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  • What's an unscientific opinion that you firmly hold?

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  • Santa Claus is real, and the reason why most of you don't believe in him anymore is because you were naughty kids.

    The only reason I still believe in him is because I heard the sleigh bells. I was a naughty child, too.

  • "Yes, Games Really Were Cooler Years Ago" | f4mi

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  • My opinion is that developers and game companies had to work harder to make good games because they had so much more limited resources.

    Nowadays, game companies feel like they are failing if their shitty fourth video game in a series doesn't crash out a $5,000 computer with how graphics intensive it is.

  • Which company has a better reputation Lenovo or ASUS?

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  • I have an older Legion, 10th gen i7, 2060, 144hz display, and it's a perfectly solid machine.

    Never given me any issues except its Linux support is kind of so-so.

    I would say though that there are other devices out there that are much lighter. This laptop is a chonky boy.

  • What is the most nonsense thing someone has ever told you?

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  • My stepdad once made coleslaw that smelled like burnt rubber. Me and my siblings told him that we would not eat the coleslaw, it would taste like burnt rubber. And he tried to convince us that since we had never eaten burnt rubber before in the past, that we couldn't possibly know what burnt rubber tastes like, and therefore we should eat the coleslaw.

    It turned into an hours-long argument about how you don't have to actually eat burnt rubber in order to know what burnt rubber smells like, and that there's no good reason for coleslaw to smell like burnt rubber.

    In the end, me and my siblings won, and we did not eat the coleslaw, but I don't understand how you can cook coleslaw... no, wait, you don't even cook coleslaw!

    I don't know how you can prepare coleslaw so poorly as to have it smell like burnt rubber, and I don't know how you can be so married to your burnt rubber coleslaw that you would attempt to force children to eat it, regardless of the fact that it smells like burnt fucking rubber.

  • Your task is to blow a job interview in the first 30 seconds. What do you do?

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  • I'll pick up a chair and throw it out of the window, start screaming "fuck you!" at everyone in earshot, and then whip out my dick and start pissing all over the place.

    If they still hire me after that, I will work there until I retire.

  • What are some topics you think people should know more or less about?

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  • advertising and privacy

    Some people think it's great that the ads that are following them around all of the time from device to device and always knows exactly what they want before they do is a nice thing.

    But advertisers sometimes know more about you than you do, and that is disturbing, and they are monetizing them every facet of your life.

    Even if you can only block 20 to 50% of the ads, you are doing yourself a great service.

    Even more so if you can poison them somehow.

    The less accurate information global corporations have about you, the better it will be for you.

  • Every single performance of “The Song That Never Ends” has ended.

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  • Even so, it was transmitted electronically out into the universe.

    The ripples of the song will not fade until the universe does.

  • Every single performance of “The Song That Never Ends” has ended.

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  • The singer may have changed but the song will never end.

  • What’s contributing most to the death of the open internet?

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  • Yeah, the ideal of the internet was that, ultimately, we would all have our own little box in our house that we would post our stuff to, and our friends would read it and see it, and maybe a few passers by on the internet would observe it, and that would be a way of journaling our lives and sharing them with each other.

    Instead of being a global hearth, it has become a global marketplace, a battleground for power in the form of advertising revenue, sales revenue, and tracking every bit of data they can possibly get from you.

    This is so that, 1, they can sell more things to you, and 2, so they can sell that information to other people who, like themselves, do not have your best interest in mind and do not care one fuck about you.

  • Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows 'sucks' now - Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions.

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  • I'm willing to look the other way on this one.

    Every time I image a PC, I have to run so many Windows 11 Debloat scripts and fixes to get rid of useless AI shit and then it just comes right back and it's such a pain. It's such a pain. I would gladly pay an annual amount of money to not have to deal with that pain.

  • Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows 'sucks' now - Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions.

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  • Microsoft needs to get on this. I would pay money out of my own pocket to be able to upgrade my Windows 11 to hardcore mode at work just so I didn't have to deal with all of their AI and tracking bullshit.

    And actually I know the company I work for would pay to upgrade all of their employees to the same level. Like they're sitting on millions of dollars of profit to just be able to turn off the bullshit they're forcing on us.

  • Do you guys know people who are awful human beings, but end up being super attractive, smart and loved by everyone they seem, but you can see through their bullshit and don't like them?

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  • My childhood friend was like that. His name was Tim. Everyone liked him. He was loud, he was brash. He was a bigger guy. He was not very attractive, but he had charismatic personality, and people were drawn to him.

    And he was such a douchebag.

    I haven't talked to him in, like, a decade. But last I heard, he was still just douchebagging it up everywhere. No job broke as shit. People still coming over to his house to smoke weed and watch tv even though they're in their freakin' 30s and 40s and shit.

  • This future of piloted personal robots is perfect for lazy racists

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  • I wonder how long it'll be before somebody murders someone with a robot that they're piloting.

  • I want to live in the world NY Post lives in!

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  • If I ever become part of their target audience, somebody take me out back and put me out of my misery.

  • I want to live in the world NY Post lives in!

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  • Yeah, we should just, like, convert to 0 and 1, where 0 means no or bad, and 1 means yes or good, depending on the context.

  • Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

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  • I imagine you could do power over fiber by simply using high-power lasers in your fiber connection, but it would be annoying and painful for you to accidentally break a fiber open and unleash an unaimed 45-watt fiber laser on yourself.

  • Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

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  • Fiber throughout the house I think would be terrible simply because Ethernet cables get exposed to a lot of random stresses and a fiber cable would just snap. Of course this wouldn't matter that much if they were ubiquitous because they would be inexpensive simply by virtue of mass production, but even so it would be a pain in the ass to have to go down to your local 24-hour retail store to purchase a new fiber cable because you accidentally knocked over your Wi-Fi router.

    Not to mention that for home uses, 10 gig ethernet, CAT6A is more than sufficient for all but the most niche needs and most people will never saturate a 10 gig cable under the best of circumstances.

  • Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

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  • I feel like when it comes to judging an artwork, saying that something is objectively good does actually mean "for the majority", because there is no singular point of absolute goodness to compare it to.

    So even if there's a little leeway in the definition of "objectively" that doesn't necessarily mean that the statement is wrong.

  • Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

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  • Do we have any other words where adding the prefix "pen" to it means "next to"?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life?

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    Everyone on the planet gets soul transplanted into their complete and total opposite. How fucked/blessed are you?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What things do you tell yourself about yourself inside of your own head?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    How did each of the gods die, and what did we get from them?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Scifi question about time travel: