We survived the Cold War. We survived that mild awkward moment where there were just 10,000 humans or something. We survived the Paleolithic by throwing and walking kinda good despite having super-mediocre body builds compared to the lithe apex competition.

Sure, a United Statesian might not know what price elasticity means when they go pro-tariffs, and shoot their foot on a national scale. Sure, “Eastern” youths might stretch themselves systemically thin to leap through an education colander into a limited, demanding job seat. Sure, there’s a whole terror cloister awkwardly just below South Korea, a crap ton of eyes on the Ukraine, and the new context of exponentially advancing tech compared to the last kabillion years.

But I believe in the human spirit. Call me a fool. We don’t even need to be enlightened to not destroy ourselves. We just need to be what we always fuckin been, what we always fuckin will be.

Stupid endurant.

in all three senses of the shit.

We have the Venn overlap of people who want privacy and people who dislike enshittification. Then some join Lemmy.

⇒Nonresponse bias by people who scroll by and don’t care to read other people’s info or post their own. Huge sieve, these comments aren’t even seen.

Then we have curious people who are probably curious about tech or tinkering or protecting themselves or more organic forums like Lemmy.

⇒Nonresponse bias by people who check this out by curiosity (e.g. comment/upvote ratio, are people really giving out their info or faking it with jokes?) but then they definitely choose to not comment. They et al. might upvote the above comment or not, and nope out.

We can’t even get good Linux user demographics. A large survey sometime back said “Wayland was leading over Xorg, according to users who replied” – obviously false, take a look at Indian corporate use of Ubuntu Desktop LTS, or the legacyness of X11.

Blah blah, 2.5/mitosis/deep sea geysers

I assume the envisioned discussion was supposed to be

Q: Thoughts on the Orphan Crushing Machine?

A: The CDC says crushing orphans is bad for our health.

A: The government in Orphania is expanding the definitions of orphans to all seniors, allowing a cascading orphan-crushing effect.

where we all experience the same negative emotion in a fuller, mildly variable way.

But yeah, it’s kind of… predictable, isn’t it?

_{<thread> FOSS, big bad powerfuls, companies, governments, Stallman </thread>}

Oh.

yeah that’s more likely

In a similar way, I’d learnt an eeny bit about visual composition at one point, and it’s helped me understand how something pretty can be uninteresting and something ugly can be interesting. (Maybe it was more obvious to everyone else, especially with the whole image gen sitch (ー﹏一))

Oddly it’s made me respect internet-ugly MS Paint stuff more. Like this ancient shitpost.

And nature too of course. The way a red sky refracts in cirrus clouds. Ladybugs on leaves. Elk.

All stuff I normally wouldn’t have noticed :p

trawl your boss

Weaving up the wire thingies on chain link fences? What’d you need that for – did your property fence get a huge hole from a burglar or something?

Wow, that’s definitely a few. Didn’t expect an entire set of chainmail to show up in these comments!

And I seem to notice something:

…the armor. But because I want to be done in less than a year (will be part of my wedding outfit)

“Hey, what if I not only learn to play the [Hurdy (Nerdy?) Gurdy, but also learn to play it for my wedding”

Someone’s wedding is going to be very interesting.

I went to Yalemacs for my Comparative Text Editors PhD

Yeah it just feels super different. Somehow it tastes different too.

It’s like drinking water out of a red plastic/solid cup vs. a nice clear glass. Or eating sushi using chopsticks instead of by spoon or fork or something.

I wouldn’t eat sushi without em :^)

HOA docs didn’t even cross my mind, that’s resourceful.

Has the AI been particularly accurate, and does it cite where it found your information? With more technical stuff it’s always confidently wrong

ty for the response btw

Nice, AI with half of the suspicion removed.

Does it save you a lot of time, what do you use it for? I have a somewhat old GPU but have been considering something like this to comb manuals. Does it have a file size constraint?

Cool! I’ll probably try climbing some day, since sportsball never motivated me to stick on. (And bc of the functional muscle vs. gym muscle stereotype.)

As for infinite Indiana Jones… I’m trying my best to keep the songs I whistle different haha

Yeah the market has definitely toughened regarding college degrees, since the 80s. (Maybe bc they’re more common now? If that’s a good thing or not.)

Funny enough, Reddit likes to say

• cs bachelor’s degree and 2yr experience is better than master’s and none (I’ve always doubted whether that’s a real widespread thing)
• trades make bank ezpz (I hear that relies on a good apprenticeship which can be hard to get)

Also: would you say the choice of undergrad matters in UK tech?

slop creator

lmao

Nice. kdenlive or something else?

Also – upscale video? Don’t you run it through some real esrgan thing and wait for forever? I’m working on trying to upscale a video right now but my GPU is ancient

What’d you learn it for (I personally don’t see it often so you likely live near a Cyrillic-heavier region) and how? Also

I can take a pen apart…

Did you have a lot of prior handy experience or did you follow a video? This is a bit vague on the how
( ’ ﹋ ’ ; )

Done.

• How dangerous really is your job?
• What happens if you get injured? Insurance/etc.?
• What differences do you have when performing for adults vs. children? (since you mention child-friendly, I assume that means you don’t do things that might scare them)
• What are your least tame skills?
• How did you get into performing in the sideshow? Mentors, training, string of coincidences?
• Favorite memory?
• Any frightening memories?

Sorry for the wall x)

It’s places like that where “I don’t know what I don’t know.”

• How did you realize you were squatting wrong?
• How did you figure out the right way?

e.g. dumbbell row-like exercises all feel odd and disbalanced to me but idk what idk (is it form? body type? ask a doctor/trainer? check an authoritative blog that isnt SEO-spicy enough for search engines?)