Beefalo @ jayrodtheoldbod @midwest.social

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If you’re not from here, it seems like everyone’s being a dick all the time,

That's because you are. If your state is infamous for being wildly unsafe in other states, you don't have a different culture, you have ineffective traffic law enforcement. You ain't fuckin aliens, we live in the same damn country, under the same Federal highway laws. We DON'T live in two different cultures.

We live in the same damn one, and you're just bad at it.

I bet the pedestrian deaths are breathtaking. Fuckin excuses.

It's pretty insane. At first I thought damn, from now on our culture will be so thoroughly documented that future historians will struggle to parse it all, but now I can't trust anything to last for 5 years and I can't have copies of it, either.

Piracy shmiracy, some random dude's homegrown server is not an archive, and anything that fails without electricity to power it is not a copy.

This is why hard copy is refusing to die.

Sir. SIR. If you are shitposting, the posts should be shit. They should be bad. Most of them should not even make sense.

I understand that there is a miserable hipster art to the thing but that must be the hipster's problem, this is very much a case of 90% sewage, 9% silver, 1% gold, and if you aren't ready for the sewage, then out of the business you go.

This is the problem. Somebody managed that dril thing where it appears that they defecated on themselves in the night and yet it was big funny, and now you expect too much, everything cannot be dada, not even dada.

If you are lucky, somebody comes in here on meth, and posts a picture of an elephant dick which is labeled "margaret thatcher" and it makes no fucking sense but yet it is funnier than all. This is what shitposting is about.

But in order to get there you must allow atrocity, probably a bunch of 9gag trash if we're honest, but the rules gotta be a big no, on rules. You need a tall slushpile if you ever expect good shitposts. The id must leak. Some kid from rural India has to have room to cook, posting shit memes about something none of us even understand. You delete things if they break laws, or worship actual Nazis, otherwise you leave them to stink. Quality control is NO. They are shitposts, not impeccableposts. Quality control is allowing the crap to slide under the waves as we all ignore it.

Hold the fuckin line, sir, the lemmyworld meme channel is obscenity, it's down to you and 196.

let him post feet

Bro is Homestuck still alive or is everyone jerking it about the legend, I only know this damn thing the exact same way I know about the war in Ukraine, which isn't fair to Ukraine

Humility is the only virtue.

The irony is that this person looks like a royalist

Oh, this isn't about a game engine, cool wow, kinda pleasant

We have to be a lot more vigilant about bots now, don't we? Not just on Lemmy, but everywhere.

It's going to be bots talking to bots pretty soon, once everyone figures out that yeah, everyone but me is probably ChatGPT. People are already moving toward closed group chats. Open social media is just too damn toxic for too many reasons.

Reddit's big problem is how much its userbase tends to skew toward men, often single men, in their 20s and 30s who make WAY too much money because they're doing whatever preposterously lucrative tech job that you aren't doing while you struggle in a normie job. Also shout out to similar men now in their 40s and 50s who have been quietly making $200,000+ a year for the last ten years while the average person is doing pretty damn well to pull down 50k, which is the current mean yearly salary in the US.

So they never struggle with rent and bills, and they always have money for pricey toys. Also, capitalism has been unequivocally telling them with a number that they and their opinion are more valuable than other people. Why, they're literally worth 5 of you, just compare the paychecks.

This will not be made clear on the surface, though. You have to live there for a while like it's a city, picking up the fairly obvious clues as you notice them.

Like in 2020 when everyone was in a panic about how they were going to pay their rent now that 30% of the US was unemployed, but at the same time GPUs for personal computers were at just insane prices, $3000 for a top line GPU was the norm for that year.

That did not stop Reddit from buying GPUs at those prices, just to have something fun to do under lockdown. If you aren't on Reddit a lot, you don't get to string together such data points and start getting an idea of how much money these people really have. It's kind of insane. Somebody is buying those $2 million 4 bedroom houses in the Bay Area, it's just not you.

This is also why it's such an infamously good source for answers to techy questions. As much as it is an international platform, it is almost literally just the time-waster of choice for the entire North American West Coast IT community, from SoCal all the way up to Vancouver. New York City is kind of there, but that seems to be a Twitter town. The rest of us on Reddit are just the peasants in steerage.

Also, Reddit might be juuust a little bit autistic, so when they fixate on something it tends to be unreasonable. It's not always so, but there's a trend, one that also tends to mesh well with employment in tech.

You? You just wondered in from the wilderness outside and asked this beast what kind of coffee machine you should buy, but you have more of a Walmart budget. Good luck.

I almost forgot that Gollum had to bite the damn thing off his hand at the end. It's been a while since I've watched these.

I'm just imagining a potion stand, like a little food truck, with a wizard passing these potions out to a long line of people from Tumblr, and it's just one after the other, boys turning into pretty girls and pretty girls turning into goblins.

I'll never forget the dude who said he put that exact face on his credit card, so he'd have to stare down ol' Ben every time he wanted to waste money on shit.

That is a face that says, "Every dollar today is worth ten in the future, sir."

I've become more and more convinced that considerations like yours, which I do not understand since I don't rely on GPUs professionally, have been the main driver of Nvidia's market share. It makes sense.

