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thepreciousboar

@ thepreciousboar @lemm.ee

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  • What were you ahead on the curve of in hating?

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  • Social media. Started strong in the mid 2000's, peaked in features and quality and social usefulness in the early 2010's and around 2014 they started removing features and enshittify because they got their core userbase and, once locked in, they could milk them.

    Remeber when facebook was about "connecting with old friends" and you could search by city, age range and a whole lot of filters? Or when YouTube was "broadcast yourself" and could fully customize your channel page? Then they reduced it to a stupid banner that got smaller and smaller.

    Bonus: everything that relies on infinite growth to keep cost down. I was skeptical of streaming services and guess what, they suck because they operated at loss for years, because "more future customers pay for the present ones"

  • What's it like to have a low IQ?

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  • IQ does not measure intelligence, it measures different fields of intellect, mostly about logic, language comprehension and memory. It doesn't measure intelligence per se, but if you have a low score <70, you can be sure your life is going to be impacted negatively in some way, either because you don't understand other people, you don't understand the world or you cannot chain together complex logical chains.

  • End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

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  • I used modern gnome and I seriously don't understand how it's "more modern", most changes feel a downgrade, I cannot divide apps by categories anymore, I only have a big menu that takes all my screen and shows me like 15 apps at a time, unlike "traditional" desktop apps I can control with Alt+Some keys I have the same toolbar filled with burger menus and icons with no text so difficult to use, gnome file manager is objectively inferior in features to Nemo, and don't get me started on the desktop, when you click an application icon on the application bar it doesn't even minimize like on every other desktop interface.

    Either ubuntu ships a broken version of gnome or it just sucks, and there are also all kind of management issues that make development very inefficient.

  • Do you feel like you're part of the problem in our current society?

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  • Global warming is not about producing more energy, it's about burning fossil fuels instead of clean energy (renewables, nuclear..) and about wasting energy.

    But it's not as easy, technically everytime you use your car you become "part of the problem", or everytime you buy some useless single-use crap from temu, but I think it's unfair to blame yourself for it. The system allows and encourages wastes and "problematic behaviour" because it's either more profitable (see bigger cars in the US) or changing is more difficult and politically inconvenient.

  • End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

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  • As far as I know Mint and Fedora have the same choice of Desktop Environment more or less, I'm really curious to know what you refer to when you say "modeen interface"

  • If you had to ruin an entire app/website by integrating automatic logout, which app would you choose to achieve maximum damage?

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  • If a password is centrally assigned and managed it is not a safe passqword, regardless of other security measures

  • Is there a non-offensive alternative name for "super straight" sexuality?

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  • Ok who says that a straight male should be attracted to female gender? Sexual attraction is physical (to most people) so a straight male od attracted to people with female primary (vulva) and secondary (boobs, ass, etc...) sexual characteristics. Just because a biological male with male sexual organs and a male-presenting body identifies as female, and a straight male ks not attracted to her it's not disrespectful, fetishizing, transphobe, "super straight", it's just straight. In the same way as a generally straight man will likely not be attracted to a female transgender person who did hormome therapy and looks like a female but didn't do the surgigal operation to transform her male genitalia in female genitalia, as straight male will probably not be attracted to a "woman with a penis" and that's perfectly ok

  • What are some places in Europe with a low price level and worth traveling to?

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  • Overturism can and usually is a cost and a nuisance for a popular city, especially when there are just too many tourists. Usually the price is quite low (a few € per day, much less than you would spend on accomodation or food), and it's limited to the most crowded spots in the most popular time of year, and it's just enough to discourage a little number of people

  • How do I get rid of this Gemini crap?

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  • Unfortunately that doesn't always work. For example on linux there are not high-quality DRMs available so streaming platforms are stuck at 480p/720p, forget your 4k

  • Current method of Rule control

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  • Current method of Rule control

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  • What beliefs do you hold that stand on mere authority?

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  • If a belief stands on authority alone it's not something I believe, it's something I accept, either because I want to change or as a compromise.

  • What do you have a low tolerance for?

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  • Incoherence, and it's particuarly bad when I realize i'm being incoherent

  • What books would you describe as nothing burger?

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  • Songs of the Gorilla Nation. It's supposed to be a book about the autism of the author, but it's just a weird love letter to the entire Gorilla population, described as perfect creatures every human should aspire to be, it's pretty much like that simpson shimpanzee parody episode, except more sad.

    There is very little content about autism, but you can tell there is a lot of resentment towards neurotipicals (who she calls neuromutilated) and a lot of toxic autism pride. I believe the author has a lot of unresolved trauma that she coped with cultivating resentment and obsessing over gorillas.

    Didn't learn much about autism nor gorillas, a pretty lame book overall.

  • Star Trek: Strange New Enterprise

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  • Which one?

  • What old programming language or framework (born pre-2000) is super underrated?

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  • "Steadily being replaced" is another hyperbole. Sure as general purpose languages they might be used less, but where they really shine (low level and embedded programming) they are not going anywhere anytime soon. Sure rust is taking more momentum but it will take decaded before it will be used more, if it ever will be

  • What old programming language or framework (born pre-2000) is super underrated?

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  • Well technically C, C++, JS and Python and C# are all more than 25 years old, despite having changed a lot they are still the same languages at core. Of course I would hardly call them underrated.

  • Have you or someone you know ever fallen for a scam? What happened?

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  • I imagine the guy being 3000IQ and wanted to leave, so he pretended to be scammed to be fired without quitting and divided the 5000$ with his pal

  • Have you or someone you know ever fallen for a scam? What happened?

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  • When I was very young (probably too much to be on the internet) I got onw of those viruses that lock your pc and ask for a payment because the pc is seized by the authority or some shit. Of course I believed it so I mustered the courage to tell my parent. Was very relieved when they told me it was a scam and 3 seconds of googling tols me how to remove the virus (it was just an autostart program).

    When I changed electricity operator I got called telling from the operator I switched to and gave my bank coordinates to change the contract. Took a while to figure out maybe it was not them. How they found out I just switched to that particular operator they were impersonating is outiside of my understanding.

    My grandma got a call saying it was "one of her child" she made the mistake to tell them the name of her child so they pretended to be one. She might have been old, but she was smart enough to hung up and call my uncle and of course he had no accident, but coincidentallt it was the only day in the week he was not with her. Did they know? Who knows