The hexbear folks were the worst. Like, putting all of their political opinions aside, they would just swarm posts and flood it with low quality buzzwords and memes and every formatting option to be as visually obnoxious as possible.
I don’t know if I blocked them, they blocked me, or if my instance defederated from then, but holy shit my Lemmy experience got so much better when I stopped seeing their shit everywhere.
I can see why someone would identify as “fiscally conservative”, but not if they actually paid attention to what conservative fiscal policy really does.
The most “reasonable” version I can imagine is the kind where someone goes “things are fine for me, so let’s just go with the status quo, maybe fewer taxes, that’s conservative, right?”
But man… once you know anything about the history of conservatism or what it stands for in the US now… what can I say but yikes.
Rumble isn’t any better. It’s where my dad gets his COVID conspiracy material after folks got kicked off other platforms.
From what I’ve been reading, it’s so close to vote buying and similar crimes it’s a legal grey area at best.
Long hard fight.
We take our Ws where we can get them.
Interesting. Can’t say that would ever work for my circumstances, but I at least get where you’re coming from a bit better. Thanks!
So like… do you play the game with no sound? Does your gaming partner hear everything coming through your speakers into your phone’s microphone?
I’m just struggling to understand how that could be a good experience for anyone, including you. Am I just missing something?
Edit: oh, I missed the wireless earphone on one side thing. Is that for your phone or for the game?
You want to… be on the phone for video game chat?
I cannot fathom this mindset.
The whole point is that the rate of people doing that is increasing, meaning there’s likely something driving that uptick.
Like, if you saw the murder rate jump 20% year over year, “people have always done murder” doesn’t really explain that rise, y’know?
Edit: something, not someone
You’re certainly not wrong about GIMP having horrible UI/UX. Big reason I don’t use it either.
DaVinci Resolve is not a replacement for Photoshop/Adobe as a whole, but it is a decent replacement for Adobe products AfterEffects and Premier.
For Photoshop alternatives, I’d start with GIMP for photo editing or Krita for illustration and digital painting.
I’m still on Windows because my drawing app of choice is Clip Studio Paint, which has no Linux version. I’ve read and watched several guides to getting CSP running on Linux, but it still scares me off.
But this Recall thing is so insidious to me… I might try to get it working on Linux anyway.
I’m unfamiliar with the exact situation here, but when it comes to generative AI as I understand it, CP image output also means CP images in the training data.
That may not strictly be true, but it is certainly worth investigating at minimum.
If that’s what it takes, I guess
Bitwarden’s free version is enough for my purposes, but I didn’t realize they had a $10/yr plan. That seems worth paying for, I’ll have to look into it.
There’s some good free stuff out there. PBS Kids for example. But yeah that doesn’t negate the harm from the deluge of conservative rag media.
Clear temples?
It very much has the “we must give meaning to life for the idiots who can’t run their own life… and by that we mean we think you aren’t human so just do what we need to be comfortable and dominant ourselves” vibe
Yeah there’s a lot of moral/ethical calculus that should be done when attempting to circumvent rules. Unfortunately, people who are looking to circumvent rules are not usually the people who would reliably do that calculus.
Kind of the same thing for political revolution. If you’re willing to go beyond the state apparatus to achieve your ends, are you also going to be dedicated to rule-following after the revolution is done? It’s a tough thing.
Aaah. Yeah that tracks.
Pretty much, yep.