DefederateLemmyMl

I have to upgrade my Mint install every two years

I know you’re joking around here, but you don’t have to upgrade every two years. You can use an LTS release instead, or, on the opposite of the spectrum, a rolling release.

Release schedule and duration of support should always be factored into the decision of choosing a distro.

Save your sanity and do Settings -> Blocks -> Block instance -> lemmy.ml

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Even the oldest millennials were just toddlers when the C64 was relevant, so this is not a typical millennial experience at all. It’s really a GenX thing… so once again we are forgotten.

I would say millennials’ computer experience starts in the late DOS/Win3.11 era at the very earliest, but more typically in the Windows 9x and early XP era. So even IRQ/DMA/config.sys/autoexec.bat fuckery is not that typical.

Now we’ve got to fucking participate in it?

Ah yes, killing all those innocent civilians hidden in incoming Iranian ballistic missiles…

I see military spending as a necessary evil, it’s like paying your insurance policy against the evils in the world. There will always be someone with a stick willing to beat someone weaker than them. So you could theoretically spend that military money on something “more useful”, but if all your friends do that as well, you won’t be able to enjoy that nice world for very long.

Also, people usually highly overrate how much a country spends on defense and underrate how much is spent on social security. Where I live, in Belgium, with a similar military budget as Canada (in terms of % of GDP) they did a survey once and asked people to estimate how many euros out of €100 of tax money went to the military and other things. People on average thought it was €6.1 to the military and €17.4 to social security. In reality the proportions are just €1.3 to the military and €37.5 to social security.

So I guess what I’m saying is: it’s okay to enjoy the cool noises without guilt. You paid for it, it’s necessary, and at least they’re providing people with some entertainment now.

I saw a documentary about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_C-Zaqqel8

I guess it’s why some Jellyfin streams started transcoding for me.

You’re better off using the Jellyfin Media Player standalone application anyway.

https://imgur.com/UJtFNp7

A core memory of mine is getting flung off of one of these things because of the centrifugal force, falling on my back, and being unable to breathe for like 20-30 seconds … until I screamed at the top of my lungs, and things slowly returned to normal, while the teacher just went: oh you’re fine, don’t be a baby. I was 6.

All true, yet it has nothing to do with what we are discussing, so why are you muddying the water with it?

my body, my choice

It’s a bit more complicated than that with transplants. Should people for example be able to sell their kidney to the highest bidder? That’s also “my body, my choice”. And should doctors be forced to participate in such a scheme?

A transplant system should consider fairness, equality and possible abuse. Obviously I think it should be possible to donate to a loved one, but we should also be careful not to create a system where the rich get priority, because they can pay more, and where poor people could be financially pressured to give up their bodily integrity by having to sell an organ.

We’re explicitly talking about a situation where the donor is suitable. So I don’t know what kind of information you’re trying to add here.

Even if her partner could donate his own liver, it should still go to a better recipient

That’s nonsense, because the partner would not donate his liver if it went to someone else.

Or ctrl+w to close the fucking site and never come back.

It’s apparently a hobby and to be competitive, you need to be able to spew bullshit at amazing rates. Personally I’ve maxed out at 140 wpm

I’m limited by the rate at which I can think of bullshit.

yet all I needed is a “this side up” symbol …

No can do, you just pressed Z after the UNDOs

Like a time traveller who accidentally steps on a butterfly and erases the whole future that he came from

Depending upon their genre and your city’s size, they may never come nearby you

The joy of living in a central, densely populated area of Europe … I’ve been able to see almost all niche bands that I’m into live.

The problem with that is that they are usually in tiny venues, often with no seating (some of us have issues with standing for a few hours straight), and absolutely terrible acoustics.

Not true at all where I live, except for the seating part sometimes. There are many small to midsized venues with ticket prices well below €50, and they all have way better accoustics than the large concert halls, and it’s a much more personal experience than in a >10,000 people venue because you can be way up close with the artists.

For example, these are all venues I’ve visited in recent years, I rarely paid more than €30 for a ticket:

• https://www.abconcerts.be (has seating)
• https://www.trixonline.be (no seating)
• https://www.deroma.be (has seating)
• https://www.hetdepot.be (has seating)
• https://botanique.be (no seating)
• https://www.effenaar.nl (no seating)
• https://www.013.nl (no seating)
• https://www.viernulvier.gent (no seating)
• https://www.doornroosje.nl (no seating)
• https://www.tivolivredenburg.nl/ (has seating)

Platforms like reddit and Tumblr benefit from a friction-free sign up system.

Even on Reddit new accounts are often barred from participating in discussion, or even shadowbanned in some subs, until they’ve grinded enough karma elsewhere (and consequently, that’s why you have karmafarming bots).