This is what I've found so frustrating about Ford, as an Ontarian. He'll have a whole speech where he's like "wow, public health sure does suck, huh? The hospitals don't have any beds!"
And I'm screaming at the screen "motherfucker, you've got the knobs! Public health is whatever you say it is! Crank that shit up if you want more beds, you're the bed guy!"
But he doesn't want more beds. He wants private clinics and the money they come with.
The difference as far as I'm aware, or at least the biggest difference, is that anyone can implement XMPP anytime, but not anyone can just decide to implement RCS. I think you've gotta get in with the carriers to do that. At least I think.
Sometimes I'll do the "advanced" maneuver where I love a show or game and I'm like "this is awesome, I don't want to go through it too fast" and I'll pace myself by never feeling like now is an important enough time, and never again experiencing something I was truly enjoying.
I'm actively working on "beating games I like" right now as, like, a skill I'm developing.
I know everyone complains about it, but fuck Google's results have been absolute dogshit lately. I'll write a query with like 5 or 6 words, and the results will make it clear it took about 3 of them and turned them separately into synonyms, ignored the other 2 completely, and then gave me a bunch of results that contain literally none of the words I asked for and are irrelevant to my search.
They even helpfully highlight words I didn't ask for in the digest!
Sometimes I can still influence it into giving me what I want with some judicious use of quotes or something, but even that doesn't always work these days. Sometimes I'll search something like "Linux suspend bug" or something and it'll give me results that don't have Linux in it, and then there'll be a little blurb under the result being like "yeah, this one doesn't have Linux in it. Do you want that?"
Yeah! I gave you like 3 words, and you decided to show me results that ignored the most discriminating word I gave you? Yeah, use it, that's why I typed it!
It's like they tuned the engine to work on the terrible queries my relatives would type 10 years ago, and in so doing ruined my ability to be deliberate and precise...
And for beginners, a flatpak is a particular way of bundling software so that:
A) all of the dependencies come with the program so you can just download one thing and run it
and
B) it has some level of sandboxing, which means you have some level of control over what the software you downloaded has access to on your machine. In theory.
So what they're saying is that if some software you want isn't already bundled as a flatpak, you're going to have a hard time with bazzite, as it's geared around making flatpaks easy, and requires more work to install things using other methods. Still works, just not as easy.
You mean the AI trained on Twitter users and intentionally guided to be right-wing has learned that sometimes talking about soccer is a way to lure a 12 year old boy into child abuse? The resemblance is uncanny...
I think that's relevant to the discussion though. Most people sit like two feet from their gaming monitor and lean forward in their chair to make the character go faster.
But most people put a big TV on the other side of a boring white room, with a bare white ikea coffee table in between you and it, and I bet it doesn't matter as much.
I bet the closest people ever are to their TV is when they're at the store buying it...
I'm not the person you're responding to, but I've read their message a few times, and your response, and I think I see the mismatch. They said "I don't know how they could do this, but what they could do is ban prayer mats".
And I think you interpreted this as "I don't know how they'd enforce this. Oh, but here's an idea, we should get rid of prayer mats"
But the way I read it I think they meant "I don't know what this means for Christians and Jews, but I hope they don't use this simply to ban prayer mats and nothing else"
No no, this is legit. There have been times in the past something like this came up that appeared to apply broadly, but wouldn't you know it just happened to hit Muslims more than Christians. I had the same thought, which is that this sounds like a good thing, but I hope isn't secretly just trying to make Muslims lives worse in a way that won't impact other people.
Oh yeah, I really liked Control and recommended someone else play it. He didn't make it far and I asked why not and he said the upgrade system and the crafting... and I was like what crafting?
He said the way you turn figments or whatever into upgrades or whatever. And I was like "oh yeah, that rings a bell... I just didn't do any of that".
I don't always have this power, but in this case I was apparently able to ignore entire chunks of the game and enjoy what was left. So I have a weird skewed view of the game 😛
I choose to believe their poorly worded post meant something like "the dehumanizing conditions the average person finds themselves in perhaps explains, though does not excuse, the monstrous behaviour we've seen on display here. I hope that in a more equitable and respectful world, people would be rewarded rather than punished for their compassion"
I don't think that's what they meant, but I choose to believe it 😛
Yes, but also decentralized design is not enough on its own!
It's entirely possible that all of Lemmy could be a sea of independent instances, that are all hosted on AWS because it's cheap or easy. Or if even just the big ones run on AWS, sure my instance could be up technically, but there's no content. And in either case we'd be in the same situation despite the federated design.
We need to make sure, as a community, that we maintain a diversity of tech stacks between the instances too!
Also I think technically, nit-pickily, Lemmy is federated and not decentralized. Because actual true decentralization actually doesn't care where any instance is hosted. I'm sorry, I know...
Yeah, holy shit. This isn't some hippy caricature at a park, but mayor of arguably the 4th largest city in North America. That's nuts, but I'm glad to see it. Wild times...
Uhmmmm, pretty sure it's worse than that. My understanding of the term is that it comes from cars, where cheaper Asian cars were entering the American market and were called "rice burners" (racistly), and I'm pretty sure from there the concept of decking out a cheap car with spoilers and ground kits and a wild paint job and stuff was called "ricing" because it was a thing in the Asian communities. As in "ricing a car" is "doing what an Asian would do to that car, and you know how they're all about rice"
I'd be happy to be wrong here... but I think that's the history on that word.
This is what I've found so frustrating about Ford, as an Ontarian. He'll have a whole speech where he's like "wow, public health sure does suck, huh? The hospitals don't have any beds!"
And I'm screaming at the screen "motherfucker, you've got the knobs! Public health is whatever you say it is! Crank that shit up if you want more beds, you're the bed guy!"
But he doesn't want more beds. He wants private clinics and the money they come with.