I like what they’re going for, but it’s not so much “it will never break” but that it’s easy to swap out the parts that break or become obsolete.

Upvoting and replying in solidarity against fuuuckin’ Lisandra! ✊

This is actually a great representation of the difference in culture I’ve seen between the US and visiting a couple places in Europe and particularly Sweden.

I don’t know if actual public fruit tree orchards are a thing anywhere, but the general feel of “holy crap they can have nice things in shared spaces here” was everywhere.

Yeah I agr–

Have a nice day!

I went and scrolled facebook recently and it is absolutely crazy. You get some ads, sure, and a few things that real people posted, but like half of what is on there feels like some kind of shady psychological experiment.

It’s like a whole spectrum of flavors of ultra-processed engagement bait. Much of it is made to look like normal people posting normal things, just with a “follow” next to the name and 5,000 replies from kind old people trapped in a rabbit hole they don’t even know exists.

I think this could also be generalized into something like “Conservative struggles with colors other than black, white”

It’s never made sense.

It makes perfect sense for the americans who have been conditioned for literal decades to react certain ways to certain things, while being kept ignorant of nice things that exist in the rest of the world.

For instance:

Government-run anything? It is mathematically and physically impossible for it to benefit society. It will, without fail, become a corrupt dumpster fire that furthers evil in our world.

Market-based solution that leans heavily on “personal responsibility?” Well that’s just great I tells ya! It lobs like the best, kindest, and most Christlike solution is to do nothing and let them fend for themselves! They will be stronger for it and will thank us!

Fun, fun, we skip along together!

Swirling towards the center…

Where there is no pain and we are truly together, forever.

…

Eat at Arby’s

Thank you for this post!

For me, getting into self hosting was nice because of the privacy and tinkering yes, but a huge part of it was just having my stuff work reliably and without enshittification.

I just set up my Home Assistant server and new Zigbee network in the past few weeks and it’s pretty awesome. Was already using Jellyfin despite having a lifetime Plex pass. Feels good man.

Everything is a wave if you dig deep enough.

At least, as far as we know right now. But the standard model and quantum field theory have been really solid with really precise predictions for many decades at this point. (not any kind of expert here, just find it interesting)

Yeah, that’s another fun aspect of our culture. Jobs that many people actually want due to what they are passionate about lead to abuse.

It’s the reason I never seriously considered getting into game development or becoming a teacher.

I am the rare father involved in the PTO (parent-teacher organization) along with my wife at our kid’s elementary school. We were handing out basic cheap supplies to the teachers last month as a Christmas thing. We’d interrupt the class to give the teacher a SINGLE roll of paper towels and then a small box of tissues or some glue sticks or whatever, and they were excited and grateful every time!

Being a parent is awesome if you want to be one and it aligns with your personality. Our existences are largely shaped by our relationships (I say this as an introverted AuDHD nerd) and being a parent is probably the most significant and transformative relationship in the lives of people who are parents.

However, I know that I have always been a kid person and also always wanted to be a parent. And then my wife and I couldn’t have kids for the longest time, went through some more years of pain with adoptions falling through, and then finally had our own biological kid. And not only is he somehow perfect in a better way than we could have designed ourselves, but his neurospices seem to mimic mine so it’s like I have a superpower for relating to him and interpreting his issues.

I assume that qualifies me pretty high on the scale of Lemmy users who are very much into being a parent. I’ll wear that rank proudly.

With those decades of experience and the satisfaction of how it is currently going, plus all the stuff I learned navigating my mental issues alongside it, I am quite confident saying that having kids is NOT for everybody, and it will NOT fix your problems.

Raising kids is probably a potentially good experience for most people, sure, but in supportive circumstances.

Unfortunately, society pressures people to conform to the norm, and the huge “you are supposed to start a family now” step usually comes right after you were pushed to go into tons of student debt, marry the first person you dated for longer than a year, then top up the debt to get an overpriced house and vehicle or two.

It’s been a very long time since “I saw it on the internet so it must be true” was a novel joke.

So then some tech bros wanted to create “AI” so they fed a language based machine learning model the entire fucking internet and anybody ever expected anything of value?

It convincingly simulates a pedantic internet jackass with unlimited drugs and time on their hands. But that content is freely available at a slightly more human pace. Nobody is paying for more of it except the very same tech companies using every psychological trick in the book to drive engagement, even if it harms users.

The stuff under the AI umbrella will be useful for some things, and probably pretty valuable in some industries. New tools often are. But propping up however many trillions or tens of trillions of perceived value in the economy?

We need both.

Technology is awesome and I have a tech job and a house full of computers and all that. But it’s important that we don’t fall into the trap of “if we just got rid of the capitalists, then we could be on our screens all day in peace and health.”

If you cooperate with the primitive parts of your brain that evolved to take cues from the natural world, it can often improve things across the board.

It was probably organized by corporations to slow down EU

Cries in red white and blue American tears

The owner class, their paid shills, and their useful idiots had half the population convinced decades ago that all regulation is bad and that government entities literally cannot do anything correctly.

I started believing some of that stuff when I was young and thought that people in the media argued in good faith. Plus I was more accepting of the cornerstone conservative axiom that money and “progress” are the marks of good people and good societies rather than silly nebulous concepts like “being alive is a positive experience for as many people as possible.”

Nice. Jellyfin fan here.

Sometimes it’s like I’m living a double life because I’m married to a normie and we’re active in the local community where normies of course abound. I got my piracy over here, and I pay for a couple streaming services over there as long as they actually get used, but I still take steps to keep ads away.

It’s wild when my wife will just turn on the radio in the car when her phone isn’t connected properly, or throw on some live TV stream (whether pirated or a plan somebody shared with us), and it will play minute after minute of ads that don’t bother her.

On the car radio it usually doesn’t take long before some annoying local dealership ad comes on that repeats the same loud annoying crap they did 20 years ago and I have to turn it off.

I love it, and now that you’ve said that I am going to be keeping mental notes to see if I have such an option. Fortunately, buying gasoline is a pretty infrequent thing for me.

I would also love to know where that habit lands you in the greater population’s percentiles when it comes to avoiding advertising. I assume most people reading our comments are already the 1% because it’s Lemmy, lol. (my usual is Linux + LibreWolf + ublock origin at both home and work)

I think most of the population has simply been conditioned to accept and even expect advertisements to be a normal part of everyday life.

Maybe it’s a situation where ignorance is bliss, to not have ads pull your attention away from what you’re doing, and not feel like they are violating your personal space and resources.

But that’s also part of living modern life on auto pilot like The Shareholders prefer. Work, consume, engage with content, repeat!

It’s ultra-processed!

Jon Stewart made a point in some video not too long ago about how modern media presents us with a constant drip of ultra-processed speech and how it manipulates and harms our brains for our short-term gratification but the long-term benefit of others who don’t give a shit about us. It is much like engineered ultra-processed food in that way.

Thinking of advertising through that lens, hell that industry has been at the bleeding edge of all kinds of manipulation and shady data gathering for decades! Ultra-processed speech and ultra-processed advertising are basically a package deal!

I think it’s pretty heavily implied that people are talking about a given tech giant’s entire ecosystem when they say de-google, delete Facebook, Fuck Nestle- I mean, fuck Apple, etc. lol