I used to do that too. Then I realised that people will find even the tiniest thing to argue with me about anyway. No amount of qualifiers, “I think”, mincing words, or careful phrasing will save you. If someone’s got a bone to pick, they’ll find one somehow.

But once you realise that, it’s nothing to do with what you wrote at all, it’s their fault not yours, they were going to be jerks regardless; it makes it less annoying. Fuck it, just hit post. Throw your unadulterated raw opinion out into the void. The people who appreciate it won’t tell you.

Then when the losers crawl out of the woodwork and inevitably strawman your comment beyond recognition and make you out to be stupid or evil; just ignore them. Not even a downvote interaction. BITR (block, ignore, tag, report), and move on with your life.

It’s a hard and unintuitive lesson to learn. I used to mock and deride things I disagree with or dislike, but I try to do that less now. I believe it’s better and more interesting to be open and accepting of new things, even if they seem silly or wrong.

It feels like an easy win to define yourself by what you’re “against”, but I think that’s just the tribalism part of my brain talking. It just closes you off to people and calcifies your worldview

I’ve watched family members Google [software name] e.g. Adobe Acrobat and the top two results are ads for clearly malicious impersonations. Same thing happens in Duck Duck Go; but at least you can turn off ads in advanced settings. It’s just more proof that every advertisement is malware

This might sound silly, but I ended up just hooking up my PC to the TV via HDMI. I just have a wireless mouse and keyboard and it can do all the things

Eating eggs doesn’t give much LDL (bad cholesterol), it’s primarily created by excessive saturated fat - and even that only accounts for roughly 25% of total cholesterol, the rest is naturally produced by the liver. Some people just have familial (genetic) high cholesterol or blood pressure.

I take statins for it and it just fixed the problem. Adjusting my diet didn’t help; my doctor told me I suffered through quitting cheese for nothing 😂

Within the very same magazine “top 20 health benefits of eating your own egg”

Damn, does that mean my home image server is evil?

Reading that article, I’m confused. It seems more like Immich (among other projects) received donations from FUTO? It doesn’t say anywhere that they support FUTO. FUTO supports Immich, along with many other open source projects.

Sure it’s not ideal to receive “bad money” tired to problematic politics like that. But also you can’t exactly stop someone from donating to you, other than sending the money back.

Programming a project I know well feels Godlike; sitting in the cuck chair watching the computer do it feels doglike

Any one symptom in isolation is often brushed off as simply eccentric. It’s the combination of dozens to thousands of these frictions, over a lifetime, that makes it a disorder.

Congratulations on being neurotypical, though; happy for you.

The patent also posits that such a tool could be used to remove filler words like “um” or “ah” from live speech, or to erase stutters or speech impediments.

That’s kind of fucked up. Let people speak for themselves; don’t “”“improve”“” their speech without permission

There’s many points to self hosting - reducing subscriptions is just one of them

Personally I pay donations to every service I use, so it’s basically an optional subscription but with infinitely more data sovereignty, control, privacy, and customisation

I don’t have a VPS, I just used an old desktop I had lying around from years ago

I spent 2 weeks configuring my self host server, and in retrospect it was all pretty simple… but actually doing it right the first time is not simple lol. It’s a knowledge check like playing King’s Quest or other Sierra games. If you already know what to do yeah it’s simple… but good freaking luck getting it right on the first try with only vague directions

I feel like maybe 10% of people would actually prepare correctly. If those preparations are tested, there will be a huge mess

Modern A.I. is just 4 LLMs in a trenchcoat

It’s a symptom of overwork. People are too tired to exist outside of work, so they actually are forced to buy the coffee / chai latte / whatever. Without the drink they can’t get through the day. Then they’re too tired to make lunch so they have to buy the $10 bagel. Then they need to order dinner because no fucking way are you going to the grocery store or preparing anything after a 996 shift. Then you lose consciousness on the couch and repeat tomorrow

It’s essentially another form of income tax; the higher paying your job the more you have to pay in human fuel

It’s also one of those weird networking obligations too, where if you skip too often, people notice

I bet there’s like 500 forms and spreadsheets that simply do not function in Libre Office. And remaking them all will take forever because of the approval processes

Personally, I think it’s kind of an online toxicity thing. Everyone is always shitting on everyone else in the most aggressive way possible, so people get defensive out of habit. You also cannot shit on other people if you think there is even a possibility of being wrong, it requires utmost confidence; so it promotes a close-minded ideology. You can’t reflect while shitting on people, only in the toilet

Trying to dunk on someone and getting Uno-reverse counter-dunked is like the epitome of online shame and embarrassment. So just never be wrong and determinedly double-down-dog dunk dubious drama

Debian would become rolling release. As in, rolling directly off a cliff