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onlooker

@ onlooker @lemmy.ml

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  • What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I'm having a stroke?

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  • The thing with ellipses is... they make you sound... like you have lethargy... Either that... or extreme shyness... Whenever I see text with no other punctuation than ellipses...I always imagine... like I'm talking with Eeyore... from Winnie the Pooh...

  • What's the most embarrassing thing about you?

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  • I'm too embarrassed to tell you. I'll give you a freebie, though: I bought Mega Man X7 for the PlayStation 2. Unironically. On purpose. Having enjoyed the previous Mega Man X games, I didn't think for a second it would be bad.

    It was bad.

  • Half Of PlayStation Players Still Haven't Upgraded To PS5

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  • Telegram founder and CEO alledges signal has backdoors, they don't provide reproduceible builds, etc.

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  • I don't know about reproducible builds, but Telegram has a slew of other problems. For example, they advertise that your messages are "heavily encrypted", but this feature is restricted to secret chats which is NOT the default method of communication and they use their own weird-ass algorhythm called ProtoMT instead of one of many existing algorhythms which have been audited and verified. Not to mention you need to give them your phone number to use the app.

  • Making good, profitable games 'will no longer keep you safe': industry expresses fury and heartbreak over closure of Hi-Fi Rush and Prey studios

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  • All that talk about how Xbox is investing in the Japanese market and then they close the one prominent Japanese studio that they own. The same one that, as the article points out, made Hi-Fi Rush which was "a break out hit". What the hell, Microsoft.

  • Linkedin

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  • I like how the OP's name was censored for their privacy, but not the name of the person responding. Also, what the hell are these people huffing?

  • Windows is hell, i need to do something

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  • I'm not sure which distro would work with your laptop. I would suggest experimenting with live USB images. Maybe using something like Ventoy which enables you to try out multiple live images from one USB stick. But as far as applications go:

    • GIMP is native to Linux and should work fine. You might also want to give Krita and Inkscape a whirl. Also, massive props for ditching Adobe. I hate that company as much as it hates their customers.
    • Blender works on linux.
    • So does Davinci. Allegedly. Haven't used it, but their website says Linux support is available.
    • I don't code so, um, no idea. Sorry. Hopefully someone else will weigh in.
    • Good news, Linux has working file explorers!
    • No ads, at least for the most part. Ubuntu had Amazon's search integrated into their search bar a while back, which caused quite a kerfuffle. Later, they added a toggle to turn this off, but this was years ago. Might want to check just in case.

  • Opensource/foss Discord frontend

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  • For similar reasons to your own, I tried a few different Discord frontends a while back so I could chat with one of my friends who lives abroad. I never found a winner. They either wouldn't connect or would be missing tons of features (for example: one of them only let you watch the chat, not participate in it). I also seem to remember reading somewhere that Discord is pretty aggressive when it comes to third party apps. It's their app or nothing. You might have better luck than I did, but I wouldn't get my hopes up.

    And as others have mentioned, if you're looking for privacy, Discord ain't it. Sorry I couldn't give you a more helpful response.

  • Is there a specific religious term for the belief "God exists and he is evil"?

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  • How about Divine Misanthropy?

  • Microsoft 365?

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  • Accurate. Bewilderment and confusion is how most users seem to react to Microsoft products. Especially true after Microsoft pushes out a big update.

  • The Hardest Part

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  • I thought it was a Pandora games console at first, but that has way more IOs at the back and no touchpad, whereas the thingy in the picture seems to have one below the keyboard. I'm super curious what it might be. If I find out what it is, I'll edit this post.

  • Figuring things out

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  • Has anyone seen Behind the Curve? Most of these flat earth people seem to possess some level of critical thinking, just... not enough. That, or their pride or obstinacy get in the way. At the end of the documentary, a team of flat-earthers perform an actual, well thought out experiment. It's... well, just watch.

    Best part? Immediately after this, they discard the results of the experiment saying the premise was faulty. Somehow.

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  • Very interesting. I wonder if this will result in the EU putting even more pressure on Apple.

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  • That's cool and all, but doesn't the iOS version of Firefox use the same engine as Safari? If so, does changing browsers on iOS amount to anything else than a skin change?

  • China's housing minister says real estate developers must go bankrupt if necessary

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  • I am aware, yes. I should add an /s at the end next time.

  • China's housing minister says real estate developers must go bankrupt if necessary

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  • So are they poor or rich? Make up your mind!

  • Don't use Appimages (a writeup about all the reasons they are a pain for users)

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  • True. I would consider another package manager if it integrated into my system nicely and if I had more than a few applications outside my regular package manager. But I only have like two AppImages on my PC anyway, so I don't mind updating them manually when I need to run them.

  • Don't use Appimages (a writeup about all the reasons they are a pain for users)

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  • Counterpoint: I don't like having more than one package manager on my system, which means things like Flatpaks and Snaps are out. With AppImages, I just double-click on the executable and off it goes.

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  • Whenever I hear Baby Shark, I get very emotional.