The online gamer talk is that people just buy Nvidia for no good reason, it's just internet guys refusing to do any real research because they only want a reason to stroke their own egos. This gamer-based GPU market is a loud minority whose video games don't seem to rely too heavily on any card features for decent performance, or especially compatibility, with what they're doing. Thus, the constant idea that people "buy Nvidia for no good reason except marketing".

But if AMD cards can't really handle things like machine learning, then obviously that is a HUGE deficiency. The public probably isn't certain of its needs when it spends $400 on a graphics card, it just notices that serious users choose Nvidia for some reason. The public buys Nvidia, just in case. Maybe they want to do something they haven't thought of yet. I guess they're right. The card also plays games pretty well, if that's all they ever do.

If you KNOW for certain that you just want to play games, then yeah, the AMD card offers a lot of bang for your buck. People aren't that certain when they assemble a system, though, or when they buy a pre-built. I would venture that the average shopper at least entertains the idea that they might do some light video editing, the use case feels inevitable for the modern PC owner. So already they're worrying about maybe some sort of compatibility issue with software they haven't bought, yet. I've heard a lot of stories like yours, and so have they. I've never heard the reverse. I've never heard somebody say they'd like to try Nvidia but they need AMD. Never. So everyone tends to buy Nvidia.

The people dropping the ball are the reviewers, who should be putting a LOT more emphasis on use cases like yours. People are putting a lot of money into labs for exhaustive testing of cooling fans for fuck’s sake, but just running the same old gaming benchmarks like that's the only thing anyone will ever do with the most expensive component in the modern PC.

I've also heard of some software that just does not work without CUDA. Those differences between cards should be tested and the results made public. The hardware journalism scene needs to stop focusing so hard on damned video games and start focusing on all the software where Nvidia vs AMD really does make a difference, maybe it would force AMD to step up its game. At the very least, the gamebros would stop acting like people buy Nvidia cards for no reason except some sort of weird flex.

No, dummy, AMD can't run a lot of important shit that you don't care about. There's more to this than the FPS count on Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

I support Mongol culture victory

Reddit tended to be best where it had stolen better communities from the old web.

For example, r/Excel was always a stunningly chill place to get help with MS Excel. But notice that the community was/is tightly focused on a subject, that subject would have objectively correct answers to any questions about it, and the mods could politely but firmly discourage any spicier conversations as off-topic. You can keep that sort of place decent almost indefinitely.

Such communities would have been their own little message board before Reddit came along and hoovered them all up.

Likewise with all the other subreddits that were famously full of answers, ones you never had heard of. Just the other day I googled a question about some random piece of cable I had in my hand and guess who had answered it 4 years ago? Yeah. Those little communities tend to be really solid. They never get that big, either. You can't just fuck around in them, you have to stay on topic and the average user hates that.

But Reddit turns into a wretched, life-draining parasitic monster in any form where the public feels like they have the right to run their mouths and chatter. So, most of Reddit, really. Anywhere that gives the average schmuck a place to vent will degenerate, rapidly, usually toward an abusive groupthink. It's just populism, then, and a textbook answer to why that's bad.

It's the bane of all social media. I don't think people are generally that shitty. I've decided that social media, including Reddit, just empowers small, loud minorities of miserable, exhausting people who have nigh-fascist opinions on every single thing, and as soon as the normal-ass people see that they've joined the chat, the normal-ass people all vanish, overnight, leaving behind only shitbags who love attention, or believe they have a right to it, at everyone else's expense. There's no getting rid of them when they show up, you can only get rid of you. I hope you weren't having a nice time, because it's over now, time to move on.

Reddit always had its great little subreddits full of truly precious answers as a counterweight to all that. It would appear that they were the only thing of value that Reddit ever had, too.

Lemmy doesn't really have that. It looks like the most obnoxious parts of Reddit came here, so, you know, every computer problem is solved by installing Linux, and other mouthfuls of that flavor. Then somebody opened the floodgates and now you're arguing with Commies about every political thing. Meanwhile, no great little subLemmies full of answers for your obscure questions exist to make up for it.

Like you said, it was super chill for a month, but then, yeah. It's kinda same shit different day. It's reminding me that I've decided to view social media as a vice, almost exactly like smoking, and changing cigarette brands does not solve the problem.

In the spirit of Tupac I call for unity in the hood on this one.

The thing I am now curious about is if this is, quite predictably, Lemmy's existing culture, OR if they were having a perfectly good time in their clubhouse until all the most insufferable Redditors came charging in here.

GuNindos it is

I will never forget when my tourist ass was bumbling through O'Hare on my way to my gate and this dark haired woman who I have dubbed the Executive Raven went blasting past me in a pencil skirt and 3-inch heels with her little rolly suitcase clacking behind her and I thought, "damn."

Then I got to my gate and she was already there waiting for her own flight, she'd whipped out a laptop and an earpiece and appeared to be running the entire world so that it wouldn't collapse in the three hours that she would be on the plane.

You meet a lot of these people in airports. I think me and the OOP don't meet a lot of them, otherwise.