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TheTechnician27

@ TheTechnician27 @lemmy.world

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"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: [...] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead." —Jonathan Swift

  • Inner Child

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  • God bless you, Chargeman Ken.

  • Why are the you are the problem comments so common on Lemmy?

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  • Beyond the rules/guidelines of the site and the community, someone commenting on a Reddit-like has no responsibility to filter what they write through the lens of what the author would want.

    It's the poster's job to find a community that they find suitable for both what they're writing and what they want the comments to look like. That's how it works because Reddit-likes aren't blogs; they're shared spaces where everybody – within aforementioned rules/guidelines – is free to express exactly how they feel about anything.

    You unduly shift responsibility onto the commenters for not acting the way the OP wants their vent sesh to go when it's the poster's responsibility to 1) know the comments exist and 2) understand that they're putting this work out into a shared space.

  • Why are the you are the problem comments so common on Lemmy?

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  • People don't seem to understand or care when a post is just to vent and the individual isn't looking for feedback. Some people have a really hard time not chiming in with their take.

    Reddit, Lemmy, and other Reddit-likes aren't unidirectional blogging platforms. Primarily they're link/image aggregators, but ever since the early introduction of comments, they're also places for people to share their thoughts on the things people link to and write. If you want a place to vent with no expectation of honest feedback, you should be using either 1) a community (shoehorned) within the Reddit-like which is expressly moderated that way or 2) a blog or microblog.

    Ironically echoing the OP: you are the problem if you make a text post on one of these platforms just to vent at people and get offended that people give feedback.

  • Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year

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  • You're not contradicting anything they said, and you're not contradicting that Steam is a monopoly.

  • Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year

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  • That tends to happen when you have a monopoly on an industry where you get 30% of the revenue from other people's hard work.

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    Stop cramming everything onto one Pi: treat your home lab like a tiny ISP - hardware, stack, backups and an update plan

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  • So vindicated.

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    Tired of compilation/reupload channels sucking up views and coins? How do creators fight back without burning out?

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  • Stop spamming LLM slop, OP.

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    Hot take: Jerboa should stop auto-refreshing everything by default - give per-community refresh intervals and a low-bandwidth mode

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  • Stop spamming LLM slop, OP.

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    Hot take: Unit tests are love letters to future you, integration tests are group therapy, and end-to-end tests are necromancy

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  • Stop spamming LLM slop, OP.

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    Tired of repeating Proton tweaks for every game? Lets build a community 'one-click Proton profile' repo

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  • Look at how they're a one-day-old account spamming the everloving fuck out of Lemmy and using obvious LLM-isms. If not an autonomous bot, then absolutely LLM slop being posted by a human.

  • Anyone else almost believe depression isn't real for 2hrs after cleaning their apartment.

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  • A big part of that attitude is simply that you're more likely to take care of those big tasks you've been putting off when you're on the upswing away from depression. So it feels good unto itself, but you're probably also in a mood that's more conducive to feeling rewarded than a deep depression.

    TL;DR: Cause and effect feeding off of each other.

  • 99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

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  • No average user would be able to look up what commands to run? Because newsflash: unlike Windows, searching for a common problem on Linux normally turns up a solution written by a human who knows what they're talking about.

    "Windows doesn't even have basic package management like every Unix-like OS does so you don't have to individually update applications and go find them on the Internet, but this one edge case on Linux requires like two terminal commands (the sudo -i is totally superfluous if you just put sudo in front of commands) instead of installing an entire separate tool you'll ever use one time like on Windows and which an average user wouldn't even know exists. Therefore Linux is more complicated."

    Incidentally, here's what Microsoft officially recommends for the "average user" regarding PowerToys:

    It's insane how nose-blind Windows users are to how user-unfriendly their OS is.

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    Sometimes people like to complain about windows and iOS

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  • There's only so much incessant bitching I can hear about dark patterns, intrusive automatic updates, shoehorned-in and useless AI, zero user choice, planned obsolesence, and being blindsided by enshittification before I say "just try using the free thing that doesn't have those problems".

    "I've tried nothing, and I'm all out of ideas." If you have to for work or something, though, I totally get it and encourage the bitching.

  • photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads

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  • I didn't "think I got you"; I was leading into something: what was it about Photopea prior to this that made them fundamentally different from Digikam, Slackware, and discuss.tchncs? I've donated to Lemmy too and various other FOSS projects, so I authentically appreciate that your donations strengthened that interconnected ecosystem.

