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Guy Fleegman

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  • Mint is very good. Seriously. If I had to daily drive Linux on the desktop, I’d use Mint. But even Mint is a far cry from a Mac in terms of usability and software compatibility.

    I’d also have to go back to x86-64 to use Mint, and that’s a big step in the wrong direction. I’m sure that won’t always be the case, but at the moment, the ARM Linux situation is still quite fragmented.

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  • I use a Mac precisely because it lets me do what I want. Linux is endless configuration and poorly designed UIs, Windows is an incoherent mess that needs to be wrestled back to a usable state with every major update. Mac does what I need without any fuss.

    Truth be told, I have a PC for gaming and a Linux server for Plex, *arr, and home automation. But when I need to get work done, it’s the MacBook. No question.

  • When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?

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  • This is just a long-winded way to ask “how do we pay for it?” The answer is taxes. That’s always the answer.

    Let’s call it 10 trillion total: 20m rental properties x 500k average home price. If we allocated half the annual military budget—400bn—to buying private rentals and making them social housing, it would take 25 years to get through the whole market.

    The financial scale of the solution is not so large as to be insurmountable. The US government’s priorities simply lie elsewhere.

  • When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?

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  • If you're aware of public and social housing then why are you asking how community ownership and management works?

    In any case, yes, of course all rental housing should be publicly owned. Vienna's Gemeindebauten and Singapore's HDB, among others, have proven that pretty definitively.

    I'm not certain that all housing should be public, though. Privately owned primary residences are probably fine, in the grand scheme of things. But rental housing for profit should obviously be abolished.

  • When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?

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  • End of year view and fundraising drive.

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  • Got it. I almost exclusively use Voyager to access Lemmy so I didn't realize there was an emoji menu. I see it now.

    In that case I'd like to request a Guy Fleegman emoji.

  • End of year view and fundraising drive.

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  • What's a custom emoji? Just a small image I can put in my posts and comments? Will it render on other instances?

  • If we're lucky, maybe this timeline merely postponed the Bell Riots

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  • Eh. I can see it working.

    Humans are social creatures. We like to feel useful and connect with others. In a world with a replicator in every home, dining out is much more about the social experience than the food. Working in a restaurant would be about community and shared interest. People would volunteer to staff them for the same reason people do any form of volunteer work: they enjoy the sense of purpose, skill-sharing, and camaraderie that comes with it. Plus, with replicators making preparation and cleanup trivial, there's a lot less labor associated with food service.

    Lastly, consider that post-scarcity dining establishments that would have no tolerance for rude customers. If someone went full Karen on a volunteer, they'd be banned in a hot second. The social dynamics of such an arrangement would entirely favor the staff: if there are no "paying customers" then there's no entitlement to go with it.

    I don't find it all that difficult to envision a set of social incentives that would keep restaurants alive.

  • Anon tries watching nu-Trek

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  • Picard: “We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity”

    Tilly: “I went to Elon Musk junior high school”

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    Guy Fleegman @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Torpedoes are stored in the balls

  • i hate this meme

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  • Based and friendpilled

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    Guy Fleegman @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    gottem

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    Guy Fleegman @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    He's just... unbearable

  • Know the difference.

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  • You’re preaching to the choir. “Concede the point” is a figure of speech which means the speaker is going explore an assumption despite not believing it themselves.

    My point is that the whole “capitalism is the best economic system we know about because humans are greedy” argument is sophistry. It doesn't even make sense in the context of its own flawed premise.

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  • Let’s concede the point: humans are inherently greedy and selfish.

    But greed and selfishness are bad, right? We want less greed and selfishness in the world.

    Given these two assumptions—humans are greedy, greed is bad—shouldn’t we architect society to explicitly disincentivize greed?

  • /0 @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    Guy Fleegman @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Lemmy.World federation is on the fritz again

  • I just want to view the recipe

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  • It’s extremely easy, you just install AdGuard.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    Guy Fleegman @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    MRW my instance fixes federation with Lemmy World and I can see Ten Forward again

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    Guy Fleegman @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Federation with Lemmy.World is spotty since LW updated to 0.19.3

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    Guy Fleegman @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    And in some timelines, it's a mouse

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    Guy Fleegman @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    The Alternative Factor. The Dauphin. Fair Haven.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    Guy Fleegman @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Or the Defiant. Or Voyager. Or Discovery. Watch your back!

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  • None of the startrek.website folks have been in contact with me, and even they were I'd tell them to go pound sand—it's great that VS & BT are finally experiencing some actual consequences for their poor conduct. Selfishly, I want a place where I can talk about Star Trek because I like Star Trek and those two keep ruining the places I want to hang out and talk about Star Trek in.

    This has happened before, both on Reddit and Lemmy, but the problem with a bunch of loudmouths who make a splinter community is that you never know if those loudmouths have legitimate grievances or they're just reactionary dipshits who want to bitch about wokeness. Every previous time this has happened, the reactionary dipshits flooded in and ruined the splinter community before it could get off the ground. Things got stuck in this reinforcing loop where the situation was "well /r/startrek (and later startrek.website) are run by petty tyrants but at least they keep the bigots in check."

    I was really hoping that I could steer startrek.website into being a fairer community than what came before, but there was just no receptiveness to feedback or open discussion over there whatsoever. I tried to warn them about how bad their reputation had become, but they didn't want to hear it and I got iced out pretty much immediately. I had just about accepted that Lemmy would be a repeat of Reddit in this regard and the largest Star Trek community would suck. So, this is great. Seriously.

    Along those lines, serious question: is /c/TenForward going to host episode discussion for Discovery season 5 and future Star Trek? I saw you mentioned that the Lemmy.World admins cleaned up lemmy.world/c/startrek, do you know the new mod over there? Any plans to coordinate with them?

    To put a finer point on it: you successfully rescued /c/risa from startrek.website, can the team you've created here extend that success and rescue /c/startrek as well?

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  • It's common enough that /r/startrek developed a reputation for being unfairly draconian with their moderation which spread beyond Reddit. I knew they were really in trouble when I encountered comments about how bizarre and punitive their moderation style is in places like Twitter, Mastodon, and YouTube comments. Every once in a while I would see someone recommending Daystrom to someone who was banned from /r/startrek because the "mods aren't as strict," which is wild when you think about it: Daystrom has many pages of very specific rules and they are all actively enforced.

    It's pretty harsh and I'm biased because I've had some fun conversations about Star Trek with Value, but... no it's probably not unfair. My interactions with them never reached this level of intensity because I just left, but the stubbornness has always been there.

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  • Fuck it, lets kick this drama starship into transwarp. I am the creator of /r/DaystromInstitute, /r/Risa, I modded /r/startrek for about a year, and I helped to create startrek.website. AMAA.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    Guy Fleegman @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Janeway and Sisko are the second row, but Archer is just double nerd