root cause solution: outlaw advertising

advertising is what makes social media bad, because it creates an incentive system such that more traffic = more profits, and so companies are incentivised to create conflict (radicalise people) so they stay on the site more

that sounds fire as fuck

ksp 2 cyberpunk starfield

single player corporate games are still corporate games, removing the multiplayer aspect doesn’t remove the shittiness entirely

passive/active are just 2 modes you can select between and active is simply better so for me there’s literally 0 problems

scrcpy?

Camera + ID = zero privacy for anyone

is a child watching tom scott really a bad thing?

also if someone doesn’t want to provide service to Australia because they don’t want to handle IDs, how would you block Australians? ip bans won’t work because a child can use vpns, and if you want to verify by foreign ID for this then you still need ID checking

australia doing this makes it worse for everyone in the world

also a child could also just ask their parents to verify for them

afaik it’s just the msi pro -a z690/z790 boards

yeah i play ksp and rainworld with coreboot+disabled ME thinkpad t430 and it’s fine (coreboot has no performance penalties)

the only thing coreboot broke in my instance was the passive (cpufreq) powersave cpu scaler for my cpu, but I could just switch to the active (intel_pstate) powersave cpu scaler which is better anyway

are there modern desktop motherboards/chipsets/bioses that let you disable ME though? the z690/z790 are the only ones that I know can run coreboot (ignoring laptop motherboards), but I thought that still had to run ME?

I don’t get the hate against the lemmy devs tbh, they have their (perhaps controversial) political views but they leave everyone that’s not on their site alone and it feels like they develop lemmy pretty impartially

sure they might ban you off ml but that’s their site and they get to do whatever they want with it, just like every other instance

i mean network effect is a thing i guess but that’s not as important on lemmy where there are usually similarly large communities about generic things on most major instances

don’t let them change the meaning of our words then

im just mocking the stats in the title because it implies that women and children are targeted but it’s not like prioritising men or adults makes it any better

it’s not like you can ethically decide whether any one of these age groups/genders are more guilty/innocent/valuable/important

killing through genocide is similarly unjust however you do it, it’s just that sometimes discriminating some groups makes it more beneficial for the genociding party (e.g. deaths of children are more emotionally powerful when used in media)

the stats don’t say that they don’t discriminate though, it’s just saying they don’t discriminate based on their status as a child or an adult, or gender

wow did you know that ~50% of people are female and ~50% of people in Gaza are children? what a shocking statistic that ~70% of people killed are women or children!

iirc wood was used by the chinese for their heat shield’s ablator or something?

waydroid (if you don’t install a wayland based de)

The statistic isn’t saying that 50% of Linux gamers use steam, it’s saying that Linux gamers are ~1/2 as likely to use steam for games when compared to gamers on other platforms. these are very different things.

~50% of Linux gamers using steam is only true if you assumed every gamer on the other platforms used steam

btw i hate the term ‘gamer’ but it’s just convenient to use here :(

so a disproportionately large amount (2x) of Linux gamers don’t use steam? that doesn’t sound right to me with how good steam is on Linux

debian packages will work on debian based distros usually, etcetc

fedora calls their kedoras and ludoras “spins”, but I haven’t used fedora so can’t say how good they are

basically there’s the big 3 (debian, arch, fedora) and everything else is just them with presets (ui, drivers, etc)

debian uses apt, arch uses pacman, fedora uses dnf for packaging, so packages (app executables) aren’t intercompatible and so you usually have some apps that aren’t available on on or the other

usually debian had everything, arch has everything with workarounds, idk about fedora

anyway the tree is like:

debian

• ubuntu
  • kubuntu
  • lubuntu

fedora

• nobara

arch

• manjaro

with DEs you should see which ones you like by testing them out, if you get the debian netinstaller you can select however many you want in the install process and you can switch between them at boot with the dropdown menu in the login prompt

Honestly build quality matters more than specs if you’re not gaming in my opinion, that’s why old thinkpads are so popular

I personally got burned by a shitty modern laptop because I only looked at the specs and nothing else

I’m talking about things like:

• chassis sturdiness
• laptop foot grippiness
• hinge quality
• touchpad quality/has trackpoint
• battery longevity (very important)
• display colour accuracy/viewing angles
• keyboard tactility/travel/flex

These things are harder to research but they’re imo way more important than specs

could you elaborate on why?