.

  • A viable alternative to YouTube is impossible unless it was managed by a state, pretty much. The infrastructure required is immense.

  • FOSS software is developed in such a way that you can build it yourself freely (In other words, you can download the source code and compile the actual application yourself, free of charge). Obsidian doesn't really work that way. Even if most of the code is available, the full app is only available as prepackaged binaries which might introduce god knows what (and make forking the application impossible).

  • The Ally is what you'd want. Laptops aren't really all that portable if portability is the goal. The Deck would be better from a "pick up and play" perspective but if you use Game Pass it'd be worth it to pick up the Ally instead, obviously.