I just want to be able to group tabs on mobile 🥲

Thank you so much for commenting this. It’s so annoying to see both the original screenshot and so many exchanges in here either playing dumb or actually being dumb about WHY they see PBS as propaganda. As always, people are more interested in appearing to preach epic gotcha wins to their own choir, while totally sweeping the real meaning of their opponent’s statement under the rug. It’s not being nice and learning to read that the right takes issue with PBS over, it’s race, gender, and sexuality issues. But rather than respond to them on that more difficult ground, the masses choose to go for pointless low hanging fruit like “lol so you hate kindness???”, and then congratulate the OP for owning the right, meanwhile the right is totally unphased by that completely off-topic mark-missing response. And then we wonder why the right sees us as a bunch of circlejerky bubble-world morons.

Why is bro posting on Lemmy then

Yeah I just can’t stop getting ragebaited by the Electron hate. All Electron haters are free to develop their own efficient, pleasant looking, cross-platform native app instead since it’s so easy

Watch out! The Tankie Terminator is on the scene!

But why do they want to do that, is the question

Fuckin exactly.

“It’s stupid to change it to main, it’s just words”

“Oh, so since it’s just a word change I guess you shouldn’t be bothered by it.”

Angry NPC face

This is fucking crazy, way crazier than it’s getting credit for. Very sentient behavior ngl

Finally, cryptic Facebook status posting has come to the Fediverse!

(This message is transmitted with lighthearted and non-hostile intent)

I wonder if this introvert/extrovert dichotomy really exists this much or if it’s just psychological astrology. Personally, I find it completely irrelevant to myself, but maybe that’s just me.

I will be extremely extroverted around people I like and extremely introverted around people I don’t like. I can feel recharged by interactions with people I like and discharged by interactions with people I don’t like. Isn’t that obvious?

With strangers it’s all based on my perception of them, derived from their appearance, their context, and any other clues I have.

In groups it’s based on the composition of the group. The percentage of people I like or dislike, and also the context. When I’m alone, I’m perfectly content alone. I love being alone and I love hanging out with my friends.

To be honest, I suspect my situation is how pretty much everyone is. I feel like my friends who describe themselves as extroverts and my friends who describe themselves as introverts are really just doing the same thing as each other and as me. I suspect that people who are very pronounced one way or the other, are doing so out of a self-fulfilling prophecy effect resulting from having decided at some point in the past to conceive of themselves as introverted or extroverted. The same way an astrology fan may unwittingly begin to behave according to their sign stereotype.

I think how I feel about collecting hobbies depends immensely on what is being collected and how it is used. If someone is collecting old books and actually reading them, then even if they buy $10,000 books, as long as they aren’t trying to show it off on the basis of price - I have zero issue with such a thing.

Like it’s fine if they want to show off that the book is really rare, explain why it’s rare, how hard if was to find, what’s special about it, etc. And then if as a result of that I can infer it must have been expensive, I’m not grossed out. But if they come at from the angle of “this book is 10 grand and that’s why you should be impressed by it and transitively be impressed by me”, that’s nasty and pisses me off.

I don’t think there’s anything intrinsically wrong with collection-based hobbies, although I do think that in general they are not really impressive hobbies and should not be misinterpreted as a skill or something to be “proud of”. But I think this is just a conflation being made because the word “hobby” does too much double duty nowadays. We use it to describe things that are simple, as well as things that are complex; impressive and unimpressive, skilled and unskilled, creative and consumption. “Hobby” usually just means literally anything I regularly do that isn’t required of me. And as a result it carries baggage from it’s various applications in between themselves, like using the same spoon for your curry and your soup and your ice cream.

If we taboo that word, then I think people collecting things is freed from hobby-connotations like:

• “this is something for me to be proud of”
• “this is something that makes me an impressive person”
• “this is something that demonstrates a skill or ability beyond that of the uninitiated”

And we can see collecting for what it is: nothing more than liking a thing, and wanting to have it around to admire/contemplate/use. I think collecting can be a very respectable demonstration of someone understanding what is important to themselves, and in being able to take joy in simple things or the same things over and over. The dark side of collection is obviously hoarding, void-filling, status-signaling, addictive behavior. But the light-side of it is cherishing things that being you joy, putting them somewhere where you regularly appreciate and protect them, sharing that joy with others. It can be very humble, vulnerable, and in fact can be very anti consumerist/hoarding/void-filling/status-signaling.

Like anything, I think it’s all in the way it’s done. But I don’t think you need to be working on something or demonstrating a skill with it, or producing something, in order for the collecting to be respectable.

