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  • How can the govt prove that I'm not part of a fetish group that gets off on intentionally sending alphanumeric gibberish to each other? Encryption? What's that? I'm just randy, that's all.

  • Objections to AI are well known and widespread, especially in creative communities. Asking for them to be listed out in detail yet again amounts to little more than sealioning at this point. Stop feigning ignorance; you had to know that recommending AI slop in a community founded on appreciation for human art would get a negative reception.

  • Isn't that trivially simple to address though? Just add :z to the end of the mount value string, and restart the container.

  • Yeah I'm not sure "generational" is the correct term here. It was often the same people living through those eras (and beyond) who were doing the pirating. It wasn't a generational shift in that different generations were necessary for CDs to get copied; everyone in every generation was changing how they operated as technology changed. Piracy naturally evolved with the times. Because of course it did. Why wouldn't it?

  • Humans also carry diseases and destroy the landscape and each other. By your logic, we shouldn't care about anyone dying, or try to empathize with anything outside of ourselves. Seems like a sad perspective, IMO.

  • This is cool! I'm almost more interested in the underline gaps for descenders that got snuck in as a "oh yeah I did this too" feature. That makes underlined text so much easier to read, IMO.

  • Everything has always been political. Just because you're too privileged to notice that until someone mentions a viewpoint you dislike doesn't mean anything except that you're usually oblivious.

  • I mean ... magic like in Pokemon

    This would have been good context to include in your original post. How the heck is everyone else supposed to know that this is what you were asking about?

    Also, you might get more of the answers you're looking for if you ask in a Pokémon community instead.

  • Using RPMs through a frontend like Discover or Gnome Software can sometimes have unintended side effects that are much more easily anticipated when using dnf.

    Just the other day, I uninstalled something through Gnome Software that was an RPM, and it also removed fuse-fs packages, breaking all of my appimage stuff until I manually installed fuse again.

    This doesn't ever happen with Flatpak in my experience, though I could just be lucky. It makes some sense to limit the destruction potential for less technical frontend installers like Gnome Software and leave the RPMs to something else like dnf. Though, I do really enjoy being able to open a manually downloaded RPM in a nice GUI to install it.

  • It is probably a good idea to mention what Redshift actually is, since it's far from the top result in a search, and a lot of people associate that word with an AWS product by the same name. Wikipedia describes the Redshift you presumably mean as:

    an application that adjusts the computer display's color temperature based upon the time of day.

    It also mentions that gammastep is a more recent fork, but it has not had any commit activity for 2.5 years, so gammastep might be abandoned as well.

  • It's totally possible to build a new network of great friends at literally any point in your life! I have moved multiple times over the years to entirely different regions where I knew zero people and I have always eventually found new friends. (I'm also autistic and introverted, so if I can do it, most people probably can.)

    Sometimes it might take a while to find the activities you like, and thus the people who share your interests, but they're out there! If nothing else, it helps to start going on a regular basis to a local bar that hosts live music and just nurse a drink (even a soda if you're sober) and hang out, you'll start sussing out the social fabric in the area pretty quick.

    Good luck, you can do it!

  • I’m looking for a PDF viewer which would allow me to go from one PDF file to another without going back to the file explorer. In a way, I’d want it to work a bit like an image viewer where you only have to click on an arrow to go to the next image.

    GNOME sushi kinda works like that, especially if you restrict a nautilus window to only showing PDFs (e.g., by searching for pdf first). Then you hit space and it opens the preview, and you can arrow left and right to move to the next match without explicitly tabbing back to nautilus first.

  • He doesn't have to be incorrect in order for people to feel betrayed by his comments. The commenter was answering the question of why people felt betrayed. Demonstrating the incorrectness of the CEO's take is out of scope.

    (Although, he definitely is also incorrect. Republicans love corporations and monopolies even more than Democrats do. They're slightly more nationalistic about it though, which is the only reason they ever make noises to oppose corporations that aren't sufficiently US-owned.)

  • Usually people don't ask for options to follow the law unless they want to follow the law. I suppose you've got a point though.

  • What makes you think that limiting yourself to following a structure of laws that the ruling class themselves ignore will result in useful opposition?

  • Although, 8601 is still ambiguous if you don't know ahead of time that it's the format being used.

  • I'm a American living in the US and even I can only guess which date they meant. Everyone should just use the three letter month instead of the number when writing for other humans.

    Presumably they are referring to the US election day, but I feel like that was hardly an unexpected facepalm result, considering how many political facepalm moments there were along the way leading up to it.

  • I don't think they were intending to be snarky. At least, not towards you. Perhaps towards society brainwashing us all into thinking that generations are useful in any meaningful way.

    If anything, they are encouraging you. Go find stuff you like, it doesn't matter how old/young the other people who like it are. If you can find those communities, make one! That's one of the beautiful things about Lemmy; it is what you make of it.

  • Blue Sky "fixed" that by only having one instance.

    I suppose we could "fix" it in a similar way by inviting people to a specific instance instead of pointing them at join-lemmy.org.(Although that site has improved massively since the last time I saw it.)

    Don't even mention instances or federation, just say "hey you should join me on

    <favorite instance URL>

    ".

    Once they are using it, that's the first hurdle, and they'll notice pretty quickly that there are other servers that all (mostly) talk to each other.

  • Why are there so many responses like this, saying not to go back to Google? The OP didn't even mention Google as an option they were considering. I've seen zero discussion in any of the other posts around the fediverse where people have expressed any desire to use Google because of this. Why would anyone think that users who had already moved to Proton would find Google acceptable as an alternative right now?

    This just feels like you're trying to discourage actual conversation about alternatives by acting like the only options are Proton or Google, so we all ought to shut up and sit down.

    Also, if you think merely becoming a non-profit means a corporation can never exploit people and isn't interested in making money off of it's customers, then I've got a bridge to sell you.