gerryflap @ gerryflap @feddit.nl

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Oh no definitely not. Unless it's a meme haha. Among friends we regularly don't send a tikkie even when getting beer or something, because you know it's probably gonna be repaid sometime. As friends you definitely don't always need to even the books

I know. You're talking to me like I made the meme, but I didn't. Nor do I think that this pipeline is really common

Yeah "ikiks" wouldn't really work haha. "Mijmijs"? Idk at R*ddit people used "meems" in the Dutchs communities. Sounds logical to me, it's a Dutch sounding word that believably could be "meme" in english. Just like "name" is "naam" in Dutch.

Yeah. We use it to settle a lot of things with friends etc. Going out for dinner or having a drink at someone's place? Split the bill and send everyone a Tikkie. Sometimes there's even multiple because someone paid for the beer and someone else for the pizza.

For context: in the Netherlands we generally pay using debit card instead of physical money or credit card. Almost every bank has their own "Tikkie" service nowadays. There's also Splitser, which allows you to keep track of who paid for what over a longer timeframe with more people. Like a holiday with friends.

This is what my German teacher meant when he said that I'd "need it someday".

Supertoll. Danke schön. Ich hätte auch gerne ein Pedalo.

I personally haven't seen that either, but that's what the meme says. Not necessarily that I think happens often

Oh yeah, the "information wants to be free" thing shouldn't be attached to techbros. Totally agreed. I think the meme is meant to show a devolution from a tech activist into techbro, but obviously not everyone followed that pipeline. I used to be in the "information wants to be free" and privacy-focused camp 10 years ago and I still am. There will be plenty of us.

I have this on one of the digicams I own. I don't think the designers ever considered that it would still be used in the year of our lord 2025. It's probably from 2010 or something, and it has this horrendous touch UI for selecting the date. You have to press down like 15 times to get to 2025, but due to the laggy unresponsive UI and touchscreen, this is quite the journey. Obviously it forgets the date whenever I take the battery out to charge it.

I know the little thing isn't sentient, but I still like to imagine it getting more and more astounded as the years increment further and further in the date selector.

"Techbro" is a specific name for a subsection of the tech population who have become complete douche canoes (much like the middle and right people in the image). The crypto/AI/whatever people. These people are mostly male.

All kinds of awesome people work in tech, but they are not considered "tech bro", just cool tech people.

Based :3

I don't think "hun/zij" is invalid and I'll happily use it for someone if they want it, but what I mean is that it doesn't feel as natural to use it for a single person as they/them. They/them in English has a history of being used for singular people as well. Saying "someone lost their bag" is a pre-existing language feature. Unfortunately "iemand is hun tas verloren" doesn't sound as natural and I've never heard someone use it like that. It seems to be common to just use the masculine pronoun "z'n" in cases where the gender isn't known.

Again, I don't mean to invalidate anyone, I'd totally use these pronouns for a single person if they prefer that. It annoys me that our language doesn't have a clear neutral pronoun. But in my experience "hun" is exclusively plural whereas "their" has always also been in use as a singular pronoun next to its use as a plural pronoun.

What a glorious site. I wish every webpage looked something like this

I'm Dutch and I have yet to see gender neutral pronouns etc that really work well. Unless you want to be called an "it", but I've only heard people use that to mock people. They/them works quite well, but we don't really have that afaik

As long as it's a bit of a sandbox: hell yeah. But there needs to be stuff happening, things to do. I love games like GTA, Cyberpunk, Just Cause, Stalker, because you can just go around the world and experience random stuff happening. Sometimes I don't want a goal, but just a sandbox to create my own stories.

Personally I like the @ way more. You even read it as "at", which makes sense in this context. "Gerryflap at feddit.nl" instantly makes sense. It aligns with email, so it also makes it easier for newcomers.

Thinking I had the answer to everything and that I was the only one who was "thinking logically". Emotions were weak and irrelevant, the only things that mattered were facts (i.e. anything that I believed). I swear to god, if those cunts like Jordan Peterson had gotten a hold of me I would've turned even more insufferable. As it stood, I basically just became a mostly far-left cringe lord with exactly zero understanding about how the world actually works. Luckily I've learned since then.

I'm still not sure what to think of early access. On the one hand, it is too often an excuse to push a buggy mess. That shit is seriously annoying.

But if it's done right, it can allow developers to make games that are way larger than they otherwise could. In the end development costs money, so with only X million dollars of upfront investment you will run out at some point. With early access they can extend the money pile further, and therefore they can keep extending the scope of the game way beyond what would otherwise be possible as long as the game is popular enough. But then the focus should be on delivering a mostly stable core experience instead of a buggy unbalanced mess.

Imo it worked quite well for games like Factorio, Valheim, Satisfactory. I had like 80 hours in Satisfactory way before the official release, and then another 100 hours or so with friends a bit later (also before the final release). While there were definitely some bugs, the experience overall was worth my money and I was happy to be able to play it already.

Nah. Text > in person >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> video call > audio call. I hate calls so much. With in person communication people can at least see that I don't have time for them, and I can also see them coming. I also find it easier to keep my train of thought while talking in person.

Calls are like a random interruption of everything I'm doing and therefore catch me by complete surprise, causing stress. Usually it completely clears my working memory, meaning that I have to spend time and energy to get back to what I was doing.

Yeah that'd explain some stuff. Happy to have switched to Linux

Bwoah that's not very confidence inspiring