gotta say I've actually been pleased with Lemmy moderation so far. First time I got moderated I think was one of the admin peeps from my instance telling me to take a chill pill, which was fair and appreciated. And I think that's probably similar for the couple other times I've been actioned so far. I can't complain, FAFO, and mod/admin peeps seem pretty chill and level-headed about it. I only wish I could say the same about reddit mods, before a bunch of them became Iana's sexist minions. But so far the Lemmy communities I've wandered into don't seem to have that problem quite yet which is refreshing.

Also for any ex-reddit mods reading this: if you find IDU/turtle/poodle on the fediverse, avoid them. I will not hesitate to go scorched earth should I have another encounter with them. Otherwise, should we never cross paths again, I'm prepared to let it all go, since they did manage to convince myself and at least dozens of others suspectible to The Pipelines to leave Reddit.

I think it would rely more on fear factor. Like they put someone under for what feels like 2 months, so they are on the brink of giving up hope, then pull em out and go "alright now we'll assess you're status and determine whether to put you back in for 10 years"

I speculate it wouldn't work on a variety of people though, as their brain could already be adjusted to altered time perception through the use of drugs. Even without hard drugs or Adderall, you can still fuck with your time perception using only weed and sugar (the food-- as in drink four cans of cola and get super baked immediately, then set 15 minute timers and get lost in your own head, see how long each of those 15 minutes feel)

Honestly I would be completely fine with this as canon. I'd actually prefer it, because honestly it just fits better than the Tails I remember from Sonic Adventure 2 growing into a man-- something about that just wouldn't sit right.

Yes but consider that not everyone is fortunate enough to grow up in diverse environments with exposure to other cultures. If everyone you've ever met from 0-18 is a redneck, how ya think they'll react to x accent. That's unfortunately your floor for expectable initial reactions from mutually non-impressed peoples. I'm not psychologist, figure you aren't either, but there is some principle that elaborates on this, keywords probably akin to cultural exposure in child development, environmental conditioning, and ventures out into other related principles. But idfk what I'm talking about, take this as the ramblings of a madman or whatever.

Every awkward fascist, sexist turtle will be gathered into an imaginary pot and cooked alive for all to see. The aroma and broth will be delectable.

If you have no idea what any of this means and no idea why I don this weird username, then I kindly implore you stay out of it for sake of your own sanity. Otherwise, lmk and I'll begrudgingly curse you with knowledge of the tale of a particularly disgraceful misanthrope and an even worse excuse for a human being.

Buddy. I'm not talking about consumer equipment. I'm talking about enterprise equipment that costs more than your car. Step off.

And yes, I know planned obsolescence is a thing in enterprise. But that doesn't mean your enterprise customer won't make purchasing decisions based on the quality of such small components. We refuse to order from HPE, to give you an idea of how we take this sort of thing. We know what we're buying and how to use it and if we can't properly maintain it because the vendor is an asshat, we'll find a new vendor because fuck you we can't afford to put up with your shenanigans.

There is one screw on this chart that I have a mortal hatred for. Just one. That being the fat Phillips (called "Phillips/square" on this chart meme thing).

I have no idea why, but some companies can't resist the sadistic urge to put tiny versions of these fuckers on equipment that should just use a torque or Phillips screw head. But no, they want you to truly suffer. Because they don't stop there: they make the fragile little fuckers out of NICKEL. Which means they are extra malleable and prone to strip if you so much as look at them the wrong way. So imagine you need to replace a hard drive on a RAID-type storage pool that's already down two spares and you can't fucking get the drive out of it's sled because the vendor not only hired a bodybuilder to tighten the screws, but simultaneously chose the worst possible metal just for giggles and chose the screw head that they no body will have the proper bit for and will inevitably use a normal phillips on until it strips.

I now have a ritual procedure of putting every drive that gets replaced in the coldest cold aisle in the datacenter for at least 5 minutes just to make these fucking screws less likely to ruin my day.

Fuck whoever invented the fat phillips, even the lowest ring of hell is too good for them.

It's almost as if the quality of video games has been in decline for years and is now reaching a point where consumers have more faith in what they already have than anything else the market has yet to muster.

Imho most of the good/decent newer titles are so big that they are daunting, while the shitty ones are equally big or bigger and marketed similarly. So of course prospective players are more likely to choose the small indie title that they are confident they will enjoy, even if they finish it in less than 50 hours or just 8 or even 2.

Studios and publishers are on a path to ruin rn and unless they ditch companies like Sweet Baby Inc and start getting consulting from firms that actually understand the gamer demographic and how good games are made, they'll all be doomed.

But who TF cares at this point, there are so many games to go through nowadays that as long as you have a nice little hoarde then you will become bored of video games altogether long before you want to buy some shitty new title out of desperate hope.

Wow. You somehow managed to get such a bad result that it couldn't even create a convincing labrador. You unsolved what was a solved problem in diffusion. I can hear hundreds of data scientists crying out in anguish.