    You clearly got plenty of use out of them, indicating how integral this apparently was to your workflow. You don't show any indication you had problems with the Photopea maintainer's actions or attitude before this. Was it the fact that Photopea isn't FOSS? I'd agree it's a huge difference, but at the same time, they're basically free as in beer, and you weren't just idly not paying them; you were actively, recurrently using their finite resources. Wouldn't you agree that, even if you don't want to give money to proprietary software (assuming again that's the reason), they at least deserve to break even? If so, you could've just whitelisted them on uBO. But I also resent digital advertising for ethical reasons and because it's a vector for malware, so I'd understand not wanting to turn off uBO and not wanting to give €5/month in compensation. But then it looks like, despite being plenty familiar with the FOSS ecosystem, you never gave it a fair shake. You just called GIMP icky and didn't do the bare minimum level of searching that'd tell you ImageMagick exists for batch edits. So you weren't willing to pay for the ad-free subscription (fair in isolation), you weren't willing to turn off ads (fair in isolation), and you weren't willing to try something else (fair in isolation), and thus you were just draining their money to your own ends (not fair).

    So realistically, it sounds like you were never going to support the Photopea maintainer regardless of what they did or how they acted, and now that they've cut you off from using their service for free, you're acting like this is some kind of principled stance rather than being a lazy, entitled cheapskate.

  • photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads

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  • I am not financially supporting developers who act like this.

    Are you financially supporting literally any developers at all? You made it clear you were not paying for a Photopea subscription and were using uBO, so there's not a carrot or a stick here for the maintainer of Photopea (I guess there's a very tiny carrot for losing you as a user in that you're not using their resources). I mean that as a genuine question, by the way:

    • What software that you use have you paid for and/or donated to?
    • Was it because you had to, or because you felt strongly that they deserved compensation for their work?
    • Did you ever at any point stop giving said software maintainer money when you felt they were no longer acting in a way that comports with your standards?

  • photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads

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  • I don't really understand why you're using ad-supported proprietary software that you've never paid a dime for (or given a dime to, since you use uBO), claiming that you don't use GIMP or Krita instead because the former "is terrible" and the latter isn't meant for cropping (a trivial, fundamental feature of the software), and then acting entitled to use the Photopea author's own personal work with zero compensation. So you have free alternatives (as in beer and as in freedom), refuse to do even the bare minimum to learn how to use them, and then go full "you took my only food; now I'm gonna starve" when Photopea's author stops you from using their own site/web app for free that they run and maintain at their own expense.

    If anything, you seem entitled and willfully ignorant, and I say that from the perspective of someone who resents digital advertising and proprietary software.

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  • It's 100% grammatically correct, for what it's worth. If it helps, swap the two comma-separated components: "Turn them off, please."

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    generator not working?

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  • This is not a support community; see Rule 5. Maybe some other community can help you destroy the environment and plagiarize as a crutch for a complete lack of effort, talent, creativity, or passion.

  • TP Link Router wants to share client info with third parties

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  • Any chance of something like OpenWrt?

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    The cerebellum is the ballsack of the human brain

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    "make out" has an awful lot of meanings for two words that seemingly don't make any sense together

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    In SpongeBob, Sandy Cheeks is way more closely related to Pearl and the fish than she is to anyone else in the main cast

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    At some point in history, there must have been more nuclear warheads than there were people living in Greenland

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    YSK that editing Wikipedia is easier than it looks (and where to start)

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    Cleveland Brown from Family Guy is probably named after the Cleveland Browns, a professional American football team

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    So we FINISHED decompiling LEGO Island...

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    You Are Into Mousetrap YouTube | Big Joel

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    women in space but it sucks

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    This deleted scene almost completely ruined Spider-Man (2002)

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    You(Tubers) Are Still Plagiarizing

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    Potion Seller’s Bizarre Adventure Remastered

    Traveler's Bizarre Adventure

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    Firing the Lorentz Plasma Cannon

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    The Making of LEGO Island: A Documentary

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    Honey Sued in Class Action by Wendover & Legal Eagle (Wendover v. PayPal)

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    Exposing the Honey [Browser Extension] Influencer Scam

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    Joey Vs Weevil But It's Modern Yu-Gi-Oh

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    AI podcasters discuss document that just says “Poopoo Peepee”

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    Drew and Jacob (Drake and Josh Parody)

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    The story of Jesus dying was like Chapter 11 bankruptcy for our sins