Hyperreality

It’s weird how much the media still cover twitter, given how increasingly niche it’s become.

Also seems quite high. I did a google and apparently it’s half the number and closer to 300 million.

The people who gave up because they couldn’t solve their issues aren’t posting either.

Yeah. He’s an obvious troll. The bigger problem is that when I’ve called him out in the past, a mod here has deleted my comments for misleading reasons. So it’s obvious that at least one of the mods does support Russian bs. Of course, there are other mods who do give him the occasional ban so he calms down a bit.

I’ve said this elsewhere, but if you’re angry about what’s happening in Gaza, you really don’t want ‘friends’ like that supporting your cause. One spoilt apple ruins the bunch. It’s like if you run a children’s hospital that accepts donations from Gary Glitter.

I use a VPN. Good luck whoever decides to DDoS the CIA, FBI and/or NSA.

FBI/NSA/CIA man: don’t pay attention to me, as you can see all I do is torrent shit movies and watch porn.

Yep. Very common.

A lot of people use their pc like a console or media server. Ie. use it to watch/play stuff from their bed or couch.

Sometimes I wear headphones/earbuds without the music on, just to drown at the noise.

Get ones that isolate noise well.

Pay your parents some rent, help out around the house, treasure them while they’re still alive.

Save up and invest as much money as you possibly can.

Meh. To achieve peak Germany you need to sprinkle in some homeopathy and naturism.

For example:

https://www.dw.com/en/ufos-and-aliens-in-germany/a-58077707

However at least of the German UFO clubs seem to be perfectly reasonable:

In Germany, there seems to be an endless list of hobby clubs and nonprofit associations. The Association for UFO Research (GEP) is one of them. Their databank includes 140,000 entries, and 95% of them can be explained. Aside from satellites, strangely shaped balloons is one common answer, as well as weather phenomena and insects that zoom across photos. The remaining 5% “perhaps also have natural causes, which we just can’t explain yet,” Hans-Werner Peiniger, GEP’s head, told DW. Members of Germany’s UFO clubs — there are at least three — are not blind alien believers, Leipzig-based Fleischer said. They are rational, engineer types who use limited resources to analyze what curious sky watchers send them. The result, however, can be a great deal of information about what is happening above us. The really interesting cases “are a matter for the military,” Fleischer said. “They control the skies and have instruments and radar.”

OP is German. Most Germans don’t have AC, in part due to higher electricity costs. It is most definitely considered a luxury.

Here’s a relevant article:

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/18/1008196272/temps-are-spiking-unusually-high-in-germany-a-country-without-much-air-condition

Recently exacerbated by the war in Ukraine:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/business/europe-electricity-prices.html

I’d move back to the UK. It’s where I spent my childhood. I genuinely love Shakespeare, theatre and all that crap. Small studio in London, volunteer/work in the arts/cultural sector, go to the theatre or a tv recording during the weekend.

Unfortunately life is shit in the UK if you’re not rich. I once calculated that I’d be better off staying unemployed where I live, than finding suitable employment in London. I have a couple of degrees, but starting wages were abysmal when you factored in cost of living (rent, etc.). A lot of money would also mean I can get another degree and get a visa. Also: private health insurance. The NHS ain’t what it used to be.

Of course, if I was really rich I could also just stay where I am (low capital gain taxes), build a fully self-sufficient eco house (energy, water) then fly/drive/take the train to London, Berlin, Paris, Prague, Amsterdam for the weekend. Hell, buy a nice car, go for a drive.

Air conditioning is a luxury much of the world can’t afford.

This isn’t fair.

There’s a bug in one of the most recent security updates on windows, something to do with the size of the recovery partition, so at the moment plenty of windows users aren’t updating or failing to update, and it’s not as if windows has fixed it yet either so most users are stuck waiting on it.

In other words: sometimes far too many updates, sometimes not enough (timely) updates, often broken updates.

I sounds like you don’t actually dislike wayland, but fanboys and toxicity. TBH the linux community is full of that kind of crap.

Imagine if we were all as weird about toasters, having arguments about how toaster brand X was so much better than toaster brand Y.

But luckily people don’t give much of a shit about toasters, as long as they work.

I haven’t ever had a relationship with a woman, but I don’t hate all women either. I just consider myself unlucky. Does that make me an incel?

No, if you don’t hate women you’re not an incel.

Probably related to this:

https://kbin.social/m/lemmy@lemmy.ml/t/838038/We-seem-to-be-getting-attacked

they’re literally producing drivers for their cards for Linux,

For some of their cards as the article mentions.

I’m not sure what else you want them to do.

Regularly release drivers for more of their graphic cards, including older ones like the GTX 10-series which are still incredibly popular.

No, that’s a genuinely good and well informed reason to not use windows.

Also that Sartre quote:

Never believe that [they] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [They] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

This being said, the Socratic method sometimes works. Just keep asking them questions and let them argue with themselves.

Obviously not everyone online is a troll.

How are you supposed to fine 7 vulernabilities in an hour anyways?

Threaten the interviewer with a knife until they give you at least 7 vulnerabilities. tapsheadmeme