People lashing out about Linux terminal commands and people editing their own Windows registry entries are not the same people, lmao

A regular Windows user being instructed to enter the registry would have a stroke and shit their pants when opening regedit, and those users would never have found the tech support thread instructing them to change a registry key in the first place. Someone who already knows about but is uncomfortable editing reg keys may fall into the group you’re describing, but they would probably have an identical discomfort about regedit or about unknown terminal commands. Someone who is comfortable editing reg keys already has a Linux install on their home machine.

That’s pretty much exactly it. Windows as a whole is now catering to the lowest common denominator. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, especially as more and more of the world population are adopting computers (or being required to adopt them, for work). But in trying to make things easier for beginners they’re damaging some of the tools that we experts are used to. It’s a give-and-take sort of situation, and I’m not as livid about it as some professionals seem to be, but the fact remains that Windows is situating itself to be used by… idiots sounds rude, so we’ll say “beginners”. Folks that don’t know where or how to find what they’re looking for. Web search in the start menu, and Cortana-now-Copilot are two prime examples of that - tools that “nobody” really needed in Windows but that help someone who has absolutely zero idea what they’re doing get things done, even if poorly or inefficiently.

I’m not upset at their attempt to add accessibility to Windows, but I do wish they wouldn’t make their existing product worse in the attempt.

When it happens in Russia it’s “the will of the people” but when it happens in America it will be “them damn anteefers tryna’ steal our election!”

Corporate corruption is what makes America what it is

Not annoyingly so. It’s noticeably high pitched but not in such a way that I find it unpleasant.

In fact, with a little bit of effort and a bit of training, you could probably have a pretty extensive voice range. Your tone is animated and friendly and I could see a potential for voice acting for you.

So if your MAF sensor shits the bed you’ll never know about it because you’re overwriting its data. And from there it’s only a matter of time before your car requires dealership service to turn on because it can’t phone home properly because some bullshit proprietary data key is broken.

The game of cat and mouse will continue. People will hack their cars and manufacturers will install anti-hacking measures and then people will hack the anti-hacking measures. It’s just another thing where instead of being a mutually beneficial transaction it will become a hostile arms race between the consumers and manufacturers. We’re already on this path; the only real hope I’m holding out for is the advent of an open source car.

Around where I’m at you’re at semi-significant risk of getting pulled over if you’re driving under the speed limit. The police assume you’re drunk or high and if you’re not they’ll give you something about “being a hazard to other traffic”. Speed limit+10 is the safest speed to move at around here because you’re matching other traffic and matching what the cops expect of you.

And the transatlantic data cable is estimated at about 340,500 miles (547,981 km) of cable over 2500 nautical miles. Getting all of that up there to the moon would definitely be its own project but the cable itself isn’t unprecedented. It’s doable.

Probably cheaper to park a reactor on the moon though.

While this is good advice in theory the unfortunate truth is if you block all the memes and news you’re going to get like 1 new post a day. Lemmy is mostly memes and politics and Linux right now. We just don’t have the population density such that the 28 English-speaking turtle breeders in the world can find each other in a community (or whatever else your hobby is). We’re already struggling to fill content for relatively popular video games, for example, I’ve been subbed to the Deep Rock Galactic communities since day one but I’ve only ever seen like, two posts in those communities, ever, and both of them were within the past week. (I am well aware of the irony of myself, who has never posted content a day in his life, complaining about a lack of content - I’m more of a comments kind of guy, always have been. I won’t go against my nature to post trash memes to communities that I want to see flourish. But I will vote up your trash memes if you want to post some.)

Point being, long story short, et al, etc. - Lemmy needs more users interested in posting more things than just memes and politics and Linux if we want to have an environment containing more than memes and politics and Linux. The future starts with YOU - and if not you then the next guy down the line, and so on until we run out of people with anything to say.

Anyway, I am quite stoned and must be on my way; my people need me. Adiós, amigo, until next time.

I recently put together a small discord server (maybe a dozen or so people) with some internet friends I met on IRC and Slack back in the day. It’s been lovely getting the gang back together after most of a decade of silence, I’m enjoying catching up with everyone very very much. Highly recommend, it’s been great for my recent mental health, and reportedly so for a couple other folks in the group as well.

There are, but they’re hosted on Discord now. It’s pretty much entirely taken over that niche.

I miss IRC.

I agree. I hope that makes it into the feature list for the future. It seems like an obvious next step to make that part easier and less painful for users.

This is why I threw in with the Star Trek fans. I’m only moderately familiar with Trek but I know these nerds will be nice to everyone.

The only instance that I’ll usually immediately give a side-eye to is Hexbear, and only them because a significant percentage of those folks have a certain… style and culture that gets on my nerves. But an individual can still be a cool person and it’s not like I’m about to come in the comments and dunk on you or preemptively block you based on your home instance. I block users because they’re assholes, or annoying, or argue in bad faith, not based on where their account is hosted. And I would expect that’s probably consistent across most lemmings. You won’t get a bad rap only for being affiliated with ml. Now if you say something stupid somebody might use it as a bludgeon to talk bad about ml as a whole, or vice versa, but that’s going to happen any time you have something approaching “team sports” like this.

In general, don’t stress this too much. In specific, keep up with what’s happening on your home instance and if they’re doing something you don’t like, pack up and move elsewhere. That’s a core function of the way the fediverse is constructed. If it sucks, hit the bricks. You can just leave, and set up shop in another instance, or host your own, and you aren’t beholden to anyone. But if you don’t care then you don’t have to.

Why not both? It can always be both of them.

It’s almost like the biggest and most complex information-transfer tool in human history can - surprise! - be used to transfer information.

Actually many other papers will cite sources, having no checkable sources is a perfectly valid reason to have your credibility questioned.

Also are they preparing to commit war crimes in Guyana?

Based on the fact that they’re forcibly removing human rights groups, I’d say that’s a resounding guaranteed YES.

Energy isn’t our only limited resource.

The DLC’s aren’t going to fix the problems with that game. But in true Bethesda fashion, mods might.