I mean, I think it’s less about people having interests that I don’t, and more about just the realistic car culture. There are people who are into cars in a cool, healthy way. But in my experience, the majority of them ARE sad, empty people who don’t know who they are, and are trying to buy a personality, who think having money makes them good and that showing their money via their car to others makes others perceive them as good. They are often very childish people trying to impress others and fill some kind of void in themselves that they don’t know how to fill. I say this knowing at least 5 pretty intense “car guys”. It IS very sad to observe, and they don’t even seem to enjoy their “hobby” (which really just consists of inventing new reasons to spend more money) themselves. It’s just a continual race to one-up your friends cars, get more likes on Instagram, or emulate something they saw on YouTube, or reconfigure something, or trade this car for a different car, like a high-rpm hedonic treadmill. Just objectively speaking, these people all seem pretty depressed. Admittedly they have other shared traits that make my sample not rigorous. But even the common social conception of car people seems to agree. A lot of them are obnoxious losers, even their own community has a whole bunch of archetypes that they agree are obnoxious losers.

I think there are many very cool ways to be into cars. It’s just than the majority of people who are actually into cars, are not into them in those cool ways. It’s like how playing a guitar, fundamentally and intrinsically, is a pretty cool interest to have…but if 70% of guitar players you know are lonely shells of people with underdeveloped personalities who only started playing guitar to flex their wealth on others and because they thought it would make girls want to fuck them - you might say “guitarist culture is sad”.

Real. I can’t stand fake things, especially fake nature. Wood veneers, marble painted plaster laminates, LVT, no no no. I’d sooner have no tree at all.

No, I mean, what good would it do this site, as theoretical data harvesters, if I put in my license plate number abcd123.

“oh, someone has a car with license plate abcd123”

I wasn’t talking about Flock. I was talking about this site as a potential security threat.

Idk how I feel about this, but at the same time I don’t know how bad it really is if they’re being malicious, because I have trouble imagining what harm could be done by knowing nothing more than a license plate number

This is like a special moveset of self-buffs for a brawny no-magic character in a JRPG

Thank you for saying this. I’m seeing this thinking, have people used native apps recently? They’re not as great as people say. Have they tried coding a UI in a native library instead of the holy HTML CSS JS trifecta? It’s usually fairly miserable and usually extremely non-customizable by comparison.

All this hating on Electron, hating on UE5, etc. really rubs me the wrong way. Firstly because people talk about optimization and “the good old days” while ignoring that we have completely different requirements these days. The new Witcher game isn’t fucking Quake. It’s gonna use some hardware. What do you want people to do? Implement custom rendering engines for every game? That’s the same as saying you want less games, because most teams literally cannot do that for various reasons, and the same applies to the Electron apps.

Like, I get it. Things should be optimized. But I feel like “software is unoptimized now” is mostly a meme propagated by tech and gaming YouTubers who don’t really know what they’re talking about, through an audience of wannabes who don’t really know what they’re talking about. People whining about le yandere dev toothbrush!1!1! And le undertale dialogue if statements!1!1!. E.g I remember hearing people saying that because borderlands has a cel-shaded effect it should be cheaper to render - a completely wrong and backwards statement.

It’s incredible how gamers think they understand rendering technology just because they play a lot of video games. And similarly I don’t like when developers (and probably a lot of non-developers) make a lot of assumptions about other people’s apps. See the complaints about Spotify memory usage. We don’t know anything about how Spotify works internally. There could be an algorithm running to determine which songs to queue up next which is analyzing multiple songs at once, or all sorts of other things. It’s so presumptuous to just look at an app in Task Manager and be like “pathetic, I could do better”, especially if it runs without problems on your device. And maybe it is built with Electron? So what? That just means that you’re paying some RAM in order to get an always updated UI that is matching what you get everywhere else. Like are we just gonna neglect that Electron provides a basically fully homogenous experience across all platforms with no extra code needed? We’re just gonna act like that’s worth nothing? It’s so entitled to say “nooooo I need you to spend an extra $2M/yr paying a Windows 8 UI dev team so that the Windows 8 Native App can have a full ten years of service and it can use 80 MB instead of 1 GB of RAM so that way I can also use this app and 200 other glorious native apps all simultaneously but also I don’t want to pay any more for the product and I don’t care if you’re a solo developer because back in my day solo developers authored papers about their custom algorithms and if you don’t do that but with my new 100x more demanding requirements you’re trash”.

Maybe I’m wrong, but shouldn’t this grammatically be “Kapitulieren nicht”?

I agree with the sentiment of this article but it seems pretty poorly written, and isn’t really researched or citing anything, and the headline is a lie. It basically just says:

“Google removed reviews to make HBO more money so that Google can make more money”

And then repeats that literally like 70 times in varying degrees of wordiness, each time acting as though it’s a deep and cutting observation, while also explaining that their title was a blatant lie. The entire thesis of the article is that the film studios didn’t need to request anything, it was just two parties acting in mutual interest. This is a drastically less earth-shattering bit of journalism than the title makes it sound.

Was expecting an actual journalistic exposé, instead got a high-schooler essay.

AI images really are so much worse than and different from real images, that’s why we can so reliably tell them apart!