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I make people upset just by using my eyes and brain, as such please be careful to ensure your tears do not get into your electronics, thank you

  • Betrayal 🥲

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  • no, I believe that's Walton Goggins if I'm not mistaken.

  • Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS

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  • That was the breaking point for me, actually, back in February 2024; when I realized I was going to have to tard-wrangle my operating system to get it to behave right no matter which OS I used, I'd rather use the one that's free, doesn't include spyware I have to rip out, and won't re-fuck itself after an update. Like, yeah, the terminal is still a pain in the ass for me on rare occasions I have to use it, but it's no bigger a pain than any of that stuff on Windows; nor is it inherently any scarier than Command Prompt or PowerShell like some seem to think; and unlike Windows things actually stay fixed instead of some corporation going "ah-ah-ah, you can't do that, let me just fuck that right back up for you."

    Like, I was prepared for the same kind of fight with Linux I'd had with Windows because the fight didn't seem all that different by that point; that Mint ended up just working most of the time was an unexpected delight.

  • Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS

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  • I remember in early 2024 when I switched to Mint I got some mild pushback from acquaintances, saying in so many words that I was overreacting to Windows getting shittier and that "you can just strip all that bullshit out/you can make a local account/etc." (while at the same time telling me "linux is too hard/painful because of all the stuff you have to do to make it work right/doesn't have xyz program").

    I have been getting ever more smug and feeling more vindicated about this decision every day for the past two years.

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  • I assure you, the enshittification of music streaming services is already here. Even before Spotify went completely to shit there were some things that just couldn't be found on the platform, and others still that I used to listen to suddenly becoming unavailable.

    I, and a lot of other people, pirate music now because (among other reasons) having a hard drive full of MP3s or FLACs is something no corporation can arbitrarily decide to take away from you at any time.

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  • The last game I pirated was Driver: San Francisco a couple years ago, because you couldn't (still can't? maybe?) buy it anywhere except for like, second-hand physical media, and I am not going through that hassle. I can't even remember the game I last pirated before that (Probably Sims 4, because fuck EA and fuck that laundry list of DLC -- but I can't be sure).

    Music, movies, and TV shows, though? Oh yeah, baby, that's a weekly activity now. Netflix I dumped many years ago when the fracturing of content to twenty different streaming services happened, and Spotify I dumped just this last year for a few different reasons (the CEO donating to AI weapons programs, introducing a fuckass AI DJ, ICE ads, getting fed up with songs I either can't find or can find but aren't available in my region, or could listen to and enjoyed and then having them suddenly become unavailable, etc...)

    I'm sure, someday, Steam will enshittify. Probably shortly after Gabe dies -- and it will be a dark day for me and millions of gamers worldwide. But for now, I'm more than happy to let Gabe empty my wallet with sales and convenience, because the gettin's been good for a couple decades and will likely remain so for another couple. I can't say the same for music, movies, and TV; I don't know if I'll ever end up paying for them again unless the distributors involved sort their shit out.

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  • Do yourself a huge favor and download Nicotine+ (which is a client for Soulseek, you can also use the official SoulseekQt I guess but it's old and not as feature-rich). That and Spek to make sure you don't get any fake bitrate files from people.

    The only two real downsides to Soulseek, imo, are the fact that a lot of the chatrooms are basically unmoderated IRC (So many nazis to ignore. So many.), and the problem of fake bitrates. The huge upside is you can find pretty much any and everything on there if you wait for the right people to be online to share it. I've found quite a few rare albums and such that I couldn't get from my usual gettin' places.

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  • the fact that Gabe said "piracy is a service problem" fifteen fucking years ago, and none of these fuckwits in content distribution have learned this at all is a source of continuous astonishment to me.

  • The UK has arrested high-profile figures connected to Jeffrey Epstein. Will the US?

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  • No.

  • TIL that Ayatollah Khamenei built a secret organization called BAYT. This organization is more powerful than the government and employs 40,000 people. The goal was to make sure killing him is useless

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  • It's either Alkes Semibold or Skema Pro Medium according to WhatTheFont

  • Music @lemmy.world
    archonet @lemy.lol

    Chumbawamba - Jacob's Ladder (Not In My Name)

  • I wonder when someone is gonna make a parody porn called "The Gooners" based on the 1980s movie "The Goonies"?

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  • You know, it costs nothing to not put that idea into words. It also would've been entirely free to not put those words on the internet, where an idea can fester.

    And yet, regrettably, here we are.

  • [Solved] What was that amazing job site a user made a while back?

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  • James Talarico beating Jasmine Crockett in Texas Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, poll shows

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  • It should speak volumes that nothing scares the GOP and the FCC more than someone from Texas preaching actual Christian values on national television instead of using the bible as a weapon for hate.

  • RFC 406i - The Rejection of Artificially Generated Slop (RAGS)

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  • my personal favorite was

    Q: "You are violating the project's Code of Conduct!" A: The Code of Conduct protects human contributors. Lexical analysis confirms you are currently operating as a flimsy meat-wrapper around an OpenAI API key. Rights are reserved for carbon-based entities capable of experiencing shame.

  • Republican mayor caught on camera sniffing his TEEN STEPDAUGHTERS PANTIES

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  • Florida of the North strikes again. This is the sort of shit I fully expect to come out of Ohio.

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    Is it ethical to use mild shock collars on autistic children because many health and educational institutions do that too?

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  • You know, it was once in vogue to lobotomize the mentally ill, too. Just because an institution does it, doesn't make it not barbaric.

  • Greenland ice melt surges unprecedentedly amid warming

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  • meanwhile, the United States government:

  • If someone tells you that communism has led to famines in the USSR and China, that it doesn't have any incentives and that anyone who supports it use products of capitalism, how do you counter this?

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  • the world could genuinely really use that "better than both" system right now, before capitalism kills the planet and then the planet kills us.

    having said that, I am not certain how one would even begin to build a system that assholes can not exploit. Assholes will always exist, and frequently team up to be bigger, more effective assholes to everyone else. Communism fails for this simple reason, humans are corruptible. Capitalism is a "winning" system (until it isn't) for assholes and few others. How do you even begin to formulate a system that works for everybody (or most everybody), that does not just disincentivize or punish but make it entirely infeasible for bad actors to undermine it or game it? One that doesn't allow starving children and billionaires to exist at once?

    Anarchism is all well and good in a world where there are no other governments, but I doubt we get from here, where we are now, to universal mutual aid open bordered bliss, without a lot of kicking and screaming from the die-hard capitalists (read: very successful assholes) of the world. Or an apocalyptic catastrophe of some sort. So there must be formulated some system that can compete and exist, not just survive but thrive; in a world filled with manipulative bad actors, entire foreign governments comprised of them and those home-grown; while not being susceptible to the same hollowing out of government function/principles or being conquered militarily.

    it's a discussion worth having, certainly, but I doubt it's one that would bear fruit in our lifetimes. Sure, I know the divine right of kings ended, and hell, I might even be sitting in a front row seat for watching the end of American democracy -- who knows what'll implode next -- but hoping for the end of assholes in power, being able to amass incredible power, something seemingly older than the wheel and recorded history? seems like a reach.

  • No, really, I will!

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  • I, too, remember candleja

  • Every so often, it's important for our community to pause, heal, and reflect together on what's truly important and why we're all here.

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  • IT'S NOT DIFFERENT AT ALL, IS IT STEVE?