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Dr. Quadragon ❌

@ drq @mastodon.ml

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Sysadmin, Unix punk, Technolojesus, and Free Software freakPronoun: he/his/him;Bit of an SJW. Militant atheist and battle skeptic. Former Devil's advocate. Devout Saganist.If you are a Nazi, we can't be friends.Former admin of mastodon.ml, local Movie Knight

Доброхотъ. Социальный граф с поместьем.Больше не босс этой качалки.

GET ON MY HORSE, I'LL TAKE YOU 'ROUND THE FEDIVERSE!

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    It's midnight and you're hungry. You go to Wendy's for a Dave's Double combo. You sip your diet coke and a genie pops out that asks you "How old would you like to be forever?". What's your answer?

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  • @TheReanuKeeves 25.

    Old enough to be an adult, but your body hasn't started to disintegrate yet.

  • Men can take their shirts off for hot days and exercise. Why can't women do the same in 2025?

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  • @communism

    Some people get turned on seeing topless men

    If someone sees my torso and gets aroused, why is it my problem? Moreover, why is this even a problem at all?

    You get hots from other people? Congratulations, you're human.

    All of this is such a non-issue. And it's just to keep women down.

    @Wahots

  • "They just have to read the documentation"

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  • @Natanox Seems like NixOS replaced Arch as both a local extremist cult and the most effective newbie repellent.

  • Should Lemmy stop accepting crypto"currencies" as donations?

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  • Should Lemmy stop accepting crypto"currencies" as donations?

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  • @arsCynic Newsflash: any currency under the Sun works like that. And stocks. And options. And any other form of speculative wealth.

    And most of wealth on Earth is just that - speculative. The gold standard was abolished long time ago, and, some might say it's for the better. Look it up.

    Yeah, that paper in your pocket isn't based on anything tangible. It's just paper we agree is valuable. It's not real in the same way a knife is.

    Crypto is just a little bit more open about it. It's just lines of math we agree are valuable.

    And scams have existed in traditional currencies long before cryptocurrency. Same as currency trading, aka "encouraging you to buy more if it".

    So, if you want to hate on anything, hate on a concept of currency and speculative wealth in general. Cryptocurrency is just the latest form of it.

    And, frankly, it's just useful for avoiding unfair shit like international sanctions aka some fat cats deciding to bar me from donating or receiving funds

    @CaptainBasculin

  • What was a fact taught to you in school that has been proven false during your lifetime?

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  • @turnip

    It can cause dimensia

    I'm sorry, what the fuck? And what is "dimensia"? Does it have anything to do with spacetime dimensions?

    @Nikls94

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    What’s your ultimate unpopular opinion?

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  • And it all seemingly went so well

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  • @Dogiedog64 Yeah. There was a time when Nvidia did their damnedest to make Nouveau developers' life a living hell.

    @Natanox

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    Mutahar makes PewDiePie Linux switch video, Pewds shows up in the comments. ✋🏻🗿✋🏻

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  • @Montagge As unpleasant it is to admit, shitty people that exist on this planet, are people too, and they also use computers. The year of Linux desktop must logically mean that it's used by everyone, regardless how much of a piece of shit they are. Being so uncompromising and adolescently idealistic about it doesn't do us much of a favour in terms of adoption.

    On the other hand, a piece of shit with an audience might prove useful.

    @JustAnotherKay

  • What's your self-induced pain points fellow linux users

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  • @merari42 using flatpak Steam with the library on a non-home drive.

    This sucks.

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  • @bpt11 Soda and beer cans. There's always a little bit left.

  • Idc

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  • Idc

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  • @disguyovahea we don't really share a kernel, but we do share the lineage, so yeah, we are cousins. I hate Mac OS far less than I do Windows. My pet peeve about it is largely political, not technical.

    @carmin

  • What y'all talking about?

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  • @shuro Popularity is not a function of quality is the point here.

    Also "competition and coexistance" is an honor system. It only works as long as everybody agrees to play nicely. Which is hardly the case here.

  • What y'all talking about?

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  • @Honytawk Billions of flies can't be just wrong, can they.

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
    Dr. Quadragon ❌ @mastodon.ml

    What y'all talking about?

  • What scientific fact blows your mind the most?

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  • @ThatWeirdGuy1001 That's because it's not only ingredients that are important but order, relation and interaction between them also is. Hypthetically, in terms of elements, in a closed system, the engine that has burned through its fuel is no different than a freshly fueled one. But the engine has reordered them in order to extract some energy. So they are not chemically the same, strictly speaking.

    @TehBamski

  • What's your most cruel prank so far?

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  • What's your most cruel prank so far?

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  • What's your most cruel prank so far?

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  • @asklemmy Not a prank, just a story. Back at the Uni, we had a hall in the building, and that was where all of the administration was sitting. This was also one of two spots students hung out during breaks.

    In there, there was an "Internet kiosk". In practice, the damned thing was just a crappy WinXP PC with a touch screen and a metal keyboard. It was useless, actually, almost nobody ever touched it, because there were better alternatives in the computer class. The speakers were loud, though.

    By default, it opened a browser with a Uni's website as a homepage.

    I loved how amazingly useless it was. So It was my primary target.

    We ran Doom on it, we replaced the browser with MS Paint (boosting the usefulness 100-fold), replaced the homepage (at this point the whole administration learned what the fox said and that Rick Astley was never gonna give them up by heart, because it was 2013 and Internet was still cool).

    On a year 3 I had to stop, though, because the dean was after my blood.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    Dr. Quadragon ❌ @mastodon.ml

    What's your most cruel prank so far?

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
    Dr. Quadragon ❌ @mastodon.ml

    The Unix Way, everybody!