People who call others cringe can be pretty cringe. Also people who generalize -- e.g. via "all people who call others cringe are cringe" -- is a cringe. Also people who stay noncommittal, avoiding vulnerability under layers of irony, can be pretty cringe too.
Charm of Kingsoul (rare):
=> No cost too great:
User mana slowly refills
while using an
uncommon init system.
Buffs from charm of
systemd become negative.
=> No mind to think: Charm
uses 5 inventory slots, but
gives +1 WIS on wisdom saves
=> No will to break: User can
choose to sacrifice charm
and obtain Void Heart.
Don't worry, I'm kind of ignorant on it too! But it's fun :)
swift
Bowl of Rice (uncommon, consumable)
=> Funroll loop: When eaten,
options apply for ten turns
=> Config hell: User is a survivor
of config hell. -2 dexterity and
+1 int until the next rest.
Attunement-based items
increase stat options by +1
each in exchange for -2 CON each.
=> Screenshot: +1 CHA when a
photograph is taken
=> Form over function: User is drawn
to rainbow pastel. -2 on WIS checks
=> Brand o' The Wiki:
After 100 hours in the wiki, every
hundred words uttered must
either include RTFM or the
acronym of this debuff. Wears
off when near natural vegetation
Not fixed yet. People either quit, let their threat model allow Ventoy's shellscripts to git-commit bins, or built it from source (i.e. PKGBUILD or ebuild).
Life dissatisfaction guides people to type no;neutrally satisfied folks will skip;the relatively contented might type a "yes" or be offline.With today's historical context, there's a bit of a skew, especially for those hanging out online o( ; ´ ﹏ `;)o
As for me, I'm excepted. I have decent dissatisfaction rather often, but arrogantly -- I'd be born a million times, every time (unless you ask me at a bad moment).
Even at my worst, why do I not roll over and die? "I want to see how my story ends."
A friend long ago was setting up VSCode and Java. He wasn't the most familiar with Ubuntu, or Linux at all -- imagine his struggle when his JDK couldn't be found. Why? Non-obvious to him, it was sandboxed as a snap.
When I was a noob, I was looking for a package for some app, but when I found a PPA, it was an enormous command to set up. And hunting online for software... how Windowsy.
When I was a noob, I was theming my system with a mildly rare theme. But Firefox was a snap. And since the theme didn't have a snap, I had to try to integrate it myself or de-snap Firefox... shiver
Maybe it's changed now. But (1) pushed me to Mint, (2) pushed me further to distros with simpler text-based package management, and (3) is hopefully easier nowadays.
Bottom line (as many agree): Snaps are uncomfortable for a lot of levels of Linux.
Non-ideologically: the culture is measurably better. Here's why.
The Lemmy Algorithm. This is a big flaw with Reddit -- people have the attention span for the first ten comments, and then subcomment upvotes halve (with decent std. dev -- we aren't Zipf's Law devotees there) until invisibility. I don't think my Reddit comments are even seen, let alone replied to. But here, new comments have a chance.
The sense of "mineness". A lot of people see this place as "their own", so there's responsibility to raise your communities right, and another to interact (hence, variably lower hostility). I don't post much but I respond a lot to the people who comment in them, because I feel that it'd be nice to contribute to do my part and keep this place up.
At risk of sounding self-absorbed/elitist, the entry level helps culture too. People are here because they were dissatisfied with the state of other sites, then made a jump; this is a sieve that to an extent increases the standard of sorting by new. (This has limitations of course -- we still have extremists for example -- and it isn't necessarily advocating for Lemmy to never be mainstream.)
e.g. that Draw a Duck post a while back is probably far beyond a lot of platforms' capabilities/proclivities.
(I admit: this is a paraphrased comment I made a few months ago)
If you use the dollar to match the S&P500 beginning in 1928, you'd earn about 1(1.1)^96 = 9 thousand dollars. (w/ dividends)
9k a day times 365 days a year is 3.2 million a year. Or you can invest THOSE EARNINGS into ETFs at the present day again -- by 5 years you'll have made 16 mil principal + 5.4 mil interest. At that rate, it'll take 35 years to be a billionaire.
Oooooor you can just continually dunk the magic daily dollar in Bitcoins instead
I've been working with an odd app where you type at length but the message gets eaten sometimes. So I follow up everything with instant hits of the select-all + copy buttons
I find the < and > arrows to navigate text much more ergonomic than holding on space to edge around, especially for long strings (webpage forms lol)
Private clipboard is a measurable peace of mind. Had a heart attack when a private SSH key got autosuggested on the stock keyboard. Not sure if it ever gets TLS transferred anywhere though, e.g. for autocorrect training.
I do switch back to the stock keyboard for emoji search though.
I'm pretty sure you can spin anything like the sort with ags. Takes some legwork though (bit of TypeScript or Lua). Then just set the layer to something near the bottom and put it on every monitor, skabing, shaboom.
People who call others cringe can be pretty cringe. Also people who generalize -- e.g. via "all people who call others cringe are cringe" -- is a cringe. Also people who stay noncommittal, avoiding vulnerability under layers of irony, can be pretty cringe too.