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Square Singer

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  • What is your favorite insult in your native language that doesn't exist or cant be directly translated in English?

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  • Here are a few Austrian ones:

    "Häferl" (Cup): someone with anger management issues

    "Du rüttelst am Watschenbaum" (You are shaking the slap tree): I'm close to deliver the fruit of said tree to you.

    "Ohrwaschlkaktus" (Ear cactus): Someone with large, protruding ears

    "Saubauch" (Hog belly): A way of telling someone that they are fat and dumb at the same time. But in a nice way.

  • Oh yay new features

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  • That is totally true but that's a different direction than the danger in the marketing as discussed above.

    The media is full of "AI is so amazingly great, we are all going to lose our jobs and it will take over the world."

    That's a quite different message than what's really the case, which is "AI is so shitty, that it will literaly kill people with bad advice when given the chance. And business leaders are so shit that they willingly trust AI, just because it's cheaper."

  • Oh yay new features

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  • Totally is. Because it makes the AI look and feel much better than the smoke-and-mirrors it actually is.

  • Why don't more people use desktop Linux? I have a theory you might not like

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  • Well, it's all about expectations and alternatives. People don't expect to be overloaded with choices before the OS even boots.

    Linux is the only OS on any platform where they have (to make) this choice.

    Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone, all of these Systems don't give you a choice between wildly different versions.

    Also, the issue extends to after the installation as well. If someone asks me about a Windows issue of medium intensity, I can tell them on the phone how to fix it without having a PC nearby.

    Say they ask me how to do something as simple as to install a program from the repository.

    Depending on the Linux they are using, they will (or will not) have any one of a few dozen package manager GUIs, which will work wildly different. Even if they don't use the GUI, they might be using apt, yum, pacman, snap or any other of a few dozen CLI package managers.

    And depending on their distro, the package in question can have one of a few dozen different names, or might not be in the repo at all, so that I need to add a ppa or some other form of external repository.

    That is a massive issue in everyday use. The only viable thing is for the local family/friend group admin to decide which distro to use and then everyone needs to use that distro or get educated themselves.

    For example, I got a lot of experience (~10 years) on Debian-based OSes. Put me on Arch and I have no clue.

    The same is not true for e.g. Windows, where I have used every single version extensively (except of Win11).

  • What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?

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  • Unpaid overtime.

    Framing "fulfilling your contract" as "silent quitting".

    In what other context would be "delivering what's in the contract" anything less than satisfactory?

    When I buy a litre of milk and the box contains exactly a litre of milk it isn't "silent stealing" either.

  • What's some really unpopular opinion you have?

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  • It is really hard to have an unpopular opinion unless you are mentally deranged/a conspiracy theorist.

    As evidenced by the comments under this very post. Even when trying most people can't come up with an actually unpopular opinion.

  • What's some really unpopular opinion you have?

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  • Marketing is only manipulation. It wants to manipulate me into doing something I otherwise wouldn't have.

    Since I don't know how well their manipulation works, my only option is to only buy things that I have never seen an ad for.

    To make sure I can still buy anything at all, I block/avoid ads where I can.

  • [Rant] I swear to fucking god. Windows is harder to use than Linux. Have any of you ever USED Windows lately? Holy fuck.

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  • It's kinda funny how many people have no problem at all with a cloud account on their phone but get a mild stroke when Windows asks them to create a Microsoft account.

  • You can only drink one drink for the rest of your life, but it cannot be water. What do you pick?

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  • You'll drink this until the end of your life. Works the same with molten iron though.

  • Discord != Documentation

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  • The problem is discoverability. And that's where I don't get why anyone in their right mind would use Discord for stuff like that.

    Say, you have Github, a forum or even a subreddit for your project.

    Somebody asks a question, you answer it.

    Somebody else has the same question. Either they are intelligent enough to find it themselves or they ask and you just link your old answer. Done.

    On Discord, it's basically impossible to find an answer that is more than two screens full of posts ago. So you have to keep answering the very same questions all the time.

  • Usage for Old Notbook

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  • If you have a little cash to spare, I'd recommend upgrading this thing a little bit.

    A 480GB SATA 2.5" SSD costs around €22.

    8GB of DDR3 can be had for ~€10.

    So with maybe €35 of investment (and probably much less if you buy used stuff from your local flea market app) you could make the laptop much faster and much more usable.

    If you don't actually need ~500GB of storage, a 240GB SSD can be had for ~€12.

  • Pray for Spiro

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  • It's basically the receipt for an ape.

  • The Password Game

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  • I hate Paul...

    I made it up to rule 25 and then Paul starved because I was thinking too long about which characters to ban.

    To make it over Rule 24 (Paste the URL of a Youtube video with a certain random length), I even created a video with the correct length and kept uploading it to Youtube to get a URL without roman numerals and decently usable atomic weights.

    When I tried it again after that dumb chicken starved, I hit Youtube's maximum daily upload limit. Now Youtube thinks I am a spambot or something.

    Btw, there are 35 rules total, in case anyone else makes it over 24. And spoiler, the one that got me doesn't matter at all. It's one of the easiest of all.