Well shit, I didn’t think the Jurassic park books would ever end up on my reading list but here we are

Huh, I’m today learning calligraphy and cursive not synonyms

Though we don’t really use the word cursive in the UK, we just call it handwriting or the slightly awkward “joined-up handwriting” if you need to be specific, though that’s pretty much only with kids learning to write

Wait, how have you guys fucked up payments this time? I thought the US was finally on board with everyone else after the chip and sign debacle

In the UK (and anywhere I can recall travelling) we pretty much always tap (i.e. move your phone or card within 5cm) above the screen or a bit more in recent years, on the top of the machine for one of those touch screen ones.

I think the only time I don’t manage to pay first time is when the terminal or my phone is broken

Oh I’d somehow forgotten this era

That shit was in everything non solid for like 2 years

There’s a reason the more educated you are, the more likely you are to hold left wing views.

You can’t learn how the world works and not want to take obvious steps to improve things

…unless you’re a psychopath

I miss the era of SA/4chan/YTMND being the meme factories of the internet.

It was chaotic, yes, but goddamn were there fewer problems

Annoyingly I’ve used them for a number of years as a good way to make internet comments flow a bit more. However I find myself doing it less and less now because I’m worried people are just going to think I’m using an AI if they see an em dash.

(You just long press dash on android to get to it, opt+shift+dash on Mac, and the admittedly Byzantine alt+0151 on windows. Can’t remember iOS off the top of my head, but I think it’s similar to android)

Oh so you’re telling me that my storage unit is actually incredibly well optimised for space efficiency?

Nice!

Souls games.

I really want to like them too, but they seemingly aren’t compatible with how I play games. I need to be able to put a game down for a couple of weeks and not feel like I’m back at square one because the specific muscle memory for that game has gone.

Just kinda kills the fun when the game is effectively telling me to get good, when I don’t actually have the amount of free time IRL necessary to do that.

I found out about them about a year ago thanks to Lemmy, funnily

I was wondering why one of the Aussie instances was called quokk.au

The two main “hard left” instances have been defederated from LW too (hex and grad)

LML is ostensibly a general instance with a strong left wing slant. So I’m assuming those are the users you’re referring to. Every time I’ve personally seen a LML user step over the line for a given community’s rules, they have been banned for it.

Predominantly though, those users are capable of understanding rules and following them.

That’s literally all anyone needs to do.

It’s not really about political views. It’s simply about not being an asshole.

The solution is to behave with civility online and you don’t get banned. No one needs to break instance rules.

If someone is incapable of doing that, why should they get to participate?

The fact that they happen to predominantly come with right wing view points is, frankly, secondary. It’s literally the bare minimum amount of effort in life to simply not be a nuisance.

Wow is uncyclopedia still a thing?!

I genuinely don’t think I’ve even thought about it in over 15 years

I assume this is coming at some point, tbh

I personally reckon they’re working on something YAbridge-esque to allow people to bring their VSTs to the push in standalone mode. If they can actually nail that, it’s an absolute no brainer to then release a full Linux version of the DAW and finally allow people like me to make the switch

Every time I’ve tried to run Ableton on Linux over the years (most recently about Christmas last year), it’s the VST support that lets me down. I’ve got hundreds of VSTs I’ve used in various projects over the past couple of decades and I can’t switch unless I know they all work properly—projects not loading or sounding different is unacceptable. I need to be able to open anything I’ve worked on over the years and be able to get right into the creativity without tinkering, as that is what I already have today.

Until that day, I’ve got to begrudgingly keep windows around.

You would not want to do this for latency reasons

Did I say “only”?

Fascists are the most dangerous and frankly, alarmingly flooding the internet with their shit right now

“Magnitudes” is a borderline dangerous understatement of the difference in their output versus any other corner of political thought.

Hyper targeted advertising on the internet means you categorically will not be seeing anything close to the worst of it.

Of course it is.

Fascists can create the illusions they need to convince morons whilst at the same time making them distrust reality (“nah that’s AI”)

A lot of people are going to suffer

Sure that was a job and not a psychology experiment you were subjected to?

I was struggling to think of something I truly hate

I was coming up with a lot of bad tracks, sure, but they don’t really inspire hatered

This one however, viscerally upsetting from the first bar

It does actually seem like it’s only the US for now

Unless I’ve misunderstood your comment

BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2vgkn7w10o