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gerryflap

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  • The first thing I remember from that time is sitting in the living room and playing Halo, then hearing that the economy was crashing and everything was going to shit. And it kinda did, I remember a lot of stress about my parents keeping their jobs. I'm from the mid 90s and this is the first moment that I can remember where I became aware of how fucked up the world really was. A shattering of the protective bubble that you experience as a kid.

  • There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths

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  • It is very difficult. I tend to let it collect until I start running out of clean stuff while hoping for the gnomes to do it for me. But they never actually do so :(

  • Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes

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  • You're probably aware, but Bitwig studio runs natively on Linux. And tools like yabridge can allow you to run many VST plugins as well. Though it remains a bit of a hassle compared to Windows. I've for instance lost access to a NI plugin because their new all-in-one installer/verification program won't work on Linux

  • Oh that's what that is rule

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  • This is just normal cis guy behavior right? :3

  • Safety

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  • Uhhh not really no. Most of us were raised to hide away our emotions. I've been bullied for crying or being "weak". This expectation still exists among adults and is perpetuated by both men and women (though definitely not all of them). It only takes one or two of these toxic people to turn a whole group towards toxic masculinity it seems.

    Also, anywhere I go I'm aware that most women find me scary just for existing in a place. I was just out for a walk and just happened to end up on a path closely behind a woman who was also walking there. She looked behind a few times and sped up her pace, while I tried to reduce pace in order to not spook her any further. It's not exactly nice to get the feeling that half of the population seems to immediately distrust you just for the actions of a small minority of men.

  • Drag

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  • This kind of thinking can be used to invalidate any hobby that you're not personally into. I used to think like this and honestly I was a major asshole because of it.

    "People travelling is just attention seeking, going to places where millions have already gone just to get a few pictures while emitting a bizarre amount of CO2. "

    "Festivals? Why travel all that way and cause all the noise pollution (and pollution in general) just to see some dude press play on a CDJ and listen to mediocre quality music that you could just listen to at home. "

    "Board games? Why waste all those resources and all that money on something that could just be a computer program? Save the money and give it to poor people instead."

    "Fashion? Biggest nonsense there is. Just make clothes that fit well and are durable. We can just stop this pretentious rat race and save a lot of resources. Would also help with body positivity if the examples we see aren't over edited photos of anorexic models with otherwise perfect features in ridiculously expensive clothes."

    And I could keep going. You can reduce anything people care about to a waste of time, money, and resources that could be spent elsewhere. We're not on this planet to be the most efficient and selfless versions of ourselves, we're allowed to just enjoy things even if they seem a bit wasteful and ridiculous to others. That doesn't mean that we should never think about the impact on the environment and other people when we do something, but it's a balance. And just because we don't like doesn't mean that it can't be important to someone else.

    I'm sure that to some people their Christmas decorations are the biggest happening of their year. They'll think of what to do the entire year and nothing in the world will fill them with more bliss than seeing their house decorated the way they envisioned it.

  • What do you wish you'd have known before you started your hobby(s)?

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  • Not sure what hobby this is, but honestly it goes for almost every one of my hobbies. Especially photography. I could probably just get good with my Canon EOS 40D for digital and my Canon EOS 300 for analog photography. But collecting new gear is so satisfying. There's always something new to improve. "If only I had X, then I could really do Y well". Though I at least feel like I've somewhat contained myself. I haven't bought any new camera or lens that was more than like 500 bucks, and honestly with what I have now I don't really feel the need to upgrade.

  • Wokeness ended, check mate leftists

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  • I think you've kinda missed the point of this post lol. It's mocking people who think like this

  • Bees

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  • Nooooo! Don't make all those bees angry and lock them up. Bees need to be happy. Let them roam freely.

    Use wasps instead, those fuckers can rot in hell.

  • I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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  • I did so at the start of 2025. It was meant mostly as an experiment, to see what I needed before switching permanently. But I kinda just kept going. I think I've booted windows like 2 or 3 times across the year to get something off of it or to run test something that didn't work on Linux. I'm kinda considering to just wipe it, or wipe it and install it on a separate partition so it can't mess with shit anymore. Maybe put it on an old disk in my spare parts PC (if that is possible with the TPM bullshit) to isolate it further.

  • Learning Japanese

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  • I can open your link, but as someone who's Dutch, the way this all works in English is so absurd. Here we call Germany "Duitsland" and they speak "Duits". This is quite similar to what they say themselves, "Deutschland" and "Deutsch". We call our country "Nederland" and our language "Nederlands". This is again similar in German.

    Then why is English "Germany", "German" and "Holland"/"The Netherlands" and "Dutch". It's so silly. There are of course historic reasons, but can't we all just collectively change it?

  • [@alexkrokus] Elders

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  • It does feel like that yeah. But honestly it would probably still be pretty fast if the GPU driver support didn't cease. Being on the integrated GPU has made the thing age another 10 years, that piece of shit was already horrendously slow when the Laptop was new

  • Would you rather eat a totato (potato that tastes like a tomato) or a pomato (tomato that tastes like a potato)?

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  • Come back to be me when you've experienced the fine Dutch Cuisine of boiled potatoes, plain vegetables, and watery meat as the primary dish of your childhood. Occasionally the boiled potatoes are mixed with slightly undercooked potato slices, and potentially the spices kerrie or nutmeg may be added when the culinary level is exceptionally high that day.

    I know potatoes can be better, but unless they're fried I honestly don't want them in my house anymore

  • conditional soap

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  • I'm sorry, but men's 6 in 1 soap sucks ass. The moment I tried shampoo and conditioner for women, my (at the time short) hair got way better and I never looked back. Now that I have long hair I'm not even going to consider washing with the hair destroyer 2000 again. The image is wrong, the "conditional soap" is way better because it's not just soap.

  • Playing as a girule in video games

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  • Uhh not it's just that female characters have a smaller hibox. Nothing else :3

  • Oh no! Linus doesn't know AI is useless!

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  • Looks like he's just toying around with it in some project. Why would he take other's words for it when he can just test it himself? Try it out, see what happens, draw conclusions.

    There's a lot of mindless hype and a lot of mindless hate around these tools. Makes sense to try these tools and form your own opinion

  • Dutch Rule

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  • Not sure about furlongs, but it's about a 10th or a 20th of an M16A4 assault rifle (when aiming at the sky), or I guess about one or two McDonald's quarter pounders stacked on top of eachother.

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  • Haha. The video is a bit pessimistic tho, I know people who work at companies with Haskell running in production (who are happy with it). Personally I have used monads, and I've wished for their functionality in other languages like Java, but I couldn't reasonably explain what they are.

    Also, as someone who know just about enough German to understand some of what they're saying, it's always quite hard to follow these videos. My brain doesn't understand it when it hears "Das war ein Befehl!" and the subtitles ramble on about something completely different

  • Dutch Rule

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  • On topic. The train network (as well as most other modes of transport) are collapsing right now due to the snow. Pls help, we're not built for winter. Today we had 5-10 centimeters of snow. How can anyone survive these extreme conditions?!

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  • Jokes on you, I'm into that shit