MystikIncarnate @ MystikIncarnate @lemmy.ca

Some IT guy, IDK.

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Okay, the cross platform part makes it make a little sense. They're trying to push everything over to arm (again!) and having something easy to cross compile would help..... But, you know .... The start menu is small potatoes compared to gestures at the rest of Windows ...

I'll say this: a lot of people using AI, are not thinking or making decisions.

I gave up on Facebook when they banned my account for the second time after providing evidence that I exist in both cases.

Technically, my account is still "under review", for the past 8 years.

I used this name, Mystik Incarnate, because, believe it or not, there are more people who know me by this name, compared to how many know me by my legal name.

I remember that Facebook challenged my name back in the day, like 10+ years ago. I took a form of ID and made it say "Mystik Incarnate" as my name, sent that in, and they unblocked my account for a while. A few years later and they did it again. By then, I was already on the fence whether or not I wanted to maintain a Facebook account... But I submitted basically the same thing and..... Well... It's still "being reviewed".

I do have an account under my legal name, mainly as a collector of messages for people that know me professionally or something that are trying to reach out. I check it every few months at most; but that account has no friends, no connections, nothing. I only keep it so people can message me. I don't use their apps or anything, I only log in on the website and usually incognito so that they can't track me across the web.

Every time I see someone's logged in Facebook account, I'm disgusted by how cancerous it has become. Anyone who reaches out to me on that platform I usually try to have them connect with me by email, or some other chat program that's more trustworthy.

Fuck Meta.

My mother's maiden name was Smith, we had a family dog when I was young, the dogs name was spot, oh, and interestingly the last four of my SSN is 678. Weird right?

Shit.

As long as they're paying me for the time, I see this as a win.

Oh.... Oh no.

Oh, that was the cognitive decline I mentioned. That and not feeling tired (without needing to take meth) is the super power....

Not having to sleep. You can just be awake 24/7 without the usual cognitive decline or feelings of being tired.

I use both, and I understand the whole TPM thing and why they're requiring it...

I think this is very cringe.

Linux has its uses, and benefits. But I see a lot of Windows stuff through my work.

One time, I was walking down the street with my brother and a junebug flew right into the side of my neck. My instinctual reaction to this was to freak the fuck out, flail my arms and jump about a meter to the side away from where I was hit.

.... That all happened in about 0.087 seconds.

Yes, I jumped sideways.

You don't have to. It's socially accepted and preferred if you do, but I have, and have had done to me, simply ignoring the question and moving the conversation forward to the point.

I live in Canada, we follow a lot of the same here, I try to be more genuine than the average and give a nonspecific but truthful response. Anything from "I'm having a day", to "it could be worse", or "not the worst" kind of deal. Basically setting a low bar for how I'm doing and saying I'm somewhere above that.

You don't have to reply with "fine", but it's one of the fastest ways to end the greeting part of the conversation and move on to more important topics.

More or Less.

Personally I blame the absentee voters. People who could have voted, but didn't, and by not voting, indirectly supported Trump in winning the election.

Unless there's a serious shake up of how things work in the USA, there's shit all that can be done about it now, since getting him out of office requires that the people near the top (senators/Congress/whatever) need to take action in indict him and start the process of ejecting him from office, but then they'll be left with the current VP, and I'm not sure that's better.

Either way, nobody at the top is taking action against Trump, so the whole thing is moot. They have grounds, but they are not willing to do it.

GG. RIP the USA.

Either people voted against him, for him, or abstained from voting (implicitly agreeing with whatever decision the majority made).

The last two groups there, vastly outweighed the first one in this election.

You're right, not everyone wanted this.... But that's how democracy is. You vote and, at least in theory, the person that the most people vote for (believe in/agree with), is then made president.

By definition, democracy will always have people who didn't vote for the current government.

All I'm saying is that either by action (voting for Trump) or inaction (not voting), a majority decided that he should become president.

I think you mean "over". (Thanks, I make many typos, just returning the favor)

And.... Didn't Trump get the popular vote this time around? So more there were more voters for Trump than anyone else?

Idk. I don't live there but I know your voting system well enough.... Since everyone wants to talk about it, apparently.

The fact that he won, even by a small amount, which... In this case, he won by more than a small amount, is the point. You and your fellow Americans knew what you were signing up for, and you knew what he was saying he will do this time around. None of this was a surprise. He's been talking deportation and tariffs for over a year. Now that they're here, suddenly a lot of people are regretting their decisions.... Again, this was not a surprise. They voted for this and yet take issue when this exact thing happens.

There may be many people who didn't vote that could have, who would have voted against Trump, but the fact is, by not voting, you are implicitly agreeing with whatever decision is made by your fellow citizens. Putting the decision in their hands. As someone once said "if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

Either you voted for it, you were okay with letting others decide and you're complicit, or, you were part of the minority of people who voted against Trump. One of these three things is true for each and every American.

I'm sorry, but this is what the majority of the people in your country wanted.

Real fan?

Bitch please. We've put up with your crap for so long and we still play it....

Get out of here with that horse shit. Get fucked. Fuck you, and the horse you rode in on. At best, I'll wait for a sale, at worst, I'm never playing your goddamned franchise again because you've run it into the ground with enshittification.

Rip.

Good luck buying a new one with all of * gestures at everything * this going on.

Nobody is except one person. It's Mr Rogers in a blood stained sweater.

You see, "how are you?" Isn't a genuine quotation, it's just a way of saying "hello" and feigning interest in someone's well-being. In all actual fact, nobody gives a shit.

Just say "fine" and move on.

No. You and your fellow citizens voted for this.