And you couldn't even get a decent resolution either. What're you generating on, an iPhone?

yeah no I'm not taking that bait, bud.

Ok but you're second paragraph raises a new issue, or moreso an angle to what I was originally being pessimistic of: is that really adequate linguistic knowledge to impart on the future generation?

I wasn't taught they for animate, it for inanimate, or at least not that I recall. Maybe for a young child it could serve as a good rule of thumb to be reshaped in school. But besides that, I feel like it would cause more confusion for a non-native English speaker trying to learn the language if you shared that knowledge with them and then they in turn sublimate it into their personal linguist theory for some indeterminate amount of time. Then it could cause language barriers and potentially lead native English speakers to think less of them for their lack of grasp on what we call our stupid language where the rules are made up and the points don't matter.

Then again, I can't immediately conjure any examples of where this linguistic confusion may occur in this hypothetical English learner's day-to-day life. But I personally wouldn't be comfortable dispensing to a learner some less-than-entirely accurate disambiguation about our language, especially if I had reason to believe they could end up blindly parroting it.

This kinda worries me because I don't want to imagine immigrants and future generations alike being conditioned to ignore nuances in dialogue due to ambiguity introduced by some quixotic lesson they received under the notion it was "good enough".

Also, I hope you don't mistake me for trying to argue, I simply enjoy the banter as that concern I shared is a very intriguing thought to me, and I appreciate your willingness to "debate"/discuss it. Otherwise: so true, the Internet was of course originally made so assholes could argue semantics, among optionally more productive things.

When you say "their picture", you mean to say they just don't like how they are represented on the platform, right? Or do you mean an actual picture of their face? If the latter is the case, then it sounds objectively like y'all were the ones that set the precedent for doxxing. And you should have known they'd be stupid enough to stoop to any challenger's given level and then some. Just saying.

This exactly. I'd had a long day and never before had the opportunity to be first in a thread to reply with "Wine Is Not an Emulator", so I got over-excited and typed that all out so I could get that sweet dopamine rush.

But "it" is for inanimate objects

Not quite. "It" is a general reference pronoun with a function akin to "the". It can be used to refer to anything that is a thing, even if said thing is animate and/or living.

When referring indiscriminately to a specimen of fauna, "it" is a linguistically appropriate identifier whereas "they" would only really be entirely appropriate when referring to an individual or subset of individuals, regardless of species or animacy.

Since this fish has no distinguishable identity apart from the cultural impact it may spawn, I reckon it's more appropriate to use "it" but "they" could also work.

I am not a linguist. But if you are, feel free to correct me. If you feel like pretending to be a linguist, go talk to an LLM cause IDC.

..... ya know, this theory feels like it may actually hold water. In an ancient society, it seems very feasible that a starving vagrant would employ stories about an omnipotent being that rewards acts of kindness with eternal heavenly glory.

Is religion possibly the result of a diogenes persuading unemphatic peers into acting selflessly as a means of improving their quality of life?

Russian-American de-escalation line transcript from Dec 14th 2024:

Saltzman: Dmitry, care to enlighten me as to why exactly Roscosmos felt the need to launch a Soyuz with nothing but depleted uranium marbles on board?

Rogozin: Scy-eence

Saltzman: OK, and why the second one?

Rogozin: Ree-plecibility

Saltzman: ...

Rogozin: Vhat? I dought you like spacebolls

Pro tip to all the unfairly ridiculed titty streamers out there doing God's work (as if any of you were actually on Lemmy):

You could probably skirt this by hiding your face. Then you have plausible deniability as they can't prove concretely whether it's you showing skin or topical abstract art expression.

As an added bonus, the content value also stands to potentially go up as viewer's would no longer be driven away by your over-attended attention seeking mug. That's what you do this for, right, to make content for your community?

really did not expect today to be my turn to recite the infamous WINE homily. Whoever sends out the t-shirts, I'm a men's x large, hopefully there are still some of that size unclaimed

deep inhale

WINE IS NOT AN EMULATOR

It is a translation layer. All it's doing is intercepting syscalls embedded in the executable process by presenting what looks like an interface for the kernel it is trying to call, but is actually a translation layer to the true host kernel, mapping the Windows syscalls to their near-equivalent for the Linux kernel. This differs from emulation as the calls are being translated at a higher level whereas emulators translate the low level machine code sent to the processor.

So Proton and Wine essentially just pretend to be the core Windows processes and services a Windows environment provides to applications. It's a Windows interface to a Linux kernel on the backend. And virtually every syscall on Linux will always be faster than on Windows/NT. So you get faster syscall responses with a neglible and wholly insubstantial added overhead that I would reckon is hard to quantify because it is in fact so damn small that the only way I can think of to observe it is to attach a debugger, which slows down the application process notably so that human's can peer into the execution stack.

TL;DR: no, Windows applications have theoretically been faster on Linux than they ever were on Windows since Wine's inception.